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by Qz 16y ago
A careful reading of my comment will reveal that that does not contradict what I said :)
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by Qz 16y ago
Hemingway had the same advice for writers: Never stop writing at the end of a chapter.
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by Qz 16y ago
Exactly. Everyone I know who isn't a tech-head has a droid. Every tech-head I know who isn't a mac user has a droid.
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by Qz 16y ago
My dad flew on the Concorde several times for business trips. He was actually on one of the flights that had to turn back to paris after an engine blew out (or something). Considering what happened to other flights, could have been a lot wo
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by Qz 16y ago
I was trying to keep my comment succinct, but what I mean is that at the fundamental level, programming is problem solving, and so is running a business. The ins and outs of particular businesses and particular programming languages or comp
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by Qz 16y ago
I'm under thirty, but I can't stand e-books and will be reading from dead trees until they stop printing on them.
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by Qz 16y ago
I would venture to say that you knew programming, you just didn't know coding . Organizing a good program is not all that different from organizing a good business.
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by Qz 16y ago
India’s booming microlending industry is part of a global phenomenon that began as a charitable movement but now attracts private capital seeking growth and high returns. Good old capitalism, always there to turn nice things into shit.
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by Qz 16y ago
They're not legally required to be so badass about it.
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by Qz 16y ago
This article takes something simple and elegant (if incorrectly labeled) and turns it into a sad tortured example of how to get yourself picked on in high school.
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by Qz 16y ago
I don't see dilution of the definition as a problem. Video games used to be geeky. Now everyone plays video games. Everyone is geeky. To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, 'Geeky is Good.' And for the record, many of them consider themselves geeks fo
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by Qz 16y ago
Yeah, this definitely seems like old news to me. Many of the girls I know consider themselves geeks in one way or another (and most of my friends aren't in the tech circle, so that's not an issue).
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by Qz 16y ago
I never really got very far with BASIC anyway, and started reading about OOP when I was maybe 12? Hopefully I was inoculated in time...
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by Qz 16y ago
In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
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by Qz 16y ago
The linked to map of the undersea cable network is pretty interesting as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11864350
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by Qz 16y ago
Six year later, XAML didn't replace the old GUI's and is now on its deathbed...
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by Qz 16y ago
Right, but my issue is directed at the people who use Android. It didn't start outselling iPhone because of techies like us alone - 'normal' people use it, 'normal' people who would otherwise never use 'linux' and probably don't realize the
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by Qz 16y ago
If by 'user-friendly linux' you mean 'linux without any of the linux showing' then yes. I can't stand linux, but android is great.
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by Qz 16y ago
'most people you know' aren't really ChromeOS's target market.
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by Qz 16y ago
I tried packing one of my monitors inside checked luggage back when I was flying to/from college a lot. It didn't fit, and in retrospect I guess that was a good thing -- although this was 4-6 years ago when security personnel were slightly
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by Qz 16y ago
> and rubbish lingers safely unseen on the fourth page of results. Has the author used google lately? I'm lucky if half the time there's no rubbish on the first page of results.
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by Qz 16y ago
I like WPF a lot, but compared to Spark in Flex, it's a giant bag of headache. If I could somehow force C# and Flex to have a lovechild with Spark for UI and C# for the code, I would be an infinitely more productive programmer.
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by Qz 16y ago
I turned it on for a while when I first found HN, but then I turned it back off once the initial surge of discovery had worn down.
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by Qz 16y ago
€2 million may not seem like a lot in western nations, but typically third world countries have a much more favorable exchange rate of dollars/euros into local currency. All those charity ads on TV that talk about people surviving on less
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by Qz 16y ago
It's funny to me that Web OS is being heralded as 'the thing for the future' when all we've really done is reinvent the terminal.
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Some would argue that 'files' will become as archaic as floppy disks.
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by Qz 16y ago
Am I supposed to know who the people in those pictures are?
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by Qz 16y ago
Bio for one of the Pinboard creators: Peter Gadjokov (pvg) co-founded del.icio.us in 2003. His previous projects include Bigbook, Infoscape, Weathernews, and the internal networking protocols for an Austrian tank.
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From a linguistics standpoint, all paired written and spoken versions of languages are considered separate languages.
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If these recommendations are too extreme, treat them as a thought experiment. Just don’t lie to yourself.

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