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by vonkow 14y ago
I somehow managed to become a software engineer with narry a high school diploma, how? I had the good forture to be born to two recent MIT graduates who, during my childhood worked on campus. I wouldn't be me, or know what I know, were it n
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by vonkow 14y ago
If anyone's looking for a good front-end dev/designer, they should totally hire the guy that made this when he gets back from backpacking in China / Southeast Asia. I've worked with him before and he knows his stuff.
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by vonkow 14y ago
I was half of the team that created the instapaper-like functionality on bostonglobe.com using Erlang. It fit the bill perfectly and has run (mostly) untouched since it launched. Features like being able to get a REPL on a production node a
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by vonkow 14y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but I have written production Erlang applications (the instapaper-like functionality on bostonglobe.com). We initially had it running as a network of 5 VPS systems (three web-facing servers with copies of the enti
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by vonkow 14y ago
That is one of the few cases that will take down the whole VM (at least, as of a few versions ago). Due to Erlang's concept of process isolation, there's not really a sensible course of action for the VM to take if it runs out of memory. Ma
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by vonkow 14y ago
We used gestures and a whole slew of iPad-specific media queries and rendering logic on bostonglobe.com. While I agree that you can usually write a lot of common desktop/tablet code in a responsive design, adding tablet-specific (or iPad-sp
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by vonkow 14y ago
Why? A blog seems like one of the last things one would want to build with websockets, what advantages do they provide in this context? Also, the js on your page isn't working and an image is 403ing.
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by vonkow 15y ago
No love for Ladder Logic? sniff
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by vonkow 15y ago
It's software, everything's a digital copy.
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by vonkow 15y ago
You found a problem, tried to warn them. They didn't listen, so you showed it to them, without harming anything (aside from a few egos). That's doing the right thing.
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by vonkow 15y ago
If this accomplishes what it seems to be attempting and makes erlang/OTP and the BEAM more accessible to the ruby, python and js communities while smoothing some of the language/platform's rough edges, I will be a very happy camper.
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by vonkow 15y ago
Yea, the article notes a few things that scala has improved upon vs bare erlang, but neglects to mention all the goodness that's in OTP.
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by vonkow 15y ago
If someone reinvented Smalltalk and Erlang (and it saw widespread adoption), I think we would see a lot less "programming sucks" posts.
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by vonkow 15y ago
By that logic, every time that you use the word "he" when referring to a human of unspecified gender, you're advocating masculinism.
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by vonkow 15y ago
The price of cheap hardware was Windows and the price of AJAX was IE6 (5.5, technically). Kinda like roses and thorns, but a lot nerdier.
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by vonkow 15y ago
Screw rounding up >1 users for testing (though it does give needed human insight), if you aren't spooling up a few multicore VMs with JMeter or better, you aren't really performance testing.
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by vonkow 15y ago
Classic! I did that with rotation in my js gaming engine once, fun times.
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by vonkow 15y ago
As a rule, in js I declare every var at the top of the function (or globe) in one giant var statement just because of this. Still, it's easy to get lost in the moment and mess up just once. I used to think this was just the way things were
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by vonkow 15y ago
Damn, I feel for ya; scope is hell sometimes, and js is all about giving you the power to shoot yourself in the foot. Interesting how bugs like this, while terrible and terribly easy to miss, tend to do a lot less damage on the front-end of
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by vonkow 15y ago
402 is for when the requested uri requires a payment, 511 is for when something in-between the client and the uri requires one.
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by vonkow 15y ago
So glad to see this here. I live in the boston area, and have been attempting to acquire appropriate cannons with which to play. If you're in the area and wish to join me in my mad quest (in either finding the cannons, or playing), message
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by vonkow 15y ago
I was one of the back-end engineers on the project, if you've got any questions, ask away. I'll answer what I can.
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by vonkow 15y ago
We got a few positions open over at The Boston Globe/Boston.com, you can find them on monster.com or the NYT's job section.
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by vonkow 16y ago
Just in time for my next project, thanks!!!
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by vonkow 16y ago
I'm pretty sure the article is by Elie Mystal, as it says at the top. The article in the sidebar is by Robert Kinney and Evan Jowers of Kinney Recruiting (the sidebar "article" more of a job list). Still, it's an easy enough distinction to
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by vonkow 16y ago
Heh, just noticed that myself.