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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Is there a generalization of Zawinski's Law postulating that "Every program should expand until it can read itself"?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
iawesome!thanks danielESC:wq
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Apollo's final footsteps, 40 years later(youtube.com)
2 points by alexpopescu 14y ago|0 comments
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes is now free on Kindle(exp.lore.com)
1 points by alexpopescu 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Is this the awesome & absolutely cr*p generator?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
What is the auto-refresh going to show me when working on a Python or Ruby... or actually any non HTML file?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
"Request an invite => "Subscribe to the list" Something's wrong here.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
The site is obviously image/ad heavy, less so text heavy.
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FLOPPYTABLE 3.5"(floppytable.com)
8 points by alexpopescu 14y ago|1 comments
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Well, in a way that's some sort of good news, but shouldn't they actually work in LTE instead? Playing this catch up game will not really help them grow the business. Except maybe if they are looking at a different market segment.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Consider yourself lucky you've actually got to see anything. My browser already crashed 3 time before I got a chance to see anything
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Did anyone that took the 2011 course share his experience?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
The study is from 2011, but seems to address in a more scientific way the "what's the best time to work" question.
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Time of day effects on problem solving: When the non-optimal is optimal(tandfonline.com)
2 points by alexpopescu 14y ago|1 comments
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Plus two older HN threads: 1. Ask HN: How much coffee do you drink?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4606007 2. Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4408221
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The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like(theatlantic.com)
88 points by alexpopescu 14y ago|92 comments
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Researcher: What is the meaning of FIZZ and BUZZ? What's the definition of the operation by which FIZZ and BUZZ combine into FIZZBUZZ?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Transmitting a string over the wire would pose a wide range of problems: 1. it's not efficient 2. we'd need to design a complete new protocol (keep in mind that you'd need to include query parameters) which for advanced query language like
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
My main complain about App Engine is the almost complete lack of support (and care) for both free and paying customers. Maybe it's only my experience, but Google has never been good at dealing with customers (and I'm not referring here to t
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Google reduces prices with 20%... Amazon with 25%. Game on!
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
It's great that Alfred got a window manager. I've been looking into so many that I've forgotten their number and names. But for the last couple of months I've been using Slate[1] and it does everything I needed -- actually I'd love to have
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Such an advanced debugger would make me miss the hours spent debugging a bug just to jump over and/or press the wrong key on the line of code revealing the real problem. That'd be unacceptable.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
There are multiple points you make here, some I agree with some I don't. > Apple's patents haven't stopped me from being creative. No one has asked me not to design using rounded corners. How about you? I bet not. Patents have stopped p
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I don't know when Google started to do this but as you say it's becoming annoying. At least they are using the canonical URI, so maybe browsers should get smarter in interpreting/using this bit of info.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
IMO it is not the programming model that needs to be changed, but the tool chain creating around the programming model that needs to be built with a larger horizon of ideas & ideals in mind. So far most of the tools have been created in
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Haven't listened to any of those, but scanning through the topics they are too iOSy, Mac newsy for me. The echo chamber of Mac news is too big for me right now to add another podcast. On the other hand, I couldn't say for sure why I was lis
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Marco's post lists some iOS, Mac (dev & news) podcasts, but I'm not aware of any good "replacement" of John Siracusa's one. While he's not always right--is any of us?--I really enjoy the depth he likes to go into the subjects he picks.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
> FileDiffs - This can be a really useful tool for diffing files. [...] This is something I've been looking for. I had to use an external diff tool or vimdiff, but this might change things quite a bit. The other thing that would be a gr
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
> A future feature will probably be to make eq_join work with arrays of foreign keys. Nice!!!
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
There is also the completely denormalized solution of embedding all children into parents. This approach could work well when: - you don't access child documents directly - you don't update child documents too often - child documents are us

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