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by rcoder 18y ago
Using lots of small, short-lived branches conditions you to think about your development in a new way: instead of a single, linear development process, you have a number of parallel development efforts, and you know that only some of them w
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by rcoder 18y ago
...And the entire Windows API? Quite simply, you've shown why some of us prefer to work with compact frameworks in the online space. The normal web stack, as a vocabulary, is really only a few thousand "words" in size: HTTP verbs, HTML ta
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by rcoder 18y ago
Git handles symlinks, so if your devs were all on UNIX-like systems, you could just store symlinks to your un-diff-able blobs under your Git repository. Sorry to offer a non-solution, but maybe someone else out there does have a UNIX dev
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by rcoder 18y ago
There are probably more than 50 "decent" virtual machines in production use, many of them open source. Anyone who completes a graduate-level course in language and compiler design should be able to create a decent bytecode-based VM, and s
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by rcoder 18y ago
Supporting yourself and still coding a lot of cool stuff to give away isn't really that hard. There are plenty of service, light tech support, or even desk jobs which only require a few hours a day worth of real concentration, and leave you
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by rcoder 18y ago
Note to self: reward companies who share their IP freely by buying their products whenever possible, to encourage further sharing.
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by rcoder 18y ago
Objects combine information and operations. They should help keep disjoint things separate, and related things together. They do provide a simple metaphor for modeling. Not all objects are alike. Smalltalk is "pure"; Python and Ruby mos
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by rcoder 18y ago
"Mom, DHH called me a stupid-head!" "Did not!" "Did so!" ... Etc., etc. Honestly, neither of these guys need us feeding their egos. They've contributed some decent infrastructure for web hacking, but if they want to have a he-said/she-said
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by rcoder 18y ago
Isn't it strange that the same community (namely, hackers) who claim to hate the Windows monoculture (and embrace alternative desktop platforms like Apple's) seems intrinsically resistant to a server-side stack that isn't based on the cheap
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by rcoder 18y ago
Short answer(s): no, and yes. Longer answer: Memory management is hard in soft real-time systems like video games, no matter whether you use GC or not. If you do any dynamic memory allocation, you're going to run the risk of eventually hi
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A Proclamation(coudal.com)
2 points by rcoder 18y ago|0 comments
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by rcoder 18y ago
Let's see: predictive I/O scheduling, buffer management, and cryptographic checksums all seem like they fall within the realm of "algorithms," and all would be fairly necessary to a well-behaved non-trivial CD-burning system. And yes, you w
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by rcoder 18y ago
Mine is plaintext, and probably 1-2 pages when printed. Anything that doesn't make the cut for the first page or so goes in the cover letter, or is already somewhere on my blog or in Google, so I don't sweat it. I actually used the layout o
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by rcoder 18y ago
Before anyone gets too fired up about this, there are two major limitations: 1. Python code will only be executed from trusted sources (i.e., chrome loaded from the local filesystem). This means that you'll need to get users to download and
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Paul Krugman's economic analysis of interstellar trade(princeton.edu)
6 points by rcoder 18y ago|0 comments
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by rcoder 18y ago
Right, 'cause Arrington definitely knows security theory better than Google engineers do. In short: there are far more than 10000 possible patterns (the max for a 4-digit numeric unlock code) available with the Android login screen. I haven
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by rcoder 18y ago
Anyone here who hasn't read Krugman's paper on the economics of interstellar trade owes it to themselves to do so: http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf I've never laughed so hard that coffee went up my nose while reading an
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by rcoder 18y ago
It's not a change in billing to you , so I doubt it would apply. Unless by "customer," you mean "bulk SMS business customer."
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by rcoder 18y ago
I've tried the Gore-Tex thing, and honestly prefer to just layer up and stash dry stuff at home and office. I do tend to ride pretty hard (even when commuting), so the problem I have with a really "waterproof" outer shell is that I end up s
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by rcoder 18y ago
I get wet. Seriously, that's it. Being out in the rain in a temperate zone isn't a big problem. You just need a change of shoes and a dry pair of socks at the office, and things are generally fine. It probably wouldn't work out if I were, s
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by rcoder 18y ago
You're right, of course; doing full-stack development, no matter the target platform, involves a lot of unsexy busywork. Browser incompatibilities are an issue as well, and there are certainly a number of layers of technology beneath any fi
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by rcoder 18y ago
My quality of living is substantially higher due to the fact that I commute by bicycle instead of by car. I save hundreds of dollars a month, get at least 40 minutes of exercise every day, and have an interesting sport/hobby to engage in wh
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by rcoder 18y ago
In a datacenter where you control the DHCP assignments, it would be fairly easy to determine the IP address of a new server, since the MAC address is usually on a label somewhere on the chassis. For a remote install, you could either config
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by rcoder 18y ago
> I've been thinking about XUL/Firefox addons If you value your sanity, put the XUL handbook down and step away slowly. Of the handful of completely failed software projects I've worked on, most have involved XUL and the Mozilla runti
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by rcoder 18y ago
The problem with finding really great hackers who want to do client-side coding is that a huge percentage of the work required to implement such apps is boring crap: compatibility testing, look-and-feel review, installer authoring, and coll
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by rcoder 18y ago
I'm not arguing with the value of a filesystem as a general-purpose organizational tool. However, it's a strictly weaker tool in terms of structure and semantics than a proper VCS. Also, not only does using a raw filesystem put the burden o
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by rcoder 18y ago
I have to respectfully disagree here. Having super-lightweight branching and local commits has helped me greatly, even in the tumultuous early days of a new project. Basically, it gives me the freedom to create a branch, hack for a while, a
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by rcoder 18y ago
First, you should know that many types of caching will increase your memory usage, not decrease it. The whole point of a cache is to use fast storage (RAM) to keep a local copy of data that would be slower to retrieve from its persistent
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by rcoder 18y ago
> If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus > on usability rather than features. The scripting features > might be awefully cool for developers but for designers > who have to sometimes make hundreds of cli
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Ubuntu "Intrepid Ibex" beta release(releases.ubuntu.com)
3 points by rcoder 18y ago|0 comments

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