sigstop

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by sigstop 14y ago
You seem to be consistently confusing Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers.
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by sigstop 15y ago
What I find more disturbing is the influx of Microsoft friendly commenters. Articles on various MS products are frequent and receive a lot of praise. Articles that point out how MS is crippling innovation through extortion of Linux users r
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by sigstop 15y ago
Why desperate? This is a valid way of advertising a product.
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by sigstop 15y ago
Didn't work for me (Ubuntu).
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by sigstop 15y ago
In fact it seems that it's impossible to install by clicking on the link "One moment, please, while the current Silverlight installation status is determined... Microsoft Silverlight may not be supported on your computer's hardware or opera
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by sigstop 15y ago
Most of my peers in school used the same "compile, debug" approach as well. Most of them are still doing it and I can't see any serious software company ever hiring them (there is no shortage of positions for mediocre programmers though, s
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by sigstop 15y ago
Heh, yeah, that approach sounds pretty terrible to deal with. What I do is extensive unit tests and useful logging. Unit tests catch most of the stupid stuff and plenty of the sophisticated stuff (and are a useful thing to have for a lot
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by sigstop 15y ago
I'm glad the tools you use work well for you. I have coworkers who use Eclipse (for Java). It's a CPU hog; often it locks up entirely, crashes are infrequent but, happen. I've tried it; I know I'm much faster with vim. For me, my time is
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by sigstop 15y ago
The debugger is a big one. I had a terrible habit of not thinking through the code but just running through the debugger until I got it working. Not thinking about how code looks (especially to other people) since I could just resize the w
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by sigstop 15y ago
I'm sure this was meant as a joke, but, the downmods still make me sad. I used VS for some classes in school and at my first job and it made me a worse programmer. It took years to undo the damage. In my opinion, as a developer, and in m
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by sigstop 15y ago
I remember attending a presentation by Elon Musk on SpaceX a few years back (late 2007, I believe). At that point, SpaceX's future was very uncertain with their two launches failing. I recall him describing the Proton as the most reliable