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by stevoski 13y ago
There isn't one. More helpfully, the author describes it as a learning experience. How to implement a stack-based virtual machine in Python.
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by stevoski 13y ago
"legacy books" is a great phrase! Did you coin it yourself?
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by stevoski 13y ago
You have probably encountered the occasional Java desktop app, without realising. If you can't easily tell it is Java, the development team have done a good job. Two of my company's three products are a Java desktop app for Mac, a
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by stevoski 13y ago
I often wonder why a PHP killer hasn't yet been created. I don't mean a Ruby or another vastly different language. I mean a language similar in approach to PHP, but with the gotcha's removed, some order and consistency introd
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by stevoski 13y ago
This makes me want to have JetBrains' baby. Again. If I had a baby for every time I've said that, I'd probably have a sizeable brood by now.
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by stevoski 13y ago
We should add namespaces to JSON. And schemas. And schema validation. And stylesheet transformations. Yes, that would all be good... Extensible types would be the next thing to add. Now that'd be a good extension. And we could call it
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by stevoski 13y ago
Dammit, the C64 always gets the good games first. I hope they make a port for my Amstrad CPC.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Great read. What bothers me about A/B tests is when people say, eg."there was a 7% improvement" without telling us the sample size, or error margin. I'd rather hear: On a sample size of 1,000 unique visits, the improveme
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by stevoski 13y ago
A C++ IDE with modern refactoring capability? Those JetBrains folk are getting mightily ambitious. And I mean that as a compliment.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Got reliable sources for that claim?
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Coding my way around 100 countries(successfulsoftware.net)
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by stevoski 13y ago
_Everybody_ knows they should have used a database sequence to generate the issue number. Those database administrators in the 1890's were _so_ lame.
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by stevoski 13y ago
And Spain - at least, in Barcelona, where there are legal ways to obtain marijuana, and not even for medical reasons.
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by stevoski 13y ago
And there is also Fakeblock: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-official-fakeblock-app/i...
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by stevoski 13y ago
That article comes to grand conclusions from a little bit of data.
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by stevoski 13y ago
> Does anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague? I've long assumed it was for marketing and business reasons. So many of us in the west automatically are suspicious of
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by stevoski 13y ago
> Nobody tries to tell a cancer patient how to treat their cancer, Oh I wish that was true. My gf had cancer and every crackpot we knew was advising on nonsense causes and treatments.
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by stevoski 13y ago
> If you want strong typing, use a strongly-typed language. Unfortunately in iOS development, we don't have a good alternative to ObjC.
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by stevoski 13y ago
It's On Demand QA as a Service for _WEB APPS_. A pity, us developers of desktop software also need help with QA.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Writing a background thread that does a long-running calculation? easy. Writing a background thread that can be cancelled immediately, that gives useful progress information, that doesn't leave other threads indefinitely blocked if can
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by stevoski 13y ago
It doesn't have pivot tables; therefore I don't see this as a viable replacement for Excel.
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by stevoski 13y ago
> I haven't heard anyone talking about DB agnosticism in web dev for years, it was an odd idea that popped up in the mid-2000s and died the pointless death it deserved. ODBC and JDBC are both older than that, and still alive and wel
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by stevoski 13y ago
I don't think it is beginner-friendly, except maybe for the first two lines of code they ever write. By the time they get to the third line there is a good chance they've mistyped their variable name...
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by stevoski 13y ago
Another reason I cringed is the implicit creation of the db variable. This is just asking for beginners to bang their head against the table in frustration trying to work out why their variable alongvariablename is equal to 0, even though t
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by stevoski 13y ago
The first (or second, maybe) line made me cringe...a specific object for MySQL, rather than a database-agnostic SQL engine, a la old-school ASP or middle-school JDBC. Perhaps better: db = DatabaseConnection.new("MySQL", &quo
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by stevoski 13y ago
If you posted something the length of Moby Dick, with 127 spelling mistakes, which you then corrected? No need to applaud, but no need to criticise...
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by stevoski 13y ago
In some areas, yes. But your chances of discovering new species of butterflies in the Amazon, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, finding an apt life partner, producing healthy, well-balanced offspring, having good relations with your parents? In othe
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by stevoski 13y ago
Now that is one terse but powerful anecdote.
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by stevoski 13y ago
I think that works out to $3000/employee. If these employees work on average 2000 hours/year (could be wildly different to that, depends on how many of these employees are full-time, and the amount of hours in a full-time work yea
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by stevoski 13y ago
I went to university in Australia; there McDonald's et al employed primarily high-school and university students. The feeling was that a fast food job was something you did part-time while studying. The employees are generally people o

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