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by babarock 14y ago
Possibly relevant: http://www.tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/a_proposa...
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by babarock 14y ago
I don't mean it as an attack, but it really reflects badly on the movement when people talk about "the spirit of Open Source" that way. Historically, the "spirit" of Open Source (or the motivation to part from the FSF, which was the birth o
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This kind of story seem to come up over and over in the programming world. I'd like to add something from my experience working in large development companies. The first months or so, it's perfectly understandable that a new developer doesn
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I don't think it's about his "innocence" or lack thereof. The problem is that authorities are sending me, and thousand of other computer literate people like me across France, a very clear message: It's okay to download music illegally as l
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by babarock 14y ago
I'm a little confused. Are Linus (and Alan, Ingo and even Ted Ts'o) arguing that the GNOME team experiences breakages because they ignored the kernel team practices and used internal interfaces instead of the public ones? Also why do they r
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by babarock 14y ago
As long as we're on this subject, I'd like to strongly encourage programmers to adopt a "pen-and-paper" approach to problem solving. Just like mentionned in the article, there are great benefits coming from actually writing down the problem
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by babarock 14y ago
To me the real bad news is that I'm scared shitless to develop and commercialize anything now. No invention is truely innovative, not a single product on the market today is truely original. We're all influenced by the same factors and we'r
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by babarock 14y ago
A couple of remarks: - As mentionned by others, I wouldn't pay for this data. It's not that it's not worth it, it's because I would only need it at the beginning of a project, which is rare enough to justify the monthly fee. That said, if I
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by babarock 14y ago
Just downloaded it. Here are a few things to note: - As soon as installed, the app will download emacs from a 3rd party repo. You have the option to specify your own, I picked the default one. - The app consists apparently of a terminal emu
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by babarock 14y ago
I do not disagree with you, but this is not answering his arguments. Math is the language of science[...]. There are many ways to learn a language, but I think they all have something in common. You have to spend a lot of time learning, re
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by babarock 14y ago
Continuing on this off-topic, this construct is not optimal and can possibly break if one of the filenames has some funky characters (spaces, line breaks, carriage returns, unprintable characters, ...). This happens (unfortunately) more oft
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by babarock 14y ago
The main difference between the two, in my humble opinion, is that PowerShell is a nice (and powerful) addition to a Windows system, whereas the Shell is a fundamental component of Unix. Of course, the two shells may be equivalent in terms
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by babarock 14y ago
Also, years of evangelism will teach you that you cannot convince someone that Vim is better , let alone great . A lot of the propaganda out there starts by telling people "you're doing it wrong! Let me show you the better way!". Vim is
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by babarock 14y ago
In my humble (user) opinion, cancelation flow is extremely crucial for your image. I cannot begin to tell you how infuriating the Facebook cancellation process was. If you've never been through it, here's what it boils down to: - "Cancel my
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by babarock 14y ago
You can see from the answers in this thread that certifications, if worthy of anything at all, are deeply looked down upon by the same kind of people who read HN. And more often than not, these are the kind of people you want to be working
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Ask HN: PHP coders, what's preventing you from changing language?
7 points by babarock 14y ago|16 comments
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I don't know about realtime features, but the point of the article, ( not necessarily the point the military is trying to make) is that open source produces more secure software. The power of open source is somewhat proportional to its po
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by babarock 14y ago
> A developer is a writer; one writes English and the other writes code, but they both write to a human audience (the only "code" a machine needs to see is 0s and 1s; programming languages are for humans). I definitely agree with this!
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Manage your bash prompt(tech-thoughts-blog.com)
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by babarock 14y ago
It is too easy to characterize the issue as creators vs distributors. There is something oddly different about the case at hand. Pirate Bay/Youtube vs Sony/Viacom have one thing in common: content creator doesn't understand new means of dis
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by babarock 14y ago
I think Linux played an important role in providing a free and Open Source Unix at a time where the BSDs were fighting demons both internal (segregation of their community) and external (with all their lawsuits). Linux was the turning point
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by babarock 14y ago
You seem to imply that GNU userland tools are: 1. an inherent part of the Operating System. 2. the only way Linux can be used. The first point is debatable. In academic circles (where Linus has spent a big part of his career), operating sys
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by babarock 14y ago
I'm going to be a tad pedantic and note the following: - bash and make are completely separate programs. As a matter of fact, I spend half of my time developing with ksh and Solaris make. The two programs you mention don't go 'hand in hand'
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Knowing HN, it will inevitably trigger discussions about the organization of conferences. For better or worse. The article is not about rms, but about the venue where the celebrity got robbed.
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I did not mean to say that 100 euros is too expensive for the conference, but that I am not willing to pay this amount of money simply to get introduced to the hacker scene here in the city. Also, thanks for Lanyrd, it does seem to answer m
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by babarock 14y ago
100 euros seems a bit too much for me, especially that I'm not interested in Javascript, but I would love to get in touch with the hacker's community here in Paris. Does anyone know how or where can I get to know them? What are the upcoming
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by babarock 14y ago
I guess what my grandparent said, albeit in a slightly dismissing tone, is that relying on tools like Valgrind or Purify to produce good code makes for weak programmers. The days spent trying to track down missing frees can be reduced to ho
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by babarock 14y ago
I absolutely love writing C. Up until late 2011, it was by far the language I used the most. I am now learning Lisp (not exactly, I'm using Lisp in SICP), and use Python more than before. One thing I realized, is that reading C is more
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by babarock 14y ago
You can do something similar in any language that support booleans as keys for dictionaries/hashtables/maps/associative arrays/... For instance in Lua: function abs(x) test = { [true]=-x, [x>0]=x,
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Unix and the Unix philosophy(tech-thoughts-blog.com)
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