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by Periodic 16y ago
I like to think of programming languages as tools. You should always pick the right tool for the job. Otherwise, someday you will pick up your hammer and realize not everything is a nail. Language design is all about trade-offs. Some lan
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm the process of looking to change areas and so I've been talking with various companies about employment. So far, the only company that has e-snubbed me is Google. I'm not sure what happened. After a phone interview, in which I was ass
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by Periodic 16y ago
They may care about the browser, but I fear they care about regaining market share more than anything else. They had a firm lead for a long time, but more and more I see sites making support for non-IE browsers a top priority and the IE ma
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by Periodic 16y ago
I have a few friends who program largely in C++ or in interpreted languages like Python, Ruby, and Perl. They've scoffed at my love of Haskell, claiming it's too academic and overly complex and that they'd rather just get things done. Just
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by Periodic 16y ago
I got the same impression. The article felt like two articles hastily joined in the middle. The first was some musing on the loneliness and disconnected lives Americans now lead, with some unsupported thoughts as to why. Then it launched
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by Periodic 16y ago
I checked again recently, and no computer language was handed down to use by an ascended being. Thus, I believe that all programming languages involve trade offs. I like these sorts of comparisons because he actively discusses what he gain
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by Periodic 16y ago
According to the link, those who slept less had an increase in appetite, which is the opposite of what you claim in your first sentence. From the article: > "After the night of abbreviated sleep, the men consumed more than 500 extra cal
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by Periodic 16y ago
Water vapor tends to rise, CO2 will sink. This stuff is hugging the ground like CO2 is known to do. Mist on the ground is usually only caused when water is evaporating off that surface.
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm not having a problem with Chromium 5.0.365.0 (42923) on ubuntu 9.10.
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by Periodic 16y ago
For the IT staff, the fact that your computer slows down is an externality; it is not their problem. If the anti-virus can catch a few viruses and doesn't result in many help-desk tickets, then it makes their lives easier. Cleaning up a v
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by Periodic 16y ago
Viruses used to be largely statements and annoyances, the sort of thing a rebellious teenager would pursue as a form of computer vandalism. Then people realized there was money in botnets and password stealing. The goal of those viruses is
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm still hoping for a return of the thin-client model, but with rich media. 99% of the time my desktop is running at 10% CPU load or less. When I want to do something that requires a lot of processing power, I usually log into a remote s
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by Periodic 17y ago
They use touch later in the video, for interface and typing.
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think there is a case that blocks exist to bridge the bap between the imperative and functional code. If you picked just one paradigm or the other you wouldn't need blocks, but when you try to pick-and-choose which you use where you find
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by Periodic 17y ago
Won't it just get buffered into the other program's input buffer? I believe pipes are block-buffered and basically look just like redirecting to a file.
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by Periodic 17y ago
That's always been the dream, hasn't it? Eventually technology will become good enough that we won't have to worry about being responsible. One thing I've become annoyed with lately is how little planning anyone does. Who needs to make so
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by Periodic 17y ago
The things I'm really feeling are missing are being able to open a new tab with a URL by only typing one key more than the URL itself. In Vimperator this is "t", but with all the chrome-based vim-ish plugins so far I have to open up a new
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by Periodic 17y ago
This is the one feature I saw that was a marked improvement over vimperator. However, there are still too many small annoyances like not being able to open a new location in a new tab with a single command.
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by Periodic 17y ago
I really like Chrome, but not enough to switch from vimperator.
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by Periodic 17y ago
Their fsck will ensure the consistency of data you didn't even know you had.
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by Periodic 17y ago
There are so many things we take for granted when programming. It's always enlightening to see how simple bugs can turn into serious vulnerabilities for the clever hacker. As programmers we really should educate ourselves about these thing
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by Periodic 17y ago
It also prevents pwdhash[1] from letting me use a hashed password. Makes me resent any Flash-based login forms. [1] http://www.pwdhash.com/
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by Periodic 17y ago
IT is particularly like that, since there are so many different ways to do things. Is your storage iSCSI or FC? Are your server Windows or UNIX? Is your hardware Dell or Sun? The fact is that 80% of the technology is the same between the
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think most people read the web very different than they read scholarly papers. When I'm coming to hacker news I'm often in the mood to browse. I'm not looking for another dense paper to read. This article could also be interpreted as ad
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by Periodic 17y ago
> With that new bytecode keyword, we can call method only known at runtime. I don't know much about Java, but it sounds like they're extending the bytecode to better support those alternate languages which currently are sort of hack-ish
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by Periodic 17y ago
So we know that people are living longer and longer. We also know that yearly health care costs are rising. We also seem to think we can keep the latter in control while continuing with the former. The fact is that older people incur much
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by Periodic 17y ago
I don't think this shift has anything to do with people wanting to reduce the birth rate, though I agree that this situation is something we were going to have to deal with eventually. We live in a world with finite resources. I've seen a
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by Periodic 17y ago
You're right. My point only applies when we're talking about making offers in a vacuum. This thread was discussing making offers or demands such as for salary, where there aren't different numbers floating around. In fact, if you were th
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by Periodic 17y ago
Even when using RAID1 like that for cloning, it's the cloning that is the backup, not the RAID1. You're cloning data that just happens to contain RAID1 configuration data. You could also clone the partition as presented to the OS or the
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think the key that the buyer must believe there is room for negotiation. If I walked in to a Best Buy and saw the only TV there was being sold for $10k, I'd walk out. But if I saw that one TV was $10k, but with slightly fewer features a

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