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by 8ren 16y ago
Thanks, but unfortunately I'm in Melbourne (edited to add it). Yeah, I've been doing the trial thing also. Maybe I should keep trying, but some were charging $100-200 for just inspecting.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I've tried 6 dentists recently, 2 were local; 2 were referred by people I knew; 2 were referred by health-care professionals who were trustworthy and gave me truly excellent results in their own field. I'm in Melbourne, Australia, and I ha
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by 8ren 16y ago
How do you make it so neat? As soon as I write an idea, I start to iterate (generalizing, specifizing, implementing, MVP, MVImplementation, niches, copy, trying to find the essence of the idea, and how to express it). I'm not saying my way
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Oracle Stewartship to increase use of Java? [pdf, survey](jaspersoft.com)
2 points by 8ren 16y ago|0 comments
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by 8ren 16y ago
Thanks, sorry I mucked up the link; I should have checked it. I'll resubmit.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I thought this was going to be a joke, and that actually you buy a Sheeva and plug it in at home. I don't think you can yet buy connectivity so cheaply, but if you consider it as a fraction of your existing connection... + electricity cost
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by 8ren 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=324640 - the only hit for that quote. I totally agree, BTW.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I think we all see where Google is headed with this: free self-driving cars in return for advertising, like http://www.kahdo.com.au/kahdo.htm Driver, there's items you like on sale at that store. Driver, I think we should stop and check
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Impact of Removing Registration: 250,000 posts(lukew.com)
53 points by 8ren 16y ago|19 comments
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by 8ren 16y ago
The article's own title is: Gradual Engagement Boosts Twitter Sign-Ups by 29% You're referring to the HN title, which unfortunately has become the focus of discussion here. Gradual engagement is intellectually interesting. eg: - make p
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by 8ren 16y ago
if customers did leave in mass exodus, wouldn't Oracle get the benefit of effectively closing down mySQL, without the adverse publicty, while also increasing revenue? Sounds like win-win (where both wins are for oracle, rather than the conv
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Oracle Stewartship to increase use of Java? [pdf, survey](jaspersoft.com)
2 points by 8ren 16y ago|2 comments
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by 8ren 16y ago
Markets weight features. Sometimes performance is most important, sometimes scalability, adoptability, usability, reliability, cost etc. It can even change over time. This is self-evident, but it's so easy to forget when one is familiar w
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by 8ren 16y ago
Larry Niven said there are two bumps in a writer's career: - In the beginning, a writer should accept all work he can get, because he needs to develop his skills, and any work will do that, regardless of how well paying etc. - But then the
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by 8ren 16y ago
sorry, HN doesn't let me edit the link.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I've just been reading A Deepness in the Sky with its focussed zipheads, who provide human-level automation in the the Slow Zone. Only difference was that that was realtime. What I'm trying to say is that this is creepy .
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Debunking the duct tape programmer(jeffreypalermo.com)
16 points by 8ren 16y ago|19 comments
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The Duct Tape Programmer(joelonsoftware.com)
62 points by 8ren 16y ago|42 comments
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Duct Tape in Space(universetoday.com)
3 points by 8ren 16y ago|0 comments
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by 8ren 16y ago
Please, Fredrik Johansson, can you add some more "Duct Tape Architect" stories? It is a brilliant format, of the sensible, logical everyman developer with whom we can all identify, being shown up by those familiar with the intimate detai
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by 8ren 16y ago
Perhaps his longevity was because because his work made him active physically , just as Leonardo was a sculptor. As a programmer, I try to automate everything; but it can be healthier to do (physical) tasks the long way.
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by 8ren 16y ago
Nethack maybe also too laggy? but MUDs could be great, esp since it has wifi/3G... I guess twitter/SMS also :(
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by 8ren 16y ago
Namespaces, as an abstract idea, are great. But I find XML's version confusing in practice. It's partly the several different ways of configuring defaults (four I think), and partly the syntax. You'd think they'd be as easy as Java: set
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by 8ren 16y ago
If it works for text adventure games, then it will work for the command line, vi and other tools of that era (apart from the missing "ESC" key), with multi- week battery life.
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by 8ren 16y ago
The article's version of events yields a more intuitive narrative flow. > ...the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugbl
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by 8ren 16y ago
This was for fun (as he says.) > Remember: if you really need speed, do not use XML. He defines his own schema language, in XML (not XML Schema), which the parser needs. Nothing wrong with that. You could even transform (some subset o
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by 8ren 16y ago
High technology is a little like some pacific islands, that are formed from magma swelling up from the depths of the earth. At first, they are desolate and empty, but life quickly colonizes them. You can live in paradise, eating the fruit,
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by 8ren 16y ago
It's well-known that Oracle isn't a technology company, but one that uses technology. It's not that their engineers are bad in any way, it's just that that's not a focus of the company as an organization. Instead, technology becomes a backg
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by 8ren 16y ago
Nice observation. The inaccuracy is greatest when masses are near, so absorbing close masses limits how near they can get. When I wrote one of these simulators, I had masses zinging off everywhere when they "collided". Question: does this i
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by 8ren 16y ago
protip: it goes faster if you move your mouse cursor out of the window.

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