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by Toshio 14y ago
The site looks like it's down and Google hasn't cached the content yet.
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by Toshio 14y ago
YAML is the new JSON dontcha know.
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by Toshio 14y ago
> The mobile device market is far too large to be constrained to two choices. That's why we need Jolla's Sailfish OS and Samsung's Tizen to start competing for third place already.
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by Toshio 14y ago
There are at least a dozen Redmond fanbois on HN who are more than happy to flag any article that doesn't speak well of microsoft. And they raise hell about why their favorite ms-praising article was flagged to death.
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What Refactoring is, and what it isn’t(swreflections.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
You know you are a senior computer scientist when people refer to events you witnessed first-hand using the words "that era".
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by Toshio 14y ago
As someone who has read the book by the same name, I have to say I am very disgusted with how Mono is touted as the be-all-end-all silver bullet solution to the viability of Linux on the desktop. If the movie does the same thing, I don't th
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by Toshio 14y ago
I assume HN itself is also being scraped to death, so ... s/Ask HN/Ask PG/
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by Toshio 14y ago
And what books would you recommend instead?
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by Toshio 14y ago
Look, you read the word "don't" and your subconcious already knows something's fishy. This is something a smart/experienced marketing person would know. Attack ads are for losers.
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by Toshio 14y ago
By "active" they must mean "actively collecting spam".
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by Toshio 14y ago
It puzzles me that there is no dedicated chapter on testing.
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by Toshio 14y ago
My interpretation of this is that Common Lisp is a computer scientist's language (lots of code written in it, very few questions, presumably these are very advanced level questions). On the other hand, C# and Visual Basic are weekend coders
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21 Pictures that Sum Up the Whole History of Science Fiction(io9.com)
4 points by Toshio 14y ago|1 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "HTML5: Most of the web doesn't have support for it yet." Say what? You probably meant to say "most of the internet explorer installed base doesn't have support for it" which is a far, far cry from "most of the web".
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by Toshio 14y ago
I've always regarded microsoft's mvp initiative as a corny-douchey surrogate for a thriving, healthy grassroots movement.
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by Toshio 14y ago
CoffeeScript is to JavaScript what an ORM is to SQL - a scripted way to generate code.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I couldn't help but notice the self-aggrandizing "most valuable professional evah" logo front-and-center on this guy's blog, so I feel compelled to add the 7th tip to his list. Here goes. #7 - Learn the value of humility.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Men of straw need not apply.
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by Toshio 14y ago
There is a very good pdf-to-html converter at [0], so it's a two-step process. [0] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "If an employee or a cracker has access to the user database, doesn't he already have the user data?" You sound like you may not be aware of how attacks happen in real life. Most of the e-mail addresses that people sign up with are ei
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by Toshio 14y ago
I happen to know of two CIOs of very large enterprises who went with LDAP instead of AD with a very clearly stated goal of not being locked into a single vendor. So it's happening, even if it's just a trickle at the moment.
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by Toshio 14y ago
This being HN, here's the obligatory disruption remark. > "IBM, Oracle, SAP, CSK, MSFT, Intuit, Autdesk" Ripe for disruption. Go, HN, go - disrupt the dinosaurs.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Kids don't watch Oprah, dontchaknow.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Chrome has a very good built-in performance profiler for JavaScript. In the interest of scientific truth, someone (not me) should profile microsoft's fabricated example and show the world all the dirty browser-sniffing tricks.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Slightly un-HN-y title?
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by Toshio 14y ago
> They have hours. Israel frequently text-messages civilians and asks them to vacate the area. Can you provide a reference for this claim?
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "Far more difficult is to examine the reasons why Windows 8 is unpopular. I think a lot of the reason why Windows 8 is unpopular is simply because it's different." I think we have a pretty good idea by now why windows 8 is going to fa
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by Toshio 14y ago
HN submission linking to Slashdot submission of a story that has already been discussed on HN ages ago. What was the name of that movie again? Oh yeah, Inception.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I don't know if this is a common question, but it is a question I have about every data storage and retrieval engine, be it an SQL database or a NoSQL datastore: How would you re-architect it if you knew ahead of time it would only sit on S

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