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by alttag 15y ago
This suggests a different alternative exists: re-branding Perl (or PHP) as Perl6 (or PHP5), and consistently using those terms within the community to distinguish the two. Make a point that it is a different language , enforce the usage (v
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by alttag 15y ago
PIrates are saddled with legal limitations too. One of the "features" that has allowed torrent sites to be a bit more difficult to challenge is that they're hosting trackers, not actual files. Legal issues affect both sides.
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, but I have the nagging feeling that it should say "PUT is defined as being idempotent, so it's the responsibility of the programmer to implement it that way." Some frameworks may implement it this way, which is good, but it's something
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by alttag 15y ago
Concur. My sister married a non-citizen. It took three years (and two kids) before her husband's U.S. citizenship was conferred. What a mess.
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by alttag 15y ago
It sounds like this vaccine should be combined with some of the mosquito eradication methods highlighted in a recent HN link [1]. One commenter there ("Ox12") pointed to an article in Nature which argues the reduction in mosquito population
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Jive is hiring senior software/platform engineers (Utah, USA)
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by alttag 15y ago
You say that CV/resume responses were negative, but share things that shouldn't necessarily show up on a resume as possible reasons for failure. Resumes just get you in the door. Most resumes are horrible. I've worked with dozens of people
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by alttag 15y ago
Part of the complaint is that even those who don't use Facebook or opt in to its terms (like me) are still publicly tagged in photos (without my consent) and tracked across the internet (through "like" buttons). So while I agree, simply a
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by alttag 15y ago
Yup. In social science (IIRC, I wish I could find the reference), three conditions much exist to infer causality: 1) Temporal precedence, that is A must precede B in time, 2) correlation, and 3) (IIRC) explanation that confounds have been c
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by alttag 15y ago
> I've heard that it can lead to less frustration when the > child has a means to communicate with the parents. Absolutely. Our youngest kids learned a small handful of signs (five or so) before they could speak, and it ma
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by alttag 15y ago
It's a good point, but I rather suspect that if we can find a link to the studies listed here that economic status would be statistically controlled for. For research at this level I would be greatly surprised if it weren't.
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by alttag 15y ago
Concur. Thank goodness for sensationalist headlines by the HN contributor which allowed us to succumb to the link bait. "No preliminary injunction against use of 'Scrolls' by Mojang" would be better.
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, Goldman paid back (with what looks to be about 4% interest), but the total expenditures of TARP have not yet been recovered, and are still a significant loss. From wikipedia [1]: Of the $245 billion invested in U.S. banks, over $169
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by alttag 15y ago
From TFA: "Goldman said it paid a one-time dividend of $425 million on its preferred stock." (Off of a "loan" of $10 billion USD.) The TARP moneys weren't "loans" in the traditional sense, but equity purchases or preferred shares, which all
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by alttag 15y ago
But the problem with a user-settable window is that a supposed hacker could set it to zero, then delete--which is exactly one of the use cases the "undelete project" desires to handle.
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by alttag 15y ago
I've seen several projects named "validate.js". May I suggest coming up with a different name to let devs know which of the several libraries by that name they're working with? ("valid8.js" is already used too)
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by alttag 15y ago
So? I've on occasion changed my Kindle account address to the U.K. (Amazon's office in Slough, more specifically), ordered a U.K.-only book (back when AMZN and the publishers were having their public spat) and changed my address back. I sus
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BlackBerry co-CEOs seek to control the damage(reuters.com)
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by alttag 15y ago
Content only available to subscribers.
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Programmers are arrogant(alt-tag.com)
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by alttag 15y ago
Wow. A showcase of Fry's incredible gift with language. (I was rather amused by Fry's knock at Lynne Truss, whose book, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves I similarly enjoyed.)
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by alttag 15y ago
Thanks. The article makes more sense now. For example, from the preface: “I liken starting one’s computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with l
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by alttag 15y ago
Years ago in my CS program, someone floated the proposition that there has only ever existed one make file, and all others are edited copies because so few people understand how to craft one. It was certainly true for most of the beginning
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by alttag 15y ago
For some instances where I know it's for marketing purposes but also that they'll use it as a lookup key for my account (e.g., loyalty cards) I give my parent's phone number. Between that and being on the national do not call list (U.S.), I
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by alttag 15y ago
I swear mine does it too. I suspect it mutes alerts after a period of inactivity (but it could be something sneaky like a combination of the photosensor and accelerometer reporting dark and no movement).
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by alttag 15y ago
I think the difficulty in evaluating programming is its often subjective nature. Your article talks about avoidable and unavoidable delays and some of their causes, and while I think you're right, it's only half a picture, and incomplete on
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by alttag 15y ago
Also, tinyproj, a site featured here recently, has weekly lists of freelancing opportunities. Maybe something there will help tide you over.
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by alttag 15y ago
I'm surprised how many people here aren't suggesting more formal education. Only about one-third of Americans have a college degree. Getting one will set you apart. I think the tech field is a bit unique in its disdain for formal education—
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by alttag 15y ago
Okay, releasing on an agile cycle sometimes has delays. I agree. Unfortunately, the author doesn't address solutions, so the article isn't as useful as it might be.
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by alttag 15y ago
Likely because I used SVN for several years (and spent a good deal of time with the excellent free online book [1]), but I find subversion significantly easier than git. Checkout, commit. That's it. Maybe I'm in the minority. 1: http://svnb

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