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by Sandman 16y ago
Ah yes, I see it now, thank you. I still believe that the 'flag' option should only be used for spam and completely offtopic comments. This is because it 'hurts' more (with regards to your karma) when your comment gets downvoted than when i
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by Sandman 16y ago
I know pg said that it's ok, but as my own personal rule, I've decided to go against this. I'm using the downvote only when somebody is actually wrong about something, not simply because I disagree with him/her. The reason for this is becau
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by Sandman 16y ago
I believe that MichaelApproved is reffering to the comments. You cannot flag comments below a certain karma threshold. Actually, I'm not sure if you can flag comments at all? Maybe someone with higher karma could shed some light on this?
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Are there any provable real-world languages?(stackoverflow.com)
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by Sandman 16y ago
Perhaps you're right about this, but the main point was to give prominent users more power when upvoting and downvoting. The idea was to make upvotes and downvotes of those on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders count more than the votes
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by Sandman 16y ago
I think that part of the solution may be to introduce a feature that would give users that reach certain karma thresholds the ability to give more and more points to a comment when upvoting. For example: a newbie would only be able to assig
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by Sandman 16y ago
This site seems to be set up simply for the purpose of promoting a certain text to speech software. I fail to see what is so HN-worthy about it. Could anybody enlighten me on this matter?
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by Sandman 16y ago
I'm a little bit surprised you've never heard of ROG, he has been an active contributor to HN both with articles and with comments. Anyway, take a look at the leader board, he's there. Number 13. http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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by Sandman 16y ago
First jacquesm leaves, now RiderOfGiraffes... that's a loss of two very active contributors in a relatively short period. Hopefully none of the other great contributors to HN have any similar thoughts about leaving. Anyway, I think that we
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Hilarious 'Share the Air' Presentation Pranks a Venture Capital Event(urlesque.com)
1 points by Sandman 16y ago|1 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
PG would disagree with you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 . For the record, I personally believe that you're right.
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The Symphony of Science(symphonyofscience.com.)
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Gnome 3 - This is the end, it seems(dedoimedo.com)
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Not Dead Yet: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java(redmonk.com)
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by Sandman 16y ago
After googling for a while, I found this great answer on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3265357/compiled-vs-inter... Lunaryom is correct. There are no 'interpreted' and 'compiled' languages, just different implementations. So, I
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by Sandman 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. You can't just start typing and getting instant feedback in Java simply because Java is not interpreted (well, actually, it is, but you have to compile to bytecode first). So, what you're saying about Java goe
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by Sandman 16y ago
I love this part: splotchy ==> Your conversation skills are better than average jabberwacky ==> Your conversation skills should be shot.
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by Sandman 16y ago
With Java, you have to worry about your environment before you can worry about programming. You have to download the jdk and set an environment variable. Then open a text editor. That's about all the 'worrying about the environment' that
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Yahoo Debuts ‘Future of Search’(wired.com)
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U.S. Military Launches Spy Operation Using Fake Online Identities(huffingtonpost.com)
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by Sandman 16y ago
As I understand it, if you write a piece of software, you're the one holding the copyright. Therefore you decide under which license you will allow people to use your software and whether you want to charge for this use or not (unless the l
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by Sandman 16y ago
Oh my, oh my, oh my... Developers of applications using Bionic would only be able to charge (via the Android Market) those customers who don't know what rights they have under the GPL. All others would find ways to download and install tho
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by Sandman 16y ago
Definitely, but a point should be made that design patterns themselves are not a bad thing, quite the contrary, actually. It's overuse of design patterns that should be a crime. I came across some pretty difficult to understand abstractions
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by Sandman 16y ago
When you said 'actual Java class name' I thought for a moment that those were actually classes in one of Java's libraries. I googled the names, though, and fortunately, they're not...
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by Sandman 16y ago
Why not link to the original site? http://www.thisiserichoffman.com/css3-generator/
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by Sandman 16y ago
There are plenty of sites for general news. HN is not one of them. The reason you saw it here first is because somebody posted it here despite what the guidelines say, and you happened to come at the right moment, before you checked other n
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by Sandman 16y ago
No, it is not. From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it o
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by Sandman 16y ago
Yeah, I've seen it. It's a good list, but it's mostly concerned with security, reverse engineering and similar topics. I'm not saying that this is not important but surely there are other things that a developer should know about. For examp
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by Sandman 16y ago
I would be very interested in seeing your top ten list of books that every programmer should read, tptacek. First, because I value your opinion, and second, because I honestly believe that most of the books on this list actually are books t
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by Sandman 16y ago
Might I ask why very few people last that long? Is there too much work and not enough free time, or is it that work itself is harder than elsewhere? Or is it something else entirely?

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