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by weland 13y ago
> These are mostly O(1) things and shouldn't matter. I often hear this from programmers coming from a higher-level background. O(1) only means constant time. It doesn't mean quickly. This function: int foo(int x) {
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by weland 13y ago
> There's a huge wave of consolidation in the industry in the past 5 years. Just last year freelancer bought vworker. I really hope oDesk - Elance won't go the same way freelancer - vworker went. I used to have an account of Re
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by weland 13y ago
> Dikshitar and Dikshit are (high caste) Indian names. I'm sorry, I know it's impolite, but I chuckled and nearly spilled coffee on my keyboard.
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by weland 13y ago
> Am I deluded to think that there's a job out there that would allow me to utilize most of the skills I've learned, and learn new diverse ones? I currently am in such a job. I'm doing a very diverse range of things, from
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by weland 13y ago
I don't know about the others. I downvoted because I don't like suggestions phrased as questions (and yeah, that tends to be what project managers do when they have no useful contribution to offer, can't be bothered to learn
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by weland 13y ago
> but at the same point, why do we need freebds and openbsd? In terms of resource, can't we get merge the two team together? Are you a project manager?
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by weland 13y ago
A good portion of the EU is made up of NATO members. It is, indeed, disappointing for me as well.
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by weland 13y ago
It's inventions like the Karnaugh Map and the MOSFET that changed how the world does computing. I don't mean to downplay the technical merits of BigTable or Megastore, but all they really changed is how salesmen sell things.
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by weland 13y ago
> Look at the steps to get PHP installed versus other languages. Then look at what "Hello World" and a simple form take. That's really just not true. Installing anything capable of CGI is as easy to install as PHP.
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by weland 13y ago
Yeah, this pretty much sums up what I've seen as well. I know good ex-coders who became good managers, but the stepping stone to doing it was having to stop writing code.
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by weland 13y ago
> I bet Amazon's working conditions are far better than those of every factory in China. "Better than those of every factory in China" does not necessarily mean "Acceptable for the civilized world". Whenever I ha
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by weland 13y ago
I know two people who are excellent programmers and have stable jobs. One of them started a Math degree, but dropped out after the first semester. The other one has a degree, but in Philosophy.
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by weland 13y ago
Yeah, my question was in the somewhat broader sense, as in "Why the hell is there an organization that wants to kill people halfway across the globe".
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by weland 13y ago
It's very easy to put it in terms of "Yeah, some civilian deaths are a necessary evil which we burden our conscience with. But we do it because we have to protect our civilians", but I think it's intellectually lazy.
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by weland 13y ago
> I wonder if there's any managers around who also code? Maybe 50% of their time could be management, 50% coding. Nothing like getting hands dirty with the company code to see where things are at. An important part of the reason why
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by weland 13y ago
> GCC is indeed not the only compiler around, which is why I said "at least" :-) Even if you're stuck with some other compiler for production builds, it's handy to be compiling regularly with a variety of compilers so
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by weland 13y ago
GCC isn't the only compiler on the planet :-). Other compilers either started doing it more recently, or not at all. The construct it most often warns about is fairly idiomatic on Unix platforms, but not everywhere, so a lot of vendors
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by weland 13y ago
> I feel that JS is sort of a second class citizen to most back-end developers. I'm not what one might consider a back-end developer (or a web developer at all, for that matter), but the overgrowth of web tools in the web 2.0 afterm
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by weland 13y ago
There is nothing incorrect or dubious in C about an expression like if (foo = bar), so it wasn't considered a reason to warn the user about for a long time, despite being a rather common culprit for bugs. Compilers popping up warnings
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by weland 13y ago
> One argument for the 40 hour work week is that we've simply built a complex global society around it. Which I passionately hate. Banks around here strictly adhere to the 40-hour work week, which obviously results in banks only b
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by weland 13y ago
> But in practice, if you know all your targets support the right "#pragma pack" and "__attribute__((packed))" and other markers that you use - what's wrong with making use of them? You know that at this moment
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by weland 13y ago
Yes, I agree that Steam should be issuing refunds -- but even more so when they don't do any compliance testing of their own.
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by weland 13y ago
As long as they aren't giving you refunds for games that don't, yeah, it's their duty to make sure that games which are technically unreliable don't make it to the store. Either that, or hand out refunds.
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by weland 13y ago
"We're using PBE" is obviously not quite the kind of answer that was expected here. For all we know, you could be OR-ing the characters of the password and doing a rotX with the result. Hardly secure.
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by weland 13y ago
This sounds like a great feature. I'm quite sure they don't have anything like this.
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by weland 13y ago
Ah, got it. Thanks!
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by weland 13y ago
Why are you even using a computer?
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by weland 13y ago
> I love how they mention "casual followers of science" Me too. This is quite beautiful. After I left academia, subscribing to all the journals I used to have access to through my university became economically unfeasible, for
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by weland 13y ago
It is, unfortunately, fairly uncommon.
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by weland 13y ago
This is wicked cool. Congratulations!

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