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by apotheon 16y ago
If I were to recommend only one Java book, it would probably be some kind of "Ruby for Java Developers" book. I kid, I kid. Kind of.
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by apotheon 16y ago
What annoys me about Zuckerberg is his own obvious connection to Facebook's in-practice attitudes toward user privacy. Perhaps "asshole" is the wrong term for him, really. It's possible he even means well. Meaning well is no excuse for ta
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I think the fact The Pragmatic Programmer is a little less "crunchy", in terms of the technical content, than books like SICP and Code Complete probably has something to do with the fact it doesn't seem to get mentioned as much any long
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by apotheon 16y ago
I have a submission link to HN on a Website. I'd really like a way to show two pieces of information in that link: 1. whether or not the page has already been submitted to HN 2. how many comments, if any, have been made in HN discussion ab
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by apotheon 16y ago
> Browse SourceForge or GitHub . . . or BitBucket or Google Code or even Launchpad. I use BitBucket almost exclusively, because I prefer Mercurial over Git, for instance. So does a friend of mine, who has about ten different small (but
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by apotheon 16y ago
Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard of this site. Thanks for linking it.
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For someone just getting started, I'd be more inclined to recommend picking a smaller codebase.
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Agreed. I'd say a good approach would go something like this: 1. have a taste for using simple, clean tools 2. when in need of software, see if you can find simple, clean tools that do what you need 3. prefer those that use languages you k
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Don't be so sure that WordPress attracts so many developers that are so much better than you. It might get a few, but from what I've seen of the codebase, the project could stand to gain a few more contributors who can code their way out o
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by apotheon 16y ago
I don't think it was meant so much as a zinger. It was more of an outsider's clueful view of what the Zuckerberg character has been doing wrong all those years. Judging by the portrayal in the movie, the Zuckerberg character actually has
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Do you have a link to the appropriate text somewhere out there on the Interwebs?
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It turns out it worked when I did it this time. I must have had an elusive typo in my previous attempt. Thanks again.
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Hm. I tried that -- but I guess I must have screwed it up somehow when I tried it, because it didn't work. Thanks for confirming I had the right idea the first time. I'll try it again. I frankly don't much care whether I can get the numb
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Ask HN: How do I make a submission link to HN?
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Lessig tells a good story, and makes important points about the power and value of an Internet free from stifling regulation. He mistakes the source of at least half the regulation, though, and casts a scurrilous, unethical bastard of an e
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I just started writing my own Weblog-oriented CMS this week, called Lump, and started using it at blogstrapping.com -- and not only can I post to it without opening a browser, but there is actually no way to post to it with the browser at a
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Outsourcing discussion to social news sites(blogstrapping.com)
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Copyfree vs Copyleft - WikiVS(wikivs.com)
1 points by apotheon 16y ago|0 comments
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Every time I see something like this, I am reminded of my disappointment that such a great language (Objective-C) has somehow been relegated to the ghetto of platform-specific languages, in practice if not in technical truth. I would love
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How To Read A Press Release(mmorpg.com)
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There were more useful alternatives to the GIF at the time, though, and the GIF didn't have such a lock on related patents. GIF was one patented format; h.264 is a fuck-ton of patents related to the development and implementation of code
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The Stallman/FSF conception of "free software" is about communism, though. You don't need to give everything away for everything to be free. A copyfree license (BSD license, MIT/X11 license, OWL, et cetera) is just as much a "free softwar
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by apotheon 16y ago
When nobody can possibly lose, that means nobody can possibly win, either. . . . which sounds a lot like everybody losing, at least to me.
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. . . or use Vim with `:set spell`.
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> It's better than watching re-runs of 7th Heaven. What isn't better than that?
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Is this where we all sing kumbayah together?
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I think the importance of freedom as it applies to software is often underrated. The idea of freedom in software use and development is really a near-perfect model in microcosm of intellectual freedom as a whole, and there's little that ca
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Hacker culture not only is alive and well -- it was alive and well through those years, too. It was just less visible, and since Stallman was moving through different circles, it wouldn't have felt as much to him like it was all cluste
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Stallman's hubris is shocking -- and I'm not talking about his claim that the world is a better place for him having lived. I'm talking about this line of shit: > I’m the last survivor of a dead culture.
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Even if hardware performance didn't improve as much as it has (and that's a really big if), it would have improved. Software might not have eaten up all the performance profits, either, though. Overall, we might have had more clock cycles

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