MattJ100

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by MattJ100 14y ago
Apart from Ruby, which?
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by MattJ100 14y ago
I never have trouble sleeping when I sleep. But I, like many people in this industry, don't let myself. I'll push myself to work till I'm sleeping at 2, 4, 8am... the ultimate consequences are pretty similar symptoms to those you describe,
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Not I (my family comes from there, but not myself, except for visiting). However I share your surprise - good luck to them :)
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Take a look at http://www.ohloh.net/languages - you can sort by lines or commits.
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by MattJ100 15y ago
It's not that clear cut, but indeed the UK does not have a software patent problem half as bad as the US seems to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents#United_Kingdom
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Not a new idea, but it seems a pretty implementation. I've played with Spore a little in the past: https://github.com/spore Client implementations include: - Perl: https://github.com/franckcuny/net-http-spore - JS (Node): https://githu
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by MattJ100 15y ago
I use nano, 99% of the time. I gave details last time a post like this came up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376321
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Erm, if ever, here is a real candidate for the correlation != causation lesson. I think it would be doing a massive disservice to Google to say that the only reason people use their service is because of personalized search results. Google
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Does it have to be? ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680912 )
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by MattJ100 15y ago
11. Github. Don't get me wrong - Github is an excellent site, well built and very useful. However there is a rapidly growing trend of people taking Github as the only place open-source software can live, while I choose to host my own repo
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by MattJ100 15y ago
It begs the question what the list of 8000 "legitimate" sites is for...
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by MattJ100 15y ago
> Learning to think first rather than react quick is a life long pursuit. It’s tough. I must admit I stopped reading about here. I don't think I'm among the intended audience for this post. It personally takes quite something for me to
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by MattJ100 15y ago
They didn't exactly make you get up at 6AM. To be honest even if everything had gone smoothly, it should still be obvious given the hype that everyone individually had only a small chance of getting one from the first 10K batch. And I thi
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by MattJ100 15y ago
I'd love to see a mashup of the two. I trialed cr-gpg, works fine, if a bit clunky at the moment. I suspect this is a much better way to interact with gpg though (+ --use-agent, etc.).
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by MattJ100 15y ago
That wasn't really sarcasm. It was exaggeration, perhaps. But even then, perhaps it wasn't even that (given enough time).
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by MattJ100 15y ago
> Other examples that all suck for this reason: Apple IDs. Windows Live ID. Jabber. Erm, to clarify, Jabber isn't an authentication system. It's a decentralized IM network, structured similarly to email. A user is identified by their us
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by MattJ100 15y ago
From 14, yes. From 1 it wouldn't be - so it's not just 'quadrupling' itself that's impressive here :)
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by MattJ100 15y ago
> I think most of the git vs. mercurial debates are non-productive because proponents of one tool don't know the other tool well enough to argue against it. You hit the nail on the head there. I wouldn't claim at all to know git well, d
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by MattJ100 15y ago
A slight feeling of disappointment after reading this post (and the linked PDF). Partly because the 'attacks' listed are nothing new (we know eval() is evil), and partly because it's 2011 and people are still writing code like this.
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Google removes '+' from Chrome's tab bar(code.google.com)
14 points by MattJ100 15y ago|8 comments
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by MattJ100 15y ago
The problem is the people who tap you on the shoulder, or worse... those who know they shouldn't disturb you so hang quietly around your desk until you give up and make eye contact or otherwise acknowledge that they're there. They succeed i
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by MattJ100 15y ago
I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this. Early mornings and late nights are both good... but during the typical work day I find it nigh on impossible to really be productive at the office. It reminds me of this talk by Jason Fried, which i
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by MattJ100 15y ago
I use Awesome, but it's really not for someone who doesn't want to configure it to their tastes. I use it because unlike alternatives, I can easily configure it to my tastes. It takes time, but in the long run it helps my productivity.
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Previous discussion around this idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1893686
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Timeline of the future in forecasts(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by MattJ100 15y ago|0 comments
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by MattJ100 15y ago
The Art of Unix Programming by esr covers just this question[1]. Nowadays module/file size is one of the most important factors in how I design and write my code. [1]: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s01.html
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by MattJ100 15y ago
matthew@rusticanum:~$ time python2.6 -c 'print("hello world")' hello world real 0m0.027s user 0m0.024s sys 0m0.004s matthew@rusticanum:~$ time lua -e 'print("hello world")' hello world real 0m0.005s user 0m0.00
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by MattJ100 15y ago
FWIW there are numerous libraries available for OS threads in Lua. Some are low-level, directly binding the OS threading API[1], some are high-level[2], supporting message passing and atomic counters, etc. [1]: https://github.com/Neopalliu
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by MattJ100 15y ago
But do I call the first elephant I get into my room elephant 0 or elephant 1?
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by MattJ100 15y ago
Nasty? In a language without pointers it makes total sense. An index is no longer an offset from an array (or string) pointer, so the first element being 1, the second being 2, just makes more sense. Sure, it's a departure from mainstream l

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