fat0wl

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by fat0wl 10y ago
This is true but keep in mind that you have to set up a pipeline for collecting the data into HDFS (Storm? batch loading?) & you have to pay for the machines. So while your analysis is valid, there are more "costs" at play lik
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by fat0wl 10y ago
yeah i do Scala now but same deal. Where I think the OP comment really goes wrong is when he says something like "you're gonna need all that stuff and you're gonna end up re-implementing it yourself". I really don't
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by fat0wl 11y ago
There is a huge legal difference between getting caught doing drugs vs facilitating the trafficking of mass quantities of controlled substances. I don't think casual marijuana smokers should get all up in arms like "hey man they a
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by fat0wl 11y ago
I feel like this is already indirectly possible with cache systems... yes there is an initial load from DB or whatever, but with Ehcache for example I think(?) all those objects just sit in the JVM, and therefore should be in RAM. If you wr
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by fat0wl 11y ago
I'd like to at least offer some support to this -- I'm not sure I agree with all of your conclusions but since switching to Scrum mentality I definitely notice that the goals of our team have become much less ambitious... Rather t
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by fat0wl 11y ago
my company is "totally agile" (they wish) and it gives the management layer something to do cuz they are analyzing JIRA all day coming up with horse-shit charts, so of course they keep pushing all of it like its solving high-level
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by fat0wl 12y ago
A doctor would probably classify this as some level of abuse, since medically accepted drinking levels are low (few drinks a week, I think?). Even if its just "1 per day", chemical dependency in order to function is usually seen a
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Do the repo owners get a cut? :) I tried it on Clojure then imagined how guilty I'd feel buying it knowing Rich Hickey wouldn't get any money but the printers would get lots, hah.
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by fat0wl 12y ago
heh thanks for the words of encouragement. i'm going to try now, yes. but basically.... to be fair i'm getting paid a pretty good wage so i really just need some experience to avoid looking like a dabbler. I'm looking at seni
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yep there are also a lot of situations in enterprise where you don't exactly know how your code will be used in near future (in <5 years it could grow to exponentially more customers using it compared to soft releases to select test
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Honestly, I'd rather they make it a paid service than a dystopian clusterfuck of advertising espionage. I'm more likely to quit the wonnnnderful "free" service you describe and defend because it "costs millions of d
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by fat0wl 12y ago
This cost-center point is key. I work for one of the big international electronics corps as an enterprise web dev, but they have no interest in the quality of our work. They don't understand it, they have no belief in codebase maintain
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by fat0wl 12y ago
o man i would love to try "brothers" :) does the offer still stand? i am one of those "controller" pc gamers... (i am "fat0wl" on steam too!)
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by fat0wl 12y ago
hah i am jealous of you both... i don't get the kickbacks, i just get one more team of consultants that i have to work with on every project who relish the tiny bit of authority they have now been granted (Message Broker team thinks th
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by fat0wl 12y ago
this may be true. I use a lot of IBM server/development techs & pretty much all of them are missing the magic they claim, boiling down to "confusing forced development paradigm that bleeds millions from your company in infrast
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by fat0wl 12y ago
I think a big issue is that a lot of these rules need to be revised as language features evolve. A lot of productive paradigms are no longer "pure" code. I see a lot of comments kindof poo-pooing annotations, but one of the better
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i did this with an AWS system because we never configured security keys properly -- basically got tired of whitelisting 1 IP at a time for development tasks, especially since I had issues accessing from behind corp firewalls. client told me
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by fat0wl 12y ago
amen. there are downsides to the chaos of consulting that i don't particularly enjoy but the only time i ever spoke to HR was when they handed me my badge, and there is no such thing as a "performance review", reprimands, etc
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i kindof believe all languages should have some ability to run with a browser-based GUI... why bother with all the hair-brained implementations (Swing, Qt, etc.) when we could just have a "desktop mode" (altered security) version
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by fat0wl 12y ago
amen... i struggle with this a lot & though its cute to think "oh but i get to write code at work & be creative!!" all of the monstrous bureaucracy is very stifling, & my creativity is definitely in spite of my job.
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i understand your point about history but disagree with your conclusion... at this point its not like Adobe would have to re-architect the system cuz im sure when you click & use a tool it is not going "uhhh photoshop system, man,
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by fat0wl 12y ago
thanks -- i didnt realize #1 was the case, & good point about the pipeline loop... I guess since I just use the CLI utils in different ecosystems it doesn't really occur to me how they are written, nor do I really care. But I und
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by fat0wl 12y ago
are there a lot of applications where this matters? maybe for CLI utils or something? i mostly make web-apps or data-mining apps, never really understood this criticism of long (1 second type of long, maybe 10 for EE server) startup times f
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by fat0wl 12y ago
heh i am always nervous to use this macro... while i agree it often makes things much simpler & more linear i feel like working without it would probably lead to quicker learning of how to mentally organize/dissect the normal synta
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by fat0wl 12y ago
In enterprise Java there are quite a bit of tools/frameworks designed to do this. While I don't particularly like the one they use at my company (bloated quirky IBM code-gen tool), it makes me see the merits of this approach (ever
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by fat0wl 12y ago
this is my whole point I've been ranting about -- Spotify absolves peoples' guilt but they are just feeding the middleman, who seems to be taking the WHOLE pie. i think pure torrents + physical sales would actually result in bette
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by fat0wl 12y ago
there are tons of good bands that are not on Spotify, even modern (florida noise punk scene is really easy example)
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by fat0wl 12y ago
hah great for Pitchfork... i'm sure they are making much more than the artists off this deal. regardless, they don't cover the bands i like and half the music i like isnt on spotify so i just do it the old-fashioned way using disc
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Cool! As someone with more experience than me in this, would you mind responding quickly to these points? I will give my personal opinions but if you can trump with more info that would be cool too. :) 1. I agree that JMS sounds like a hass
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by fat0wl 12y ago
This is a cool thought exercise I suppose, the idea of within a program throwing a particular function to an offsite parallel-compute engine. I just imagine it will complicate platform integration & bleed money given that it is in js

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