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It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs
The majority of wealth is now concentrated at the top of the social ladder. This is particularly true in the US, and the gap is widening every year. This, I believe, is because of efficiency, not China. Today the best ideas can efficiently and quickly propagate worldwide, and everyone can efficiently find them and buy them. This makes the owners of these ideas filthy rich, and those ideas that are not the best, can hardly survive. It’s not just transfer of information that is fast; wealth...
China,Efficiency,Job,Opportunity,Wealth 2011-10-23 11:43:18
A Python Optimization Anecdote
Hi! I’m Pavel and I interned at Dropbox over the past summer. One of my biggest projects during this internship was optimizing Python for dynamic page generation on the website. By the end of the summer, I optimized many of dropbox.com’s pages to render 5 times faster. This came with a fair share of challenges though, which I’d like to write about today:The ProblemDropbox is a large website with lots of dynamically generated pages. The more pages that are dynamically generat...
Python,Anecodate,Optimization,Efficiency 2011-10-25 10:33:20
Why PHP Was a Ghetto
Note: I wrote this over a month ago, but decided not to publish it until now.I was talking with the Co-founder of a pretty cool start-up in DUMBO the other day about why the non-PHP development world generally has such disdain for PHP and the community surrounding it. He brought up an interesting point that stuck with me, largely because I hadn’t heard it before.If you’re unaware of the usual beef most developers have with PHP, it tends to revolve around:Ug...
CSS3 & HTML5 Support in Browsers
Last week we launched FindMeByIP.com, a simple app which reveals your browsers' support for CSS3 and HTML5 features in an easy to read format using Modernizr.We've had a great response and we're going to be implementing some of your feedbackin the near future.UPDATE: Check out our Web Designers' HTML5 & CSS3 ChecklistFor now though I thought people mind find it useful to know the state of support in the current browser market. I've taken all the A-Gra...
CSS,HTML5,Web browser,Support 2011-05-14 11:26:45
The Greatest Hacks of All Time
Reader's advisory: Wired News has been unable to confirm some sources for a number of stories written by this author. If you have any information about sources cited in this article, please send an e-mail to sourceinfo[AT]wired.com. In 1972, John T. Draper discovered he could make free long-distance phone calls using a whistle from a Cap'n Crunch cereal box. The whistle emitted a 2,600-hertz tone that got him into the internal authorization system at the phone company. With another noi...
A list of English abbreviations
When we read emails or short message on our phone, we will often see some words such as FYI or LOL etc. Do you know their meanings, right? But some of the abbreviations we may not know or cannot remember clearly. Here is a list of English abbreviations which may be useful to you in the future when you want to check them. Numbers: &n"sp; 2 = to/too   2B or not 2B = To be or not to be   4 = for   ...
Abbreviation,English,Summary 2012-07-05 23:41:06
10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer – Andrei Alexandrescu
Today we caught up with Andrei Alexandrescu for a “10 Question†interview. He is a Romanian born research engineer at Facebook living in the US, you can contact him on his website erdani.com or @incomputable. We will talk about some of the juicy stuff that going on at Facebook, so let’s get started. Hello Andrei, welcome on Server-Side Magazine. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you? Where and what do you work? Who am I? Ah, the coffee breath of one talki...
C++,Facebook,PHP,Future,Machine learning 2012-02-06 08:08:12
My life as a freelancer
In the summer of 2006 a work buddy, George, has told me that I could make some extra money programming on a site named Rent A Coder. I’ve signed up the same day. After losing some time on a project that never started I lost my interest in “coding for moneyâ€. I almost forgot about RAC.Fast-forward two years, I was a PhD student at a small North American University with a student visa and … nothing else in my pockets. For a few months I was able to make a living from ...
Life,Freelancer,C,Rent a Coder,RAC 2011-11-07 02:53:03
About .NET memory leak--GC,Delegate and weak reference
Memory leak is always a headache for many programmers, the situation is much better now in some languages which have GC mechanism, but still we may face some memory leak issues when we write programs. 1. What is memory leak? Memory leak is not that the memory chip is broken. In short, it's about that the memory requested is not released at the expected time as an expect way. So what is the expected time? This is very important for you to understand memory leak. If the time an object taking the m...
.NET,GC,Reference counting,Mark and sweep,Weak reference 2013-05-25 12:59:09
Java is not the new COBOL
If you Google “Java is the new COBOL†you’ll find a glut of articles proliferating this mantra. I don’t know its origins, however I’m inclined to think it’s mostly repeated (and believed) by the Ruby community. Ruby, from a developer’s perspective is a low-friction language. A developer can just sit down at a text editor and start banging out code without really thinking about such superflous things as types. Java on the other hand, well, you h...
Java,Ruby,Type,COBOL,Comparison 2011-11-10 10:40:56
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