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by _giu 17y ago
I completely forgot about that (long time no intensive Java programming for me)! thanks for the correction
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by _giu 17y ago
Java has the same types of method arguments. C# (.NET 3.5) misses one type of method argument: the default parameter (it will be shipped with .NET 4.0). I have to admit, it happened only once that I missed default parameters in C#. however,
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by _giu 17y ago
schneier writes about how evil the flash cookies are, but he doesn't mention how to deactivate them. I did it ( http://giu.me/s/ngaf8k ), and that's how it went down (note: some flash applications won't work anymore after you deactivate the
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TEDx event held in Kibera in Nairobi, Africa's largest slum(flickr.com)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
zed had the exact same thought: " WTF. Why is my post about moving to SF #1 on HN? I need to write something that is worthy of that spot again. " ( http://twitter.com/zedshaw/statuses/3363785875 )
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by _giu 17y ago
nice! I'm from the Zürcher Oberland! my uncle lived in Dübendorf for quite awhile.
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by _giu 17y ago
" The Java concurrency primitives like locks and synchronized have been proven to be too low level and often to hard to use " synchronized is not hard to use. it's rather not a good practice to use it, since it will slow down code massive
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by _giu 17y ago
Zurich, Switzerland, too! hopefully there are a few others!
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Debunked LINQ Myths(albahari.com)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
it also gives you the possibility to play the photographed sudoku on the iphone. reading the headline, I tought the app only solves a photographed sudoku, which per se is not very useful (except you want to impress your friends). it's a pre
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by _giu 17y ago
nice idea and nice realization, too! it works pretty good! if you can't read the password after you've typed it in, try to mark it with SHIFT + LEFT-/RIGHT-ARROW or SHIFT + HOME/END :) by the way: the guys from arc90.com cook up pretty
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by _giu 17y ago
they held the extension system back possibly because it could have been a bottleneck or because they just didn't want to give you the possibility to use an extension that blocks their ads. however, they are working on the extension syste
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by _giu 17y ago
my partner set up Joomla for the Seminar Paper we wrote last year. don't know why he did that since later in the project we had to code, but after using it for a day or two I immediately asked him to set up Trac. it just was a pain viewed f
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Jeff Atwood: Will Open Sourcing Stack Overflow Destroy Our Business Model?(meta.stackoverflow.com)
8 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
I like to read Heise Online ( http://www.heise.de ). I have to mention that Heise Online is written in german and an english version exists at http://www.heise.de/english/ . But the official english version of Heise Online is called The
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by _giu 17y ago
Generally, the discussions are at least an order of magnitude more interesting than the articles themselves dito! I must admit that I've never used the RSS feed (that's partly because I'm not the big RSS reader type). I always get my dail
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by _giu 17y ago
I directly started with Haskell, but had some difficulties with the functional concepts! this is why I second the idea of michael_dorfman. I think it will help you a lot to understand everything better . and I personally like video lectur
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by _giu 17y ago
I think this is a good idea to first learn the basic functional concepts using Scheme and the SICP videos (heard a lot of good things about the videos and the book). I'm learning Haskell (I'm a C# guy) and some things are a bit difficult
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(X)HTML Elements Best Practice Sheet(keryx.se)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
congrats on my part, too! I had a look at the code ( http://chyrp.net/code/files/includes/common-php.html ) and after I clicked on "Blog" in the navigation on that page I got a 404 (seems like all links in the navigation point to an old v
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by _giu 17y ago
yeah, _why is a mistic (and pretty smart) individual. he's also a cool guy. I enjoyed watching the speech he gave at the ART && CODE Symposium: http://www.vimeo.com/5047563 . oh, and thanks to raju for submitting the link; I last
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by _giu 17y ago
I'm studying CS (in switzerland) and we've learned about state machines during a mathetmatics lecture in the second semester. that's it. since I didn't take the compiler class, this was the only lecture in which state machines were covered.
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by _giu 17y ago
the new firefox is pretty fast and the new tab design looks good. I think I'll pause google chrome for a few days. update: if you have issues with old addons in firefox 3.5, John Resig suggests you to do the following: Open about:config, ri
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[video] Richard Phillips Feynman - The Last Journey Of A Genius(video.google.com)
3 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
I can recommend to install Yahoo YSlow ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ ), a Firebug extension for Firefox. next to the achieved performance test results of a specific page, it also shows how to improve the performance. I think it's a qu
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by _giu 17y ago
your words match exactly what I was going to write
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by _giu 17y ago
the perfect platform for trolls!
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by _giu 17y ago
it's truly lame, but I always have to laugh when I hit CTRL + END on their question-pages
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by _giu 17y ago
yes, he really was that right (link to the post): http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/06/heres-what-opera-is-a...
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by _giu 17y ago
yes. don't know when they introduced the apprenticeship as an application developer, but when I started (I started my apprenticeship ~ 7 years ago and completed it after 4 years) you could chose between system technician (or system engineer

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