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shared by Fabien Cadet on 04 Apr 10 - Cached

...30% of all software projects are canceled, nearly half come in over budget, 60% are considered failures by the organizations that initiated them, and 9 out of 10 come in late.
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Unfortunately, midcourse design changes happen in software all the time
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In fact, the agile software development method is a direct response to ever-changing design requirements.
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Still, constant changes to the design hamper development efforts and developers must constantly refactor software to prevent it from becoming a tangled, unmaintainable mess.
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If you look at software today, through the lens of the history of engineering, it's certainly engineering of a sort--but it's the kind of engineering that people without the concept of the arch did. Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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shared by Matteo Spreafico on 14 Oct 09 - Cached

Standard fare for most dynamic data and the way most everybody would tell you to do it. Only thing is that it scales like a dog.
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The thing is that holding all the weather of the entire globe in memory, well, takes a lot of memory. More than is reasonable. In which case, there’s a fairly decent chance that a given request can’t be served from the cache, resulting in a query to the database, an update to the cache, which bumps out something else, in short, not a very good hit rate.
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If we were able to make our clients in London perform an HTTP GET on http://weather.myclient.com/UK/London then we could return headers in the HTTP response telling the intermediaries that they can cache the response for an hour, or however long we want.
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Instead of getting hammered by millions of requests a day, the internet would shoulder easily 90% of that load making it much easier to scale. Thanks Al.
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shared by Fabien Cadet on 09 Nov 09 - Cached

"&nbsp;" "&#160;" and "\u00A0" have nothing, NOTHING to do with UTF-8.
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There is a character -- an abstract unit in a "script" (a writing system; we are using Latin right now) -- called NO-BREAK SPACE by the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646. Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 assign this character an integer number, 160, which is A0 in hex.
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UTF-8 is an encoding scheme that provides a way of representing any of the approximately 1.1 million possible abstract characters in Unicode as a sequence of 1 to 4 bytes.
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The UTF-8 representation of the Unicode character 160 (no-break space), is the pair of bytes C2 A0, in that order.
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This thing: \u00A0
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the no-break space character
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This thing: &#160; or this thing: &#xA0;
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is to SGML applications like HTML and XML what \u00A0 is to Java & Python;
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is called a character reference (or "numeric character reference").
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This thing: &nbsp;
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is to SGML applications like HTML and XML an "entity reference";
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