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by unoti 16y ago
I've personally observed huge boosts in the number of concurrent connections a machine can handle with Apache-worker vs Apache-prefork. I've personally observed PHP applications going into fairly high CPU use, and then settling down a lot
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by unoti 16y ago
I've been through the gambit of making heavily used applications under ASP, ASP.NET, CakePHP, and Django. Part of what comes up in these kinds of discussions has to do with how a .NET website works vs how a "Linux" website works. The diffe
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by unoti 16y ago
Is there some kind of circle of trust established-- you know, good old fashioned key-signing plus vouching for people? 10 years ago I would have bet big money that by now people would have well-established cryptographic identities online,
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by unoti 16y ago
This is a topic very interesting to me, because over the years I've written a lot of call center and customer service software used by distributed teams. I also worked as a developer remotely for Linden Lab for long time, which had a highl
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by unoti 16y ago
Perhaps there won't really be a Next Big Language. One thing that's become clear to me in the last few years since 2007 is that it's a hell of a lot easier to make an awesome programming language now than it was then. LLVM, CLR, Mono, JVM
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by unoti 16y ago
> Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is? Absolutely. Software that runs warehouses. Payrolls. Manages inventory. Manages cash registers.
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by unoti 16y ago
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
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by unoti 16y ago
To me it indicates that competition is quite fierce. Not just from other attractive companies, but competition from startups and from people deciding to go indy. The opportunity available for someone doing their own thing is better right
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by unoti 16y ago
Seriously consider making a recurring charge, asap, before it's too late. I made a reasonably successful game where the income was based entirely on new users paying in. It was very difficult and discouraging to me to see my game taking o
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by unoti 16y ago
patio11 is right on the money. The linked site, and the discussions here, are testament to the fact that project management and business management are different skillsets from software development. It's not fun to make money arrangements
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by unoti 16y ago
Agreed. By far my favorite single class at U.S.C. was the first semester introduction to classic philosophy. One of the special things about that course was it was a special program at the school to introduce underclassmen to the best profe
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by unoti 16y ago
I used to work for a leading manufacturer of food supplements: energy drinks, sports bars, powders, pills. Most of the name brands in that industry actually use "copackers", which are third parties that take care of both the manufacturing
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by unoti 16y ago
I bought this book a few years ago, by Koza. It has tons of working code in it-- each problem he steps through building up a solution with a working program: http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Programming-Computers-Selectio... This is one of
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by unoti 16y ago
When I was in my 20s during the dot com boom, I decided I'd take up flying to peruse a lifelong dream. I was loving it. After a couple of months I was almost ready for my first solo flight. Then I started looking at my total monthly expen
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by unoti 16y ago
That's truly amazing what they're doing here. I'm sorry if this is an ignorant question, but wouldn't it make sense for there to be some kind of USB port or something that's actually designed for I/O on the iPhone? I mean, surely there'd
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by unoti 16y ago
Here's how it works. When I say: class Kitty { val purrVolume: Int; } What Scala actually produces in Java bytecodes is something like this Java equivalent: public class Kitty { private int purrVolume; public void
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by unoti 16y ago
They talk in this article about the complexity of Scala. Odersky typically combats that accusation by saying that Scala's not so complicated. He did that in this article, and I've seen him and others do the same in other places. But the f
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by unoti 16y ago
Wow, he saved this for the last paragraph of the interview: next version of Scala, automatic parallel processing of collections. That's actually quite stunning, since Scala automatically converts every for statement into an equivalent m
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by unoti 16y ago
Yes. Anything you can use from within Java, you can use from within Scala. I'm quite happily using JGroups and Netty from within Scala. The code actually looks a hell of a lot better than the equivalent Java versions.
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by unoti 16y ago
Every year this phenomenon that you identified gets worse, and the rate of that change is getting worse, too. Don't be too hard on yourself, though. Just finish something, and keep going. Because it'd be even slower if you tried to keep
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by unoti 16y ago
Aha! Thanks for letting me know! Fwiw, Enlive looks brilliant, seriously.
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by unoti 16y ago
You and the article are saying the same thing. But the author of the article is presenting the same kinds of ideas in the form of a metaphor that's easy to understand for his intended audience. That's ok, right? It's the same kind of thi
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by unoti 16y ago
How the hell am I supposed to keep working under the table and dodging the IRS, if they're able to track me down because I just posted to Hacker News from this IP address? God, it gives me a cold chill feeling just thinking about it.
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by unoti 16y ago
The way enliven works is really neat and interesting. One thing that jumped out at me though. The author talked about how he changed the login/logout text from being plan HTML in his template, to being what looks like a tokenized represent
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by unoti 16y ago
Failed in the sense that they've failed to recapture the glory of cpan for solving problems from the late 80s and early 90s. Personally I've been very pleased with library support in Python. Counting a library's worth by the number of thin
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by unoti 16y ago
I'm a pragmatic, "put it in the done basket now" kind of guy, and have argued the author's viewpoint to people over engineering things countless times. Generally I argue against the optimization route when I feel like we're facing a choice
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by unoti 16y ago
I'd never send an email like that. Nothing good can possibly come of it. That needs an interactive discussion. The email as it was sent is going to do nothing but cause trouble and sorrow. Far, far too many emails are sent in the world t
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by unoti 16y ago
Hey that's cool! I imagine that you probably caught yourself, a time or two, actually trying to read and understand what the "invention" is. As I just did.
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by unoti 16y ago
Me too. I instantly knew what that time period was for me. This concept immediately reminded me of an excerpt from the outstanding book "Rules for Aging" which talks about this and its potential dark side: "A long happy life last five minut
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by unoti 16y ago
His thoughts on internal tools and support are very insightful. It's why I am typically sad when a company outsources its support. When a company does its own support with internal personnel, it has a vested interest in making the customer

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