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enterxon Ask HN: As a junior developer, how do I learn to better architect software?

1. See how others have solved the problem. 2. sketch, sketch, sketch - it easier to throw the paper then to rewrite the system.

enterxon Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?

check the following *nix utilities:

ssh one box to another, then:

who -uT // show who is connected to a machine and will they recieve message sent with write or wall command

write // sends a message to another user (tty). dont do this as it can confuse the other user by inserting the message in the middle of his current output.

wall //send a msg to all of the logged in users

talk & talkd // client and server. (old school rulz!)

enterxon When you wish upon a star: nuclear fusion and the promise of a brighter tomorrow

Thumbs up for the article! We should talk more about this topic and less about some 2 year projects.

Take for example Google Maps project... it sure made a huge impact of the geographic mobility of humans but IMHO even today is questionable does it even match the impact that SABRE made. :)

enterxon What should I do about YouTube?

...fuck YouTube? :D

EDIT: no. install an email server. start opening accounts. collect the captchas. outsource. :)

enterxon Yahoo webmail sucks

The point is in the amount of users (~400M) that use it and the developers that make it. Yahoo's webmail isn't really a rocket science and any decent developer could make it work at least. The point is in the company that doesn't care.

enterxon “Seeking 100K but I'm negotiable”

I expect to be paid by the ratio of profit and my contribution to a realization of it.

Working on what exactly? I ain't gonna invest my time, work and good will working for peanuts on some dead end shitty project.

The amount starts at X just for joining your company and is NEGOTIABLE upwards regarding duties, projects and technologies that I'll be working with/on.

Every programmer can be an entrepreneur - not every entrepreneur can be a programmer.

enterxon Courage to change things

Smart move but don't ever stop. I've found that by making just a little incremental design fixes gets paid in a long run.

It takes a tremendous courage to ignite the process of refactoring and wimps in the end pay the price.

When the system gets messy it really does slows the development of new features and even fixing a small bug requires a vast amount of time and labor. Not to mention a stress it introduces to the developers who in the end - leave the company.

enterxon Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

> Pick better things to learn

Awesome advice.

enterxon Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

It's simple... for any software you run into ask yourself:

How can it work? How does it work? How it should work?

And the most important thing:

Avoid involving yourself into code that is a mess before knowing how it should be written in the first place.

Also, if you're into OOP, think about access modifiers as:

private - if it's called from somewhere it has to be only in this class... (or im gonna slap someone!)

protected - only this class and its child classes...

public - does this really has to be part of an interface?

Once you start thinking this way you know you're on the right track.

...and read a lot. :)

enterxon How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution

I think I've got it.

The main thing here to notice is that this is a strategy and not a solution.

If the best options is in the first 1/e * n of group elements of the group you will end up with the last interviewee as the one to choose.

But if you use this strategy many times over max permutations of the group it WILL give you the best output in general.

btw i would like to thank the author for posting this.

enterxon A Year Later, Most Americans Think Snowden Did The Right Thing

All that this Snowman did is that he confirmed that the API's really exist and that there were requests for weakening of the security protocols.

All in all, direct data access thru API's isn't a bad thing in general because it provides a fast response option but also we should have in mind the human factor error option and the misuse of the API's for the sake of personal interest and that should really make any citizen worried.

Did he endangered the security of the USA ? No. We all had assumptions about it before but they weren't yet confirmed.

Did the weakening of the security protocols endangered the USA/World economy and the security of the USA/World citizens? Absolutely YES. Anyone could reverse-engineer the weakened protocol.

All in all:

Did he did the right thing regarding his employer? No.

Did he did the right thing regarding the rest of us? Yes.

enterxon Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently?

Suggestion : Invert the order. :)

Read Refactoring first than read Design Patterns(GoF).

enterxon Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently?

Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman - Dave Hoover , Adewale Oshineye

enterxon Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

...to be. taxed. :o

enterxon Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

/me thinks its about time for these digital rights fucks to taxed for exploiting our common good

enterxon Saving the Feynman van

Whats written on the stickers?

... or bust?

enterxon 2048, success and me

The whole 2^11 movement is fascinating.

There is a chance for world peace. ;)

enterxon I don't love the single responsibility principle

How else would you add N new persistence options to your class that implements persistance & data model?

enterxon Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

HHVM is a reimplementation of the PHP language.

http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-internals/12bvegp9cv/hhvm-and-...

enterxon Beej's Guide to Network Programming

It pops out every once in awhile.

Two months ago I've used sockets. ...again! :D

enterxon Write Code Every Day

True.

The statement "Practice makes perfect." is false if you don't invest time in reading, thinking, doing retrospectives of your work. The 50/50 ratio seems fair enough.

enterxon Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That

Throw that InvalidOperationException again and I'll make your life exceptional once more. extremely. XD

enterxon Ask HN: What is the difference between a junior and senior developer?

a senior knows why.

enterxon MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code

Reviewing the comments made regarding this and other "Stackoverflow is down" kinda threads I start to wonder... are there so many so-called developers that just copy-paste 9-5?

enterxon Stack Overflow is down

...and i've just collect my first +15 this week. Great. :)

Doesnt work in Europe either.

enterxon Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet

pointsIterator++;

Works on Iceweasel 17.0.10.

enterxon Ask HN: How is knowledge stored within your company?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software#Enterprise_wikis

What I've seen across companies, it's usually some kind of wiki engine used for internal knowledge sharing.

The tool should support simple integration of media content(drag&drop), rich text format editor, real time document editing with text/video/audio communication support, document version control, workflow, elastic search.

enterxon Ask HN: Have you had any success with African developers?

Heeeey, isn't this a racism? :)

Make a list of 50 companies in your area of interest and just prove that you're better then 90-95% of their developers.

Thats how you get the job. Period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRHkAccUyqM

enterxon 404 - File not found

"Maybe I could interest you in another page? There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say, although none of them were put on my server, of course."

Marvin lives!

enterxon News is bad for you

I generally avoid personalization of the internet but there should be a service that informs the individual.

It should be a kind of alarm system with editable preferences like topics of interest also location based warnings with ranking of information importance consisted of social component plus importance rating given from information provider.

However, these days news are bad all over the world so not reading them will truly make you happy. :)