whirlycott1

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by whirlycott1 17y ago
You panicked and started a migration because you didn't have the patience to wait a few days to see what happens?
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
Most companies don't fail because of their database. Just build the damn thing and focus on the really big risk, which is that nobody will use it.
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
Words of wisdom from "Figuring Shit Out."
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
And this article is from 1997. I'm japh myself and I love the language, so don't take this as a knock against perl. But why the ancient perl articles today?
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
Uh... that's from 07/06/2001.
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Software developer summer internship - StyleFeeder (Cambridge, MA)
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
I had a conversation about refactoring with one of the giants of the Lisp world earlier this week about this, actually. The parts that make Lisp so powerful are the parts that also make it so hard to build reliable refactoring tools. Refa
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
I'll go further and say that Java is a horrible experience without Eclipse. One of my colleagues at work said today that (1) Java sucks without Eclipse and (2) Eclipse's wonderful features wouldn't be possible without all the things that m
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
At my company, we've had people use it on WinXP, Vista, OS/X and Linux. Nobody ever suffered from crashes. There are a few different flavors of Eclipse and it sounds like you were using the kitchen sink version. There's a smaller one whi
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
First of all: you are using version control, right? Please tell me yes. Eclipse isn't going to "change" your code at all. It'll put two or three files and dirs in the root of your project. That's it. Your code is the same as it was befo
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
The java language is actually very small and easy to remember. The standard library, on the other hand, is huge. If there's any glory in remembering what the constructor arguments are for a certain class, it's lost on me. Plus, in the rea
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by whirlycott1 17y ago
Anybody who writes java code in anything outside of Eclipse, NetBeans or IntelliJ is wasting their time. It doesn't take an enormous amount of time to learn how to use Eclipse. It probably takes 15 minutes of someone showing you the ropes
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by whirlycott1 18y ago
I'd be very curious to know what countries these people are coming from. I just did an analysis of social media spammers on StyleFeeder and would be curious to know how HN compares: http://blog.tech.stylefeeder.com/2009/02/28/social-media