smegel

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by smegel 12y ago
And I always complain that sodtware engineering, while having a decent initial salary progression, is a dead end career path (gaant charts anyone?), and I should have studied law instead. Maybe the grass is always greener...
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by smegel 12y ago
Managers have been hitting on younger female subordinates/secretaries since the invention of capitalism. I fail to see what this has to do with Valley brogrammer culture (not that it doesn't exist). It wasn't even technically
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by smegel 12y ago
1. What is Windows93? 2. That worked scarily well on my 3.5" Android phone (chrome).
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by smegel 12y ago
Which step is creating a killer product?
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by smegel 12y ago
To me, a To-Do list is just about prioritization. 'Stop Doing' the stuff at the bottom of the list.
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by smegel 12y ago
C's strength is all the ways you can't blow your foot off.
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by smegel 12y ago
> It’s not a perfect solution — the troll could abandon the banned account and open a new one without supplying a number Surely such devious machinations is beyond the capability of mere trolls...
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by smegel 12y ago
Far fetched, but I would sure like to know what was going on at Baikonur.
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by smegel 12y ago
And the boy pulled up his bootstraps and became a man.
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by smegel 12y ago
> But then I wondered. Why wasn’t “TODO” backed up? And then I wondered, why isn't OP using Google Docs?
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by smegel 12y ago
Why "hydrogen" fuel cell cars don't work. Quite the misleading title.
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by smegel 12y ago
I think more of the latter in Arts&Crafts.
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by smegel 12y ago
Because they are, very deliberately, not tailoring education to meet their needs.
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by smegel 12y ago
> and solid memory management What does he mean by this?
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by smegel 12y ago
I wonder to what extent they are still using Perl.
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by smegel 12y ago
Well I meant that in regard to which JVMs people actually use...not what are theoretically possible.
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by smegel 12y ago
> In this environment, a language like Go has the opportunity to shine. Go has another advantage over Scala (and any other JVM langauge), which also happens to be it's killer feature - green threads, the ability to write non-blockin
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by smegel 12y ago
Tell that to the guys who made Jira. But seriously, this is about as insightful as saying career choice affects lifetime earnings. Most people have settled their career by their early 30s. Throw kids into the mix and its no big surprise.
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by smegel 12y ago
For those slamming HTTP/2.0, how do they rate SPDY?
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by smegel 12y ago
Finding novel ways to make stuff crash can be fun, open source or not.
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by smegel 12y ago
> And because the US dollar was named after the Spanish peso de ocho "dollar" coin I am still not sure where the word "dollar" comes from though. If we are using the sign for pesos, who not use the word "pesos&qu
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by smegel 12y ago
I will try and reproduce it. All I can remember is that after adding Realm to my build, and without calling it/invoking it in any way, my app crashed as soon as deployed to the emulator.
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by smegel 12y ago
I have started using Impala/Parquet in combination with Solr for real-time/batch analytics. Impala is very fast - it basically bypasses the entire Hadoop stack to perform its own distributed processing and IO, and Parquet is a gre
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by smegel 12y ago
Firehose...more like a sewage pipe. God I hope there will be a Chrome extension to block this mental diarrhea from reaching my search results page.
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by smegel 12y ago
I tried adding this to an Android project, but it just caused the app to crash hard. Adds over 3 megs to my APK as well.
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Riding Light(vimeo.com)
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by smegel 12y ago
Why would you need a GIL if you don't have threads in the first place?
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by smegel 12y ago
They are seriously running the "done by Christmas" line again? They are holding us in contempt.
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by smegel 12y ago
What about if you are processing 100 Petabytes? And you are comparing to a 1000-node Hadoop cluster with each node running 64 cores and 1TB of main memory?
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by smegel 12y ago
The biggest, baddest Linux hypervisor known to mankind.

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