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by babarock 14y ago
What good does this guys admission of being stupid do to other bills like PIPA? It shows the negotiating power of the Internet to the world. After all, the bill was defeated by online communities like Reddit, Wikipedia or HN right here.
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I never sold a single app in my life, I loathe the app-store model and I strongly oppose any limitation to technology in the name of making any business model work. That never prevented me from making money off my programming skills, and th
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Honestly, I don't think the 'donate' model is a viable one. Sure you can make some money off of it, but that cannot be the norm. I think. Maybe (hopefully) I'm wrong. Now don't get me wrong, I think that selling music in the internet ag
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Why do so many languages choose JS as a 'middle' language? Is it something inherent to the language itself that makes it particularly easy/attractive? Or is it simply because of the availability of the interpreter in the browser?
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I really don't like it at all! Don't get me wrong, as an engineer I think it's a very exciting project. But as a guitarist, who spends a lot of time teaching others how to play, I could not think of a more misguided idea of what the instrum
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I'm not entirely surprised. A few months ago (a year and a half! wow!) GS hired Ulrich Drepper, the longtime project lead of the GNU C library. I also read another article (no way I can find it again now) saying how big investment banks are
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A short, vastly incomplete history of Unix(tech-thoughts-blog.com)
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I think the "cult of Tesla" preceded the comic. It seems to me like conspiracy theorists particularly affectionate this story, for some reason. I guess that the author was simply refuting the comic as the latest manifestation of an annoying
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Is there any way to know who owned the shares in Fb (and how much) as of yesterday evening (pre-IPO)? I don't know if such an info is made public. If it is, anyone has a link?
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Jeff mentions advocates the need for "a basic understanding of how computers, and the Internet, work". As expected from him, he even insists a second time on understanding how "to get around on the Internet". This is all great, but I advoca
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I am absolutely not arguing agains this. Here's the extract from your text I disagree with: > I can’t think of many other skills that enable you to create something from scratch and reach as many people as knowing how to set up a
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I expected a similar post to hit HN, since I too was shocked by Jeff's comments. However I do not think people should learn to code for the same reason. Sure writing a website is cool, but then again, learning plumbing is cool, which is the
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This option is not portable at all. For instance, it won't work on Solaris' find. I strongly advise against the use of non portable options.
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Furthermore, parsing the output of `ls` is a terrible practice[1] that makes for an even poorer sample. A little further in the article, the author even suggests running `ls | grep junk` (instead of the much simpler `ls junk*`. Do
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I can definitely relate with the feeling described. I too got the "prize" from Unix&Linux.SE. The hand signed letter by Spolsky definitely had a strong effect. I felt proud like a child receiving a gold star in kindergarden. A piece of
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I enjoyed the story, but something bothers me (just a little bit). I don't like his attempts at sensationalizing the event: > The protesters were surprised, I think, that my subject was interesting to them. At one point they all applau
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Completely off topic (or is it?) I find myself being quickly turned off by all these blogposts which 'casually' mention Steve Jobs on every single occasion the author comes across. Taken individually, each of these articles (like this one)
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by babarock 14y ago
Similar humiliations used to happen to me at my first job. It was the first time I was programming professionally and made a few mistakes that would've cost the startup a lot. On my second week opn the job, I commented out, by mistake, the
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I haven't read this one yet, but I've been noticing a big improvement on the quality of documentation around Squeeze. Maybe I'm just being subjective here, but I don't recall Lenny's being as well presented. Extra info around the book can
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The only kind of 'best practice' a marketing team understands: buy the upgrade (starting at $299. Only).
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Disclaimer: I am currently going through SICP (I'm approximately 200 pages in). So far, I do not get the impression the I'm learning functional programming . Sure, I learn all about map, fold and filter. Sure I've picked this up these conc
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As much as I agree with you, I find that the ability to run a grep (or the more commont Ctrl+F) to quickly look for what I'm looking for of very high value. I usually enjoy reading the book from front to cover, but as soon as I want to cons
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To be fair, my diatribe is not geared at self-taught programmers. I have a lot of admiration for the people who learn programming that way, and I personally consider that most of the (theoretical, formal, CS) knowledge I got came from self-
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Because filling the road with half-accomplished drivers is a pain in the derriere. The average driver is already annoyed and tense on the road, I can only imagine professional drivers get very frustrated by poor driving when they're outside
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Because the industry is so much more than throwing preformated auto-generated web forms at a database. There are things far more serious than your average "Facebook meets Fitocracy for lumberjacks" ideas... If Carmack and others managed to
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This should be rebranded "Learn to produce Average Code in 3 months or how to make the real programmers on your team miserable". I mean seriously, it's one thing to have some cute blog summarize trendy tutorials in one place, but to have it
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You sir made my day, thank you very much!
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> Mangham used a vulnerability to download Facebook's source code, arguably the company's most valued and secret intellectual property Err... no! The company most valued property would be the data they have and sell. (I know this kind o
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Agreed with parent. Come take a stroll in my office; I work in a coporate bank. Most of my coworkers learned "real" programming in the 90s, when Java was the hot new thing on the block. To most of them, the whole Programming Language eco-sy
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by babarock 14y ago
True, mea culpa. I meant to talk about do-release-upgrade. It's been so long I'm a little confused with the terminology :) Seamless release upgrade is crucial if you want to have a high frequency (6 month) release cycle. Glad to see they ma

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