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by tpz 16y ago
The distinction is simply (but critically!) this: the standard operating procedure (and, in fact, the only available way!) to shut down a piece of crash-only software is to crash it forcibly . There is no quit button, no shutdown command,
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by tpz 16y ago
Unless I am missing something, the only way the whole world can be a net saver would be for for all of us to start exporting goods and services off-planet. Anything else is simply a mirage that obscures currency inflation. :) Which, on a re
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by tpz 16y ago
A great engineer is not expected to know how their impact on a 25 person company will be different than a 200 person company. Moreover a great engineer may not yet know that not having that impact may be a really important los
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by tpz 16y ago
The absurd claim about the "iPad only home", given that the iPad requires a computer to activate and manage. Apple has gone out of its way to make sure the iPad is treated as an additional device, not a sole device for a user. This is impor
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by tpz 16y ago
I was surprised to see that the default mode for development is unmanaged. I find myself wondering what you mean by "default mode", as during the last 9 solid years of .net development work I have found it to very much be the case t
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by tpz 16y ago
But then it would have to swap, the user experience would suffer unpredictably, Steve Jobs would strangle the engineer responsible and the feature would never see the light of day.
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by tpz 16y ago
All true, but worth a brief addition: these viewing distance / screen size / resolution models all assume average adult vision, so if you are one of the folks both lucky and unlucky enough to have above-average vision (or below, for that ma
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by tpz 16y ago
And not just that. A pattern I've been more consciously noticing recently (I'm sure it has been there the whole time but that I've just been noticing it more often for some reason) is the huge tendency for people to not just attribute succe
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by tpz 16y ago
Which is like saying "why not just use V8?" when talking about Node.js. IronJS, once it is ready, will likely be the best JS implementation (and its certainly the one I have my sights on!) through which to build and run a Node-like JS serve
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by tpz 16y ago
Within the Framework's Base Class Libraries themselves, the documentation is pretty good about stating what is and is not thread-safe and the implementations are generally quite good in that regard. Outside of the Base Class Libraries there
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by tpz 16y ago
It is interesting to me, at least, for the same reasons that made Node.js interesting in the first place: as a statement/experiment in seeing how far the async model can be pushed. I'm a .NET dev by trade but became immediately interested i
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by tpz 16y ago
No, but in the real world of deadlines, collaboration with teams that have their own different schedules, priorities, etc., they very often need a one week window not constrained but instead opened such that they can actually get somethin
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by tpz 16y ago
For the record, I'm not unhappy at all, and if you'll look back at my original reply I was very up front about being just one data point. You can get lucky. Or you can leverage insider knowledge. Or you can do some personal learning and inv
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by tpz 16y ago
If I were lucky or if I had made any effort whatsoever to time the market, you might be right. On the other hand, I know of lots of data points like mine, even with the crapfest of the last couple of years. (Sensationalist news articles and
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by tpz 16y ago
Agreed. re: "It always seems to me that the author is simply trying to justify the fact that they rent." - this always seems to be the case. The few renters who seem to do well financially would also do well financially as homeowners but fo
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by tpz 16y ago
For what it is worth, if your builds are more CPU-bound than you thought then either your solution is very small overall (which I somewhat doubt) or you have it broken up across too many projects. For a good nine years now almost all .net a
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by tpz 17y ago
I have not yet seen any even remotely official information source associating language/compiler/etc. restrictions with background processing, just a growing number of comments like yours claiming that there is multi-tasking magic (for which
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by tpz 17y ago
For what it's worth, I have had my Android phone for ~17 months and to this date Locale is _still_ its killer app. I simply refuse to own any other phone until it can do the same. I will certainly understand if iPhone/iPad multitasking arri
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by tpz 17y ago
Ambiguous? JavaScript Object Notation should probably use JavaScript's camelCasing, no? ;)
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by tpz 17y ago
Android support was confirmed by Wakemate before they started collecting pre-orders, otherwise I would not have been one of them.
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by tpz 17y ago
I may have accidentally implied the semi-retirement angle more strongly than my point regarding tending to the first business as if a garden instead of trying to scale it, which was more what I wanted to focus on. Apologies if that wasn't a
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by tpz 17y ago
re: "The next big question is: Can you scale it ?" I would like to suggest a potentially more interesting question (or set of questions) : _Should_ he scale it? If so, why? Why would so many HNers assume the next step to be scaling it? Migh
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by tpz 17y ago
The editorialized title of the submission may have its problems, but "Correlation != Causation" and equivalent statements need to be consistently downvoted because they, as on every other site where they have for a while now been equally if
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by tpz 17y ago
On the other hand, many people also drive vehicles with manual transmission because doing so yields measurable improvements in both power output and fuel economy. Vehicles with manual transmissions also tend to be more predictably controlle
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by tpz 17y ago
Someone surely did read the comments: the recruiter and/or one or more members of the HR department. In all of the companies I have worked in as an employee or with as a consultant, the HR department always has by far the weakest staff. I h
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by tpz 17y ago
"Who will pay 5 millions $ each year to use H264 on Firefox ?" I've already paid for my H.264 licenses. Now I just want to use them. The PC to my left has a video card with licensed H.264 that I paid for and free software that harnesses it,
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by tpz 17y ago
bugs' repeated comments being a perfect case in point. I know this entire subject is hardly HN material, but both myself and the vet sitting beside me would like you all to know that: bugs repeated advice on exercise would, if applied, make
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by tpz 17y ago
Which, in case you didn't know, the MSFT build stack was able to do with C++ projects long before it could with C# projects. I wonder if wglb's referenced company would have liked to know that. ;)
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by tpz 17y ago
I'm not even so sure that they are unnecessarily complicated to scale, or that you should need or have to replace the features you list. I am sure, however, that everything you list ends up needing to happen if the solution chosen doesn't a
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by tpz 17y ago
re: "steeping time (not that long, else you'll get the bitter flavor bits that no one like)" As a tip to those who might want to give tea a try, the pattern of increased bitterness with increased steeping time is highly dependent on tea qua

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