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by torial 16y ago
You might find this interesting: http://lists.scidb.org/archive/scidb-news/2010-January/msg00... - about the corporate sponsor who will make an enterprise version. Anyways, I went to the site hoping to find a nice lead, but they've got th
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by torial 16y ago
This seems to be a smart movie on Jobs' part. I'm not an Apple fan per se (I don't own any Apple products) but can see some definite advantages to Jobs' strategy. 1. Every business guy I've talked to loved the iPhone's power and what they
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by torial 16y ago
While I agree in general thrust with your focus on infrastructure -- one may argue that a lot of improvements of ignoring language have occurred. .Net allows for multiple languages on a single infrastructure, I believe Java VM does as well
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by torial 17y ago
A language I've discovered with delight is Cobra. It is python-like, with built-in unit test support, contract support, and currently on top of the .Net platform (but a backend is flexible enough that some work at targeting Java and Obj-C
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by torial 17y ago
Have you worked w/ TDD? I have not, but am considering it or a variant (some gray mushy middle). If you've worked w/ TDD but don't like it, what are your thoughts on this article which dicusses research on TDD: http://blog.objectmentor
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by torial 17y ago
We can't borrow from knowledge we'll have tomorrow, any conjecture on what will be found is at best a hypothesis in its own right. Data and verification for relativity is just well established (but arguably more research dollars go into th
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by torial 17y ago
"even if it is one of the best supported scientific theories out there." While it certainly has more evidence than AGW, it doesn't hold a candle to relativity (general or specific) or newtonian physics or a whole slew of chemistry theories.
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by torial 17y ago
One of the things I'm looking forward to is the managed wrapper for memory mapped files.
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by torial 17y ago
Regarding your #1 element: When I was coding w/ .Net PDC (e.g. pre- 1st beta) I would use the java reference docs to get some idea as to what to do because MS didn't have any real documentation for .Net at that time. Regarding your #2 eleme
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by torial 17y ago
Didn't see this category, but for the developers of a startup, an easy to use / free bug tracking system can be found in BugNotes: http://www.bugnotes.com/home.php
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by torial 17y ago
Yeah, I like the Axosoft free variant: http://www.transferbigfiles.com/
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by torial 17y ago
Just to add to a good list -- Al Gore on the board is catering toward liberals and not conservatives!
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by torial 17y ago
To that end, a great free tool that I've been using is called Workrave: http://www.workrave.org/welcome/ Otherwise, I don't get off my butt much -- but this reminds me. And it is highly configurable.
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by torial 17y ago
These rules are largely the low hanging fruit for aspiring writers. If an expert in a craft is asked to give advice to an audience of beginners, I'm guessing they'll pick the problems they see the most common, plus perhaps a few salient le
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by torial 17y ago
I have found "The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt to be very insightful. It is written in a novel like format, with the purpose of teaching a certain way of attacking problems. http://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/08...
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by torial 17y ago
Personally I found Forbes post re: SSD to be very interesting, and rather than just claim the debate has denigrated past the point of usefulness -- just ignore the rant from the other guy and respond to the substantive comments made by Fo
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by torial 17y ago
unless said smart people were in a committee :-)
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by torial 17y ago
If memory serves, this was important for cgi scripting -- where a new page hit launched some python code (and hence a new interpreter process).
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by torial 17y ago
I remember when FePy was first coming out, and Jim Hugunin was encountering considerable slowness in regard to exceptions, and he conferred with Guido about it because the fail-first idiom is a preferred python strategy. Anyways, Guido was
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by torial 17y ago
Extremely fast string matching -- I've seen a few research papers on the move to this. Which can play into DNA sequence matching, or information retrieval. GPU is also good for anything that requires extensive parallel number crunching, li
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by torial 17y ago
It is the hard part. Part of the value of the book is in providing a simple framework for people to understand something a little alien to them. This will increase your chances of understanding. This is not the same as trying put people
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by torial 17y ago
How often is "usually"? Is it 20% of the time? 60%? 80%? 90%? Did you see this New Yorker article on how the underdog can win? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_... An interesting quote from that article: What
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by torial 17y ago
I'm getting a video not found error.
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by torial 17y ago
For the most part, our politicians. Notable exceptions being gov of California. Not sure that we import many weapons, since we make so much at home. We have lots of corn and pigs. So what's the point?
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by torial 17y ago
What threshold do you need to get that downvote button? I don't see it yet.
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by torial 17y ago
I thought the first part was great. Loved "You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view". Then it tanked. I couldn't help but feel that straw man arguments were used for the examples of those who
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by torial 17y ago
Sure there are professional skeptics in any camp, but that doesn't make us all fall into the category. I was a climate skeptic long before a market existed for it. Ah nothing like a breakfast on fallacies :-) Let's see: Argumentum ad popul
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by torial 17y ago
I think for those of us that have a C language family background, parallel examples in both C (or C# or Java or Python) and Haskell would be very beneficial! We have two hurdles to jump: the concept of monad AND the syntax.
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by torial 17y ago
I'd say the biggest failure is autoenrolling you, and then setting certain things public. Sure they could see my gtalk status, but I never set anything up to let my Reader be public, but it was by default. If I want people to know what I'
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by torial 17y ago
I ran into this -- thought I had opted out (turns out only of the tour), then because of this post, I check the Buzz settings. Reader and Gtalk statuses were shared by default. And I was already following others (presumably they were unaw

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