jamesgolick

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by jamesgolick 13y ago
More like Memory Allocators 405 haha
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MRI's Method Caches(jamesgolick.com)
121 points by jamesgolick 13y ago|15 comments
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Recite - Turn a Quote into a Masterpiece(recitethis.com)
8 points by jamesgolick 14y ago|9 comments
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Celebrate Remote Work(ted.io)
4 points by jamesgolick 14y ago|0 comments
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What Raising Money Means To Me(quirky.com)
91 points by jamesgolick 14y ago|8 comments
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InnoDB kernel_mutex Contention and Memory Allocators(jamesgolick.com)
3 points by jamesgolick 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
Actually, the reason is that aspartame has a high glycemic index, so your body reacts to it roughly the same way it reacts to sugar. http://www.glycemicindex.com/
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
Oops - meant to reply here. http://www.livestrong.com/article/536467-does-stevia-affect-...
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How to Lose 100 Pounds(jamesgolick.com)
18 points by jamesgolick 14y ago|11 comments
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Piccsy Pitchdeck(piccsy.com)
140 points by jamesgolick 14y ago|87 comments
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
> You have to think a bit more about what OO really is about. If you want to have a respectful debate, I'm completely game. If you'd prefer to continue with your incredibly condescending tone, then I'll bow out here.
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
> Regardless of any minor difference of opinions, I think what you're trying to bring to the rails community is to be commended. Thanks a lot, man.
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
The point I was making was that you can use the library in a different way successfully.
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
I've read at least a dozen papers on the history of OO, not to mention books and papers on current practices. This is what I came up with. I made what I think is a pretty coherent argument for why in the article. I'd love to hear your refut
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
You can move over slowly by building new components using objectify, and leaving the rest of your legacy app the way it is, if you like. It's designed specifically to be able to coexist with what you've got.
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
> It's hard to strike a balance between a strong design which takes a lot of time to work within, and one that just allows you to get things done, but once your project begins to grow in size and complexity, and testing becomes even mor
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
I gave an answer better than that. Did you read the post?
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
Because of SRP.
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by jamesgolick 14y ago
Mixins/modules and open classes do not separate your class in to multiple components - merely multiple files. As I explain in the article, for separate components to be useful, they have to be "protected" from each other - encapsulation, in
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by jamesgolick 15y ago
This would be funny if it made any sense and if it wasn't a ripoff of an old Merlin Mann tweet about DHH.
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by jamesgolick 15y ago
> ...a very complex system Auto-pilot on a 747 is a very complex system. RubyGems is not.
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by jamesgolick 15y ago
> hostile fork What's hostile about proving points with code? > ...the division that would be caused by a fork... You still haven't explained what the problem with this "division" is. Why will this be different than the rails/merb f
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Hacker News Tips(twitter.com)
4 points by jamesgolick 16y ago|0 comments
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How can startups destroy more jobs?(danielharan.posterous.com)
35 points by jamesgolick 16y ago|26 comments
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NoSQL is a bullshit marketing term(groups.google.com)
69 points by jamesgolick 16y ago|39 comments
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by jamesgolick 16y ago
If you weren't paying such an enormous premium for your hardware, you'd have a lot more cash. On a per-dollar basis, you're paying anywhere from 2-10x the price for computing power on the cloud, depending on which resource you look at (CPU,
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by jamesgolick 16y ago
If they weren't paying 2-10x for their power (the cloud tax), it wouldn't be so bad.
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by jamesgolick 16y ago
The fundamentals of capacity planning do not change based on the magnitude of your data growth. Why would they? We're mostly talking about looking at your data growth curve and extrapolating points in the future. Why would that become impos
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by jamesgolick 16y ago
First of all, there are managed hardware providers who can get you hardware online in less than 4 hours. Second of all, capacity planning can save you from "needing elasticity". Third of all, if you were on machines that gave you reasonable
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by jamesgolick 16y ago
> You have a "Creative Director" > it's all about technology and not about people or emotions. Yes, hiring a designer definitely shows a complete disregard for the people using the product.

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