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by snorkel 14y ago
On a typical LAMP web site the hottest bottlenecks are usually PHP is waiting for database I/O, it's not typical that slight code optimizations will produce a dramatic improvement.
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by snorkel 14y ago
FB's golden goose is that is has the web's largest social audience and therby specific demographic data about everyone. FB shareholders would run screaming for the exits if ever a paid subscription were forced on its users. FB's achilles he
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by snorkel 14y ago
Empty string is true. Who here hasn't banged their head over that one?
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by snorkel 14y ago
Prefer this approach. It's more readable and less fragile.
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by snorkel 14y ago
Crazy exploratory programming is the best way to learn and grow your skill set ... but please don't do this in a team project where other developers have to grapple with your insane abstractions that lead nowhere and mental meanderings ...
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by snorkel 14y ago
Was this analysis based on testing only two variations, A vs. B, using A/B testing then MAB? If so then that ignores one of the best advantages of MAB is you can compare variations A, B, C, D, E, F, ... all simultaneously, where if using A/
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by snorkel 14y ago
Smart move. My biggest lesson from the dot.com boom days was sell all vested options on the first day you are legally allowed to do so.
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by snorkel 14y ago
I used be one of those suckers who would fork over $hundreds to Microsoft every few years to keep up with the latest-greatest VC++ and SDKs. Always annoyed me how Microsoft would cripple its affordable tools in ways that I feel actually hur
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by snorkel 14y ago
Stock prices rise and fall based on the popularity of the brand. Sure earnings and other announcements nudge a stock up or down for a week or two, but it's really the reputation of the brand that keeps the price up. In this regard FB's bigg
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by snorkel 14y ago
high salary. Even if the startup is positioned well with deep pocketed investors you won't be able to cash out the equity for at least 8 years (a typical time span from launch to IPO or buyout for a successful startup) assuming you still wo
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by snorkel 14y ago
Agree. The goal ought to be to make code more understanble rather than more terse. This short example reads fine either way, but when an expert coder puts this subtle trick in a pile of code noise the replacement developer that has to fix t
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by snorkel 14y ago
Today's bandaid to a small problem is tomorrow's income tax nightmare. See AMT tax.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Agree. I'm not seeing any graphs in IE8. Graphs is for business, and businesses love their bad browsers.
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by snorkel 15y ago
The irony is that editors and colorists spend extra time and effort degrading digital footage to make it look like film.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Who would guess that there could be an integrity issue with a company that tried to invent new accounting rules where marketing costs don't appear on the balance sheet? You'd have a crystal ball or a brain to see this coming.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Ain't it sad that we are reduced to fishing for our own space trash remind us of when we used to go to the moon?
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by snorkel 15y ago
Download for free or the usual first-born list price?
498.
by snorkel 15y ago
Couldn't anyone do the same or better using Amazon mech Turk?
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by snorkel 15y ago
Noticed this gem in the comments section "Robert Scoble - Or you could just impress the hell out of me, and I'll make sure Apple considers your app for Featured app of the week." No thanks.
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by snorkel 15y ago
I've had to suffer doing web dev work in a group in which sys admins didn't allow the devs to login on production servers. This policy was for the sake of "stability" and "uptime" when in fact the sys admins lack of understanding about the
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by snorkel 15y ago
It's not just about the level of talent but about what Google can afford to do. Google banks so much cash from search advertising that it can bankroll all of these other internal projects that might not impact revenue at all, and their cash
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by snorkel 15y ago
TL;DR If you have billions in cash in the bank you can pay armies of engineers to work on whatever fancies them and deliver it whenever they feel like it. Who needs Agile? Burn your calendar. Party on.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Bah. I prefer poor man's currying instead, just wrap the function.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Instead of fighting over the semantics of a single sentence why not instead elaborate on the evidence presented by the prosecution, then later discuss if the semantics of that summary sentence contradict the other information in the same ar
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by snorkel 15y ago
I'm embarking on a similar hands-on exercise with my own 5 year old son called "let's make an iPhone game". I'm letting him completely define the plot, the characters, the actions, and overall requirements no matter how nonsensical it all s
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by snorkel 15y ago
I've stopped asking candidates to write code on the whiteboard because that's not how coders work. I instead ask questions like "describe how a hash table works" and "when do you prefer to throw an exception instead of returning an error co
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by snorkel 15y ago
I think it's genius. WP site owners don't care about channel redundancy, they just want a push button method of putting their content into as many channels as possible. Catering to the "Look Ma, I made a mobile app!" crowd is a big market.
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by snorkel 15y ago
I don't understand why an uninsured patient who pays out of pocket can not dispute the charges and prove that the price has been fraudulently inflated due to "cost shifting".
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by snorkel 15y ago
Reminds me of long-forgotten blog post I read where someone claimed they were able to raise their credit score by subscribing to affluent lifestyle magazines, luxury catalogs, charging small purchases from Neiman Marcus and Sacs Fifth ... j
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by snorkel 15y ago
So ... what's the re-entry plan? Splash down? Call a Russian taxi?

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