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by apu 18y ago
I have to disagree on all counts. In roughly reverse order: focusing on code size is possibly misleading It's not the best metric, but it's close enough in this case. The whole problem is that large commercial (and some open-source) syste
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by apu 18y ago
Alan Kay has been asking this question for a long time now. His "Viewpoints Research Institute" is doing some interesting work in this direction. http://vpri.org/ One of their projects is to see if they can build a complete software stack
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by apu 18y ago
Except that this version seems to make Firefox massively more unstable.
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by apu 18y ago
Except that you don't exceed it with the example you cited. Facebook is clearly doing much better than those terms, starting at about 4Q 2008.
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A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell(booksatoz.com)
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by apu 18y ago
If you want some more mature books from Piers Anthony, the Apprentice Adept series and Incarnations of Immortality series are better than the Xanth ones. Plus, they're both only 7-8 books long, so it won't take you forever to read the
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by apu 18y ago
http://webpy.org/
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by apu 18y ago
Here's google's english translation. It's not very good, so if a native speaker could translate, that would be great. The transcendental aesthetic What are space and time? Are they really care? Is it only rules or conditions of things, but
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by apu 18y ago
I never said it wasn't accessible or that it doesn't degrade gracefully. I did read the links provided on sIFR. My points remain. An image would degrade just as gracefully and be just as accessible. And graceful degradation/accessibility
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by apu 18y ago
So let me get this straight. In order to make sure everyone sees titles in the same font, they're rendered using flash. So I have to load the buggy flash plugin for a page with all text. I can't select the title. I can't resize the title (n
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by apu 18y ago
Is there a reason the title of the post is in Flash?
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An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes(unixwiz.net)
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In India they seem to make a huge difference. Friends and relatives who went to "IIT Preparation Courses" (6-12 months, at a boarding school, for getting into one of the IITs, the top technical colleges in the country) usually did vastly su
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Am I missing something, or does Lessig's move to Harvard come with a free jacket?
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XRay for some rudimentary placement information: http://www.westciv.com/xray/
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And how many developers have instead opted to make an iPhone-specific version that does not work on other browsers or phones ?
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by apu 18y ago
So you mean John Q. Public is as qualified to speak about science as people who spend several years of their life learning about all the necessary background in their field of study, and then spend the rest of their lives contributing origi
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Lots of bash tips, organized like bash.org: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142045
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What don't you like about this?
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I find that I use English for everything except 2 major classes of thoughts: 1. Art. Specifically, if I'm trying to compare some work of art (music/movie/art), I have a virtual "media player/audiovisual search engine" in my mind that quickl
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Google officially rolls out CalDAV support for Calendar(arstechnica.com)
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Subversion is not terrible at this. It stores binary diffs.
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I remember last year sometime I was at a friend's place and he had DVDs for some of the early seasons, including the one where Conan O' Brien was one of the writers. Watching those, I was amazed at just how much better they were than the la
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by apu 18y ago
The whole site would be more convincing if you included a section on reasons why git is worse than X as well. I don't know git well enough to know these, except for one: handling large binary files that change frequently. It would make it s
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As one data point against your statement, from PG's "Hiring is Obsolete": I asked managers at Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Cisco and Microsoft how they'd feel about two candidates, both 24, with equal ability, one who'd tried to start a startup
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Viewing Large Images - OpenLayers, GSIV, ModestMaps, DeepZoom, and Python(blog.kapilt.com)
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I would actually argue the opposite: the IBM job (or some equivalent big-company job) will always be there. The startup opportunity at [name your startup here] is only available now. Big company jobs tend to be alike in many ways (due to th
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I haven't faced this problem myself, but I have a few friends who've been in somewhat similar situations before. Most were more interested in the smaller company, but due to various reasons (rationalizations?), ended up picking the bigger c
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If possible, I'd advise you to take more challenging and/or more interesting courses. I know there are probably several required courses that you cannot avoid (of which many are probably going to be worthless/boring), but for the ones where
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This is classic, although this is by far one of the worst comments. See the rest: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0833030477/ref=cm_rdp_h... One of my favorites: Once you get about halfway in, the rest of the story is pretty predict

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