October 2009
2 posts
Honor among developers: self-assessing...
There is a discussion brewing on HN today about measuring programmer productivity. Reg Braithwaite chimes in to ask a very pertinent question:
Programmers talk about productivity all the time. They say they’re more productive with static typing or without it. With Ruby or with Java. … It seems every programmer I meet has strong opinions about when they are more productive and when they...
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Push notifications in the age firewalls
In the world of client-server networking, web browsers are the ultimate clients. They are always sending SYN packets, but never receiving any. They are always establishing outgoing connections, but never get to listen to any ports.
Due to the ubiquity of the web, we have built our networks around the need to browse. Most NATs will not let any incoming connection near the private subnet....