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by ambition 18y ago
The search function for "java" brings up http://www.exposedseo.com/?s=java&x=0&y=0&=Go Which seems to be the intended article. And has nothing to do with Java. It's about Javascript. To be fair, I did learn a neat Firefox tric
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by ambition 18y ago
Age is useful as a cheap early heuristic because it correlates with lots of other useful information. I don't think the typical differences between young and old are actually complementary. Older people have some potential advantages in exp
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by ambition 18y ago
Right. Assuming the Wikipedia article is to be believed, the results relative to some of the effects he claimed were unsubstantial. A dramatic overall effect on cognitive function was not found. In the article, he talked about studying a te
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by ambition 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_effect
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by ambition 18y ago
It's easy to forget how fortunate we are to be in an industry in which good working conditions are positively correlated with good results. What a sobering reminder.
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by ambition 18y ago
When I call them lies, I didn't mean to say they don't exist, or that two people can't be happy, in love and monogamous forever. But we certainly misrepresent to children the prevalence of this sort of thing. Look at fairy tales and movies.
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by ambition 18y ago
I say all of the following at risk of being wrong. Mentally prefix each sentence with "I'm not sure but". The ranking system puts together the number of points a story receives and the recency. Your karma is the total score of your submissi
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Dreamhost implements Passenger; Rails on shared hosting becomes easy(dreamhoststatus.com)
15 points by ambition 18y ago|7 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
That was a great article. It also touched on a commonly-told lie which pg's essay didn't mention: Eternal true love and monogamy in marriage.
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by ambition 18y ago
It takes a great deal of discipline to manage all your productive output in a system. It requires a significant upfront time commitment to initialize the system. It's complex enough that it fills a book. It's really best suited someone who
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by ambition 18y ago
There is literally a book called Getting Things Done by David Allen. The system in its entirety is too hard core for most people (myself included) but the principles are good.
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by ambition 18y ago
I agree with you that the author is overly negative. If github provides some value to some people, more power to them. At the same time, I object to "doesn't know the value of time." As an independent coder, I can turn two hours into a work
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by ambition 18y ago
I took a glance at the table of contents, but more efficient to ask you directly: What does this book add or teach that isn't out there already? I hope that doesn't come across as snarky, I don't mean it to be.
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by ambition 18y ago
I highly recommend taking a skim through Seth Godin's "The Bootstrapper's Bible". http://www.changethis.com/8.BootstrappersBible
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by ambition 18y ago
Read Godel Escher Bach. Given the comment above, you'll like it.
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by ambition 18y ago
I don't know about a database, if you find one or make one, please post it here. But you can often get the information out of DNS. I'm on a Windows machine right now, so for example "ping -a" is your proof of concept. Basically you just wan
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by ambition 18y ago
User testing is one area where free software has a fundamental disadvantage vs. paid-for programs. Programmers can turn their time into code with no need of money. Unfortunately, proper user testing costs real money. Paid-for programs have
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How to ask smart questions, by Eric Raymond(catb.org)
1 points by ambition 18y ago|4 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
When someone invests in something there is an implicit assumption on both sides: As a buyer/investor, I assume that your present value is greater than your price. This is what happens when people buy undervalued stocks. In better cases, I a
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by ambition 18y ago
I thought it wasn't all just data. Don't some cell networks still have circuit-switched voice and packet-switched data?
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by ambition 19y ago
I noticed this happening in my blog's logs months ago, for my blog's search form. I thought it was fascinating. The keywords it chose to search were generally meaningful words that occurred frequently on the site. I'm not sure if they were
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by ambition 19y ago
Having spent a few days with him in person, I would say that it's 80% Internet persona. He's a good guy. He's a strongly opinionated guy with an overdeveloped sense of justice, but he's smart, kind, and not nearly as egotistical as he seems
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by ambition 19y ago
Oh, you're right, I had missed that. Yeah, that's dumb. I can't think of any iterators that would leave useful information in the parameters, either.
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by ambition 19y ago
It is supposed to work this way for some good reasons. But! Enough people have had the same problem as you that new versions of Ruby behave the way you expect.
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by ambition 19y ago
I've noticed a bias in favour of "What I learned first is better." It applies whether the topic of discussion is programming languages and operating systems or politics and religious values. (Pre-emption: "bias", not "law".) Psychologists h
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by ambition 19y ago
I bet the alternatives that were considered were: class Parent { void a() {...} void b() {...} void c() {...} void d() {...} ... void zzz() {...} } class B { Parent m_a; vo
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by ambition 19y ago
Of course. I'm curious: Do you want to quote the summary, or the evaluation?
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by ambition 19y ago
Summary: If superclass has method X with behaviour Y, do not override X to have behaviour Z in a subclass, because this violates the spirit of inheritance semantics. To be fair, his version is long, persuasive and well-written. And it has
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by ambition 19y ago
I don't think there's a single method that is optimal for all people. For example, I think there's an inflection point in your optimal strategy when your tasks pass the point where you can actually do all of them. For myself, I like to refr
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by ambition 19y ago
It's the same problem as current passwords, but with higher consequences for those who don't use the same userid and password across sites.

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