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by sofuture 16y ago
While not exactly 'flapless', blown flaps have used compressed air as part of the flap system for quite some time (it's even had time to fall out of favor due to complexity and costs!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blown_flaps (Though it d
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by sofuture 16y ago
The docs are horrible and often contradictory -- but with enough trial and error most things can be figured out. The unannounced breaking changes are absolutely inexcusable and screw the people using your platform . It is not a sustainab
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by sofuture 16y ago
And with grains and agriculture, it barely can! I don't think the issue is diets...
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by sofuture 16y ago
C# is evolving , it's not just randomly, breaking-ly changing. It is a good thing.
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by sofuture 16y ago
" There are probably a lot of 9-5ers who could have that switch flipped and go from code monkey to craftsmen, but they are stuck doing WebForms and have never really got bitten by the curiosity bug " That's disingenuous bullshit. Hackers st
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by sofuture 16y ago
This is ironic, right? (I jest, but in-depth meta-analysis of community remains solidly, eternally and earnestly hilarious.)
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by sofuture 16y ago
Right, the experience of being treated like a criminal will improve. Their shackled product won't.
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by sofuture 16y ago
Stop buying movies period -- because if not Blu-Ray, it will be another technology aimed at treating you like a criminal.
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by sofuture 16y ago
No, I don't like it. I know exactly what I want to type, and I don't like the jarring flashes of intermittent guesses of results on my way to 'just typing what I want'.
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by sofuture 16y ago
I think ~one school project is fine. I.e. if you had a big, multi-term project. If it was a homework assignment, no way though.
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by sofuture 16y ago
Simple stuff, but: - An IRC bot -- great fit for the language - A URL shortener service (three times) -- first on Yaws, then on Nitrogen, then on ChicagoBoss (Hi EvanMiller!) Erlang is the most fun I've ever had writing code. While a lot of
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by sofuture 16y ago
I wouldn't consider it a factor in an employment decision unless it was exceptional in some way (i.e. it was non-stop, extremely loud, disruptive).
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by sofuture 16y ago
(I also realize the article alludes to that fact, but several comments here do not make that distinction)
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by sofuture 16y ago
I don't mean to detract from the article but it's worth pointing out that those are absolutely fake/photoshopped images and not at all actual scans.
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by sofuture 16y ago
So wrap it in a function default(Dict, Key, Default) -> case dict:is_key(Key, Dict) of true -> dict:fetch(Key, Dict); _ -> Default end.
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by sofuture 16y ago
They're an absolutely fantastic way to start 'getting' any language. They're small, discrete, and varied tasks that require you to build different types of operations and structures. Sure, they're not at all reflective of 'real programming'
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by sofuture 16y ago
I've recently jumped into Erlang, and have come to some of the same conclusions. I read Armstrong's Erlang book, and thought 'that seems cool' and didn't at all grok what was going on beyond the superficial. Then a few months later, just sa
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by sofuture 16y ago
Whoever came up with the term 'NoSQL' should be drawn and quartered for providing such fodder to the frothing blogosphere.
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by sofuture 16y ago
Using an ORM does buy you some abstraction, though. You get to worry about your business objects and fields instead of your tables and columns. (Depending on the language/situation this can be a big deal) You're right that it doesn't provid
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by sofuture 16y ago
Reasons for community decline, in order of magnitude: 1) Growth 2) People messily suiciding their accounts/participation in dramatic 'this-place-sucks-now' goodbyes in response to #1 3) Snarky followups to #2 4) This is soooo meta
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by sofuture 16y ago
I know this will sound like I've been living in a server room for the past decade, but I'm going to go ahead and say it. Does this feel backwards to anyone else? We're building more and more on a layer that wasn't originally constructed t
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by sofuture 16y ago
XML isn't bad in and of itself. It's just a powerful, neutral format. The problem with XML is that it allows so much abuse. I had to interface with a government system at some point. They shipped us a whole schema of custom elements such as
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by sofuture 16y ago
The biggest thing reading 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' did for me, was make me question every single scientific study in much greater detail. It's shocking how much niche* scientific research makes it's way into the 'news', 'common knowl
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by sofuture 16y ago
Maybe this is all just projection (Hey, at least I'm honest), but I think there's something valuable being said here. About building something for it's sake instead of building it solely for money. In the first case you're actually creating
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by sofuture 16y ago
You're reading that backwards. He's encouraging people to build something rather than attempt to build something for the sole purpose of selling it .
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by sofuture 16y ago
Patrick Smith (who flies commercially for a living, and writes the excellent Salon column 'Ask The Pilot') has issued an open challenge to any and all sim enthusiasts (with deep pockets). He claims that any non-actual-pilot will be unable t
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by sofuture 16y ago
I have used Microsoft Flight Simulator, quite extensively (all the way from CGA graphics up through DirectX 10). And while it's a great program, and other than the nicely crafted missions in FSX... X-Plane beats it hands down. I haven't loo
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by sofuture 16y ago
Right. Muscles either grow, or don't grow. There's is no 'grow but only in a way that is toning and not actually growing bigger and stronger'. It's absurd how prevalent of a myth that is.
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by sofuture 16y ago
What an appalling and offensive use of one's time. Make not-so-much money by providing generic content on a subject until X level of popularity is reached, at which point you transition the audience into a not-astounding paycheck and the we
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by sofuture 16y ago
Being a 'real' in-person employee doesn't mean you don't have quiet time to think through problems.

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