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by apl 16y ago
Try Google: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/07/why-you-need-degree-to-w...
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by apl 16y ago
Would you mind explaining why Git is inferior?
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by apl 16y ago
> He's 6 months old currently so I have plenty of time! You do indeed. Don't forget that. You have at least 8 years left before your kid should start doing this kind of thing. Just let him use a computer in a completely natural way, don
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by apl 16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. It's wonderful that their codebases can be enhanced by adding another case to a switch-statement, but that's far from what you'll encounter with complex projects. It works for web 2.0 PHP/Rails stuff. It doesn'
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by apl 16y ago
Dead link?
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by apl 16y ago
otherwise wouldn't they just sell unlocked phones with no particular carrier association? No, not necessarily. Apple will sell more iPhones on one carrier priced at 200$ (+ subsidy) than iPhones that work on all carriers for 750$. S
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by apl 16y ago
This would kill HN almost instantly. Knowing that there is a very real chance that I'm in a rather boring and mundane segment of the community, solely due to being user #232 instead of user #231, would make me think twice about joining and
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by apl 16y ago
I somewhat agree, but you're neglecting the more interesting point: Anonymous posting makes trolling easier, yes, but it also allows for a highly fascinating form of discussion - one that is merit-blind[1]. Right now, certain posters carry
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by apl 16y ago
Vim. Emacs. There's very, very little they can't do. Once you get over the initial bump, you'll find that the main reason why they (seemingly!) haven't changed much since 1995 is simply that they didn't have to.
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by apl 16y ago
Wrong analogy. If you build a web app, you need paying customers. If you write a script, you need to get a producer to read it, like it and finance it. Different aims require different kinds of marketing - for writers it's networking on the
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by apl 16y ago
Correct, correct, correct. Television (and music and film, for that matter) are hardly a meritocracy. What ends up on screens and CDs isn't determined by quality, at least not primarily. There are fantastic scripts out there, masterpieces t
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by apl 16y ago
Buy a few books and build something in python, and when you're done reread the books and build something in python (this is a recursive sentence!). Well, no, it's not. But never mind. Still reasonably good advice...
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by apl 16y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right. It's a blessing for the BSD community. However, when someone mentions "most/all" free operating systems, then Linux and related ecosystems are one hell of a big elephant in the room.
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by apl 16y ago
No, we won't. The respective communities have been developing with GCC in mind for years. While clang is fantastic, I doubt that an outright replacement will take place. But emancipated co-existence would be neat.
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by apl 16y ago
From a European perspective, this stuff is deeply disturbing. I'm not entirely sure what the blogger's stance is, but I have some hope left that he's going for irony here.
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by apl 16y ago
It's actually a really good point. Things is so desperately in need of cloud-y syncing, I can't even begin to describe it. Apparently they're working on it. Still, embarrassing. All the others are getting it right. Well, maybe there's a fea
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by apl 16y ago
It sounds like Microsoft is adaptive and pragmatic. What's not to like about that? I really wish this was all there is to it, but their behavior doesn't qualify as adaptive and pragmatic as far as I'm concerned. It qualifies as aiml
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by apl 16y ago
I'd say this assessment is largely spot-on. By introducing the App Store, Apple could channel the large community of developers churning out commodity software for iOS towards the Mac. Now they just need to make porting from iOS to MacOS X
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by apl 16y ago
Fantastic stuff for certain communities. Using Google to site-search SO.com is a wonderful resource. I'm not a .NET developer, but if I were, then I'd appreciate this data-aggregating shortcut.
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by apl 16y ago
So Microsoft is still a gargantuan hydra with different heads fighting each other? It's fairly fascinating. On the one hand, you get this sensible, open Microsoft - the company that still delivers reasonably good Desktop products, has a gre
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by apl 16y ago
Unfortunately, yes. "Hackers and Painters" is a rather famous instance of that particular non-analogy. Given that you've published a book under this title, however, I doubt that there's any point in debating the issue here. So I'll just say
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by apl 16y ago
I fully agree. Zuckerbergs comment obviously resonates with the startup-happy audience he was and is facing, so the reaction here as well as there doesn't surprise. But I openly doubt that the history of Facebook rests on nothing but the de
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by apl 16y ago
Can we stop over-applying the word "hacker" to everything that produces something or other? I know that Graham loves doing that, but it just dilutes the term till it becomes utterly vacuous. Screenwriters are not hackers. There's very, very
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by apl 16y ago
I strongly suspect you're kidding. In two years, you can't achieve anything on an instrument.
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by apl 16y ago
Fair point, and coming from a great programmer, but he's neglecting crucial factors such as compatibility and reliability. A color-sensitive language probably exists somewhere out there (hell, Brainfuck is very real), but widespread adoptio
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by apl 16y ago
It's neither true nor "reality." There is a significant difference between privacy and secrecy. Let's assume I regularly search for terms x, y, z, but don't want anyone to know about it. There are two possible explanations. Maybe the reason
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by apl 16y ago
Someone has to play the advocatus diaboli: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar... It's shocking, but also shockingly funny. Caveat emptor, guys. Personally, I'm appalled but hardly surprised. On average, the inter
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by apl 16y ago
Deep down, I always knew that the only factor differentiating the Mac from everything else is that it's damn expensive in Australia.
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by apl 16y ago
> Aside from the fact that hundreds of thousands of people > and businesses are doing exactly the same thing as him > (we’re called contractors and it’s called advertising) Thanks for pointing that out. The internet
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by apl 16y ago
I like Django as much as the next guy, but the framework-obsession that has developed over the past few years does indeed tick me off. There are certain instances (i.e., full-blown web applications) that benefit a lot from employing abstrac

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