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One Small, Arbitrary Change and It’s a Whole New World

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 18, 2012

I want to take one item from Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory and run with it: optimizing the number of disk sector writes. This isn’t based on performance issues or the limited number of write cycles for solid-state drives. It’s an arbitrary thought…

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App Store Failure and Personal Responsibility

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 11, 2012

“I wrote an iPhone app, and it didn’t make any money” is a growing literary genre, and I sympathize with the authors. I really do. Building any kind of non-trivial, commercial application takes an immense amount of work that combines coding, writing, interaction design, and…

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Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - July 12, 2012

Whittling down a function to accomplish the same result with fewer instructions is, unfortunately, fun. It’s a mind teaser in the same way that crossword puzzles and Sudoku are. Yet it’s a waste of time to finely hone a C++ routine that would be more…

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I Am Not a Corporation

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - July 03, 2012

In 2009, when I exclusively used a fancy Nikon DSLR, my photographic work flow was this: take pictures during the day, transfer them to a PC in the evening, fiddle with the raw version of each shot in an image editor, save out a full-res…

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Where’s my cheese

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - June 26, 2012

Imperative programming is pretty difficult. The main problem is that once you’ve put something somewhere you expect to find it where you put it. “Hej, who moved my cheese?” you’re thinking. If you put a chunk of cheeses in the fridge, its nice if you…

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What happened to my quotes?

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - June 26, 2012

How come Google and blogger.com can’t get quote marks right? In English we use “ for a start quote mark and ” for a ending quotes. But all Google’s editors insert a ” quote when you type the quote symbol. What ever happened to typography?

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I recover my blog

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - June 26, 2012

I managed to get my blog back. Admittedly it’s not the original format but at least I can view all the old content. The problem appears to be in the templates. I tried using one of Goggles “Dynamic Views” but these just made my blog…

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Reminder: Couchbase Community Summer BBQ

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - June 26, 2012

We’re celebrating summer by throwing a huge outdoor BBQ bash at our Mountain View office. Wednesday, June 27, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PT) Mountain View, CA HQ Please RSVP

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Sorry about the blog

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - June 21, 2012

This blog is now totally fucked up. If you click on any of the old articles all you’ll see is the beginning. All comments seem to be broken as well. I changed to the new templates. Result - a mess. Can I revert to the…

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Why Database Technology Matters

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - June 21, 2012

Sometimes I get so down in the weeds of database technology, I forget why I think databases are so fascinating to me, why I found them so important to begin with. ACID. Latency, bandwidth, durability, performance, scalability, Bits and bytes. Virtual this, cloud that. Blah…

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