Hexstream

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91.
by Hexstream 16y ago
There's a name for that: Unwarranted Self-Importance.
92.
by Hexstream 16y ago
"Use the manuals from your TV, microwave, vacuum cleaner, and so on that have the instructions printed in English, French, and Spanish to relate the two "dead" languages to a language you understand (English). The idea is that these manuals
93.
by Hexstream 16y ago
What, he's not the one snatching nickels in front of an oncoming bulldozer. ;P
94.
by Hexstream 16y ago
I wonder if the whole would make sense or just be a big haphazard mess with only local coherence?...
95.
by Hexstream 16y ago
I really don't know what people have against Tintin. Maybe because I grew up with a partial collection of it that I inherited from my brothers. Can you explain what's disturbing about it?
96.
by Hexstream 16y ago
You forgot the "brag about how you aren't affected because you do things The Right Way(tm)" part.
97.
by Hexstream 16y ago
The phallic drive knows no bounds ;P
98.
by Hexstream 16y ago
"many programmers seem to think there is something 'magical' about the ability to program, as if there is some kind of essential element that differentiates those that can program from those that can not." You should read this, and maybe th
99.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Well, if you are indeed 100% alone in providing a service, I feel it's a bit of a misrepresentation to say "we" just because you want businesses as customers. But that's just a feeling.
100.
by Hexstream 16y ago
"Prior to the appointment, we’ll automatically remind your customer of the date and time of their appointment." "we"? Aren't you alone in this venture?... Or it's just a "professionalness" thing? I'm kind of torn between "I" and "we" for pr
101.
by Hexstream 16y ago
As always, wikipedia is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
102.
by Hexstream 16y ago
There actually seems to be a trend in programming blogs where everyone seems to be falling all over themselves to be the one shouting the most loud and clear how "bad" of a programmer they are. At least in their tagline. I guess it's protec
103.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Yes, and what's more, if you have the ability to learn really fast and yet haven't accumulated much knowledge yet, one might wonder if you aren't lazy and wasting your potential.
104.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Please, no false dichotomies.
105.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Well, they use (or used to use) RabbitMQ, which is written in Erlang.
106.
by Hexstream 16y ago
If someone spews lots of bogus links in your tweets wouldn't you unfollow them? If every twitter user starts spewing lots of bogus links wouldn't you stop using twitter?
107.
by Hexstream 16y ago
A long read, but well worth it.
108.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Given the subject matter I'm not sure how much better than this they could make it. But I must say it looks like they're trying a bit too hard to make this "cool" at times.
109.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Well, then I hope for you you never become a statistic!
110.
by Hexstream 16y ago
I don't understand why you couldn't just let the user optionally specify such pairings manually instead of trying to infer it in an unreliable way. It's not like you regularly use dozens of different apps which would benefit from a pairing
111.
by Hexstream 16y ago
So you'd have no problem if a virus could physically incapacitate your keyboard, monitor, speakers, CPU and motherboard?... In fact, back in the day it was possible to damage your keyboard through software. That must have been fun. Not.
112.
by Hexstream 16y ago
That may say more about you as a kid than about the show.
113.
by Hexstream 16y ago
"I don't see any positive outcomes from that which would offset resources wasted prosecuting." Positive outcome: to set a good precedent for "don't do stupid shit like that mindlessly or you'll pay dearly if you get caught".
114.
by Hexstream 16y ago
I remapped my keyboard so I can press CTRL with my thumb (it's where ALT conventionnaly is). No need to use pinkies and alternate between left and right CTRL!
115.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Somewhere on the internet, someone is taking this seriously.
116.
by Hexstream 16y ago
"- Don't worry, Skynet will take care of the virus in no time. - Skynet IS the virus!!!"
117.
by Hexstream 16y ago
Do expect lots of penis drawings...
118.
by Hexstream 16y ago
They got their terminology wrong. They're "tubes", not "pipes". Journalists really screw things up...
119.
by Hexstream 17y ago
Honestly, my first thought was: "To 'thwart' 'terrorists'."
120.
by Hexstream 17y ago
With ahead-of-time compilation, not all the layers even have to have a representation at runtime so the overhead can be really minimal.

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