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541.
by strlen 16y ago
If you could then update the jump addresses (which are relative to IP) -- definitely possible programmatically, then yes. However, I don't believe you had the permission to alter the system software on an AS400. Not to mention, if you have
542.
by strlen 16y ago
Sounds similar to IBM's practice of inserting 'nops' into software of the AS-400s on otherwise identical hardware to create price gradations.
543.
by strlen 16y ago
> large-scale corruption and incompetence are still a very real possibility Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than un
544.
by strlen 16y ago
To essentially paraphrase "the trouble with genius" from Malcolm Gladwell's outliers, IQ is correlated with success but only up to a point. When two individuals have an IQ above roughly 125, practical intelligence ("socia skills") is often
545.
by strlen 16y ago
> IMHO it's a far better bet to predict whether or not two people can get through dinner without trying to kill each other... and just send them on a date. That's the thing. It's true that a similar world view is important for a long t
546.
by strlen 16y ago
There is a problem with attempts at making online dating work like "real world" dating. I'll state my reasons for this belief up front: I'm very happily in an almost two year relationship with somebody I've met online (OKCupid) whom I could
547.
by strlen 16y ago
I am not sure you understand what DI is: if you're programming to interfaces and are passing instances of an interface to a constructor, you're doing DI. You don't need a framework to do so. It's a great pattern to use in other object orien
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by strlen 16y ago
> In my experience, people start complaining that an interview is "theory-heavy" at about the point that you expect them to know when and how to use a binary tree. Binary trees are not hard-core CS theory, they are freshman Intro to Dat
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by strlen 16y ago
> This is why Cassandra is now offering counters as an API feature This is specific to Cassandra, where the development team chose not to implement optimistic locking via version vectors. That said the counters patch essentially impleme
550.
by strlen 16y ago
Entirely agree with you, eventual consistency and quorums protocols all have their drawbacks. Difficult of developing against that (and the natural reaction of just "handwaving" the consistency model rather than using optimistic locking wit
551.
by strlen 16y ago
> I saw a video the other day of some guy at Google giving a talk about the database behind the app engine. At one point someone in the audience asked about scale and SQL. His response was "Well, how well does SQL scale?" Everyone in th
552.
by strlen 16y ago
I like my Tab for several reasons: The form factor (it's perfect for reading eBooks at the gym or elsewhere), and the fact I can do what I'd like to easier with Android than with iOS. It does indeed feel like "just a big Galaxy S" (that wil
553.
by strlen 16y ago
Pet peeve: eventual consistency isn't for scalability and performance, it's for availability. In a well designed system, the whole debate only matters during in a failure condition: a strongly consistent system gives up availability upon a
554.
by strlen 16y ago
> So if Google and Facebook are the sexy places to work, and can offer programmers less They can, but they do not. The average salary may be lower as they hire more engineers out of college, but if you're an experienced engineer and hav
555.
by strlen 16y ago
In most cases (with exception large or high profile acquisitions) they do. However, the process is much less selective (i.e., most -- but not always all -- engineers in the acquired company get an offer) then if you apply directly to Google
556.
by strlen 16y ago
"That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them." -- @shitmydadsays
557.
by strlen 16y ago
Power engineering is one of type of electrical engineering. Demand has shifted away from that type. In the same way, the demands shifts from one sort of systems administrator -- the traditional sys admin who racks and stacks machine and man
558.
by strlen 16y ago
Yes, cloud will remove the need for systems administrators/operations much like the power grid has removed the need for electrical engineers.
559.
by strlen 16y ago
Reading this article confirms my tremendous respect for Google for: 1) Creating a culture where writing unit tests, fixing bugs and the like are not viewed dirty work or an overhead, something that scientists (or even engineers) are above 2
560.
by strlen 16y ago
Yes. Having worked at Yahoo, this isn't even a bit surprising. rtm's capitalization of 'filo' as 'Filo' -- everybody spelled it lowercase i.e., as an /etc/passwd entry not a lastname -- is the surprising part. Regardless of what you think o
561.
by strlen 16y ago
Quick note: forgot to state that Berkeley's intro CS course is taught in Scheme and uses the SICP book.
562.
by strlen 16y ago
That's the theory (and I am a strong proponent of teaching Scheme or Haskell in introductory CS followed by C in a data structures class: Visual Blub#++2EE on Rails is something you can learn on your own when you need it for a specific task
563.
by strlen 16y ago
One sentence: I love programming. If as an entrepreneur (i.e., a company founder; being an employee at a startup -- which, by the way, is great -- is not the same) I spend the same percentage of my time programming as I do when working as a
564.
by strlen 16y ago
> I've been doing some android programming recently, and working with Java without IoC is simply unbearable. Can't you use Guice with Android? I'd be surprised if you can't.
565.
by strlen 16y ago
> Compare IoC (Spring setter injection), with J2EE+EJB2.x - it's night and day - and I know which I would prefer to code using. Spring introduced POJO programming and explicitly called out the crappy J2EE design patterns in favour of si
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by strlen 16y ago
> No one complains ???? Have you not watched TV in the last 10 years? There are entire genres of comedy mostly devoted to jews complaining about their parents. Was about to say that (as a Russian Jewish male), that if it weren't Jews co
567.
by strlen 16y ago
Your operating includes a page cache (in some cases it may have even more e.g., ZFS on Solaris with ARC). It can very effectively load these indexed values into memory. Of course your own cache and direct I/O may be more efficient if you're
568.
by strlen 16y ago
It's not that Scala is Effective Java, it's that "Effective Java" (the book) is a good set of patterns of software developments in many other object oriented languages. You'll note much of the same discussed in Design Patterns (unfortunatel
569.
by strlen 16y ago
Very interesting. Will more information on this be included in the CIDR paper on Megastore?
570.
by strlen 16y ago
Is this the first production use of Spanner? (No worries if you're not allowed to comment on this, sorry to be nosy, but this is something I'm curious about)

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