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by binaryfinery 16y ago
/world runs out to buy kinect just to be able to participate in class action suit.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
You need more CPUs then :-) Also, there really is a difference between SSDs available right now. My Kingston SSDs have blocksizes of 120k (!). My OCZ Vertex2 has blocksize of 4k. Its 4k write speed is off the chart. Like 40x faster than som
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Solid State Discs in everything. Ok, perhaps not what you were asking, but they made a big difference for me. I have two, raid0 in my desktop, and a sandforce in my MBP. What a difference. Compiling, linking, copying, everything not just fa
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Absolutely: http://blog.binaryfinery.com/monotouch-qa This is written for potential clients, rather than hackers, but I do go a bit deeper into why ObjectiveC sucks near the bottom. Basically, use good tools. What hacker would create a we
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Oh, yeah, of course. You ARE going to need it. You're different. Mod me down for my lack of understanding how awesome you are.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
"Mac iOS dev tools are beautiful and extremely slick" And yet have features found in SlickEdit circa 1992. Twenty fucking years later I'd expect my IDE to a bit smarter. It might look beautiful (to you) but its brain dead.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
The problem Feathers describes has a simple cause: the classes in java, C# etc are a premature optimization. The rewrite described, in my experience, is caused because having to reclassify everything is annoying and error prone when: a) cla
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
YAGNI.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Whats the start-up time? i.e. when google spins up a new instance to handle traffic, how quickly can it come up?
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
That's why I use google appengine. It would have handled what you describe without even going over the daily free limit. Of course, you wouldn't be cool as rails.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
As you read these wonderful theories, remember that economist who was chosen as the best economist to run the US Federal Reserve said in 2005 that "now is the best time to get an ARM". These genius suggested buying a house on an adjustable
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Nice, neat, simple equations and math, at the Macro level. To put this in hacker terms, these simple rules are about as simple as the http protocol. Now imagine the software that implements this simple protocol. Think of all the different w
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Yes, quite right. We'll benefit in the same way that countries like Equador or Nigeria benefit from the USA's innovation, wealth and power. Which is to say, if that if we have something that a Chinese superpower wants, they'll take it by fo
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
"A (protectionist) wall may keep the outsiders out; but it also keeps the insiders in...." As opposed to our policy, which is to give hundreds of billions of dollars to China every year. That's working out so well! Or are you one of these p
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Could we do something about this? Yes. Will "we", and by "we" I mean the government run by rich folks? Never. But as the rich destroy the social fabric of the USA, they will get their due. The USA is as small to India and China as Britain i
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
My grandfather use to complain about "coolies" coming on board his ship (he was chief engineer) posing as customs and just making drawings. "They are just copying us" he would complain. "They'll never be any good". He passed away before he
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Ah yes, the "Rome will stand forever" argument. No, wait, it was the "Mongol Empire shall stand forever". No, thats not it. "The Macedonian Empire shall stand forever". Hmm. Or was it "The Holy Roman Empire shall stand forever". No wait, it
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
I was 11: BASIC on a BBC Micro. But I got my first soldering iron burn at 6.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Maybe find some different bosses.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Indeed. I thought those slides were awesome. Is this all some brilliant hiring plan?
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Perhaps in the past Time might have been a reputable news organization, but its just part of the corporate oligarchy now. Of course they awarded it to one of their biggest link feeds. Hell they probably negotiated some kind of kick-back.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Depends. Let me start by addressing the HTML/javascript toolchains out there: they suck. One of my clients has experience of this. The first thing they tried was using one of those javascript/html systems. Its a fairly simple app that one w
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
To be a good coder, the journey begins by answering "how do I become a coder?" by yourself.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Was that his point? My take-away was "don't wait for a million dollars to do the things you've always wanted."
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Since the site has hit its quota, I'll post my reply here: I had the same experience, just ten years earlier. I was the lead programmer of resident evil 2 for the N64. Project was on time, under budget. Client was so happy it got Angel a li
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Ain't nothing faster than 0. I've done games for 20 years. The best optimizations are figuring out how to avoid running the code in the first place. This is where full-stack programmers come in. There seems to be a battle here between full-
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
If everyone could just say "I'm a full-stack" or "I'm a generalist" it'd save me a lot of reading. Thanks. :-)
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Which is just what the guy describes in his article. At least, thats how I read it. If you only hire people who only know about cars, you're fucked. You'd need someone who knows about a ton of different transport "technologies", and knows,
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
They'd be about as expensive as throwing an exception. And the live objects would, I assume, quickly pull all the other live objects into the active pages. I love this hack.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Only if you had a very large number of undead per live instance.

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