antidoh

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by antidoh 14y ago
Sign me up. Oh, wait, they have that now, in the form of torrent sites. I think their prospectus would have some statement of existential risk.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"We can only hope that it'll work out in our favor" This is America. We'll have to catch up to South Korea first.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"For instance because you have componentized your product into different repositories, use different combinations of the components in different projects, but are still actively developing many of them simultaneously on each of those projec
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by antidoh 14y ago
I've never used git in-the-large, which may be why I don't understand: Why must some other library/module be part of my project? Why not reference and maintain the external lib/mod externally? We've been doing that for decades. It seems a
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by antidoh 14y ago
If he never claimed the credential then I would be more than willing to judge him on his accomplishments. Lying about the credential wipes out his accomplishments, at least as a C level steward of shareholder value and employee well being.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I don't have and have never used an iPad. When I watched this video I was thinking "You mean this isn't how iPad typing works already?" If I had an iPad, and typing worked this way, I wouldn't even notice it as a thing. Of course it would
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Mr. Page -- tear down this wall." One more reason not to use Google for things you care about. It may be relatively rare, but once you're locked out for any good, bogus or no reason, you're screwed. Google is within their rights to disallo
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by antidoh 14y ago
Agree about 75%, in the context of distributing a script. However, for private use, and sometimes even for distributing a script, taking advantage of a particular shell's isms is merely taking advantage of your tools. The article author's
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by antidoh 15y ago
"Will all of this be around in twenty or thirty years?" No.
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by antidoh 15y ago
It's one of the best justifications for caution. Or as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai once said, "Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
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by antidoh 15y ago
Actually I was thinking that should be the content industry's next business model. People subscribe to torrent/content services. The services buy licenses for content. People download content. It's almost the same thing as radio, the differ
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by antidoh 15y ago
"Since 1980s, the decision power in US corporations started to move to the hands of shareholders. They care about short term profits, not about the employees." Wow, that's quite a coincidence, because I don't really give a rat's ass about t
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by antidoh 15y ago
Most people don't know what they're doing. To be able to fill one's head with a script in the form of shareholder value is a godsend for such managers. It sure beats trying to understand the employee machine.
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by antidoh 15y ago
"healthcare costs companies alot of money, and it may be something that a large percentage of them would like to avoid" They are reducing it, by putting a larger share of the cost on to the employee. The key here is not that health insuranc
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by antidoh 15y ago
Some old languages have also made that choice, albeit recently in Python's case: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3120/
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by antidoh 15y ago
Text is maddening, the modern Tower of Babel. Is there a definitive reference, or small handful of references, to learn all that's worth knowing about text, from ASCII to UTF-∞ and beyond?