vegai

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61.
by vegai 15y ago
Oh, I was referring to you asking about so-called "CMM level" when we're talking about Google, not some second-hand suit-run IT company.
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by vegai 15y ago
Are you joking?
63.
by vegai 15y ago
I sometimes wonder if code golfing has the risk that some junior developers might confuse it as good code.
64.
by vegai 15y ago
Most peoples' performance and quality of life lowers greatly when the weekly hours go past 30 and these idiots are talking about going to 50 or 60!
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by vegai 15y ago
Counter-example: http://suckless.org
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by vegai 15y ago
"Oracle remains viable, even as others continue to catch up, because Oracle builds on its solid foundation by adding additional capability and features relentlessly. I challenge you to read the new features guide for any new release of Orac
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by vegai 15y ago
That seems like a highly non-scalable solution.
68.
by vegai 15y ago
The same idea that made Palm developers jump for joy makes Microsoft developers "horrified"? Yeah, sure.
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by vegai 15y ago
Lawyers, drug dealers, assassins, politicians, bankers, managers, accountants, stock traders, to mention a few: all paid significant amounts but not really that worthy, are they?
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by vegai 15y ago
Hey, it's not all bad! Check out http://www.suckless.org for real Linux desktop innovation
71.
by vegai 15y ago
"Programming Clojure" influenced Clojure? Most impressive.
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by vegai 15y ago
Somehow I have the feeling that in 10 years this guy will be complaining about inexperienced youngsters and how naive he was back then.
73.
by vegai 15y ago
"You can't possess or view pornography---that's a violation of free speech." I'm not sure I can digest that outright. Can you elaborate?
74.
by vegai 15y ago
How is anyone's freedom of speech violated if they're not allowed to litter?
75.
by vegai 15y ago
I would like to add something that everyone seems to have forgotten. A great programmer has a significant life outside the field. Additionally, and I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but the best programmers I know are fluent at least
76.
by vegai 15y ago
Being both an accurate House (the tv-series) reference and a flippant Haskell reference, it's actually quite brilliant and definitely appropriate.
77.
by vegai 15y ago
I'm thinking of getting a cheap printer/scanner combo: HP Deskjet 2010 and running the whole process in Linux. Are there any downsides to such a setup when comparing to more featureful scanners such as ScanSnap S1300 or the Doxie?
78.
by vegai 15y ago
Great. So now we will have to start blocking Javascript code from sites we don't trust.
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by vegai 15y ago
That's kind of good, but my procrastination doesn't seem to fall to such a category. When I procrastinate, I'm not doing anything sensible, which includes trying to apply any anti-procrastination technique.
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by vegai 15y ago
Windows died 15 years ago.
81.
by vegai 15y ago
"The best way to deal with people modifying your hardware is to embrace it the way Microsoft has" What do you mean by this?
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by vegai 15y ago
I like how this thing looks http://msgpack.org/ more than each of the aforementioned. Perhaps I'm missing something, but Thrift and protobufs both seem very lacking in comparison
83.
by vegai 15y ago
The ARM support wasn't working the last time I tried it, unfortunately, but hopefully it'll get there.
84.
by vegai 15y ago
F-secure noticed tha the data gets sent out twice a day... Cannot provide the link because I'm on my phone which is not an iPhone...
85.
by vegai 15y ago
Yeah, I prefer the Spivak pronouns myself.
86.
by vegai 15y ago
Except if your language/platform hides the actual thread implementation in an epoll loop. coughhaskellcough
87.
by vegai 16y ago
Because I'm on a platform that doesn't require massive IO performance on A FREAKING DESKTOP. How could we implement a tax on horrible programming?
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The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom)(raikoth.net)
41 points by vegai 16y ago|18 comments
89.
by vegai 16y ago
Modded to 0 and never answered. I'll take that as a confirmation.
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by vegai 16y ago
The clustrix guy criticized mongodb that it locks the whole database quite often. Can anyone confirm or deny that?

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