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by T-R 16y ago
> This is ONLY a debate about whether control over our access should be in the hands of Internet Service Provider companies (ISPs) or… the Government. As far as I'm aware, no one wants government to regulate the internet - Net Neutralit
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by T-R 16y ago
Avoid fragmentation by just dropping support for older versions of the OS? Keep in mind, Apple occasionally charges for iOS upgrades, so requiring an upgrade effectively increases the cost of your application by a nontrivial amount. Not all
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by T-R 16y ago
This article was posted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039427
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by T-R 16y ago
I was really hoping for a thoughtful piece discussing a situation where requiring that infrastructure owners not discriminate by content had an overall negative effect. Sadly, the author just Glenn-Beck-style associates rules requiring fair
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by T-R 16y ago
I doubt that many HN users are really offended by the idea that their degree could be worthless - if it really is, they probably came by that conclusion on their own. The resume/interview process is broken, too, but I think most people woul
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by T-R 16y ago
I don't think "Hello World" will ever cease to be useful for the simple task of making sure everything's installed and operating correctly. Quicksort is certainly beautifully concise in Haskell, but it's not in all languages, and I want a l
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by T-R 16y ago
I see spaces instead of hyphens on Dolphin Browser for Android.
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by T-R 16y ago
Interesting. I was actually thinking about Tyrian as an example of a game where random level generation would work well (in contrast to those mentioned in my above comment), and wouldn't detract from nostalgia replay value. Another example
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by T-R 16y ago
The author makes a good point that randomly generated levels significantly affect the way that a game is played, but they shouldn't by any means be considered superior to handcrafted levels - players have different preferences for playstyle
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by T-R 16y ago
Anything with Kirin's 小岩井(Koiwai) branding on it, Martinelli's apple juice, Earl Grey or medium roast coffee.
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by T-R 16y ago
I had a 2GB Sony drive fail on me right as I was about to back it up. Worked on one machine, took it out, plugged it into another machine and it was dead.
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by T-R 16y ago
I'm not really convinced that a programming language that builds products from a subset of pre-made parts by making assumptions about implementation, rather than requiring the designer to plan in full detail and iron out design/logic incons
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by T-R 16y ago
Articles with a negative tone seem to be on the rise lately. Maybe it's just me, but in the past I always got a more positive vibe, more like "If you want to start a startup, don't procrastinate and work hard", rather than "we try not to hi
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by T-R 16y ago
Control issues never struck me as significant, either on SO or Area51, and I have trouble buying the argument that correcting typos and merging similar sites are unnecessary and evidence that Jeff,Joel, and the site's users are control frea
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by T-R 16y ago
I think it would be more interesting to use github to devise a better language for law. It could try to find a way to allow more specificity with less verbosity, and provide a standard way of creating abstractions that would allow for easy
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by T-R 16y ago
I agree with the conclusion - stop worrying, start coding; but not with the arguments. Code is a form of communication; Communication has speed. Communication speed is related to things like redundancy and vocabulary. A language with a lot
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by T-R 16y ago
That particular article may not have been written by Scott Locklin, but a quick browse of his other works on the same site validates ahoyhere's point. Regarding the nanotech article: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/09/
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by T-R 16y ago
In paragraph 2 he seems to imply that the curriculum isn't broad enough, lamenting the loss of "useless" classes, but then in paragraph 4 he seems to claim it's too broad and that new classes are useless, as evidenced from his claim that no
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by T-R 16y ago
In Japan there's a combination of things that support hiring discrimination against anyone who hasn't just graduated from college, spanning all fields. The RECRUIT monopoly has pushed a significant amount of hiring into large recruiting eve
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by T-R 16y ago
I think it's important to note, though, that ageism in Japanese recruiting isn't restricted to Programming by any stretch of the imagination. Additionally, there seems to be a view of Programming as more of a vocational field here - likely
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by T-R 16y ago
People certainly tend to group themselves by culture, but I don't think any particular culture lends itself toward failure to integrate any more than individual personalities do. Similarly, where I went for undergrad, Koreans tended to have
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by T-R 16y ago
Sorry, poor phrasing on my part - I meant "Of the Japanese people I know who are looking to go abroad, most hope to...". I spent a year at a Japanese university with a focus on foreign languages and international communications before getti
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by T-R 16y ago
I think your third point can go for any group living in a foreign country. I've seen foreigners living in Japan do this kind of thing as much as I've seen first and second generation Americans do it, regardless of where they came from. The
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by T-R 16y ago
There are just lots of filters. For English speaking countries at least, TOEFL scores ultimately determine who's allowed to study abroad (and where) or able to find employment elsewhere, so it could be argued that it's partially selective b