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by babarock 15y ago
>suing Google has a severely steep climb up a very tall mountain. Google hires the best lawyers and they fight like bulldogs. Polite bulldogs. But they don't just roll over, and Google's track record is very, very impressive. Can't we a
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by babarock 15y ago
I'm currently reading SICP (the original one). Even though it's LISP instead of Python, the syllabus seems to be very implementation-agnostic. Tail recursion optimization is nice and comes in handy, but I don't think it matters much in the
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by babarock 15y ago
A little off topic, but reading from week one include a Unix/Emacs tutorial. I wish they would stop defining "cat" as a command to "displays the content of specified files". This trend in the "Unix teaching" community is leading to a lot of
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by babarock 15y ago
Why not make the logging in process easier? I don't want to register to your website, but I wouldn't mind authenticating with my Google open-id.
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Ask HN: How many times did you bump into wikipedia yesterday?
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by babarock 15y ago
Are there ways to measure how much of the traffic is actually due to reddit being out. I bet there are other reasons for the growth in traffic, like the fact that HN has been making a great job at covering SOPA/PIPA for the past few weeks,
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Even Godaddy puts up a anti-SOPA banner(godaddy.com)
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by babarock 15y ago
I'm confused. According to the Wikipedia article on Java, the source code is released under GPL. Isn't this enough for Canonical to host and distribute the binaries?
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by babarock 15y ago
Let's define what root access means. It's not a fancy "feature" that only "advanced" users will know how to use. You don't really "own" a device unless you have root access. The way I see it, "non-root" users are the feature preventing harm
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by babarock 15y ago
The tinker's tartare would at least come with root access. That "thing" I have running on my Samsung is anything but hacker-friendly. Instead it does a perfect job of feeding Google's advertisements as well as the crap both the manufacturer
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by babarock 15y ago
I apologize in advance if what I'm about to say may sound harsh, mean or elitist, but the truth is programming isn't for everyone. While the intent of the article is very noble ("improving the usability of Codecademy"), it also raises very
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by babarock 15y ago
I'm one of the young foolish programmers mentioned in the article. While I don't think every problem can be brute forced with code, I do feel that the only problems worth working on are those solved with code. Code can be a end itself, and
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by babarock 15y ago
Wasn't this same book on the front page of HN just a few weeks ago? It just seems so random to see it appear again today? Was there a special release announcement that I'm not seeing?
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by babarock 15y ago
When you hear Linus speak about his workflow when working on the kernel, he always mentions his "Web of Trust" concept. I think the problem is not inherent to github, but rather to the idea we have when we foolishly think of the possibiliti
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by babarock 15y ago
I don't know LISP well enough to ponder how portable all the existing elisp code base would be portable to CL. Imho this could be the deciding factor between a permanent shift for emacs or a mere fork.
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by babarock 15y ago
Why is HN helping David out by giving him exposure? Is it because we feel that he truly deserves a shot? or is because we want to believe that non-intrusive self-promotion should be gratified? I'm giving him an upvote on account of a little
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by babarock 15y ago
More important than the software suite they use, I wish they would impose the use of open formats. After that, they (and generations of people to come) can use which ever reader software they like.
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by babarock 15y ago
I might have missed it, but I cannot believe they haven't implemented "nicknames"/pseudonymes yet. I thought they had promised it a while ago. How long till we see it? I'm usually not the paranoid 'Google-has-all-your-data-be-afraid-of-your
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by babarock 15y ago
Do they announce these things somewhere, or did someone actually input "let it snow" and thought to post it here?
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by babarock 15y ago
That's the point you can't. I live in France and remember when the "3 strikes" law was passed. People complained about intruders breaking in ther home networks to download illegaly. Government asnwered: "you should be responsible for securi
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by babarock 15y ago
So if my little brother at home gets caught 6 times, is it okay for me to say "wasn't me, t'was my little bro"?
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by babarock 15y ago
Linking is really the only feature I care about in the web. And it's not a negligible one. I'm tired of all the Flash animations, the AJAX updates or other fade-ins and shiny effects. It looks pretty, but I'm not connecting to a website to
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by babarock 15y ago
Asking me to register before I test your website? Really? Yay! I just love doing that! And by registering, you mean username + password + confirm password + email + captcha ... I hope I'm going to get a confirmation email, I don't get nearl
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by babarock 15y ago
And I'm still convinced that there is a market for 10-15$ games. It's just that today's customer won't pay that much for the cute 2d physics game, or the classic reproduction of Super Mario in Flash. I believe there's a range in between the
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by babarock 15y ago
Thanks, now I understand why all these websites still haven't answered my signing up for beta, 3 months ago.
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by babarock 15y ago
Boo-hoo, prices have droped. Guess what? So have the costs of developing and publishing your game! I understand the price drop is not proportional to the cost decrease, but that's not even important. The people behind Steam or Humble Bundle
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by babarock 15y ago
I'm not a US citizen. 1) To what extent am I really going to get affected by such a bill? 2) Is there anything I can do to prevent it?
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by babarock 15y ago
Thank you. I was confused for a while.