FurrBall

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by FurrBall 13y ago
Too slow for me on Chrome.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Baldur's Gate 2 is still my all-time favorite. It is more than just a game. One of humanities greatest works of art.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
"...we'd like to extend an invitation to you to apply again whenever you feel more capable". Sounds like it was written by a pompous egg head on a power trip.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I play yahoo's online chess once and a while.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Wages cannot be too low. It's simple supply and demand. Too many workers, with little demand for their work. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to work at wal-mart wages. I would love for everyone to be successful but it's n
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I'd suggest skipping Clojure altogether. The JVM cannot support tail call optimizations. Use of recursion will be muffled a bit. Not very lispy. Newer is not always better. Try racket or common lisp.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I was part of a haunted house. Kids went through the backyard and garage. With really good candy at the end (snickers bars, kit kat, etc) My girlfriend's brother was a clown with a real chainsaw (chain removed). It is amusing how much
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I don't have a tombstone worthy project. But my favorite personal project is a database comparison tool. It is basically a "diff" on databases. Everything from the schema, to stored procs, indexes, etc. It also works cross da
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by FurrBall 13y ago
"the tools I use recognize that structure" Yes. I would describe it as parsing the content into a tree. Interaction's with content can then be legal operations on the tree, instead of random acts on plain text. Thank
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Absolutely. Generics are too powerful an abstraction to do without in 2013. I can't imagine coding without them. Go is a no-go for me. Everyone talks down on C++ but it's one of the few languages that gets generics right. The only
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Sure there are health issues from inhaling smoke. But a strategy of suppression and control rarely creates a better world. Instead it empowers criminal organizations who use violence to make a foothold in the black market. Like the mafia du
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I use C++. For user applications, not "systems". -Momentum. I am already familiar with it. -RAII and smart pointers -Generics -Best supported for cross-platform mobile phone use.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
They are treating people like cattle. Herd em up, brand em, and profit.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
It's a community of hackers. But topics are not restricted by category.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I thought I was the only one using C# and Postgres. Secret's out!
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Because it makes the troll more elegant and pure.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
"Us founders are blitzing 80+ hours a week." This is where most people with a family would stop reading. "If you're young and energetic, come join us." That is border-line ageist. The rest is a half-h
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by FurrBall 13y ago
That wording doesn't sound very attractive. Down right scary actually.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I'd buy a house for myself. I'd buy 1 low-end rental property (dip my toes in with 1 before finding out I don't like land-lording). With that much cash, inflation becomes a big issue. You don't want to let the money sit
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Well you do have to ban raw pointers. Heap allocation is safe with smart pointers.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
New? I'm still going headfirst down the Emacs rabbit hole. You can never escape wonderland.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
It's not strange if you consider there were no female programmers on the team. Demographics is a different point all together.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Pasting a response: Blocks are an improvement, but not the same as RAII. A block is literally converted to a try-finally by the compiler. It is the same thing with a cleaner syntax. There is no safety added to the old Java way. A programmer
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by FurrBall 13y ago
Reality is there are many Java code bases which handle resources like this. For java 6 and below this not bad code; it is how you are forced to deal with resources. Even with the new block syntax, you have painful nesting if the operation r
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I look at Java code and it horrifies me. Java is great if your resource is memory. It turns into a horrible unsafe mess the moment your resources are not memory. //C++ RAII goodness. void foo() { conn.open(); file.op
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by FurrBall 13y ago
I have no doubt ageism is real but it does not start in the 30's. Trust me. You have a few decades to go before ageism is your problem.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
7 bucks shipped. And you can't save on shipping with a batch order. Not as disposable as a floppy but getting close. I foresee the day we can buy $1 flash drives at the local dollar store. Relative to inflation.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
This is going to sound like sucking up on hacker news but.... Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. It is the reason I looked into lisp. A very entertaining read that made me change my opinion on several political issues.
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by FurrBall 13y ago
If you work for people who promote MBA's then it could help get you promoted. Other than that I see little value. I'm a pessimist. How much will the MBA cost and how much extra money would your promotion bring in? Need the inputs
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by FurrBall 13y ago
RMS in full plate armor riding a GNU into battle. Epic.

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