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by babarock 14y ago
The way I look at it the problem is a bit more subtle than that. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not a US-citizen either. Recent technology is making several business models (of which the RIAA is a great example) obsolete. These bus
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by babarock 14y ago
And maybe, just maybe, programming is more than "typical crud apps". A recurring bias here on HN is to believe that all programmers are web devs, stacking simple business logic on top of a database. What you call "many (or even most) projec
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by babarock 14y ago
Keep in mind that functional isn't better or worse than OOP. What you see on HN is merely a reaction to the trend in the past decade (a trend still going on today) to teach OOP as the only de facto paradigm to use. If Functional Programming
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by babarock 14y ago
I completely agree that age-based classes is stupid. But what's the alternative? The idea of classifying 5 year old kids based on any kind of factor scares the hell out of me.
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by babarock 14y ago
I'm a programmer, albeit not a game one. I have an honest question: How difficult is it to write a game whose source code is portable? I understand that Carmack and Id work on the kind of game which needs very strong optimizations, and I ca
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by babarock 14y ago
For what it's worth, it won't work on my Linux Debian box either...
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by babarock 14y ago
Again bad example, Iran is not an Arab country. They don't speak the same language, they don't share the same culture, they consider themselves the descendants of the Persian Empire, not the Caliphate (the big Arab Empire a few hundred year
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by babarock 14y ago
I'm confused... What's the relationship between Arabs and Pakistan/Afghanistan? There's a difference between being Arab and being Muslim. The greatest Muslim countries are not Arab (Indonesia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan). "Islamic unification"
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by babarock 14y ago
Very good points! >> it does not see a line between NGOs, the NYT/WSJ, and the US government. Aren't we all doing the same mistake when we refer to them? All we know is that the attacks came from China, so we safely assume it came f
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by babarock 14y ago
I've been using apt-get on this laptop for 2 years. If I start running aptitude, what should I know?
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by babarock 14y ago
I work in the IT department of a major European investment bank. I can assure you that they're willing to pay high salaries to hire experts in said old technologies. Mainframes are still in use, COBOL devs are in very high demand and findin
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by babarock 14y ago
I'd even argue that the best time to deploy is during the best engineers' working hours. At least you guarantee they're around when/if things go bad. And by "best", I don't mean all stars (a la Fitzpatrick, Norvig, Pike or other Google cele
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by babarock 14y ago
I don't disagree with you but there's a fine limit between asking questions and asking to be hand held. And it also works the other way around: I cannot stand when a member of the team is too afraid/shy/... to say "I don't understand". (I'm
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by babarock 14y ago
I don't like the way `find` is being criticized, both in the article and in your comment. I won't go into pointless bickering on why it's a wonderful tool and "my stuff is better than yours". Let's keep using the tool we're each comfortable
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by babarock 14y ago
I was a Vim exclusive for several years before shifting cold turkey to emacs on the 01/01/2012 (first new year resolution I keep in my life!). My impression is still the same as day one: I will never reach the same raw speeds in emacs as
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by babarock 14y ago
I agree with you that it's poorly worded, however keep in mind that they're giving red flags . The way I understand it they mean "clues that the speaker might be engaging in pseudo-science" and not a definitive arbitrary rejection. Experie
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by babarock 14y ago
I highly recommend "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy
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by babarock 14y ago
Thank you for the explanation.
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Am I the only one who thinks that SSD are useless since most of the time the processing will be bottlenecked by the network overhead?
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by babarock 14y ago
Does everything have to be about mainstream audience? I don't know if DDG's goal is to take over Google's market share, but I can say that, as a (wannabe) hacker, I've been using it as my default search engine for the past year or so. What
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by babarock 14y ago
Because you trusted the wrong people, and this has consequences. The customer has to suffer from the mistakes of the companies so that: 1. She stops trusting any company blindly with her data. 2. The market demands improvements from the ser
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by babarock 14y ago
I noticed something weird in the programming community: We all seem to want really hard to believe that programming is easy. I know I got definitely caught up in this whole idea, and attempted to teach programming to everyone around me (gir
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by babarock 14y ago
There are two things I can think of: 1. Static typing can help in reducing the function name. 2. Programming Languages give us means of combinations and abstractions in order to avoid that exact problem. For example: class RMG_Serialize inh
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by babarock 14y ago
I may be going out on a limb here, but I don't think he's actually suggesting using `reduce(operator.add, ...)` instead of `sum()`. He argues himself a few slides later that short functions are always better than long ones. If you look at t
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by babarock 14y ago
What? No! He's not pushing for a move to the cloud. He actually did criticize the way we're building the cloud today: > "This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutiona
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by babarock 14y ago
It's a matter of muscle memory. I used Vim exclusively for several years, and used vi-mode on my shells. Now that I've switched to emacs, my fingers are more comfortable using Ctrl-<key> for commands.
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And who says it's a problem? I only say it's, in my opinion, a subtle obstacle to developing a truely startup-friendly environment. Is society better off that way? probably. I actually like it here. But it's also probably one of the reasons
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by babarock 14y ago
Unfortunately, that's not what the corporate filter I'm stuck behind says.
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by babarock 14y ago
I agree with what you say, but it doesn't really contradict what I'm saying: - the "wanting to be rich" is a bit of a cliche, but it's still a major social taboo. As a foreigner who came to France, that was a major culture shock. True, peop
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by babarock 14y ago
I live in France, I work in the IT sector. I can completely agree with what you say. From my point of view here are the biggest problems entrepreneurs have to face here: - French labor law gives much more power to the employee over the busi

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