Hexstream

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by Hexstream 16y ago
From the article: "I did this because I hate uppercase characters in the middle of identifiers and I'm too lazy to type shift to get the '_'. In addition, I find it more readable." just-use-lisp-style-identifiers-then
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"But don't forget that *.0s have a clear marketing value." If everyone starts doing "version marketing", this marketing value will likely eventually erode.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I never understood this sort of overblown digital hoarding attitude. Can you shed some light?
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by Hexstream 16y ago
What if he actually is the smartest person in the room? Maybe even by far? On the other hand, if you have that kind of attitude it will probably be mutually beneficial if you stay the hell away from him so it's a good strategy.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Uh?? I thought they gave you a sample chapter so that you can see if the book interests you, not so that you'll feel obliged to buy the whole book to return this "favor".
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Uh? What am I missing? "Because-it-is-there." The 's counts as one word, no? At least that's what I was always told.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
How about at humility?
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Wouldn't that be 4?
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by Hexstream 16y ago
My personal highlights (I'm a DSL fanatic): "We all know that the only mental tool by means of which a very finite piece of reasoning can cover a myriad cases is called "abstraction"; as a result the effective exploitation of his powers of
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by Hexstream 16y ago
(disclaimer: I'm a bit of an ambitious guy and I probably won't achieve even a "sizeable" portion of this, but I will try) Make my own versions of these pieces of infrastructure in one or more variants of Lisp, using various novel approache
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Try to beat this one: I spent 4 months , full-time (I think I was a bit depressive and unproductive, though (that might have to do with the difficulty of the problem a bit)) to make a goddamn "error message merging" system where you spec
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"But as the years passed and hardware became faster the relative slowness of dynamic languages became less relevant, while their advantages in programmer productivity became much more relevant." Let's not discount the fundamental advances t
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by Hexstream 16y ago
For one thing, having a crappy useless domain with ads should count as less "usage" than having just a page indicating that some project is being developed, without ads.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Hum. Do you always check a user's profile before downvoting if you don't remember seeing him before? I can't imagine myself doing that. Or are you using some sort of plugin that gives you more info inline?
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by Hexstream 16y ago
What about: let Java die and let something better take its place?... But it's true I live in an alternate reality.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Are you telling me I can finally have a Lean Startup AND save $1031 by encumbering myself with all these things I probably don't need by spending $42?! Sign me up! (Hum. So I'm a bit of a "savings" cynic.)
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by Hexstream 16y ago
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by Hexstream 16y ago
What a brain-damaged article. Seriously, what's next?! "If you have a good life, commit suicide. If you have a great wife, leave her. If you have kids, leave them and never return. If your company starts making a profit, sell it at a loss.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"Except there is. When you do "git -p file" (which I do a lot and would not have switched without this capability) you are put into a graphical editor to pick which parts of the hunk to commit." Not if $DISPLAY is cleared ;P
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I cannot fathom why merely moving the mouse over a simple text-based webpage shall peg my CPU to 100%.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
You can just let users initiate a request with their login name, no?
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Also called "strategic incompetence".
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by Hexstream 16y ago
gitref.org makes it really easy to understand and use git, at least it did for me. No graphical tools required.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"There are plenty of programmers that have never held a soldering iron either." But those might not be designing hardware either...
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by Hexstream 16y ago
tptacek is a recognized world-class computer security expert. He knows his stuff. Watch your tone. Mindlessly contradicting him in his field of expertise is not advisable.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
And you did...
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by Hexstream 16y ago
But it seems he was corrupt even before he attained much power...
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I thought this was hilarous: > No, seriously. Take command line parsing. You want common syntax for options, right? And you want some of them to accept values, right? And those values can be strings, and booleans, and integers, right? A
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Redundancy vs dependencies: which is worse?(yosefk.com)
3 points by Hexstream 16y ago|1 comments
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I can only guess $120k is less than pocket-change for an operation like this.

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