tmikew

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Are interpreted languages fast enough?(dadgum.com)
2 points by tmikew 17y ago|0 comments
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by tmikew 17y ago
How does one know a great book with out consuming some junk? We learn when we do it wrong up much more often than when do it right. It is not always clear in the beginning that putting business logic in with the view or the data layer code
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by tmikew 17y ago
I agree that the effort is large, and the browser platforms are constantly in motion. I was mostly just musing about it. My gut feeling is that getting Java script up to speed on the server side is just as much if not more work. Look at how
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by tmikew 17y ago
This is kind of cool, but who is going to digest all of it? The techno folks may have some technology pieces working, but nobody out in the main world would be able to figure it out. I got a little dizzy just looking at all the links to all
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by tmikew 17y ago
I am you. I'm in my early 40s. I worked for BigCorp 11 years in my position. I had a long commute. I made lots of money. I have a house and 3 small children. I wasn't seeing enough of my kids. BigCorp is outsourcing to India. I wasn't in je
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by tmikew 17y ago
I would have to agree with thinking as well. When I first started programming I would just brute force my through whatever problem. After some years I realized that the 3rd or 4th iteration of something was commonly the best solution and th
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by tmikew 17y ago
I would just say this for folks who don't like unit tests because it takes longer. Push yourself away from the keyboard and think about it. When one writes codes one writes unit tests in ones head or the code doesn't work. I submit that we
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by tmikew 17y ago
I would agree, and add to this comment. If I can't figure out what the sensible name is then what exactly is it that I am writing? I have found that writing the wrong name even for a local private variable will often get me at least a littl
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by tmikew 17y ago
I used to think in terms of methods and data structures, say about 5 years ago. I was thinking bottom up. I learned (slowly) that I could not sufficiently communicate to the business folks what was happening. Their eyes would just glaze ove
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by tmikew 17y ago
When I first read the question I almost fell off my chair. The answer is YES. I have used source safe, star team (briefly), cvs, svn and now mercurial. I haven't used Git but I understand that it is conceptually similar to mercurial. I keep
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by tmikew 17y ago
Do some research on a fellow by the name of Napolean Hill you may find it interesting. You will not likely have a better opportunity than now to do this. It sounds fun to me and I am an old guy. I keep wondering. Why would you not also earn
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by tmikew 17y ago
Missing the point. Every "Hell yeah" project does not turn out to be easy or even fun. In fact I agree that finishing any project is usually tough, some aspect of it sucks. Why are so many things left unfinished? Doesn't matter what the pro
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by tmikew 17y ago
Why do you think you are not sharp? I bet your problem is that all of your problems in your current business domain are solved and you are bored, not dull. What is a little dull is reading through lists of academic achievements and future
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by tmikew 17y ago
I agree. In other words correlation is not causation.
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The Humble Dialog Box(objectmentor.com)
1 points by tmikew 17y ago|0 comments
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by tmikew 17y ago
I agree it is tough. Coming from java land it always seems like one is either mixing java in the html or html in java. I have also never been totally convinced about the separate people argument. Not that it won't work, but that company's t
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Enforcing Strict ModelView Separation in Template Engines(cs.usfca.edu)
3 points by tmikew 17y ago|3 comments
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by tmikew 17y ago
For me when I first encountered this particular post on REST a couple of years ago it was like an ah ha moment. SOAP is just one complex layer. Struts is another, actually a container in a container. Having messed around in J2ee land for wh
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by tmikew 17y ago
Completely agree. I once had somebody ask me during an interview to write a binary search on the white board. Very tough in that circumstance for me, completely blew it. Interestingly that was 11 years ago, I am now the chief architect and
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by tmikew 17y ago
I prefer JSON. Though I do agree with the other comments that xml is more readable if the structure is big, and that one can easily (and perhaps should) do both. In practice I have noticed that where I work we tend to have complex data stru