adrianonantua

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by adrianonantua 12y ago
from http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html > My secretary prints out all messages addressed to taocp@cs.stanford.edu or knuth-bug@cs.stanford.edu, so that I can reply with written comments when I have a
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by adrianonantua 12y ago
Some tech text becomes very amusing: http://goo.gl/FzVBBv
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
Totally relate. My two year old son actually prevents me from burning out. Everyday, when I get home, my wife says "your turn!" and I transform into Daddy. We play soccer, we play music, we play, I bathe him, I feed him, I tuc
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
"In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, Arecibo Observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 Twitter messages" Oh, man, what will they think of us now? Couldn't we have sent Beethoven's Ni
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
People, please, don't feed the trolls
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
Upvoted, not be cause of the tl;dr request, but for the "shocking changes we should all be complaining about". It made me laugh and then think about the peculiar nature of this community.
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SQL: Select only rows with Max Value on a Column(stackoverflow.com)
6 points by adrianonantua 13y ago|2 comments
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
While OP makes some valid points (i.e. community receptivity), this is something that caught my attention: > StackOverflow is filled to the brim with people giving fishes. Perhaps. But those get only a few points. Joel Spolsky w
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
Beautiful, but the article fails in delivering the actual coordinates: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memori...
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by adrianonantua 13y ago
You lost me at "to do X in browser Y". One of the main reasons to adopt an experimented and highly used library such a jQuery is that it already deals with the complication of multiple HTML engines. They already solved that problem. Their c
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
This is getting ridiculous by the minute. Being a software developer, I fear sooner or later I'll be a target. I feel it's just a matter of time. But worst of all is the feeling of helplessness of it all: it's a big dog fight. Small ones ei
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
This guy's history speaks volumes about success and being good at something. People who want to get into Software business because of money and people who want to learn how to play the guitar because of popularity have one thing in common:
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
"If free and open access to all of human knowledge at the push of a button truly prevents our society’s beloved artists, authors, thinkers, and other creative people from putting food on their tables, then maybe it’s time to rethink how to
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.". Looks like victory is pretty close.
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
I think we all agree that software patents just gotta go (specially the ones regarding UI). The real question is how to make that happen. Perhaps having a big player like Microsoft targeted by a troll will help.
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
Among everything I read in this thread, this was by far the most insightful.
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
Almost anything can be shed a favored light upon. Being slow and late can just be called being patient.
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by adrianonantua 14y ago
Also, in the remote case he gets to be right, he will get known as the wise told-you-so guy.