KiwiCoder

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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
The better part of this quote is the sentiment that follows; I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Bitbargain (UK) suspends withdrawals(blog.bitbargain.com)
2 points by KiwiCoder 13y ago|1 comments
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
If I had to point to one thing it would be "the day". * It's clearly going to take more than a day to achieve a positive outcome in a system that was established over many decades * What happens when "the day" ends?
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Perl on Windows; perl -e "$_=`mode`;/ns:\s+(\d+)/;print '='x$1"
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
That tweet was from March 2013. I was at the time making the point that such terms are ridiculous.
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
https://twitter.com/KiwiCoder/status/314501152760815616
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Indeed, the word "passionate" with reference to programming is going the same way as "free" has gone for marketing; over-used and misrepresented to the point of being meaningless. On the plus side, it means that the clas
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Your last sentence feels unfinished. At the end of the day, reasoning is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? [0] [0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
From the BBC article referenced by boingboing - "He said TV crime dramas illustrated the value of monitoring mobile data." From the boingboing article - "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless elect
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
On the off-chance this is a serious question; As a developer, I want to know if my ideas are going to fly, so when a post for a non-existent product hits HN front page I know there's at least some interest. As a prospective user I want
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Should you buy a more efficient power supply?(gareth.halfacree.co.uk)
2 points by KiwiCoder 13y ago|0 comments
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
perspective
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How the "Global Cooling" Story Came to Be(scientificamerican.com)
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
This seems arbitrary. What's your source?
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
The terms are nearly interchangeable[0] but programmer is more widely used[1]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer (see first sentence) [1] http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Dr. Knuth doesn't do email quite like you might expect. "My goal is to do this communication efficiently, in batch mode --- like, one day every three months." http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ema
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
OK, so Dr. Knuth is alive and well, and reporting a bug. Is there more to this that I'm not seeing?
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Ignoring the dubious points of this article (30%, MacBook Air) I think a vital question being overlooked is whether a newly promoted manager actually wants to continue coding. Some will, some won't.
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Disney Research has done some interesting work on touch screens for the visually impaired. http://www.olivierbau.com/teslatouch.php One of the side benefits of this kind of tech -- for everyone, not just visually impaired -
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Interviews are not useful for finding good hires(cvmountain.com)
2 points by KiwiCoder 13y ago|0 comments
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Source code https://gist.github.com/EdGuiness/8387313
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Chrome extension to highlight submissions and comments from Hacker News leaders(chrome.google.com)
4 points by KiwiCoder 13y ago|1 comments
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
The trouble is that VCS pain points are far from universal. Everyone has their own experience, for better or worse, and will have a view on what's important based on their personal experience (or lack of experience). In other words, ar
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
"... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
I think the chart in this post makes more sense if you ignore the word "safety" on the Y-axis.
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
There's no harm in brushing up on CS 101 questions, but I wish more candidates spent time preparing for questions about code quality.
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
It's the other way round - if a company is committed to a path of fairness but has inherited an unfair legacy of salary disparity (this can happen in many ways and is not always because of overt unfairness) then transparency can make i
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Transparency forces fairness assuming you can afford to fix the discrepancies in an acceptable amount of time. If you can't fix discrepancies in an acceptable amount of time then full transparency forces something unpleasant, and in th
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
Transparency makes sense in the right context , but adding this qualification makes the suggestion less controversial, and therefore less noteworthy, since almost anything can make sense in the right context. One of the contexts in which f
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by KiwiCoder 13y ago
I solve 3 problems; 1. Charities don't do software development because they can't afford it. 2. Programmers who want to volunteer end up using skills other than programming (like IT support). 3. New programmers cannot get real-wor

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