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by rcoder 18y ago
So, at this point, Nokia has invested time, money, and/or developers in the following platforms: Mimeo (Linux, Gtk+ shell) Qtopia (Linux, Qt shell) Symbian (Symbian kernel and shell) Tell me again how this looks like a reasonable strategy?
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by rcoder 18y ago
> ... that chase for social status and immeasurable wealth is really downplayed since most good engineers won't get there I think that this is an excellent observation, but I also think it's worth noting that many good engineers don't
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by rcoder 18y ago
What you have there is a gen-you-wine clusterfsck, my friend. You need at least a handful of variables to name and hold your intermediate values. Putting names on things is good . It lets you refactor and debug your code in a reasonable wa
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by rcoder 18y ago
As another Reed dropout, I can say with some confidence that we're more numerous (at least relative to the student body size) than those who leave Harvard early. At one point, Reed's graduation rate within six years of matriculation was sub
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by rcoder 18y ago
UW and Utah State both have great undergrad CS programs, and they produce lots of solid OSS projects, which could help your visibility a lot when you're applying for jobs after college. I'm going to have to make my usual plug for my home
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by rcoder 18y ago
> Although the detailed listing of MS interview questions he was asked was interesting. Actually, I thought the questions seemed shockingly easy, compared to the brain-busters I hear about coming out of interviews elsewhere. Pretty much
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by rcoder 18y ago
Full-screen mode + tabs == happy coding/writing space, for me at least.
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by rcoder 18y ago
Repeat after me, kids: SMTP != email. You need MX records, local MTAs, and client protocols (POP, IMAP, proprietary Exchange/Notes/etc.) at least to make a full email stack. Furthermore, XMPP makes no provision for server-side storage and
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by rcoder 18y ago
Absolutely not. My point was very specific: namely, that PHP as a language has a reasonable level of complexity for the problems it is designed to solve. Much of the value of PHP as a language is due to this very simplicity.
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by rcoder 18y ago
> I don't know what, but evidence (Wikipedia, Facebook, Yahoo, Digg, Wordpress, Drupal...) seem to say that there is something PHP is doing significantly better than all of these. I think that PHP is doing precisely what I said it was g
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by rcoder 18y ago
While I personally think that closures and lexical scoping are desirable feature in any language, this seems a bit like putting lipstick on a pig to me. As a simple wrapper around various C libraries with automatic memory management and hig
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by rcoder 18y ago
The way I read this article, it seemed to be a rant taking Apple to task for wasting their energy on a pervasive multicore strategy, when in their author's opinion multicore doesn't offer a compelling story for improving performance. This l
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by rcoder 18y ago
Unlike an EC2 instance, though, these are going to be running on expensive, single-vendor hardware, and won't be able to take advantage of much higher-density blade configurations to decrease space, power, and cooling requirements. There's
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by rcoder 18y ago
In Java, at least, you'll probably have exceeded the total character count of the 10th-place entry by the time you've opened stdin and parsed the first line of input. Even the single-character type sigils in Perl tend to make solutions long
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by rcoder 18y ago
> If you read this book you will know Java. Correction: if you read, understand , and write code based on that book you may legitimately claim to know Java. Reading books about programming languages teaches you about as much about pr
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by rcoder 18y ago
Learning the basics of the Java language is indeed pretty easy. The syntax is fairly consistent (assuming you ignore generics and annotations to start with) and the core class libraries are useful (if a bit eclectic). Regardless, the origin
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by rcoder 18y ago
I guess that I just assumed that almost everyone in a MSCS program will have to work at least part-time, since (as a general rule) very few stipends are handed out to Masters students. PhD students, on the other hand, are at least able to f
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by rcoder 18y ago
If you haven't done web development with Java/Struts before, you actually may want to reconsider whether taking this project on with a tight deadline is in your best interest. The tool ecosystem is very different for the Java web developer,
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by rcoder 18y ago
That's a pretty astonishingly limiting question, but I would recommend that you go for Java, if you're only going to do one systems language. As a new programmer, (which I assume you must be) the "power user" features of C++ (pointer arithm
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by rcoder 18y ago
My small team (two network people, one sysadmin, two devs, one manager) gets a lot of mileage out of DokuWiki for project and systems documentation. It's fast, has good plug-ins, and stores pages in the filesystem, which we consider a plus
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by rcoder 18y ago
(Note: by "helps" I assume you mean to suggest that grad school should restore the humility that the workforce fails to inspire in programmers. If that's incorrect, then we are in fact 100% in agreement.) Only if you're in the right graduat
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by rcoder 18y ago
Your cover letter is your introductory email. (You're not attaching a PDF or anything, are you?) It should be conversational, well-edited, and concise, but should give the reader some reason to continue on to the resume. As for when to st
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by rcoder 18y ago
Actually, at any given time, a large number of the "hardware" operations being passed to a modern CPU are actually being "interpreted" using the microcode implemented on the CPU itself. Even in the case of instructions which do map direct
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by rcoder 18y ago
> Are they coding to a spec? If you're outsourcing you better be or you're just asking for trouble. I see these two as quite distinct. Coding to a spec, even at the level of BDD, simply means making your implementation conform to some a
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by rcoder 18y ago
> For me though, the biggest surprise of the keynote is that only 4000 developers are out there. You mean, only 4000 developers were approved by Apple. Over 250K downloads of the SDK and 25K developer key registrations says to me that
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by rcoder 18y ago
Vim is massively useful for one simple reason: remote editing. I use BBEdit and Emacs for local files, but when I need to SSH into a remote server, there's nothing quite as fast and easy as firing up Vim to edit a config file.
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by rcoder 18y ago
I'm less concerned with cramming as many users onto a single box as possible than I am with insuring a high quality of service for each active user. If you have 5000 concurrent sessions in a single OS-level process, you better have some pre
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by rcoder 18y ago
Forive the reductio ad absurdum, but it seems that by your argument, we'd all be better off simply implementing our webapps within the init daemon, and handling all scheduling and resource-protection within our application logic. Personally
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by rcoder 18y ago
> Why wouldn't you be able to virtually always do a better job of scheduling events (when you control all the code competing for resources) than a generic OS scheduler? Simply put, I would say that "you" (where "you" is an average webap

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