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1.
by grout 14y ago
Rule of thumb: If any part of your pitch sounds like Microsoft marketing, you're not ready.
2.
by grout 14y ago
"Satisfactory."
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by grout 14y ago
Fuck Diablo. My interview will be in Alpha Centauri.
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by grout 14y ago
Perl has this: https://metacpan.org/module/Getopt::Declare
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by grout 14y ago
AVR-targeted gcc has an __int24 type. Not a power of two.
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by grout 14y ago
The readability arguments need to include such modules as Method::Signatures::Simple, which replaces the old manual method (no pun intended) with: method foo ($a, $b) { $self->blargh($a + $b); }
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by grout 14y ago
"using rhetorical force to invalidate contrary views" Thank you for epitomizing what makes Linus worth emulating. Rhetorical force. Coooool.
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by grout 14y ago
http://topsy.com/ yeah. we do that.
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by grout 14y ago
A lot. Ignore comments to the contrary.
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by grout 14y ago
Based on that picture, I pity the employees.
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by grout 14y ago
Doesn't build with the gold linker. Feh.
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by grout 14y ago
Forth's necessity of carrying the stack in short-term memory while coding and debugging has seemed to me its deepest flaw as a tool for mortals.
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by grout 14y ago
Mythical Man Month and Silver Bullet essay ought to be mandatory. K&R as well, and Stroustrup (both C++PL and Design and Evolution of C++). Programmers don't stand on each others' shoulders, but each others' feet.
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by grout 15y ago
Beware the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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by grout 15y ago
OpenSSL's command line tools are so antequated and annoying that I can't help thinking that they're being held back by the Powers That Be so as to discourage casual crypto.
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by grout 15y ago
It is fun watching kids rediscover the wheel.
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by grout 15y ago
sigh Scientists stand on the shoulders of giants; programmers stand on each others' feet.
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by grout 15y ago
The only valid reasons to "leave" Perl apply equally to Python. Sorry, but it's true. Compilers are good enough for type systems to be advantages, now.
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by grout 15y ago
Microsoft wants to kill C. I don't know why.
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by grout 15y ago
You're funny. If this really pushed you over the edge, you were born -on- the edge, and didn't give Perl a fair shake.
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by grout 15y ago
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Saint Carl Sagan
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by grout 15y ago
Whenever anybody complains about hate, I usually find that what they mean is "don't get mad just because we deserve it." Usually.
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by grout 15y ago
The best system involves keeping end pointers, not lengths. Remaining length changes. End pointer never changes. At previous job we converted our whole code base to this system, and it worked great.
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by grout 15y ago
I hope Feinstein gets primaried. Her support for PIPA is sick.
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by grout 15y ago
"The advantage of abstraction" is not always an advantage, which is the whole point of this whole thread.
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by grout 15y ago
This is what happens when people with the kind of crazy that broke HP and Palm and Compaq decide to play with open source projects. Clue: Dealmaking is not codemaking.
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by grout 15y ago
You're not idiots, and neither are Amazon. But using a Dynamo style design safely requires overprovisioning and performance loss. W=1 speed is your bait; reality is the switch.
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by grout 15y ago
Node failure is not the failure case in question. As long as the node is up, hinted handoff can't play any part.
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by grout 15y ago
You use argument from authority ("It's based on Dynamo, which is made by Amazon, so you know it's good!") while accusing me of a strawman for reporting my own personal experiences. Good thing there is no god, or you should have to watch out
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by grout 15y ago
sigh And here your PR guy wanted to fly me to New York to talk to you. Obviously the effort would have been wasted. Replication events are too important to be designed to fall on the floor. I want at any given time to know approximatel

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