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by wlievens 16y ago
I can second your question. When you build an app with a dynamic frontent (i.e. javascript) and a "database" (I don't care what model) driven backend, then you need a way to pass data and commands (e.g. JSON) between the two. Thus you end u
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by wlievens 16y ago
I'm no fan of Spring, but I do want to echo your sentiment. There are a lot of really good Java libraries and frameworks that are often lumped together in people's view with the more verbose "enterprisey" concepts. There are two things I re
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by wlievens 16y ago
Indeed. The blog post seems to assume no reverse-engineering occurred. That means they assume that reverse-engineering some highly complex thirty year old technology in a top-secret military context would somehow cost significantly less tha
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by wlievens 16y ago
I cannot stress #1 enough. Don't depend on your remaining loved ones to be your shrink. They're not. You'll risk damaging your relationship with them when you expect them to be.
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by wlievens 16y ago
It could just forward to your email.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> The career path promoting great developers into managers (and eventually CTOs) tends to take people out of something they're great at and put them into something they might not be so good at. Peter's Principle. The more professional e
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by wlievens 16y ago
Note that "sexual abuse" does not equal "rape". It would certainly be an insult if one were to compare it to rape, but that's no the case.
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by wlievens 16y ago
This appears to be the same guy who wrote that ancient "socket programming in C" tutorial that every aspiring "I want to make a multiplayer game" programmer has read in college.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Corporate tax rates are way lower but personal income tax rates are significantly higher. So if he pays all of that money as salary to himself, that 50% number is quite realistic.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I read it too when it popped up a year ago. I played PoP back in the early nineties and reading the journal made me pretty sentimental.
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by wlievens 16y ago
For reference: when the hype first peaked, in mid august, there were 135k sold versions. He generated about $5M in less than three months.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Cool, but is 27km altitude "space"? I thought the "official border" was at 100km.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> his was also done on an old version that had maybe 40 levels to dig through. If I recall correctly, Boatmurdered was played on the pre-Z level build. So there's only one height level.
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by wlievens 16y ago
It's more structured than text data. That's something.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I find it hardly a modest raise, but I do agree with your point.
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by wlievens 16y ago
He was being ironic. Are you being doubly ironic? Am I not seeing the iirony?
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's not even true. A typical consulting company (of which there are plenty in Belgium - I'd say at least half the programming jobs) probably doesn't care much, because for a less efficient programmer they will eventually bill more hour
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by wlievens 16y ago
Probably added up to some round number, a psychological barrier. There's no reason the percentage should be a "round" number :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
He removes it from code in plugins he uses? Meaning that if he upgrades, he either merges the changes, or does it all over again? That's not OCD. That's a giant waste of time. Writing a script to do it automatically would have been less was
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by wlievens 16y ago
When linking pictures, Phil Plait always adds a line that basically means "Click to enlarge". He started using the Simpsons phrase embiggen at some point, and a while after that he started making up words vaguely related to the context. Pha
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by wlievens 16y ago
This is true. The most abhorrent fact is that [the version I used some six years ago] it would parse line by line while executing . So you would only get errors if the line actually got executed. The whole idea of line-based syntaxes is du
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by wlievens 16y ago
Or, he really is the French president. But that makes no sense.
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by wlievens 16y ago
You can change order. You can't change color. Reprioritizing happens.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Pretentious, maybe, but it hosts a world-class company (ARM).
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by wlievens 16y ago
So it's market research as a product rather than a service, so to speak?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Did you work on any titles I might know? On PC, that is, I never played games on anything earlier.
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by wlievens 16y ago
If you're going the "non-default" route of using postgresql you might as well ditch PHP. Unless P=Python? :-) LAMP is a loaded acronym which these days basically means "a web app built using FOS but not in Java or Ruby".
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by wlievens 16y ago
The transitions aren't smooth. I don't know if CSS3 can do that. JS certainly can when you sprinkle some jQuery love on it.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Read the Cryptonomicon. It's an awesome work of fiction, and it involves lots of geek interests. Alternative suggestions are Microserfs and JPod.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> Trying to keep two computers in sync is a pain in the ass whether there are wires or not. True, but you need to do it anyway regardless of this particular instance. I want my phone and my ipod and my gmail account and my GPS device

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