Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 16y ago
This is how I feel about it. Mercury is an elegant language but I think the applicable domain is restricted to a very narrow subset of the industry. As a [primarily] web programmer I will generally only become more "cultured" by studying es
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Shouldn't 0010 be 0000? I would think mastering your mind would come before mastering any external tool...? Definite up vote for answering a question about what to hack in the spirit of a hacker.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I've built my startup entirely in Python + Pylons (1.0). Pylons is wonderful, I really like it a lot and I'm excited about its future too (move to Pyramid which is basically repoze.bfg). The application I'm running is large, complex, and ha
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I'm building a startup with Python and Pylons - Pylons comes with paster (python web server) and a small unit testing hook for your app; pylons makes it so easy to test your application, I love it. You can write two types of tests: functi
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Self-employment is the dream because there are no ceilings to your growth. People have this notion of self-employment being a wonderland of hammock reading and money easily flowing in. It can be those things but it's about loving what y
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Great article - while I agree on many fronts with Anarchism and the hackers that generally make up the Anarchist minority, it is refreshing to hear a point of view from a renowned hacker that isn't so idealistic. [FTFY]
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
While I applaud the author's effort to help, I can assure you that you are capable of this on your own without any tutoring. If you know how to program then skim through Dive Into Python and think up a fun little project for you to do, then
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I'm a high school drop out and had a very similar reaction to yours for the first couple of years. Thing is this: industry teaches you process and refinement; not (or rarely) theory. You must obtain some sort of abstract theoretical fou
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
That's good personal insight - become a fantastic programmer.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
face palm What's more annoying is I did do it correctly the first time - I just misspelled it! :-/
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
No worries, I'm certainly not "getting" the riddle myself. I tried md5sum'ing the response body and base64 encoding it and replacing the cookie's csrf.token value with that, which didn't work (I did notice, however, that the server is accep
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
There is a larger issue lurking here. Becoming an excellent developer isn't an over-night process. Tutorials will only hold your hand for so long before you get into the woods with concepts that are over your head (unless you have a math, s
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Not a Bad Thing, per se. I will tell you this: I recently launched a company with my cofounder who has had prior success. She had to do both the technical and business aspects. The startup we are building ATM wouldn't be a success if it had
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Good points - when I said it [ELisp] was ancient I was referring to the "dynamic scope" argument someone else deeper in the thread already mentioned. I've read a lot of conflicting opinions about it so I suppose I should stop assuming it is
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Emacs sates my needs well - the only downside is how ancient Emacs Lisp is. Haskell is a much more elegant language (and up to date); it would be an excellent replacement, only problem is producing all of the "modes" that I use in Emacs for
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I used to be a PHP developer (Python only now) but I still used Fabric extensively. Rsync is invaluable, tying it in with fabric makes for a pretty useful deployment tool.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I use Mnemosyne quite a bit too. I also have enjoyed writing scrapers for data I wanted but wasn't being provided in a downloadable format - most commonly stuff on forums. I wrote a scraper that scraped the entire textfiles.org website for
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Exercise, cook, read (I read a lot), play Halo Reach, sex, meditate, spend time with friends, and read on-line material (what used to be called "surfing the web").
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I wrote a custom letter echoing my own personal opinions pro-freedom and those of the FSF recommended text.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
TarSnap if you like security, are comfortable with the commandline, and want to write your own automation scripts...
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
A short article that didn't really say anything new - still upvoted for the nice reminder though.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
That's great, but why compare it to "Python"? If you just wanted to write about what you liked, why not do that instead of trying to offer an empty comparison that isn't even on target any way?
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Agreed. I think this idea would be better implemented by the application itself as a navigational aid; maybe as a small bar stuck to the window on the bottom (as Facebook's bar was done).
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
On a commune I lived on in Kentucky we had a Backhoe and tractor with an assortment of tools and power tools; we had a solar array to meet our electricity needs. It was well worth having the Backhoe and tractor - for three people, some jobs
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I have an encrypted image, personally.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I agree with this strongly. I was a PHP programmer for quite some time, a good one at that. I started itching to move away from PHP beacause I knew of its weaknesses and the expressive beauty of python. Long story short, I am now a web appl
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
A mentor of mine did this, with $300,000.00 for four years. He bought a plot of land in Wyoming, built and underground cabin, and bought a Backhoe to help himself build it. He lived there for four years before moving on with his life...
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
No enlightening needed, I already explained that "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." was up for interpretation (I wasn't complaining in my comment, I was asking a question); and also a
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Hack the posters? I think the term "hack" is being stretched in that argument. If it were some clever social experiment, that would be different, this is merely an article about disgruntled city officials that decided to get mildly creative
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Hmm, depends on your interpretation, I always deem flagging a submission worthy of asking why it was posted even though I disagree with it's content being worthy of HN. I don't consider that to be complaining, it's a valid question. I gen

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