amackera

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   by amackera 15y ago

   I guess I must be a Twitter power user (I'm not really), but I find Twitter 4 to be excellently simplifying for my every-day usage of Twitter. It gives me a timeline. I can quickly post a tweet. It quickly shows me my @ conversations. It sh
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   by amackera 15y ago

   Though I understand and largely agree with your argument, the reason why I don't call myself an Engineer is that I know that people may not understand the distinction. I legally cannot call myself a "Professional Engineer". In order to pr
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   by amackera 15y ago

   Honestly I think this is a good thing.
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   by amackera 15y ago

   I believe it is possible also, good luck!
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   by amackera 15y ago

   I have a degree in Computer Engineering, but I've never got a PE license either. The important thing is that I don't ever call myself an Engineer . I am a programmer, or developer, or whatever; calling myself an Engineer would be dishonest
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   by amackera 15y ago

   I think it's more of a cultural difference. "Engineer" just doesn't mean the same thing south of the border; it means more like "developer", or perhaps "technical employee".
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   by amackera 15y ago

   Nice job shipping your 1.1! I'm always interested to see new developments with this project.
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   by amackera 15y ago

   Is this speech available to watch online? I'm curious!
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   by amackera 15y ago

   I am also interested in this concept. What if a change requires a migration of my database?
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    by amackera 15y ago

    I'm not sure that usage indicates even rough numbers of hackers. Hacking OS code is a bit more daunting than hacking RoR code (at least in popular opinion), therefore I would think that more users of RoR are likely to hack on it. That said,
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    by amackera 15y ago

    I believe it was the Trojans who burned the Greeks' ships in the Iliad .
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    by amackera 15y ago

    There's a pretty massive software ecosystem surrounding Flash. Tons and tons of mature libraries for Flash. Not so much for HTML5 (though that will change with mass adoption and time).
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    by amackera 15y ago

    We are going for a fun hacker ethos---come, build, be merry. Everybody is welcome :)
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    by amackera 15y ago

    Why is it that universal health care is not viable in the USA?
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    by amackera 15y ago

    It probably depends on how we are defining "learned". Does it mean memorizing all the functions in language x's stdlib? Is it learning the grammar of the language? Is it coding a project of x many lines of code? Have you learned a language
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    by amackera 15y ago

    Copyright(s) come in two forms: (1) moral, and (2) economic. You are talking about the moral rights, OP is talking about economic rights. Both are part of copyright law (at least in Canada). Also IANAL.
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    by amackera 15y ago

    Conversely, breaking all the rules almost always makes you a bad person.
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    by amackera 15y ago

    You may be right to suggest another book as an eager student's introduction to Ruby, but the Poignant Guide is a really awesome book that absolutely deserves a mention. The meandering storyline and its quirky character are part of its charm
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    by amackera 15y ago

    It is doing something useful, it's computing and keeping track of transactions that occur across the network.
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    by amackera 15y ago

    How about just dropping food?
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    by amackera 15y ago

    "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" [1] Having said that, I do agree with you. imgur memes appearing on HN are worrisome. [1] ht
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    by amackera 15y ago

    Methinks that 99% of PSN users can't remember their own passwords.
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    by amackera 15y ago

    Get the hipsters on your side and you're all set. I'm serious.
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    by amackera 16y ago

    You're pretty deluded if you think that C is a "useless" language.
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    by amackera 16y ago

    The entire point of social networks is that they personalize the information stream that the user sees, making that information more valuable (this raises the SNR). At least that's how I see it. I guess the ease and ubiquity of Facebook has
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    by amackera 16y ago

    69696, seriously?
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    by amackera 16y ago

    I learned to program on modern FOSS computing environments and I must say that I think a simpler, more constrained learning environment would have helped me out a lot. It's obviously dependent on the student's learning style, but having com
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    by amackera 16y ago

    Should also mention that SimAnt is awesome .
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    by amackera 16y ago

    Neuromancer by William Gibson. Single handedly (bookedly?) got me interested in how the Internet worked and how computers work. It also gave me an unshakable belief that programming was somehow cool . It's fiction, but there's nothing wr
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    by amackera 16y ago

    The post doesn't claim that the fee isn't waived, or that the limit is enforced, it just claims that there is a fee, and there is a limit. Whether they are enforced in the future is of course still possible.