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by rcoder 18y ago
This argument still makes no sense to me. Teachers are in an obvious and direct way responsible for producing the next generation of doctors, lawyers, and computer programmers. How can we then in good conscience refuse to pay them as much a
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by rcoder 18y ago
> What is the relevant difference between axe-handles and music? Music is more than a product -- live performance is a social experience, not just private consumption. People go to see bands live for many reasons other than the renditio
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by rcoder 18y ago
There is more than one axis on which coffee shops compete, though. Price is one of the least-critical, IMHO -- ambiance, service, and "extras" like a decent menu or late-night hours will earn you a lot more loyal customers than a $0.25 pric
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by rcoder 18y ago
I noticed that, too -- it really looks like they want a single individual who can both make high-level technical decisions and implement + support a bunch of infrastructure at the same time. I would call that person a co-founder, not a CIO,
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by rcoder 18y ago
Look, I'm the last person who would assert that a liberal undergraduate education is a necessity for everyone -- I dropped out of a high-priced, prestigious liberal arts college after a year, started coding for a living, and think I made th
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by rcoder 18y ago
> There are few applications of, say, category theory to real life. ...and there you have nicely summed up why CS appeals to me as a field: it is an arena in which interesting, contemporary mathematics can have an immediate and practica
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by rcoder 18y ago
Apple's app store supports charging for applications. Google's does not. Given that the work involved in developing an app for either platform is roughly comparable, it's not at all surprising that there would be more offerings for the iPho
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by rcoder 18y ago
Do you have a source for this? I'm genuinely curious, since I thought the "crypto == munitions" policies all died off years ago. As far as maintaining proper records of who has which device, I say "bravo!" Just like stolen and lost laptops
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by rcoder 18y ago
There are a limited subset of the jQuery core functions which function much like a monoid (though not strictly a monad), but the lack of strictness means that you can escape the "monadic" container at any time. Utility functions, global ass
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by rcoder 18y ago
When the Monad shell was announced (back in the days when Longhorn was going to have a database filesystem, uber-cool widgets, and unicorns that puked rainbows), I actually found myself seriously considering installing Windows on a machine
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by rcoder 18y ago
ACLs (and RBAC, and most capability security models) are limited for a reason -- they allow you to prove that certain security properties will hold for your application. Without a solution to the halting problem, no such assertion can b
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by rcoder 18y ago
Actually, there's an even easier fix: don't put those tools outside the firewall. Use VPN, or even just a tunneling proxy or SSH to protect your admin console. This is a classic security failure, and their response was both typical and appr
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by rcoder 18y ago
"In that scenario, your only source of new users for your app is the ONE webste [sic]..." And that , right there, explains why I won't go anywhere near the App Store, or support the Apple/iTunes/iPhone dev ecosystem with my time or code. T
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by rcoder 18y ago
"OK, I think I get the advantage in terseness and power relative other static languages. Does it, or how does it, give you any of the other advantages of Duck-typing (such test functions that equally use mocks, stubs or the real objects?" F
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by rcoder 18y ago
One barrier many JVM-hosted languages (including JRuby) are quickly coming up against when targeting Dalvik is the incompatible DEX bytecode format. Pure interpreters are fine, since they don't do any runtime bytecode emission, but the fast
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by rcoder 18y ago
"So I'm waiting for the article that shows why this is cool, I.E., what concrete problems the Hindley-Milner algorithm would be useful for." Here's a quick take: Ruby programmers (and, to a lesser extent, other dynamic OO coders) tend to ge
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by rcoder 18y ago
The names you listed read like the definition of "outlier". If you paid attention only to the salaries that are often mentioned in the press, you would probably see these four, and a handful of those infamous Fortune 500 CEOs who see compen
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by rcoder 18y ago
I think it's better to "fish" for your fellow techies (rather than potential executives) for a couple of reasons: 1. You're likely to learn more (at least about your craft) in casual users' group meetings than you are in a business lunch
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by rcoder 18y ago
The absolute best way for techies of any stripe to network, IMHO, is through user groups and meetups. Start going to a local programming language users' meeting, Maker/Dorkbot events, etc. -- and participate . Ask questions, share code, gi
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by rcoder 18y ago
Other than the explicit dependency listing, the author's list of expected comment items reads almost item-for-item like the contents of a well-formed Javadoc block, so I think it's safe to say that a large number of both student and profess
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by rcoder 18y ago
SMS messages are much smaller than a single TCP packet is capable of carrying (or, if you want to roll your own re-transmit logic, a UDP datagram). They also have effectively no QoS guarantees attached, so you can queue them for transmiss
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by rcoder 18y ago
Unfortunately, if you "fire" your credit card company by paying off your balance and canceling the card, you also reduce your credit score, leading to potentially worse terms for your next loan. As stated in the original article, the seco
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by rcoder 18y ago
Improve the world: start a charitable foundation; support amazing candidates for public office; invest in social services for developing nations. Improve yourself: go back to school and get a degree in history, or music, or art; travel to a
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by rcoder 18y ago
The most salient point, to my mind, was this line: "they didn't care that they saw it work in practice, since they already knew it couldn't work in theory." That, and "Perl is a Shinto shrine." Larry Wall himself could hardly spin a better
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by rcoder 18y ago
Actually, you can't even make a call without a data plan, since you can't register the G1 with Google's servers, and thereby cannot escape the initial setup wizard. I know this because I paid full price for a G1 w/o contract, and had to wai
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by rcoder 18y ago
This strikes me as sort of being the opposite of "hacking" your food: instead of finding a creative, new way to prepare your meals, you build a repertoire of a handful of reproducible dishes, and make them over and over again. I understand
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by rcoder 18y ago
Just out of curiosity...when was the last time you bought a Sun workstation? If you did, was it SPARC or AMD-based? Heck, when was the last time you bought any desktop system instead of a laptop for development or science work? Sun's hard
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by rcoder 18y ago
My response to Ender's Game upon a re-reading a few months ago, while not as strong as this reviewer's, were certainly not favorable. I am a much more sociable, confident person than I was at age 11 or 12, when I first read Card's writing.
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by rcoder 18y ago
There are any number of financial and organizational reasons, but I think this could have a lot to do with the intellectual property Values of n holds. Both Stikkit and I Want Sandy make heavy use of natural language processing to turn shor

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