zmimon

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by zmimon 17y ago
I think the post is just a cheap shot based on the title of the book. We all have to do things that we don't like as part of our jobs. The point of the book is that by becoming more efficient and effective at what you don't like you can
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by zmimon 17y ago
Sorry, away for a bit and didn't see your reply. > But checked exceptions seem unavoidable, as you can't (practically) avoid calling all the Java API methods that throw them. Yes, that's what I mean by "at the edges". You can't avoid h
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by zmimon 17y ago
Maybe I'm just jaded but all these things just seems like tired old rehashes of the same ideas dressed up with new names to try and make them sound cool. If you send me an email, I will get a notification popup because my email notifier doe
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by zmimon 17y ago
One thing you gotta remember is that that cookie is going to get shoved up to your server with every single request (images, css, ajax, everything). So if you end up putting 2k of stuff in there then it can really add up (esp. given tha
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by zmimon 17y ago
I don't think checked exceptions are so important. They might make things a little more verbose and painful, but they don't impose fundamental constraints and backwards compatibility nightmares the way other things do. After all, you can
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by zmimon 17y ago
> having "only one way" to do something is a good point (and many have said this) I've heard this said often but never actually witnessed it in Python. There seem to be multitudes of ways of doing all sorts of things. The other day I
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by zmimon 17y ago
And then the person at the other end thinks "wtf is this guy hiding? Is he even talking to me?". Technical limitations can be very useful to avoid awkwardness sometimes (like the fact that if I don't answer an email within 30 mins it's n
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by zmimon 17y ago
Yay for another person like me who wants to be able to sprinkle just a little static-typing goodness back into the dynamic typing orgy everyone is having these days. I don't mean huge cumbersone Java or C++-esque typing, just the simple abi
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by zmimon 17y ago
I use PayPal and ShareIT to sell software. I originally set up two options because I specifically didn't want people to have to trust PayPal. In both cases people can buy directly by entering a credit card without having an account. It tu
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by zmimon 17y ago
> where some sort of training and certification could be substantive, meaningful, and actually benefit the world The problem is, a lot of the recent issues that have been identified have come from people who are probably qualified to w
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by zmimon 17y ago
This is awesome. The webstart demo downloaded in entirety and started up in the same time as acrobat takes to startup itself on some systems I have used :-) But this is seriously nice because it has a commercial friendly license (MPL) and
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by zmimon 17y ago
> My blood pressure went way up when I found out how brutally he is being raped by the alimony system Agree. I was really impressed that he managed not to express any bitterness towards his ex-wife in the article. That says a lot abou
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by zmimon 17y ago
I'd actually like to see pre-nups made into law. If you don't make one yourself, you get a pre-nup that says what already happens now when you divorce - but you have to sign it and acknowledge - "yes, I want to be raped in the ass if he/s
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by zmimon 17y ago
> So, to be clear, the prevention for diabetes is: Exercise regularly and remove all refined/processed foods from your diet. Don't cut out antioxidants. Or, just have a simple operation and cure it for real (type 2 anyway): http://www.
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by zmimon 17y ago
It's also much more comprehensible than previous attempts. For your average web developer it's just adding a few attributes here and there as tidbits, and as a benefit, you get bells and whistles from google. The big turning point will be
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by zmimon 17y ago
That's one of the (I think) less appreciated benefits of running on a service like EC2. You can have all the plans in the world and still find yourself up the creek without a paddle when some impossible or very hard to revert upgrade goes
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by zmimon 17y ago
Ok, I'm the idiot who did the script injection attack. Sorry every one. Actually I figured it wouldn't work because he appears to be escaping the output in the code on the blog page ... but what do I know.
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Whether I'm driving a Ferrari or an Aston Martin, I still have no idea what goes on under the hood Maybe if you're just a casual driver that's fine. What if you happen to be a race driver? What if you need to drive in snow, on ice,
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by zmimon 17y ago
I've never done anything more than "Hello World" with Rails, but interestingly, I am increasingly getting exactly this feeling with the framework I am using - Grails (groovy based). There are so many syntactic games played to make things
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by zmimon 17y ago
It might be irrelevant to Jeff, but it wouldn't be irrelevant to me if I was the one employing this person to work on my web site.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Yep - the first is the most significant because of the others. Which is to say, most people with a clue or with much experience see all the problems with PHP and move onto something else and have no problem doing so. The remainder are t
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by zmimon 17y ago
A good list, but I just have to add one which is a killer for any good app: PHP has terrible unicode support. Almost uniformly every app that starts out using the default PHP function set ends up failing horribly when data with non-europea
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by zmimon 17y ago
To be explicit: the attacker was given trusted access to the password database on another site and violated that trust. The fact that the site used poor security and that Jeff was stupid enough to use the same password in two places doesn
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by zmimon 17y ago
You hit the nail on the head - most of my instances are windows because I'm using them to run a small piece of windows software on demand. Didn't know there was a difference. Here's hoping they get a bit quicker as time goes by (maybe t
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by zmimon 17y ago
> There's a big difference between launching a server in <60 seconds (EC2) Do you achieve that in practice with EC2? I find 3 - 4 minutes is typical and as bad as 10 minutes is not uncommon.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Especially amusing since he wrote in January( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001206.html ): "If you're a moderator or administrator it is especially negligent to have such an easily guessed password." Actually, I find just the
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by zmimon 17y ago
I've been deploying an alternating days routine (a day with, then a day without) with caffeine to try and avoid dependence. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm getting the best possible outcome (good effects of caffeine without dependence or de
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by zmimon 17y ago
I agree with the first comment on the page - 10% conversion rate is almost unheard of. It makes me suspect that this is a publicity stunt or some kind of market research gimmick and that the bar is set to deliberately exclude them from ac
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by zmimon 18y ago
Since you are someone who is seriously into postgres, can I ask you, how do you deal with the lack of a serious solution for replication / hot standby? Why is this not a more pressing issue for the postgresql developers? I ask this in the
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by zmimon 18y ago
I think there's a bit more to it than that. For example they hurt themselves enormously by breaking the driver model. I have a bunch of useless devices sitting all around me right now for which there are no Vista drivers and never will

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