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by strlen 14y ago
As a start, be present in multiple EC2 availability zones (not just US-east-2, basically) and regions (this is harder). Cross-region presence needn't be active-active, just a few read-only database slaves and some machines to handle SSL ter
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by strlen 14y ago
Anecdotally, this seems to be a serious hinderance in the American primary and secondary systems: student sees a setback and deduces he simply isn't "smart enough to study math" and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy through the mechan
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by strlen 14y ago
Yes: if his "plan" was to defame an employer, he'd want to conceal his views (which, again, are completely irrelevant here) as opposed to express them in a transparent fashion (which he does). Finally, you have to wonder, how much of abuse
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by strlen 14y ago
> It unnecessarily adds doubt to the claims being made. If your narrator has an agenda it becomes difficult to trust that narrator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic) In brief
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by strlen 14y ago
1) Re: equipment Typing this on a work supplied Macbook Pro, 16gb of ram, 256 gb SSD. Cost to me: $0. I am ssh'd into my development server which has 78gb of ram. Cost to me: $0 I have IntelliJ Idea Professional (price comparable to -- if n
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by strlen 14y ago
I think the article uses the term "Brilliant Jerk" to describe someone who is technically brilliant but not politically apt or motivated by money ("brilliant businessmen"). That's not what I (and probably you) mean by the term. Managers tha
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by strlen 14y ago
> http://www.springsource.org/ http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/spr... Does that answer your question?
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by strlen 14y ago
Cost is an issue if you're deploying on large scale. The fact the source is not available is an even bigger issue. OTOH if using a proprietary solution ($$ and closed source) was fine, I'd personally go with C# or F#. If you're fine using a
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by strlen 14y ago
I'm aware of real time JVMs, but they seem to target smaller scale mission critical applications (I'd imagine embedded or Scada?) None of these are free (or "open source" in the OpenJDK sense -- e.g., where most of the system with the excep
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by strlen 14y ago
I think you meant "for a private sector company". What dsolomon is saying sounds completely incredulous to me: I've yet to hear of a single company that requires employees to purchase their own hardware or software. This is true not just of
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by strlen 14y ago
The big pull of go for me is AOT compilation to native code (which translates to fast start time for command line utilities), close integration with the OS,support for value types, and stack allocation. These are not currently available on
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by strlen 14y ago
Making the copy constructor and operator= private (see boost::noncopyable to take care some of that boilerplate) takes care of some of the other hidden costs. I do agree that C++ is a complex and hodgepodge language, but I am not sure there
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by strlen 14y ago
Well, to an extent it has: there's archeological evidence that human intelligence has risen from ~40,000 AD to ~10,000 (see "Before The Dawn"). It's just that additional intelligence (beyond what we have now) doesn't seem to confer any furt
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by strlen 14y ago
It's fine if the paper is behind a paywall: can you at least give a citation (from a peer-reviewed journal) and an abstract? Additionally, please see tokenadult's posts: tokenadult is anything _but_ an idiot and has contributed much valuabl
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by strlen 14y ago
Unfortunately I am not in a university, so I no longer have access to JSTOR and the like. I did dig around PubMed/Google and what I've been able to find were studies of impaired individuals. Citations would be useful -- for studies on healt
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by strlen 14y ago
I think we can agree to disagree here. What about a language like Perl, where any reference (not just a reference to a hash) can be blessed and be used to dispatch methods? Would you say OO Perl is not OO? (I think you could argue either wa
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by strlen 14y ago
> Hint: drugs such as modafinil, caffeine, nicotine are part of daily life <b>because they have a demonstrable effect</b>. The original story talks about racetams as opposed to stimulants. I don't think the fact that sti
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by strlen 14y ago
Quick clarification: I am not claiming that Piracetam can't have any effects in healthy, mildly-to-moderately gifted individuals, it's just that I am not certain you can extrapolate from studies of Piracetam use with impaired individuals. F
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by strlen 14y ago
Not specifically about Down Syndrome, but here is one study with children with IQ below 75: http://books.google.com/books?id=bNfuX26mSsAC&pg=PA151&#... Note, however, that an IQ below 75 falls in the bottom 5% of cognitive ability. I
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by strlen 14y ago
I've seen several studies related to use of Piracetam in children with Down Syndrome as well, leading to a statistically significant IQ improvement. Problem is that I don't believe intelligence always works this way, e.g., if having less of
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by strlen 14y ago
Object Orientation doesn't imply "single dispatch / message passing" style of Object Orientation. Common Lisp's CLOS and Clojure's multimethods and protocols are also object oriented, albeit in a different style. Of course CLOS is far more
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by strlen 14y ago
About a year and a half ago I commented on a blog post he has made (it was a rather minor point in regards to consistency in distributed databases, I think). Dan replied to me via email with a follow up question and we had some corresponden
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by strlen 14y ago
Thanks, this is useful.
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by strlen 14y ago
Re: "General inflammation in the body" -- genuinely curious, do you have a source available for this? Not implying this is wrong, merely this seems rather strange to me and out of the mainstream (similar to the claim that autism is caused b
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The Bozo Event Horizon(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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by strlen 14y ago
Yes, I was careful to say "J2EE" and not "JEE". WebBeans/CDI in Java EE 6 are quite decent. JSR 330 seems as if they just standardized on Guice. JSR 318 is quite good as well: I highly recommend using Jersey if you're building a REST API.
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by strlen 14y ago
Well, for starters the whole idea of programming in XML. That and gems such as http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/spr... or http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/spr... Of course I can't a priori
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by strlen 14y ago
It's perfectly fine to use Java for this kind of software. The hate against Java comes from using Java for application development: this is largely due to the kinds of applications that are typically written in Java (line of business softwa
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by strlen 14y ago
My advice is "let" yourself be found. One way is to participate in user groups for rapidly growing technologies. That might be Java or Linux in 1996, Ruby in 2004, ObjC in 2008 -- you get the idea. If one doesn't have a car or doesn't live
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by strlen 14y ago
This is a very well written post and I have a great deal of respect for its author. I also happen to find Category Theory to be extremely beautiful, but its beauty (much as the beauty of many other theories in physics and mathematics) does

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