I was very keen on using TDD to lay out the design and technical specification of a solution to be implemented by our team (8 developers total). Unfortunately, because the project has tight deadlines (regulatory…
I think the following separates you from the average games player and makes your story (interesting as it is) out of place: > In the late 1990's I wrote for websites strategies and even won several tournaments and won…
Another fun complication: database stored procedures implemented with non-SQL code. I worked on a project where the client's dedicated SQL ninjas managed to bring the time to process daily extracts from the data…
While I agree that immaculate attention to detail is important in documents you're creating for formal consumption (e.g. CVs/resumes), I don't see how the same extends to emails, websites and READMEs. I'm a native…
> There isn't much in the way of discoverable APIs that adhere to the data model suggestion in the HTTP spec I don't even understand why this needs to be pointed out. If the precise usage of all web APIs could be…
I'm mostly a back-end developer and I don't have much experience with rich front-end interfaces other than my own little side projects and a WPF project from about a year back - however, I do believe the same principles…
The problem is that the types in Javascript + dependency injected AngularJS services are hidden. If you forget that "auth.loggedIn" is a value-type, you might unconsciously assume it's a reference type. This is one…
Is this not a short-sighted view? A middle class salary they can survive on for how long? When that source of income dries up they'll be unable to continue working on their passion without spending time and effort…
"CRI is not a good indicator for use in visual assessment, especially for sources below 5000 kelvin (K)." Bulbs in question are 2700K and 5000K. Does your conclusion still hold? [1]…
Let's dig into these numbers. Assuming the R40m value is correct over 3 years, then: - since there are 248 working days in a South African year on average, the average daily cost ran to ~R53,763 or ~R6,720 per hour - at…
There are plenty of successful founders who didn't quit their jobs immediately to work on their startup. Not everybody has that luxury. Maybe you meant to limit your comment specifically to YC startups?
The StackExchange network does very well without resorting to any of these tactics.
Read his comment again. He's describing the same frustration I and apparently many others have experienced clicking on a link (from a search engine, a blog, etc.) only to hit a wall. At this point I'm not a user of the…
There are other reasons too. Having been there myself, the big one I've seen in myself and with friends in similar situations is that the depressed individual feels worthless and "unfixable" at their core because of…
I was under the impression Zencoder already runs on the AWS infrastructure: * https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/zencoder * http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/zencoder-raises-2m-for-cloud-ba...
Given the small time window for an attack to be viable I have to wonder why a more concise and succinct message wasn't used. It does make me wonder if the bark is bigger than the bite.
The article title claims "comprehensive high-skill immigration reform". As a highly-skilled South African (which, interestingly enough, appears to be where parent ultimately decided to emigrate), the effort, duration…
In the ones where you don't have the flat edges to work from, I found Helvectica is the "bolder" one.
Is this agency you refer to a marketing or design agency? If so, this data point is most likely somewhat deceptive. The core competency of a marketing or design agency is creative work, and naturally you want…
I currently work on a client accounting system at a large bank, and have worked at another large bank previously. While what you described may happen somewhere, the pattern in banking systems that I've seen is pretty…
If you're building a simple system then it probably won't matter what you do. My opinion is it's good practice to follow sound architectural principles and just because your language lets you get away with crazy stuff…
Your "function returning a function" is a closure, and yup the class's instance variables act much like a (mutable) closure here. The clever bit is that the consumer (e.g. a web callback or UI event handler) of…
> I often say if 51% of the population were psycopaths then they would not be psycopaths but normals and the other 49% would be the exceptions and outcasts in many ways. There's good reason to believe that such a…
Design Patterns: 1994 [1] Java: 1995 [2] Scala: 2003 [3] Clojure: 2007 [4] Unless these hypothetical developers of yours are time travellers, your proposed solution wasn't an option for more than half of Java's life.…
Ah cool, I was foozy... Hit me up with an email by picking any word at my username .org :)
I was very keen on using TDD to lay out the design and technical specification of a solution to be implemented by our team (8 developers total). Unfortunately, because the project has tight deadlines (regulatory…
I think the following separates you from the average games player and makes your story (interesting as it is) out of place: > In the late 1990's I wrote for websites strategies and even won several tournaments and won…
Another fun complication: database stored procedures implemented with non-SQL code. I worked on a project where the client's dedicated SQL ninjas managed to bring the time to process daily extracts from the data…
While I agree that immaculate attention to detail is important in documents you're creating for formal consumption (e.g. CVs/resumes), I don't see how the same extends to emails, websites and READMEs. I'm a native…
> There isn't much in the way of discoverable APIs that adhere to the data model suggestion in the HTTP spec I don't even understand why this needs to be pointed out. If the precise usage of all web APIs could be…
I'm mostly a back-end developer and I don't have much experience with rich front-end interfaces other than my own little side projects and a WPF project from about a year back - however, I do believe the same principles…
The problem is that the types in Javascript + dependency injected AngularJS services are hidden. If you forget that "auth.loggedIn" is a value-type, you might unconsciously assume it's a reference type. This is one…
Is this not a short-sighted view? A middle class salary they can survive on for how long? When that source of income dries up they'll be unable to continue working on their passion without spending time and effort…
"CRI is not a good indicator for use in visual assessment, especially for sources below 5000 kelvin (K)." Bulbs in question are 2700K and 5000K. Does your conclusion still hold? [1]…
Let's dig into these numbers. Assuming the R40m value is correct over 3 years, then: - since there are 248 working days in a South African year on average, the average daily cost ran to ~R53,763 or ~R6,720 per hour - at…
There are plenty of successful founders who didn't quit their jobs immediately to work on their startup. Not everybody has that luxury. Maybe you meant to limit your comment specifically to YC startups?
The StackExchange network does very well without resorting to any of these tactics.
Read his comment again. He's describing the same frustration I and apparently many others have experienced clicking on a link (from a search engine, a blog, etc.) only to hit a wall. At this point I'm not a user of the…
There are other reasons too. Having been there myself, the big one I've seen in myself and with friends in similar situations is that the depressed individual feels worthless and "unfixable" at their core because of…
I was under the impression Zencoder already runs on the AWS infrastructure: * https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/zencoder * http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/zencoder-raises-2m-for-cloud-ba...
Given the small time window for an attack to be viable I have to wonder why a more concise and succinct message wasn't used. It does make me wonder if the bark is bigger than the bite.
The article title claims "comprehensive high-skill immigration reform". As a highly-skilled South African (which, interestingly enough, appears to be where parent ultimately decided to emigrate), the effort, duration…
In the ones where you don't have the flat edges to work from, I found Helvectica is the "bolder" one.
Is this agency you refer to a marketing or design agency? If so, this data point is most likely somewhat deceptive. The core competency of a marketing or design agency is creative work, and naturally you want…
I currently work on a client accounting system at a large bank, and have worked at another large bank previously. While what you described may happen somewhere, the pattern in banking systems that I've seen is pretty…
If you're building a simple system then it probably won't matter what you do. My opinion is it's good practice to follow sound architectural principles and just because your language lets you get away with crazy stuff…
Your "function returning a function" is a closure, and yup the class's instance variables act much like a (mutable) closure here. The clever bit is that the consumer (e.g. a web callback or UI event handler) of…
> I often say if 51% of the population were psycopaths then they would not be psycopaths but normals and the other 49% would be the exceptions and outcasts in many ways. There's good reason to believe that such a…
Design Patterns: 1994 [1] Java: 1995 [2] Scala: 2003 [3] Clojure: 2007 [4] Unless these hypothetical developers of yours are time travellers, your proposed solution wasn't an option for more than half of Java's life.…
Ah cool, I was foozy... Hit me up with an email by picking any word at my username .org :)