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by subwindow 15y ago
To be fair to MS, there's lots of interesting stuff going on there. I have a friend who's working on the .NET CLR, and it would be foolish to think that he's not working on extremely awesome stuff. At the same time, I don't know of anythi
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by subwindow 15y ago
I wouldn't want to hire the person you describe. This is simply a more visible indicator that a person doesn't care about the company they work for. That's fine for giant corporations, but amazingly deadly for startups.
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by subwindow 15y ago
I don't want to be pedantic, but this is not depression. Depression is 6 months without a single high point. Depression is not a roller coaster- there are no ups. Just down. For a long fucking time. I've been depressed off and on for the
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by subwindow 15y ago
Hadn't seen Isolate before- looks awesome. I'll try it out. Autorequire is one of my biggest complaints against bundler.
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by subwindow 15y ago
The problem is that there's no third option- something to manage dependencies that's not bundler. We all want and need dependency management, but bundler should not be the One True Solution.
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by subwindow 15y ago
I don't know where you got that from. Struts was my first proper web framework- the kind where adding a column was an all-day affair. The simplicity of Rails, even now, is that you'd only need to put it in two places- the migration and the
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by subwindow 15y ago
This has some interesting ramifications- some network security appliances (I work for a company that makes one) look for suspicious sets of DNS requests that match the Domain Generation Algorithms that malware like Conficker use to find a c
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by subwindow 15y ago
Huh. Thanks. I looked for a long time and didn't see that. The closest I got was an extremely old lighthouse ticket where Aaron Patterson suggested that they change the behavior to raise errors, but there was no followup.
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by subwindow 15y ago
About a week ago I had a problem with after_commit callbacks not being called. It turns out (after diving into the AR source) that they indiscriminately swallow errors from after_commit callbacks. If you're testing a newly-created callback
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by subwindow 15y ago
I disagree. The main reason I dislike Rails is that it is too complicated. When working with it every day, I regularly come across issues with it that require that I delve into the source code. More often than not that is a depressing ventu
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by subwindow 15y ago
I wonder if switching to JRuby wouldn't have solved some of his problems? I'd imagine that distribution is much easier on JRuby. I suppose the issue is with libraries, but I'm not familiar with the libraries he mentioned.
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by subwindow 15y ago
+= is not append str += append_str is the equivalent to: str.dup << append_str That is, it copies the string and then appends to the copy. Benchmarking the speed of a true append is difficult because in order to preser
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by subwindow 15y ago
I think the argument is that the end users wouldn't be able to manipulate the table in ways other than flipping bits, and that the system should be able to support any combination of bits. In reality (and I think this is your point) the con
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by subwindow 15y ago
I've used decision tables before and I don't particularly like them. The only good use for them is if the end-user both understands the rules and has the ability to change them. Otherwise, you're just covering up a code smell (nested if-els
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by subwindow 15y ago
It only solves the exploit path, not the vulnerability. The true issue is that their hashing algorithm sucks. Any patch that doesn't fix the hashing algorithm is a band-aid and not a true fix.
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by subwindow 15y ago
I think the most obvious exploit path is using thousands of query parameters, which are inserted into an "array" in PHP. An ini setting seems like a terrible and incomplete fix to the problem.
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by subwindow 15y ago
Yes it is, and it has been for at least a year.
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by subwindow 15y ago
Yes that is just one way in which PHP is annoying. I think they actually refer to it as an "associative array", which as far as I can tell is exactly a hash, but they never refer to it as one. On a side note, Ruby does not appear to have th
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by subwindow 15y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion on this thread about exactly what Portugal did, and the ramifications for the U.S. in terms of time-frame and difficulty. What Portugal did was decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs. The
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by subwindow 15y ago
You can't log any arbitrary out of their sessions. It only resets your session, as in the session cookie is reset.
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by subwindow 15y ago
The first 10 or so shuffles of a new deck of cards may be relatively common, but after you put a deck of cards away you are not going to reorder it. Most aged decks are therefore going to be completely unique in their ordering. The only peo
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by subwindow 15y ago
So far I've had a pretty frustrating experience with the Kindle (Kindle 4 no keyboard, no touchscreen) from the get-go. Sure, the box was nice, but as soon as I powered it on it was frustrating. Since the Kindle was a gift, I had to enter i
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by subwindow 15y ago
Actually in the US it is not illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There may be laws in New York state prohibiting it, I don't know. But in most of the US it is totally legal to post a job listing saying "Programmers wanted.
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by subwindow 15y ago
I would mark Diamond Age as "OK" at best. Interesting ideas, terrible and rushed ending. If Anathem is worse than Diamond Age, it most definitely does not belong on the list.
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by subwindow 15y ago
Backwards compatibility is great and all, but at what cost? One of the main reasons why Windows eventually started to collapse under its own weight was backwards compatibility. If a piece of software is so tied to backwards compatibility th
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by subwindow 15y ago
Obviously with any list there's going to be quite a lot of nits to pick... At any rate, here are mine. Sad to see Stanislaw Lem completely left out in favor of some obviously inferior books (Anathem!?). Also a curious choice for the obligat
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by subwindow 15y ago
A nice idea, but it needs a few tweaks. The vertical height doesn't change between a 3 and an 11, so they both occupy the same eye space. It'd be nice if the avatar, text and the entire block were scaled according to the size. Also, there's
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by subwindow 15y ago
Almost all of the above. Because my company ships an appliance, we've got Postgres, Tokyo, Redis and several other semi-databases (Judy, Memcached, etc) on the appliances, and Postgres, Couch and HDFS/HBase on our side. Much of the reason f
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by subwindow 16y ago
Somehow I doubt that the packaging really influences what someone smokes and how much they smoke of it. People make decisions based on taste, strength and habit more than they do on marketing and especially pack design. If someone's smoking
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by subwindow 16y ago
A lot of the concepts are correct, but the surprising thing is the lack of advancements in materials. The images use cloth, soft metals, wood and canvas for everything. It's almost impossible to state how big an impact plastics and high qua

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