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You wont go wrong with either. Javascript is good for in web pages verses python being the server side to produce dynamic pages. You'll find you probably use both in a web project …

Right now no one knows when the release will be. What we have here is a limited beta release to 10,000 people or so, not the actual product launch. That will be coming at an unknow…

Education might be the stated aim of the project but its not the limit of the device. This is a device similar to an Arduino except for the fact its got HDMI, USB, is about 700 tim…

They ignored a lot of experienced advice given to them freely to get to this point. Its a shame really as this could have been a magically moment where they shifted a million devic…

Or it could tarnish their reputation and kill the whole product. Lets hope the engineering of the actual product is a little better than the sales process. But I still think its ki…

The one thing you can say about incompetence is that its ignorant of its own condition. This does not bode well to the quality of the product itself, the lack of basic skills and f…

One intel X25-M 80GB SSD. According to the SMART information 10% of its write life has been used over 1.5 years. Still going strong in a work machine used day to day. Two OCZ Verte…

Developers do a lot of 4KB operations. Source files tend to be small as do database updates. The current market leader in this is the OCZ Vertex 3, a considerably faster drive than…

One of the reasons software gets released in scripts rather than packages is because the root package installation mechanism is root accessible only. Most companies restrict root a…

In industry you often get to set the estimates yourself. Missing the deadline has less severe consequences because its unlikely you'll get fired for missing the deadline by a day. …

The modern IDE is chock full of features. So many that many less common edits are automated if you know the right keystrokes. It takes years to master all of the features and those…

A checklist that gets checked automatically. Once you have good coverage of your code base you can make large changes, run the tests and be confident the system still works without…

Personally I use a triplet of tests. 1) The first test I right is a functional end to end test that assumes the application is deployed and running with all configuration in place.…

I refactor at one of two times. Its either after I get my unit test working or its a change to the structure of some code so I can add a feature. So its an activity I am constantly…

The massive difference in random access speeds in comparison to sequential speeds is the thing that changed in the last 15 years. The gap between memory clock speed and CPU clock s…

Ring Intel's CEO. You have the means to give him optimal layout for his CPUs saving them both massive amounts of time and more importantly space on CPUs. If you like you can also a…

As a real programmer I cringe at the Polymorphism example, only because I see the point of objects is to encapsulate data with the associated methods and this breaks all of that. I…

I installed lots of disks in Raid 5 into my spare machine, stuck it in a cupboard and use it as a file/backup and UPNP server. All my other machines use the drives on their for sto…