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by white-flame 12y ago
In my opinion, Apple has been a fashion company ever since the iPod. Remember the white earbud commercials? They've positioned themselves as a luxury brand, where it is considered fashionable among the general population to visibly ow
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by white-flame 12y ago
A big difference is that the benefits of quality programmers manifest over long projects. With many other industries, you can say "Do this" in a shorter, observable time frame and have it more aligned with what they'll be fac
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by white-flame 12y ago
"Years from now, we’ll look back at the 2015 developer interview as an anachronism..." People were saying similar things 20 years ago, too. Others will likely corroborate that from earlier.
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by white-flame 12y ago
In particular, view your freelancing as a service organization and partner/contract/hire a salesperson to generate and/or convert leads. Offer a commission on your revenue. We've done that before with a few jobs, and h
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by white-flame 12y ago
There's a word for that: Sales.
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by white-flame 12y ago
I project the opposite way, though I know I might be in the stark minority: My perception of the cost of text messaging for something which requires a dialogue on a portable device is unnecessarily high, compared to a less than 1 minute p
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by white-flame 12y ago
Or what about Freenet? It's been around for a long time, has hash-based content addressing with versioning, and is primarily a web-centric utility. Plus, it's based on anonymity for both the browsing user and the content cacher.
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by white-flame 12y ago
The original strength of Unix also ends up being such a commonly frustrating feature: Everything is marshalled through strings. With human-manageable strings comes ambiguities, especially in concatenative situations like commandline expans
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by white-flame 12y ago
> What happens when the pointers are in registers? What happens when the loop is occurring in a thread running on another core? These are all ancient-solved problems. When any interruption occurs, CPU state is spilled onto the stack. D
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by white-flame 12y ago
I'm not talking about cdr-coding, but simply the placement of regular 2-element cons cells and/or their contents next to each other in memory. This is often a "happy accident" side-effect when copying collectors fill th
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by white-flame 12y ago
Regarding iteration: First, if something within an iteration calls out and performs memory allocation, well the first thing is that microoptimizations are likely to be dwarfed anyway. :) But most of the GCs I've worked with do not use
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by white-flame 12y ago
If you have a constrained situation such that the iteration is known over a range of fixed-type consecutive data, any language should be able to generate the exact same optimized assembly as a manual C++ vector iteration. Also, if it's
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by white-flame 12y ago
The cache locality of linked list cells is a red herring. Garbage collectors seek to keep chained cons cells consecutive in memory. Also, does the author not understand that most Common Lisp implementations are already built on assemblers