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by sqrt17 12y ago
Play 1.2 is not-quite-as-supported as Play 2.x, but it doesn't have features that mostly make sense for Scala (e.g., text-based templates, not Scala-DSL ones)
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by sqrt17 12y ago
You're free to try and see if the code also works in Python3. Python3 used to come without a lot of the "batteries" that make Python a useful language for science-y stuff (numpy, matplotlib, Cython),and the 'improvements
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by sqrt17 13y ago
In many places, the supply for cabs is artificially limited by the fact that there are only a limited number of licenses, which you then have to "rent out" from a licensee if you want to drive a cab. The article raises a valid poi
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by sqrt17 13y ago
I might be a stickler here, but this strikes me as a good example of a "domain-specific language" rather than of a general programming language. Now, it's certainly possible to nail general-purpose programming features onto a
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by sqrt17 13y ago
AFAIK, Chrome/Windows does not do font antialiasing/smoothing, which it does do on Linux and OSX.
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by sqrt17 13y ago
To be honest: Some enterprises can operate fully within the law without ever experiencing a conflict of interest (example: you sew clothes, and sell them). Some enterprises operate completely without regard of the law (example: drug smuggli
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by sqrt17 13y ago
For private repositories, I've discovered a software called SCM Server. It lets you add different users, with passwords, and create SVN/Hg/Git repositories with each their own access list.
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by sqrt17 13y ago
Yes, every electricity utility company should mandate its own electric plug, and limit you to their model of matching TV and washing machine. Don't ever think of taking your washing machine with you when you move to another state. Hone
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by sqrt17 13y ago
Demo means "demonstrator". Usually you use it to demonstrate (show) what your product can do. If it doesn't, you show them something that doesn't exist, and it's more of an illusionist show than a real demonstration
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by sqrt17 13y ago
abrasive != asshole The rough tone on lkml (supposedly) reflects the gap between people who want to make something that's nontrivial and used by many people and the smaller number of people who are actually able to do so. Setting yours
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by sqrt17 13y ago
Err... They haven't released anything yet. Why do they claim to be better than their competitors (who may or may not have released a product)? When has it become ok to start a fistfight (or the verbal equivalent of it) over a piece of
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by sqrt17 13y ago
"more correct" is nonsense, since 'correct' is not a gradable adjective. "more acceptable" would be correct. Whether "less [count-noun]" is acceptable depends on granularity: "less than two adver
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by sqrt17 13y ago
Successful product management is exactly closing that rift. Product management is distinct from either programming (making things) or sales (selling things to people). The argument made in the article is "you are a programmer. Therefor
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by sqrt17 13y ago
Interesting. From a Spanish point of view, it could also mean "tomo / no tomo" (take, don't take), which is borderline sensible
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by sqrt17 13y ago
She's equating verbal intimidation "don't do this ever again/this should not have happened" with advocating "physical intimidation and violence", or advocating "verbal abuse". On her blog, Sarah
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by sqrt17 14y ago
Your point is valid if (and only if) your income stream from consulting or contracting can be scaled up and down fluidly enough to catch the ups and downs that your startup business generates. Most enterprises/jobs prefer the 'surrender you
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by sqrt17 14y ago
The basic advice in the article seems to be: use consulting as well as doing a lean startup to achieve (i) a fluid stream of income [from consulting] and (ii) a hopefully-growing stream of passive income [from startup]. (As far as I can tel
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by sqrt17 14y ago
R is (according to that study) 500x slower than C. But let's say that we have a language that is just 10x slower than medium-optimized C. In that case, a 100sec. program run spends 78sec. in that language and 22sec. in that compute kernel.
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by sqrt17 14y ago
The model that has worked amazingly well for Python (and Matlab, and R, and probably a number of others) is to encapsulate the hard stuff - say BLAS for linear algebra, or GraphLab for loopy belief propagation - together with all the amazin
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by sqrt17 14y ago
If your timeframe is the last 15 years, it would be wrong to speak of an exodus. In 1997, linux on the desktop was a niche market, only for people who didn't mind editing a text configuration file now and then. Nowadays, you give a desktop
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by sqrt17 14y ago
Wait, so Zookeeper (= distributed consensus thingie that I think implements the Paxos algorithm) is a Hadoop project but not actually used in Hadoop mapreduce?
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by sqrt17 14y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it: in the olden days, you could change resolutions without either editing your Xconfig file or clicking anywhere, just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-(KP+/KP-). Most distributions disable that nowadays, because it tend
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by sqrt17 14y ago
I guess that languages such as Smalltalk, Common Lisp and Python are all OO-functional rather than pure-OO or pure-functional. It works quite well in practice - whenever you have some simply-structured mutable state that's being worked on a
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Now, from a logical viewpoint this title could also be "why an excellent software engineer can be a mathematician", or (assuming that excellence in mathematics does not affect your ability to engineer software) "why a software engineer can
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by sqrt17 15y ago
I'm not a hardcore scrum proponent, but "Scrum compensates for lack of X, and hence works less well for people who have X" is not necessarily true. Being able to swap the product backlog can help correct planning errors, but it doesn't make
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by sqrt17 15y ago
ISO-8859-n is not ASCII either, so if your software is not Unicode-aware (or encoding-aware) at all, things will break.
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by sqrt17 15y ago
Occasionally, I have an irresistible urge to strangle everyone who uses Unicode and UTF-8 (or other UTF encodings) interchangeably. UNICODE is a good thing because it provides a codepoint for every character that we care about, instead of h
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by sqrt17 15y ago
> Some geeks certainly deny the sexism -- he gives an example of one -- so I think an article on male privilege has to start out there. How is sexism a privilege? Sexism may be a bias, or as the grandparent hypothesizes, a lack of empat
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by sqrt17 15y ago
The trick is, you wouldn't necessarily. If your workload can be handled with one beefed-up lots-of-RAM-and-solid-state-drives server, you could spend your money on two of these instead of having 10 smaller servers, and be perfectly happy wi
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by sqrt17 15y ago
What's wrong with using something like ZooKeeper? In my understanding, master election, storage of configuration data and the likes are what it's made for; and you can have multiple ZK servers that still contain one single configuration dat

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