StevePerkins

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by StevePerkins 13y ago
Given that the site is now slashdotted, can anyone please mention what it even is?
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
I had the dubious honor of starting undergrad, and being introduced to the Internet, during the actual Eternal September ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September ). As much as I've always been irked by some
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
[1] If you truly don't care whether or not other people think you're a jerk, then you can ignore most discussion of etiquette and social mores. [2] If you DO participate in such discussions, simply to say that you don't care
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
For the life of me, I can't understand why this is such a trendy topic on HN. If you walk into any grocery store or pharmacy, there are at least two aisles stocked with nothing but meal-replacement shakes. One of the aisles is targete
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
The slow startup time and general sluggishness was due to inefficiency with the database backend, rather than the GUI code itself. The biggest new feature in 1.0 is a re-write of the 0.x data access layer. The application now starts almost
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
I'm being a more than a bit tongue-in-cheek here. Of course I do enjoy learning new languages, and accumulating at least a basic understanding of the technologies discussed here. However, I notice that languages wash over HN like wave
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
I'm a professional Java developer, and thought I was fairly trendy because I've introduced Scala in my company's services tier. About a month ago I started reading HN, and discovered that I'm irrelevant because I'm
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by StevePerkins 13y ago
I wish the Clojure guys would come up with some clear and direct messaging around its license. When I started exploring Clojure one weekend a few months back, I found that it's the only language I've ever seen that uses the Ecl