binaryfinery

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

FTA: "both are designed with runtime compilation in mind"

vs

"and interpreted, for maximum portability and dynamic capabilities."

from Design Goals for the Java Programming Language

http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Intro.doc2.html

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Basically how I got a First from Imperial. Have fun 9 months of the year. Last three months before exams, get all the problems, tests and exams available and answer them all.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Georges response should have been "i quit. now, what will you pay for an experienced lead developer who also happens to know your current system inside and out. Because i've recently become available."

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Here's what I know, having done a year of biochem at imperial college before switching to physics: Fluoride is incredibly reactive. Its more reactive than chlorine. It will happily mess you your dna, or anything else organic it comes into contact with.

Here's what I know by deduction: The argument for putting it in drinking water is that the fluoride gets into our teeth, as children, during growth, via our blood. Childrens' toothpaste doesn't contain fluoride. If it can get into our teeth through our blood, then logically it can get into our bones through our blood. Is this good or bad? Are bones designed to be hard, like teeth? If you were an industrial designer, would you give bones the same structural qualities as teeth? Clearly not. Bones would have a certain amount of flex. Fluoride removes that flex.

Here's what I know about freedom: if you want fluoride in your water, add it yourself. Dont force me to drink it.

Here's what I know about money: Fluroide. Who benefits?

1. Companies that produce fluoride as toxic waste. Its still classified as toxic waste. But now they can sell it to put in drinking water. (WTF?)

2. Coca-cola wants to sell me bottled water. Its fluoride free, funnily enough. Why is that then? Why is it legal to charge me for fluoride free water?

When I am forced to pay, through taxes, my water comes with fluoride.

When I have the choice to pay, for bottled water, my water comes without fluoride.

That should tell you all you need to know.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Also new from BAE Systems, a new range of sunglasses, specifically for shielding against green light of a certain frequency. Available now through our African subsidiaries!

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Are you saying we should put plutonium in the drinking water then?

Or are you saying that, like "body radiation", fluoride should be prescribed by doctors after extensive testing the the FDA?

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

You don't have to have ID either. But if you get into a bar, and the bar didn't card you, then the bar owner can go to jail. This is the law.

1. Create national ID: its optional. Yay freedom!

2. Pass law stating that if a national ID is not used as verification by a private entity, then said entity faces criminal charges, or its management is liable to its shareholders etc. Oh.

Get a fucking clue. This is a national ID.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

I'm just staggered that this article doesn't even mention the most destructive personality at a company: the status-quo politician. This person absolutely has an agenda other than improving the company: personal comfort and status.

So I find Horowitz's description of the Heretic somewhat ironic:

However, sometimes really smart employees develop agendas other than improving the company...

The young heretic might be guilty of this: Specifically, he builds his case that the company is hopeless and run by a bunch of morons. The young heretic has yet to learn that a company has three types:

  1. The Status-Quo Politician. 1%
  2. The Enablers 98%
  3. The Heretics 1%

The Enablers can be further divided:

  a) Those who are naive or don't understand psychological abuse
  b) Those who do and don't care.

My advice to young heretics: identify the status-quo politicians and discuss with CEO. If the CEO doesn't see it, perhaps be cause he's non-technical, leave. Your company is going down the toilet.

Also note that there are plenty of politicians who are also interested in making a ton of money by making the company great.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

/world runs out to buy kinect just to be able to participate in class action suit.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

You need more CPUs then :-)

Also, there really is a difference between SSDs available right now. My Kingston SSDs have blocksizes of 120k (!). My OCZ Vertex2 has blocksize of 4k. Its 4k write speed is off the chart. Like 40x faster than some SSDs.

I'm on OSX (2 cores), Windows (8 cores) and CentOS (4 cores).

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Solid State Discs in everything.

Ok, perhaps not what you were asking, but they made a big difference for me. I have two, raid0 in my desktop, and a sandforce in my MBP. What a difference. Compiling, linking, copying, everything not just faster, but almost instantaneous. Yum.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Absolutely:

http://blog.binaryfinery.com/monotouch-qa

This is written for potential clients, rather than hackers, but I do go a bit deeper into why ObjectiveC sucks near the bottom.

Basically, use good tools. What hacker would create a website without analytics these days? Yet Apple wants us to settle for an editor that is dumb as bricks, when tools like Resharper or Eclipse that can not only analyze our code but refactor it automatically. XCode has 6 refactorings, and all of them will fail to do what you want, or just flat out refuse. Resharper has, I think, 120?

Resharper analyzes my code as I type. I develop iPhone apps on my PC in C# and even before I compile it on the Mac, I know its going to compile because Resharper has been analyzing it the whole time.

There are basically two problems with XCode and Objc and neither of them are solvable:

1) Writing tools for languages that have header files that can be included multiple times, and which require a class to be declared all over the place, is hard.

2) There's a shit load more developers for java, C, C++ and C# than there are for Objective-C. This may change, enough to incentivize groups (companies/oss) to write better tools, but they'll still be years behind groups like jetbrains or eclipse.

Now, C and C++ may be 20+ years old, but they've been in constant use and development that whole time, and by a majority of programmers. Yet even these languages have poor tools (the whole header issue). Objective-C is 20 years old, but with, what, a 15 year hiatus.

So the solution is to say "Why the fuck am I using a 20 year old language that lacks 20 years of tool development" and move on to something thats either a) newer or b) well established. I recommend MonoTouch.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Oh, yeah, of course. You ARE going to need it. You're different. Mod me down for my lack of understanding how awesome you are.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

"Mac iOS dev tools are beautiful and extremely slick"

And yet have features found in SlickEdit circa 1992.

Twenty fucking years later I'd expect my IDE to a bit smarter. It might look beautiful (to you) but its brain dead.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

The problem Feathers describes has a simple cause: the classes in java, C# etc are a premature optimization. The rewrite described, in my experience, is caused because having to reclassify everything is annoying and error prone when:

a) classes are part of the language and,

b) classes are defined by a stream of characters in a flat file on a disc

C++ makes it even more difficult to automate the redoing of classification by requiring that the definition of a class is stored in multiple such files.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

YAGNI.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Whats the start-up time? i.e. when google spins up a new instance to handle traffic, how quickly can it come up?

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

That's why I use google appengine. It would have handled what you describe without even going over the daily free limit. Of course, you wouldn't be cool as rails.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

As you read these wonderful theories, remember that economist who was chosen as the best economist to run the US Federal Reserve said in 2005 that "now is the best time to get an ARM".

These genius suggested buying a house on an adjustable rate mortgage, at the peak of the market, when interest rates were the lowest they'd ever been. Bravo. Apparently, even the best economist in the USA is unable to see a bubble when its staring him in the face.

Fuck economists and their religion. Welcome to HN: where people have brains, can do math, and critical thinking.

binaryfinery

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Nice, neat, simple equations and math, at the Macro level.

To put this in hacker terms, these simple rules are about as simple as the http protocol. Now imagine the software that implements this simple protocol. Think of all the different ways to exploit it. Now imagine all the complex systems that can be created using these simple rules. Now add hackers, DDOS, government censorship, wikileaks, peering disputes, etc.

Economists would have us believe that these simple rules are "how it is". Now imagine the millions of people it takes to actually implement these simple rules. Imagine what it takes to actually make wine in Portugal. Now add that these people want pensions. Now include that these simple rules assume currency equivalence, or something like the gold standard to mediate production disparities. Now add the governments on top of this "protocol".

To believe this "proven economic theory" you have to live in a virtual machine.

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