jcoffey

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From Galileo to Google: How Big Data Illuminates Human Culture(brainpickings.org)
1 points by jcoffey 13y ago|0 comments
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by jcoffey 14y ago
The feature in question is intended as an error correction for those cases where the programmer accidentally left out newline. A misguided feature maybe, but it's clearly being abused by intentionally leaving out every (or most) newline
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by jcoffey 14y ago
What is insanely stupid is abusing the logical bitwise && operator rather than signifying their intent using a plain old if statement like the language intended.
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by jcoffey 14y ago
Geoff, a bit off topic here but do you have any comment on the GPL licensing/linking conversation people have been getting their nickers in a twist about every time meteor comes up on HN?
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by jcoffey 14y ago
Since this is clearly making news and some people are using it as an excuse for some axe-grinding it seems like the OP really needs to clarify the context behind the post. What exactly were the issues with the first speakers talk? How glari
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by jcoffey 14y ago
The title smacks a bit of link bait
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by jcoffey 14y ago
I know there's a lot of Java jobs out there, but there's also a whole lot of Java programmers. Would it not be a smarter move to learn something like Scala over Java? I'm trying to gauge where the demand will be in a few years rather than p
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Ask HN: What Statically Typed Language Will Add Most To My Resume?
5 points by jcoffey 14y ago|5 comments
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by jcoffey 14y ago
I'd be interested to see the results of: Poll: What programming language will provide the most career benefit over the next 5 years? Maybe someone with enough karma (20) could create it? Or maybe: Poll: What language are you going to learn
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by jcoffey 14y ago
I would think the fear of current or potential employers using your data against you is just one more thing to add to any unease people may already have about sharing more and more of their personal information with Facebook. These things a
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by jcoffey 15y ago
Well the point is that by doing rendering on the client side you get most of the latency issues out of the way on first load and actually have a lot more control over its effects on the user even after that (e.g. you have the option of sync
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by jcoffey 15y ago
I'd be curious as to how much benefit could be derived by moving the business logic in the server side MVC to the database in the form of triggers, stored procedures etc. Seems like that's the really natural place for some of the functional