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by wiremine 12y ago
Depends on the book, but on the whole I don't enjoy reading programming-centric ebooks due to the code examples: the line breaks tend to make it extremely difficult to follow what's going on. It does depend on the device, though:
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by wiremine 12y ago
> Wouldn't the CIO be more liable for such faults as a massive data breach? Two thoughts: 1. The outgoing CIO, Beth Jacobs, was also their Chief Content Officer. Given her background [1], and the fallout, I'd suggest she was hi
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Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack(reuters.com)
111 points by wiremine 12y ago|93 comments
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Rethinking "Mobile First"(medium.com)
1 points by wiremine 12y ago|0 comments
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by wiremine 13y ago
I've been using Ansible for a few production-related tasks lately, and think it's great. It provides the right level of abstraction, IMHO: you can crack open a playbook, read through it, and know exactly what it is doing. There&#x
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by wiremine 13y ago
> The only niche I can think of is generic technical advise. I think that's their main thrust at this point. However, I've recently seen Q&As regarding my home town: - What are the best restaurants? - What is parking like?
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by wiremine 13y ago
> I wonder what today's generation growing up on? Take here to ask the same question. What hooked me on BASIC was the graphic capabilities. It was relatively easy to create dumb little graphic programs: circles that changed colors a
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by wiremine 13y ago
> Who wants to casual game with an underpowered box on a giant TV screen? My 8 year old would eat it up. He LOVES his iPad games. If he can plan on the TV with his friends, he would be thrilled. And I'd be fine dropping $99 for a bo
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by wiremine 13y ago
> Why is VR inevitable? Good point, I agree that I am making a big assumption. That said, I don't think the argument that "it didn't work before" is valid. I don't think people want face-covering headsets that _s
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by wiremine 13y ago
> The reason people don't get this -- or at least, why I don't get it -- and thus responded negatively, is because VR should have nothing to do with Facebook's vision, and Facebook -- or social gaming in general -- should
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by wiremine 13y ago
> You truly think that so many experienced database professionals and software developers speak out about the dangers of using it solely to be "cool"? Yes, I do, actually. I see a TON of out-of-date commentary on places like HN
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by wiremine 13y ago
> It works and performs well for us and our use case. 100% agree. I think it's become cool to knock MongoDB, just because it is MongoDB. It isn't a silver bullet, and its use cases are more limited than RDBMs. But if you know w
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by wiremine 13y ago
Sure. I guess I'm wondering how it compares to running plain old Apache/PHP in a production environment. Or, is it more like a Django/Rails stack? Does it use the same memory footprint as PHP, etc?
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by wiremine 13y ago
> Some people (quite reasonably) initially thought of Hack errors as lint-like stuff that it was safe to ignore, when in fact they indicate real logical inconsistencies in code. Interesting, thanks! One followup: what has it been like fr
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by wiremine 13y ago
Thanks for taking the questions! How extensively is Facebook using Hack at this point? Is it in production? What has been the biggest learning/unlearning you've needed to do going from PHP to Hack?
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by wiremine 13y ago
And the NY Times has done a great job: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/ That said, I think those are exceptions, not the rule.
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by wiremine 13y ago
> So what else can Google watch do? That's the key question for me. I don't look at my watch and think "man, that experience sucks" like I did with the pre-iPhone cell phones. In a way, it feels like Google is extendi
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by wiremine 13y ago
> Digital Ocean is 100x easier and quicker to use than AWS 100% agree. I really think the markets for DO and AWS are different. DO aims at the "I need a few boxes" sort of user, and AWS aims at the "I boxes and other infra
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by wiremine 13y ago
So what does the legal roadmap look like going forward for the FCC?
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by wiremine 13y ago
I'm still new to SPDY, although I'm going to check it out with this release. Are there any best practices or recommendations for running SPDY in production alongside HTTP?
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by wiremine 13y ago
Spotify has around 20 million songs [1], so around 20% of songs are never played. Two random questions: - How much is Spotify paying to host those unplayed songs? - How many of songs have a small number of plays? (< 5 plays, for example
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by wiremine 13y ago
I wrote a much simpler Python version a few years ago: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Phony/0.5.0 I don't recommend my version: it isn't maintained and isn't complete. However, writing a faker-type li
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by wiremine 13y ago
> So in a sense, how useful are genres really? Philosophically, an answer is probably is above my pay grade. That said, time has always been a factor to how we understand and label music. Rock today is very different from Elvis, but that
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Build a simple Mario Bros. game clone in Javascript(processingjs.nihongoresources.com)
4 points by wiremine 13y ago|0 comments
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by wiremine 13y ago
> C89 programs could use K&R libraries That's probably the key. If I could use Py2 libraries as-is in Py3, moving to Py3 would be a minor issue.
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by wiremine 13y ago
> Perl 6 is vaporware Perl 6 is not vaporware, you can run it today: http://perl6.org/compilers/features Is it 100% feature complete or fast? No. But there working code and new, stable releases on a monthly basis.
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by wiremine 13y ago
Python 3 is a different language from Python 2. Yes, they are _almost_ the same language, but they are far enough apart to keep people from making the switch. It feels closer to Perl 5 => 6 vs. Ruby 1.x => Ruby 2.x. That's a gros
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by wiremine 13y ago
In theory that would seem like a problem, but I've never run into that problem in practice. I think this is for two reasons: 1. It actually makes for _cleaner_ commits, because you can group changes in whatever order/grouping you
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by wiremine 13y ago
> so you might as well just go with what you are comfortable with Very true. I was thinking of the ethos of Perl and Scala, and wasn't trying to compare the languages directly.
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by wiremine 13y ago
Scala feels like the Perl of the modern era: there is more than one way to do it. There is value in that mode of thinking, and Perl is a better language than people give it credit for. However, I think there's a reason Python and Ruby

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