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by fb 17y ago
Is there anyone who have really invested time to learn proper unit testing and still thinks it is not one of the best programming inventions ever? Seriously, there are lots of naive posts lately on HN...
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by fb 17y ago
This screams "joke" all over the screan ;)
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by fb 17y ago
This guy must have been joking. The fact that HE always types his passwords alone in his office does not mean that any sane person would like a possibility that anyone ever has a chance to see his password. Apparently, some people are not a
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by fb 17y ago
Please, Spring is NOT J2EE (in a good sense) ;)
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by fb 17y ago
It is not very object-oriented the way HE used it, but, being a long time Spring user I can assure you that it is a case of misuse. Spring does not force you to use setter injection (it supports constructor injection) and it certainly does
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by fb 17y ago
If you want to learn to speak French and use it actively, not just to prepare for some exam, I can recommend French In Action from my experience. It is a base for a 2-year course at Yale University. The whole course revolves around a story
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by fb 17y ago
I've just tried Wolfram and I would say that Wolfram is to Google as a Statistics section in a library is to Google. In other words, nobody except geeks will care.
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by fb 17y ago
Impressive technology, BUT... I've just tried Wolfram Alpha with a preview account, and I have to express my complete disappointment. It seems to me that Wolfram Alpha is a classic example of geeks building application that is useful for th
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by fb 17y ago
That little learning for technically literate (small percentage of users) could be a show stopper for the rest. Many people are scared of even the simple maths (sad but true).
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What do you think about Wolfram's teaser strategy?
2 points by fb 17y ago|1 comments
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by fb 17y ago
Yeah, on the surface. But some people are making decent living that way, so you may get into the business if you really like it, you pimp ;)
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by fb 17y ago
I'll probably waste some time contributing to open source projects and then invest into hookers :) Really, if your only reason to do a startup is to do something else after that - why bother? If you like contributing to open source projects