Bjoern

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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   I think that from "I spent about a decade on the C committee—and [2] unlike Schildt, I actually showed up [..]" we can assume that he has some kind of history with the person in question [1]. Peter seems also to get quite some share of hate
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   The output depends if you want to use e.g. w3m, lynx, firefox, etc. etc.
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   I found this article interesting to explain a bit more [1]. Then I was still not happy and tried it myself. Basically it is a tool that lets you choose what frontend you want to use e.g. w3m, lynx, firefox etc. and gives you shortcuts to ce
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   There is a easy rule of thumb. Make a backup of your important stuff often and regularly no matter how many redundancies are in place (see Murphy's law). Right now? Yes, like really right now if you didn't. EDIT: Spelling
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   Thank you for pointing that out to me. I think my opinion of BBC was too high. Have to be more careful.
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   The infinity is a fascinating concept, but be careful it can drive you insane and into madness [1]. At least that happend to Georg Cantor and Kurt Goedel and some other famous minds. [1] See "BBC: Dangerous Knowledge" e.g. http://www.abdn.
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   This made my day. :D Sorry this was too funny had to paste my favorite: 1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be c
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   I agree the bureaucracy overhead is significant. They love paperwork here.
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   by Bjoern 16y ago

   I live in japan now since a couple of years and can agree with the article to some extent but get the impression that this is not the full picture and there is a lot missing. Recently, I also attended a presentation from a "The Economist In
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    by Bjoern 16y ago

    Rabble. Not even funny. The first language learning question is a though one. (1) Probably the best would be anything which goes out of your way to concentrate on the important concepts behind it. (2) It depends on the way you want to teach
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    by Bjoern 16y ago

    Interesting thought. I suppose if computers were originating from China that would probably be the case. I doubt though that if they wanted to sell it to some other countries, the buyers, e.g. US, Europe consumers etc. would accept that inc
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    by Bjoern 16y ago

    There are more comments in this thread (dupe): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1324229
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    by Bjoern 16y ago

    While I appreciate change and improvements, I just wonder if this is really a good idea. Websites are language specific but URLs were forced to a limited character set. This was making it at least easy for everybody to type it. No matter if
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    by Bjoern 16y ago

    Open the page in print preview mode, all the content will be without annoying pagingation and ads. e.g. Firefox: File > Print Preview
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    I can understand your point, but I came to the conclusion (after 20+ languages) that thinking in just one language can be quite harmful to find a good solution for a problem. Actually PG puts it really nicely [1]: "The right way to solve th
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    While I appreciate the idea and criticisms of the post, I dislike the strong wording of this rant. I think that designing a language that can solve all possible problems is beside the point. A language is a tool and used for different tasks
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    This article gives more context and seem an more interesting read: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36476183/ns/technology_and_scien... While Armstrong is on one side, Aldrin is on the other: On the other side of the debate, the most outspoken
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    You could always use it to upgrade your car. Getting a large display for e.g. movies, navigation etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnIXfoSU6I
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    This makes absolutely no sense. Why try to fix something which is clearly not broken? EDIT: Spelling
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    Difficult question. I know that Matlab has some very strong Machine Learning libraries which make it extremely convenient to experiment. As much as I like GNU R and FOSS in this case I would say Matlab has the upper hand. For one it has a h
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    Absolutely as soon as you start working with other people you will need this knowledge. I wouldn't learn SVN because you can interact with SVN via Git. (git-svn). To get startet: Git on Windows, how to install and use it (or see below for T
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    What a pity, I'd like to have a way to store just a encrypted backup directly (via ssh) instead of installing a app which crawls my system. Oh did I mention I use Linux? sign Does somebody know any other company which provides this soluti
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    In the comments the question "why" pops up quite a few times, here is my try on it. 1.) It's a cool hack (if you like C++) 2.) It's pretty useful if you develop for an embedded environment (embedded webservers etc.) and need to avoid GPL'd
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    http://youtube.com/edu is also good. Only videos though, sometimes a link to additional material. More courses (mostly European) http://videolectures.net/ A simple search page: http://ocwfinder.com/ EDIT: Another link added.
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    It's a Siggraph paper from 2007 (PDF, ~6MB) http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/Siggraph07-van_de... Google Tech Talk about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEM-XAeY4K0 Reference: http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    Erlang is cool. I agree, but what about Haskell? It scales very well too ! (provoking a discussion) Oh and btw. the article is pretty content less at least if you know Erlang a bit.
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    I wonder why such a simple topic is in the top ten of HN? Is that stuff not more or less obvious? I mean for people working with Ruby?
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    What do you mean? That the device will make you sick or somebody else will beat you up?
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    by Bjoern 17y ago

    I can understand that a company, here Apple, will try by lawyers and other means to silence things but in the long run this is really bad and damaging to the image of a company. I wonder why they didn't choose to just handle the matter grac