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by Legion 13y ago
Agreed. That said, for people who aren't necessarily programmers at the start of the process, producing useful things makes it a lot easier to justify the continued learning required to get there.
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by Legion 13y ago
Read the paragraph that starts with the sentence, "Of course, there's a workaround."
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by Legion 13y ago
This is usually the point where someone comes and says: a) Install a FOSS OS instead At what point, I wonder, does that cease to be a snarky response? We are now apparently at the point where you have to jump through hoops to save your own
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by Legion 13y ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone else experience poor audio echo in Hangout video conferences? At work we would kill to replace Skype with Hangouts, but with the same computers and the same microphones, everyone in Hangouts constantly he
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by Legion 13y ago
Maybe a regression? It does sound like the exact same issue at a glance.
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by Legion 13y ago
Trying to download the latest Agile Web Dev w/Rails from PragProg and just get the error, "File is not ready yet". On two separate accounts. Also, this post describes today's book release as the "final" version
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by Legion 13y ago
I've long moved to Postgres and never want to go back, but I am glad to see just how thoroughly the MySQL community up and moved on to MariaDB. Linux distros are now shipping with it as the default "MySQL". That represents a
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by Legion 13y ago
You can make more money from lifetime customers than you can one-time customers. One thing Apple has excelled at over its history is building a base of lifetime customers.
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by Legion 13y ago
Agreed. I use Bitbucket every day, and while it's far short of 30 seconds, I do find it takes a second or two of extra scanning to notice where the repo URL is. And it's essentially on the top right, not aggressively out of the wa
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by Legion 13y ago
If you hadn't identified yourself as a Java programmer, it would have been obvious by your high level of concern for IDEs. Language like Python and Ruby don't have IDE support like Java does because they don't need them. I&#x
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by Legion 13y ago
It's more than "slightly different". By all means, try and replicate this complete list in your Chrome browser: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . I'll wait... What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is i
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by Legion 13y ago
Python 2.7 branch is up to 2.7.5, so not exactly the latest (at least, not in the same sense as Ruby, where 2.0.0-p195 is the absolute latest stable release build of Ruby 2.0).
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by Legion 13y ago
What a coincidence... last night, I pulled up the NOVA site on my TV-connected PC and watched this episode. I had seen it before, and I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of it, until finally discovering it on the Wikipedia pa
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by Legion 13y ago
It's so easy from the outside to simply say things like this with absolutely no first-hand knowledge. Maybe he did just say those things at election time and doesn't truly care. But assuming that to be the case for certain is lazy
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by Legion 13y ago
Screen doesn't seem to be getting much invigoration, seeing as the most recent release was in 2008, and only three version control commits have been made in the last 12 months. Screen is, for all intents and purposes, a dead project. There'
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by Legion 13y ago
I see getting your last account hellbanned hasn't deterred you from repeating the same stuff every Linode thread, taligent.
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by Legion 13y ago
They are. The names just represent the two different syntax styles that the project offers: traditional brace style (Scss) or Haml-like significant whitespace structure (Sass).
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by Legion 13y ago
Heh, they really did date it 2012.
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by Legion 13y ago
Charging by repository count, rather than some saner metric more indicative of actual usage (like number of users) is a deal breaker. Got tired of waiting for Github to stop excluding my team because of the repo count nonsense, went to Bitb
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by Legion 13y ago
> I am concerned though about the lack of any new info on the steambox in the last, what, year? Everything I saw about the "Steam Box" suggested to me that it would be an underpowered machine for more casual games. But the great part ab
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by Legion 13y ago
At least on the Xbox side, it has a lot to do with their systematic dismantlement of the machine's GUI, which was originally a joy to use, and geared towards being, you know, a game playing machine. Now it's like webTV for the 2010s. I us
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by Legion 13y ago
I agree with this a lot. LJ by its nature encouraged writing, not just status updates. It was a much more interesting - if sometimes drama-filled - read than my Facebook news feed is with many of the same people. Also, LJ groups have not be
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by Legion 13y ago
I am endlessly impressed with how antirez responds to any critique of Redis that I've ever seen. He's always taken it as a positive, and looked for the truth in the critique, rather than searching for something to be wrong and try to discre
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by Legion 13y ago
I would prefer my mobile devices not have to burn the extra battery required to execute JavaScript code just to display a page of purely static content. Yes, it is reasonable to expect all browsers to have JavaScript enabled, but that doesn
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by Legion 13y ago
Love Linode, but Fremont is like the Billy Baldwin of Linode datacenters.
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by Legion 13y ago
pestaa's comment needs to be amended. It should read: "A sane engineer with a little bit of experience would not start off with PHP to build anything at all in 2013 ." Facebook's former CTO has said that the only reason Facebook is still o
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by Legion 13y ago
Interesting. I've used Beluga, WhatsApp, Brightkite and GroupMe, none of which were ever truly satisfying, mostly because there's no strong network effect in place - anyone I messaged with these apps was someone I bugged to install and use
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by Legion 13y ago
I'm glad that you and other people found some value in it. When I saw it here, I was worried the comments would tear it to shreds. :) It was just a bit of a shock when I clicked the link. Since the link title was slightly different than wha
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by Legion 13y ago
WTF? I wrote this slide deck. It was a presentation I made for a monthly "tech lunch" my team has. I made it after a couple of weeks of messing with zsh. It was for an audience of 4 other people who knew less about zsh than me. I can't beli
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by Legion 13y ago
His post about the iOS port of Wolf3D was a great read, and also a crystal clear reminder of why I never play 3D games on a touchscreen-only device. The means of input are so truly terrible that I do not understand why anyone bothers. But,

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