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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
It seems to me that facebook has all their eggs in one basket whereas google is extremely diverse (even though many of googles' ventures inevitability feed back into search). I think facebook haven't used their huge cash reserves wisely whi
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
Just had a browse through and although these particular patent examiners are obviously smart, software is not their area. If you are looking for answers as to how some of the ridiculous patents manage to get through the patent office (inclu
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
I'm curious as to whether this general trend is a new one or if I'm just getting old: 1) user creates semi-controversial post (see: PHP sucks, nosql sucks, node sucks, semi-colons suck, time-is-money, ideas are worth nothing etc) 2) debated
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
It started a bit slow but I ended up watching the whole thing. Not sure I agree with the comparison at the end to asp.net mvc and "waiting for a database to complete the request" - with mvc4 async controllers, .net 4.0 tasks and the new mvc
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
I always find it a bit insulting when a company tries to offer me a discount to stay; like I wasn't good enough to qualify for a discount when I was a loyal customer. This seems a lot like the situation where an employee threatens to leave
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
Ouch - this hits a little too close to home being from the architect camp myself (hell - I even spent the last week dicking around with rabbitmq! - talk about coincidence!) Anyway - as I'm sure other comments will allude to, one of our jobs
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
If you read the whole article, Taubes isn't saying that there is not a link between calorie intake and weight-gain - what he is saying is that it's not "causal" in any useful sense. Why exactly overweight people consume more calories is sti
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
Adding to some of the anti-orm sentiment above: I always find that orm's are trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist. The proportion of time (and therefore cost) spent on a project writing SQL is orders of magnitude less than ti
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
I've used a few and ultimately ended up at HSBC for my business and personal account. Haven't had any problems so far (touch wood) and been pretty impressed so far with the service. If I remember correctly, they were one of the few banks to
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
Not sure where this one fits in (passion? commitment?) but having a candidate mention that they "don't do overtime... ever" half-way through an interview when nothing has been mentioned about over-time is a serious turn-off. Sure - people h
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
I was looking at jquery mobile and it didn't look too bad - would you mind giving a summary of what you didn't like about it?
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
If you are looking for something like this for .NET, "synoptic" can generate cli-usage help in a similar format based on your methods/classes complete with defaults, examples etc: https://github.com/bitdiff/synoptic (disclaimer: it's my c
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
It's no doubt that the intentions are pretty innocent (it could be a dev/designer etc.). However the context that many developers come from is literally being allocated as a "resource" in a project plan somewhere (and being switched out for
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
inane != insane
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by bitdiffusion 14y ago
I think the other point the author makes is that it's not possible to write efficient code that is entirely abstracted from the underlying data (see his loop examples). i.e. if you have to write your code in a specific way to make the ORM b
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
The notebook/note example is weak - in a nosql database you need to design your data structure appropriately to get the level of atomicity you require. Storing an entire notebook in a single document would be the most obvious. I use postgre
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
The geolocation bit seems to be one of the last things that you can't really find for free (especially if you want one that works worldwide). In the same vein, good luck finding a free database or service that allows customers to look up th
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
If there were more engineers than jobs and we were all fiercely competing for scraps, I would say ok - it's a "buyers market" and we are forced to put up with attitudes like this. The situation is very different however. In my experience, t
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
I was always under the impression that security trumps user-experience in the majority of cases - what happened to trying to prevent malicious users from harvesting user names by using captcha, non-specific error messages etc? Maybe I've ha
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
It might be slightly off-topic, but I used to work in the same building as "Save the Children" at a swanky address in central London (this is the charity where the money ended up iirc). The employees dressed better than us and I could see (
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
Unless you are working on a profit-share type deal where you are going to do the work at a cut-rate price and share in the profits later, most clients in my experience want to know what something is going to cost as early as possible (even
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
On the CoffeeScript side of things I have heard good things about https://github.com/alisey/CoffeeScript-Compiler-for-Windows which doesn't require cygwin afaik.
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
This could be very useful for implementing organisational-charts which, as far as I am aware, is currently only implemented in Google Viz. (flot, highcharts and their ilk don't seem to support them).
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
The poor guy is taking a beating in the code-project comments which is a pity since he obviously spent some time putting it together. In a comparison like this, you are always going to get people on either side of the fence claiming the res
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by bitdiffusion 15y ago
Extension methods can be invoked on null objects (the object gets passed to the static method and you can check for null in the extension itself). Strange, but does enable some interesting syntactic sugar checking for empty values etc.
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Show HN: Synoptic - a console application framework for .net(blog.bitdiff.com)
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