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by babarock 15y ago
"What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it." This sums up why I disagree with the author. People have been playing and composing m
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There is something that to me still rings very true, almost 20 years later: Microcomputers (computing at large) are very appealing to MBAs, today we'd prefer the term "consultant" or the newly self-appointed Gods of the Software world, the
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Unfortunately, as much as I want to agree with it, the article seriously lacks any credibility. Go claims to present high-level features (namely GC) for low-level system programming. Obviously, this sounds new and ground-breaking. Simply di
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Vaguely related, my mother in law wakes up one day and finds over 20 box of various cookies delivered to her apartment. She contacted the company to let them know of the mistake. They answered that it would cost too much to get them back in
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Imho, it's not xenophobia as much as "foreigners don't vote, who cares about making things better for them".
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My country is not a US "ally", so what I say may not apply to every one. One thing we get used to is the "step aside" treatment. When a border agent sees my Lebanese passport with "arabic gibberish" they usually react the same way. There's
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This is exactly the kind of things that pacman should take care of. Simply "upgrade everything" is not a good practice, it will break for some people, enough to have them annoyed.
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I really like that coffee analogy! I also like the idea that nobody's a loser. And the customer's happier. I'll go a bit further saying that, while nobody's a loser, I also understand the hippie's cry for a change: Everyone around him is bu
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23. I had recently graduated from engineering school and realized that I don't know how to program (despite good grades). I also had the regret of not having any side project. So I decided to spend a few hours a day practicing; it's been al
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No it won't, [[ -f $file ]] will fail and `continue` will be executed, moving on to the next iteration of the loop. Think of the different successive values the $file variable will have. At no point, will it hold the full name of the file a
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This would avoid errors on the files with whitespaces, however it will also avoid compiling them. You cannot make the assumption that a file with a whitespace should not be compiled.
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They don't nest as well as $()
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Correct about the depth issue. Most find versiosn will present an option to do this, although different versions have different syntaxes (-maxdepth 1 for GNU find, -prune for Solaris). Agreed on the difference between sourcing and executing
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Small nitpick: for file in .java; do javac $file; done This will break if the filename contains funky characters like newline or whitespaces. You should prefer using find instead: find . -name ' .java' -exec javac {} \+ Also, I would sugge
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Of all the "Vim tricks" article I came across, this one is my favorite so far. I have been a vim power user for a little over 2 years now. I never bothered installing plugins and spent all my time instead learning ... the exact same command
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Let me put it this way. On a regular week day, I spend around 12-14 hours a day programming (that might change with a kid on the way), only 10 of which are done for my boss. The point is I don't program to make a living. I just make a livin
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Passwords... Again. I can't believe I still have to create an account. Even for a website like HN that I'm completely addicted to, I would've never signed up if it weren't for OpenID. You want me to use your service? Make it easy for me to
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I would also mention the following 2 articles that constitue an absolutely amazing TODO list: What every CS major should know ( http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/ ) 12 resolutions for programmers ( http://matt.might.
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Yes, I'm the original commenter. I was talking about the browser. Actually, my point had very little to do with Netscape itself. I was merely pointing out that an analogous situation has happened before, and ultimately, the browser market (
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I have a Facebook account, that I never use. It's not that I'm against it in theory, I'm just never compelled to use it. I created the account in 2006, then closed it from late 2007 to 2009. I re-opened it because I believe Facbook presents
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The Solaris servers I am on all day at my job (when I'm not procrastinating on HN, that is).
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How come we assume that Google is going to start charging as soon as competitors died? I draw analogies with the IE vs Netscape history. When IE became bundled for free in Windows, Netscape open-sourced its code to survive. Where would the
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# Can I use derived works? Yeah, super awesome!!
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Reminds me of Oracle licensing the Java Hello World: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/applicatio...
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I am not really familiar with the Sun, but people here on HN seem to dismiss the story as a hoax because it's featured on the this website/newspaper. Can anyone please clarify what's its reputation and why should it be mistrusted? Thanks.
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I find that it makes more sense to get the minimal and add what I want, rather than get the huge Ubuntu (and it's not the only one) bundle and try to remove everything that is unnecessary as I discover it. On a complex system I don't know w
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Although I wouldn't word it so aggressively, I too feel compelled to react to your "creating thing" idea. Dismissing OS customization as something that "gets in the way" is a terrible misunderstanding of the role of an OS in "cranking stuff
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I find Archbang to be a good compromise. It presents a minimal Arch install with X+openbox (a la Crunchbang, hence the name) pre-configured. It has a live CD too, so really, it' s just like plain old regular Arch except you don't need a 2nd
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> Apple has become one of the most successful companies ever, while building quality products. Their products are thoughtfully designed by obsessive designers and engineers, the best of the best. Sure Apple's may look like "quality prod
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I've learned programming around 3-4 years ago. I'm 24 and recently graduated. I discovered it a bit late, but fell rapidly in love with it, until last year of engineering school was all about Java EE, .NET and Oracle. Add a 6 month internsh

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