tsewlliw

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by tsewlliw 14y ago
If there's a recursion limit, can you not write a program that fails to terminate?
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I would suggest changing the title to "the dangers of not fixing problems found in code review", the very first example shows code review being an effective means of finding problems, and the presumption is that they just let the problem sl
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
(100% totally non sarcastic here) This is what I love about PHP devs. Imagine how much effort it was to write that. The author may not have have the chops to refactor that into something elegant, but he wanted it done and was perfectly will
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I'm relatively new to the WP scene, and already its totally clear that WordPress is tolerated because it has a vibrant ecosystem. Getting to keep that is way bigger factor in uptake over the next five years than anything a rewrite could del
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Faux REPL for configuring AppArmor(tsewlliw.wpengine.com)
1 points by tsewlliw 14y ago|0 comments
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Doubly interesting to me -- when I realized that programming pays well because automation puts people out of jobs, or perhaps forces them to learn new skills, I started moving from hard libertarian to embracing certain pieces of socialism.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I think you've accurately identified why you could have those gaps. Not that you do have them, but hourly billing enterprise software "scut work" doesn't require a whole lot of CS. I wonder if the stuff on the other side of those APIs did?
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I imagine not, as those are not crypto hash functions, and thus have very different design goals.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
before you go to far into that rabbit hole, turn on whatever fancy blame view you like best. Its probably good enough.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I'm scared to try it, but follow the idea here: http://blog.asmartbear.com/personal-checklist.html
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
It IS really nice to see something on those mysterious monads not written in haskell. I got hung up early into the article though, where the author says something to the effect of "the monad hides the complexity", and that seemed like a sil
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
This. I'd do my best to make sure the authors contributions stopped. Type safety obviously doesn't protect you the worst possibilities in software.
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Lets Ban Some Words(wrttn.in)
1 points by tsewlliw 14y ago|1 comments
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Every concurrent request gets its own thread, whereas this seems to be one thread per core. Also, the servlet API is crazy, partly because of all its baggage. There seems to be a lot of exploration around what the right API is right now, bu
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Like what meaningful solution? Pre-digital DRM was essentially the difficulty of copying, and that is no longer "difficult", and you can't undo that because DRM on media people care about will be broken.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Food for thought: That means whether an arbitrary c++ program compiles reduces to the halting problem. I would wager that for the vast majority of real situations you'd be better off writing that in the primary language and either bundling
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
if the "noob" has money, domain expertise or connections to help make a new venture happen, that would probably help.
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
updated hn: about is it confusing to anyone else which of those are public when looking at the edit form?
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
As a fairly experienced programmer, where are all these business guys who are so psyched about learning to code??? Any in AustinTX? I would be seriously psyched to pair with a motivated total "noob" because I remember how exhilarating the f
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
If by default you mean only available, yes :) Non-code review is really what is driving my delving into non-crlf delimited diff elements. Breaking prose into big enough chunks to diff well and still find small copies is my current target.
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
I work on a code review tool, and we've been shipping patience diff for a few years now, and it has really cut down on complaints about the resulting diff being incomprehensible, and on the one or two occasions people have complained its be
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
IMHO the limiting factor can be described as "semantic density". If you look at non-LCS diff algorithms like patience diff [1] and think about where it falls down, its on cases where its very arguable that the code is poor - too much duplic
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
Static linking is your friend. I happily run Perforce 2002.1 clients meant for Linux 2.4 on x86 on my Kernel 3.2 amd64 machine when testing back-compat. I'd say ten years is pretty stable - just don't do random crap in your app :)
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
I won't call out the company because at least until now they were still using the question (I got accidentally cc'ed on a subsequent candidates email), but last summer I got an interview homework question from a "who is hiring" post that wa
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
Wow, how timely, was just discussing how big a difference disconnecting a Dom node before changing its contents was leading to a radical performance boost especially in IE7. The RCU technique makes me want an excuse to use it.
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
GWT has two big disadvantages. Opaque results and slow builds. If your image situation is so dire that the inclining and spriting are more important than those... well it just doesn't sound like fun.
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
I can't agree more about code folding. The shape of the code lets me use visual patterns instead of actually thinking about the parse tree
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
Right, when I got my current gig, I took a HUGE ego hit because I went from just committing stuff to getting absolutely everything code reviewed, and that means bugs in my code were pointed out before I'd had a month to think everything I'd
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
On the other hand, your code is definitely a part of your identity, and projects that are awesome got that way because people poured themselves into their work. For me, only the pieces I'm passionate about become part of my identity.
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by tsewlliw 15y ago
I'm constantly on code reviews for and occasionally writing GWT code, and the gymnastics and ceremony it requires on top of the slow compilation are painful enough, and the resulting JavaScript/html unpredictable enough, that I would refuse

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