visitor4rmindia

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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
I suppose any good VCS should work fine. Each dev should get his/her own branch which is periodically merged upstream. We use SVN and it does the job just fine. In fact, we are still stuck on 1.4 so we track merges ourselves which isn't rea
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
I'm sorry but this is bad advice. Coding isn't a special skill that can't/shouldn't be hired. He hired a guy to write code. That guy seems to be jerking him around. The way forward should be to dump the guy and get someone else. There are a
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
>Subversion 1.6 recognizes a new kind of conflict, known as a "tree conflict". Such conflicts manifest at the level of directory structure, rather than file content. >Situations now flagged as conflicts include deletions of locally
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Thank you - that was interesting and beautiful.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
>How much usability do you lose to close a cross-site scripting attack? How much usability do you lose to close an SQL injection? How much usability do you lose to close a buffer overflow? None of course. But these aren't philosophical
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
The basic issue with Security is that it is almost always in contention with Usability. It's easy to look at something with security blinkers and go "eeks - you n00bs!" but it's ridiculously difficult to put in place any measures without im
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
This is very interesting - does anyone know just how many of the polls we see on TV or in magazines are voluntary response polls? Should we be ignoring their results? Intesting Anecdote: NDTV 24x7 (something like CNN in India) had extensive
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
What I want: Time (I wish I could live forever) and Happiness. Striving for it by: Friendship, Family, Health, Savings, Entertainment
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
It's more fundamental than that - if you don't feel like a great programmer then the techniques described (static checking, unit testing, code reviews) become what you depend upon rather than just tools of your job. For instance, code rev
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
This attitude just wouldn't work for me - if I didn't feel like a great programmer and I didn't enjoy coding/designing/testing/releasing so much I would change my job. Relying on tools and techniques may help me coast through my career - bu
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Ok - I'll give it a shot. :-) Using FP is like learning to ride a bike. It's difficult to give you "advantages" over riding a car (or bus) - you have to try it out and get comfortable to appreciate it. Just give it a try - write out a few o
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
God save FP from the "mainstream". I know I sounds elitist but I honestly don't see how it would benefit FP to have lots of Java drones descending on it and taking it directionally into "simplifying database access" (for instance). The reas
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
> A baby seal walked into a club. - The favorite joke of the creator of 4chan. I wouldn't trust this guy too much. It seems strange that he can't monetize such a hugely popular site. Kind of fishy actually. If he has problems with big
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Which is pretty much my point. Python has morphed into "everything is an object". To see how C++ has moved towards objects-for-everything, I have just one word - boost! RE your second point - I don't know of any studies that show OOPS makes
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Actually, what I was leading up to was that _neither_ is "valid". The better way (in this case) would be: discuss (TweedHeads, visitor4rmindia); This, to me, underlines some of the problems of the OOPS approach. Everything starts "lo
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
If I understand you correctly you're saying something like TweedHeads.walk(), TweedHeads.eat() and TweedHeads.rest() make it sensible to define Human as a class. But then how would you attach makelove() or fight() or discuss() to a single H
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Thanks. You're right - I did a couple of google searches too and they all came up with "lowered tarrifs". I've just checked around though, and it doesn't seem to have made much of an impact on many people's bills (at least in my office). Ma
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
I'm sorry. You're right - that was a slip-up. I meant a non-static (dynamic) typed language.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Let me try and give an example. Let's assume we are modelling a non-leaf node which contains long keys and long offsets. We can do it in any of the following ways: |offset0|key1|offset1|key2|offset2|key3|offset3......| OR |ke
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Couldn't you just put the ubiquitous data structures in a "com.proj.basic" package? EDIT: I'm using the word "ubiquitous" because that's what was used in the article.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
In the case of a B-Tree the data structures are the keys/offsets (and possibly values) that are stored in the tree and not the tree itself. For instance most examples on the net just assume keys to be long numbers but that is obviously insu
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Actually the first line sums up the problem with this article: >When I was first introduced to the idea of OOP I was skeptical but didn't know why - it just felt "wrong". It's more a personal rant than a well thought-out article.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
IMHO this is a pretty poor rant. Let me argue each point: * Data structure and functions should not be bound together In some cases encapsulation works really well. For example GUI elements. It is less true for "process-oriented" components
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Could you explain why you say that margins are decreasing for voice calls? My mobile bill hasn't changed much over the last few years.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Mobile phones sales are doing well not just in the rural areas but in the bigger cities as well. Everyone has one - from the guy who drives me in an auto to the maid who comes in to clean my house. And their mobiles are usually really good
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
This seems to be an emotive issue, but I'd want to point out that you haven't refuted the article at all. The article references several studies that show, statistically speaking, that two-career marriages are harder than "traditional(?)" m
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope everyone's having a great holiday.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
The problem is one of scope. Democracy directly manifests the "will of the people" only at the ballot. While there are second-order effects, politicians are largely free to ignore aforementioned "will" during their day-to-day routine. Thus
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
It didn't do the auto-update thing for me. If it doesn't for you either you can go to "Tools" (the little spanner icon)--> "About"-->"Check for updates" and it'll install the latest version.
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by visitor4rmindia 18y ago
The reason I posted this is because the article reflects some of the doubts I'm beginning to have about the OOP paradigm. I've gotten more productive output in C++ coding over the last 3 years than Java, which I worked on for 6 years before

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