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by vog 10y ago
While I agree with most questions, I always found number 9 to be a bit strange: > 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? I hope I don't do too much injustice on Joel, as I always loved to read his writings back when his &quot
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by vog 10y ago
Not really worried, more curious how the collected datasets will be analyzed.
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by vog 10y ago
Sorry, this was a typo. I meant business information, not bookkeeping information. > Unless you count a pair of countries and a post code It is more than that. You also have the source IP address, which you can map not only to countrie
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by vog 10y ago
While this is a great way for you to collect internal business numbers from other companies, I don't quite see how the benefit for those companies is so large that it warrants sending internal information to you. By the way, do you pla
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by vog 10y ago
Not only that, but some worker may be well prepared without even noticing. And without any bad intentions to trick you. This happened to myself (although in a non-interview situation): In general, if you have solved many problems and looked
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The Refragmentation (2016)(paulgraham.com)
2 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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by vog 10y ago
> What about if the DB itself supported a psuedo-PHP runtime, or better yet closer to native code? Note that in PostgreSQL, user defined functions can be written in many languages, including SQL but also Python (very well supported) an
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by vog 10y ago
> This is sane and good design. The db auth layer is for db management, not frontend auth (are you seriously advocating this?). The auth layer of PostgreSQL is very advanced, up to row level security if you need that. [1] It was never
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by vog 10y ago
The PostgrREST project is an interesting approach so fill this gap: https://postgrest.com/
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by vog 10y ago
Not sure why this was donvoted. From a bird's eye view, the whole system looks remarkably similar to Usenet, especially in the old times of UUCP, back when systems were mostly offline and had relatively short timespans to exchange info
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Collision Resolution with Nested Hash Tables(ticki.github.io)
1 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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by vog 10y ago
This mistake makes the text not only hard to read, but prevents the audience from seeing the text at all. [1] If that doesn't quality as deadly sin, what would qualify? How much worse could it be? [1] So they need to reach out for diff
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by vog 10y ago
The title should have a "(2015)" suffix.
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by vog 10y ago
If we are nitpicking like this: It uses cryptographic hash functions and not merely the hash functions commonly used by hash tables.
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by vog 10y ago
> That Outlook (of all programs!) is the only tool that I know of that makes this easy Not sure what you mean. It works as easy with Mutt. Open IMAP folder, select all, save to [other IMAP folder or local folder, as you wish]. Works re
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by vog 10y ago
> It's funny that he goes on to compare the two configuration files, where one is a bit verbose, but very clear and easy to understand, while the "Caddyfile" [...] is four lines that mean basically nothing without a manua
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Bimodal IT – Flawed Division Between Front Office and Back Office(martinfowler.com)
1 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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YAaaS: Yet Another as a Service(martinfowler.com)
1 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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by vog 10y ago
Perhaps a more fruitful approach would be to generate both from a common abstraction. Otherwise, you either impose ncurses look&feel to the web (might look like a web terminal emulator), or you force the web into the terminal (might loo
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by vog 10y ago
Is there something similar to GSoC that does produce shippable code? (i.e. less emphasis on experimenting and more emphasis on quality and being accepted by upstream, perhaps by assigning "smaller" tasks)
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by vog 10y ago
This is sad. It means that Google Summer of Code imposes too much bureaucracy onto Free Software projects. In other words, GSoC is only viable for those projects whohave enough spare volunteers to begin with.
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by vog 10y ago
This comment is an interesting instance of Poe's law.
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by vog 10y ago
Why battery operated? Wouldn't this just increase electronic waste?
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by vog 10y ago
Many, many years ago there were already FSFE presentations by lawyers who encouraged everyone to prefer AGPL to GPL, because in most applications this is closer to what you actually want. - GPL wants to care about the users, but actually ca
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by vog 10y ago
> But again, there are already lots of templating systems out there. Just pick one and go on with your project. But that's exactly my point: You can do that for template systems, but not for parser generators. (Well, you can, but
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by vog 10y ago
Moreover, there are many places where people fiddle with hand-written parser code, nested functions evaluating regexes with many holes and unhandled edge cases - where they should have used a parser generator instead. So my impression is th
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by vog 10y ago
Does is also work with the Free-Software MinGW toolchain? That would make it possible to generate Windows binaries without having to run a Windows VM, through cross-compiling, using e.g. MXE: http://mxe.cc/
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by vog 10y ago
Side note: Back when I did Win32 packaging of cross-platform applications, I never liked InnoSetup much, mostly because of the many levels of unpacking into temporary directories, but also because it was relatively slow and not as compact a
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by vog 10y ago
How does it compare with the classic approach of providing a JavaScript emulator for the binaries? This is what the archive.org Software Library does. MSDOS Games: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
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by vog 10y ago
Whoops, you are right. Removed the misleading part of my comment.

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