xentronium

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by xentronium 16y ago
Best way to deal with cache invalidation is not to invalidate it (smart key names technique). The other way round you may miss some edge-cases and/or add a lot of code smell.
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by xentronium 16y ago
What's the point of having ACID when you don't use its advantages, one might wonder.
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by xentronium 16y ago
Error ratio per KLOC is actually quite low in Microsoft.
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by xentronium 16y ago
To be honest, Mac's fonts rendering is sort of best right now with cleartype being a fair contestant.
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by xentronium 16y ago
Yeah, right. Next time your parents accidentally break Xorg's config, you tell em to go console mode and do some heavy VIMing. Excuse me for rudeness, but most people who think anyone's mums can handle linux are very, very wrong because I D
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by xentronium 16y ago
> About half the things on that list will cause releasing something to take longer. Every day you delay trying to make your code "pretty" for other potential developers is a day your competitors gain on you. Excuse me? Shouldn't you nor
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by xentronium 16y ago
Melatonin. Much better than conventional sleep pills.
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by xentronium 16y ago
Everyone detects bubbles these days. Noteworthy: > They aren't taught the basics of literature, history or science. ACTA reports that most schools don't require a foreign language, hardly any require economics, American history and gove
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by xentronium 16y ago
FWIW (no teaching experience here): In Russia, they're using Pascal to teach programming although I would try to explain programming in some basic abstract concepts. Like: Program is a list of instructions for computer to do and variable i
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by xentronium 16y ago
I wouldn't be so hasty regarding Chinese development and overall politics. You should take into account the fact they're Eastern country with Eastern mentality. They take different approach from most western countries because they're di
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by xentronium 16y ago
I think there's some explanation in biomechanics and different courses of blood flow, but even more than that, whiteboard allows you to share your findings and troubles with the colleagues which is probably why you needed whiteboard in the
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by xentronium 16y ago
You have to invest quite a lot of time to get everything to work. Nevertheless, growing your own food is still very popular here in Russia, when almost every family (even with <600$ total monthly income) has its village cottage with som
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by xentronium 16y ago
Productivity is a topic too complicated to put into a few sentences but there is one tip I'd like to contribute: paper and pen are underrated. There were awful lot of tasks I tried to achieve via pure coding and rewriting / rewiring blocks
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by xentronium 16y ago
3.0 only. Most plugins are more or less compliant already.
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by xentronium 16y ago
Parsing the value is not the best idea (you have to watch the types and still cannot apply the comparison query to string columns). DataMapper resolves the issue via :age.gt => 29 and Sequel got its stylish filter{age > 29} syntax.
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by xentronium 16y ago
I have a feeling the author forgot about the time and man-hours required to invent semiconductors.