spitfire

92 ms·

931.
by spitfire 15y ago
Interesting to note, the three largest boxes Physician, Lawyer and Teacher are all legally protected professions.
932.
by spitfire 15y ago
It's funny, I actually like the design of the site. It holds up well to the test of time. A lot of newer sites could learn from this. Aside from the 640x480 site design it's perfectly modern. As they say, Simplicity is the height of sophist
933.
by spitfire 15y ago
Do you have any links to his comments? I agree with him (Most ruby "hackers" couldn't write a single line of code for an F1 car), and feel they also don't have enough soft skills, I'd like to see his view on the matter.
934.
by spitfire 15y ago
> The people who succeed with startups are not particularly likely to be amazing software developers. In fact, the impedance mismatch between raw programming talent and software startup success is one of the more irritating things about
935.
by spitfire 15y ago
For a time you could simply buy your way to a knighthood. At least for the last 50 years they've been an almost entirely political construction, recommended by the government and rubber stamped by the queen. The Victoria Cross and George cr
936.
by spitfire 15y ago
It doesn't matter if the site is unattractive, as long as the users are.
937.
by spitfire 15y ago
That is the real issue here. People aren't exposed to these ideas and we keep reinventing them, poorly. Worse, people don't listen to the older more experienced people until after they've already blown themselves up (often more than once).
938.
by spitfire 15y ago
That was a function of the bureaucracy and legal requirements around the projects, not Ada the language. If you legally have to have a meeting with 10 people to review and physically sign off on every line of code, your project will probabl
939.
by spitfire 15y ago
It's funny how every single one of those features he's wanted has existed in a usable language since at least the 80's. Hell, Ada has every single feature he wants plus more. I'm particularly fond of the range feature. type degrees is r
940.
King William's college general knowledge quiz(kwc.im)
3 points by spitfire 15y ago|0 comments
941.
by spitfire 15y ago
> I'm surprise nobody's mentioned Knuth, though maybe that goes without saying? Everyone's waiting for the complete book.
942.
by spitfire 15y ago
I did this back in the day to work around flexLM for maple among other packages. It's a very useful technique, and fun to do to boot.
943.
by spitfire 15y ago
"The x64 machine code that the translator generates consumes approximately ten times as much memory as the corresponding HHBC. CPU instruction cache misses are a limiting factor for the large PHP applications that Facebook runs, so a hybrid
944.
by spitfire 15y ago
This is the cool stuff. I could care less about building a RESTful social widget interface. I couldn't care more about building a system to land men 300Kmiles away on a rock with a computer with less horsepower than your digital watch.
945.
by spitfire 15y ago
Yup. Wish I could see past my own tech-ego and play the game to that end.
946.
by spitfire 15y ago
He's doing what is known as failing upwards. This is what happens to people in the tech-celebrity/VC circle. I expect he has learnt a lot - how to sell, how to shake hands, etc.
947.
by spitfire 15y ago
No. I went to school with someone who now works at Facebook. To describe him as "most talented" at anything would be a mistake. However, he did have no regard for others or their work.
948.
by spitfire 15y ago
Because they cost an arm and a leg for small aircraft. Think $20K. Unfortunately regulations and liability costs make anything in aviation expensive. So most small planes are running around without tcas.
949.
by spitfire 15y ago
They're smart enough to milk the non-technical low end user. There's a lot more of them than there are the power-users. So for their revenue stream of constantly revolving low-end users not changing much is the right thing to do.
950.
by spitfire 15y ago
" or do the refactoring that's been bugging you for weeks. " You mean good engineering isn't the norm at this company?
951.
by spitfire 15y ago
He might not be smart enough to run his company. But I've seen more than a few people who aren't smart enough to run a company, but are lucky enough to hit payday. Sadly, this sort of failing upwards just reinforces their world view.
952.
by spitfire 15y ago
Isn't this called heroku? or if you want in-house, Mac OSX Server.
953.
by spitfire 15y ago
Facebook. It has all the hype and could IPO soon. Which would I want to run for the next 20 years? A BMW or a Toyota.
954.
by spitfire 15y ago
Technology is about making things easier. Computers, in particular, are about automation. We're finally starting to figure out this automation thing in operations. Cool. If you're not figuring out how to make you redundant the guy beside yo
955.
by spitfire 15y ago
LaTeX as a service. LaaS has a nice ring to it.
956.
by spitfire 15y ago
Each day, I thank god for all these useful idiots in SV. They're madly running a rat race to build the next social widget. Throwing off useful technology I can use to serve the vast wasteland ignored by them. Thank you Sean Parker.
957.
by spitfire 15y ago
Just to be absolutely clear, NULL /= 0 (zero). This goes beyond mysql. On some IBM mainframes NULL is actually a distinct representation from zero. On most pc's, null is overloaded with 0. Pr1me for example used 017777600000 as null. Data
958.
by spitfire 15y ago
This is a throwback to thick client-server computing. Welcome to 1992 everybody! I'm not a web dev, but I like the client side rendering. (Even if I hate JS with a passion). This is a fantastic move as it lets you very clearly seperate pres
959.
by spitfire 15y ago
The same reason analytics software is cropping up - it's easy for geeks to write. So lots pops up.
960.
by spitfire 15y ago
Further, today bandwidth equals performance. use 100M of memory? suddenly you've clobbered your cache. Use 10K instead, and it'll fit inside your cache neatly.

More ›