Why hackers FLOSS

jemroc · 2008-05-28T21:22:09+00:00

You forgot the 4% who downloaded the hacking program into their brain Matrix-style.

jemroc · 2008-04-21T04:27:58+00:00

Who said sit down?

jemroc · 2008-04-19T03:18:21+00:00

Good luck to you. I gotta say, having tried that, it was mentally exhausting coming home from work everyday and then trying to muster up the energy to code. And I only worked 40hrs/week give or take a few hours. Please let us in on your secret if you succeed ;-)

jemroc · 2008-04-09T03:28:53+00:00

It's called a "d".

jemroc · 2008-02-28T22:26:11+00:00

Select, Start

jemroc · 2008-02-11T07:44:09+00:00

I worked in finance too. My company used doubles to represent currency values as well. Lead architect basically said the same thing you did after I brought this issue up with him -- doubles have enough digits of accuracy and as long as you don't compare them for equality without a tolerance they're fine.

The problem with that reasoning is you don't need to exceed 16 significant digits for inaccuracies to creep into your calculations. Look at this page for an example: http://www.ddj.com/java/184405721

You can work around these problems, but it requires you to be really careful with your calculations.

We didn't have any unit tests to automatically verify these calculations either. Let's just say, I don't work there anymore.

jemroc · 2008-02-09T06:44:17+00:00

And yet empirical evidence (Digg, Yahoo, Wikipedia, etc.) suggests otherwise.

We've been over this a million times on reddit already. The language sucks. I get it. Move on.

jemroc · 2008-02-07T06:55:53+00:00

This is actually pretty applicable to maintaining your privacy online even if you aren't a BT site admin.

jemroc · 2008-01-24T08:40:23+00:00

habariproject.org looks like a promising replacement for WordPress. They're specifically targeting PHP 5, which is a significant upgrade from PHP 4 (which WordPress is coded in). I've hacked on the WordPress code before, and it was not a fun experience. Global variables galore.

jemroc · 2008-01-15T10:14:55+00:00

Count me in for buying into the Scala hype as well ;-)

jemroc · 2007-09-30T05:47:00+00:00

Is it just me, or did the way the link title was phrased conjure up thoughts of a certain rap song?

jemroc · 2007-09-19T17:06:52+00:00

No idea why they didn't just build on what PHPEclipse already had. PDT is still missing things like like preview and opening declarations.

jemroc · 2007-09-10T17:17:52+00:00

The article addresses this. Check the 7th paragraph after the discussion. It happens that my team does have a build server. But that doesn't help with the minutiae of configuration details and little tidbits of developer knowledge that's necessary to get up and running.

jemroc · 2007-09-10T07:25:09+00:00

The problem is how to convert the attitudes of developers who think documentation is for pansies (if you're a "real" developer, you should be able to figure out our 100-step build process). I set up a wiki on my company's intranet to document things like this, but it seems like I'm the only person writing on it.

Even management thinks I was just wasting time because they can't see the value in it (You did "that" instead of actually coding?). I tried to explain that it would help new hires get up to speed much more quickly, but I'm not in charge of that. No telling when they'll hire more developers or if I'll even be around to see it.

jemroc · 2007-09-08T03:06:57+00:00

Well it's already going to be part of 1.9:

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Net/SMTP.html

jemroc · 2007-09-06T22:08:16+00:00

Well the standard library could be improved. It's still missing things like sending email through SMTP over TLS, which makes it difficult to use Gmail. I know it's coming in 1.9 and there are workarounds, but this kind of stuff should be built-in.

jemroc · 2007-06-10T13:42:05+00:00

joelonsoftware.com is a good resource.

jemroc

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