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by baha_man 18y ago
'There is no free software marketing team, no advertising budget, no "mission statement". Free software and GNU/Linux are simply there.' The author is using the term 'GNU/Linux' but appears not to have heard of Richard Stallman.
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by baha_man 18y ago
I was in Paris a couple of weeks ago and saw a load of these bikes being moved by truck. I assumed at the time that they were being redistributed rather than, say, taken in for servicing.
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The plausibility effect(badscience.net)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
It's a nice distinction, but perhaps exercise only prevents diseases which kill you 'prematurely': http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080514064921.ht... : '...these findings indicate that exercise can prevent an early death from
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by baha_man 18y ago
How many hours a day do you work? What are you actually doing? I've been working as a programmer for about 6 years, and most of my time now is not spent coding but answering email, on the phone, debugging, etc. When I actually get to do
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The Death of the Desktop(oreillynet.com)
4 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
'...it looks like another form of abstracting away some details...' I think this is the main reason why I don't like it - it's an extra and inferior way of organising code. Automatically generated boilerplate code in ASP.NET is now hidden
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Jobsite hack used to market identity harvesting services(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
'I heard a story last week, but got no details and don't know how true it is.' That seems to make the whole article rather pointless, but... '...there are a lot more customer hostile web sites... than most of us like to think about.' We don
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by baha_man 18y ago
'The most popular destination for asylum seekers of all nationalities in 2007 was the US, with an estimated 49,200 new asylum claims' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7301985.stm
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by baha_man 18y ago
What the hell is 'wand cleaning'? (Second picture, bottom left.)
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Maven and Eclipse strive for Visual Studio 'power'(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Legal, British P2P 'by end of year'(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
'The title of this post is hyperbole' - no, 'Microsoft manages interns 100 times better than Google' would be hyperbole.
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by baha_man 18y ago
Tabs are whitespace.
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Google's Gmail verboten in Germany(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by baha_man 18y ago|8 comments
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Giles Bowkett: How I Got Started Programming(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
4 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
I tried it in Opera, got the 'unsupported browser' message, copied the URL and opened it in Firefox. When I got the same message again, it took me a second to realise that it was because the URL was now http://www.streetread.com/browser
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by baha_man 18y ago
It's much easier to see what's bad about code written by other people. I suggest you look at some really bad code, and then try and imagine what a superior programmer would find offensive about your code. You can always visit thedailywtf.c
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by baha_man 18y ago
I'm not sure, but I think this effect was mentioned in 'Persuasion' by Robert Cialdini. It's worth reading if you haven't already. His example was a wine list - the waiter first suggests the cheapest wine, which the customer dismisses out
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by baha_man 18y ago
"For me it's an endless amount of work that I can never get through to do it properly". Hands up anybody who's prepared to admit that this doesn't apply to their job, and they have plenty of time to do everything expected of them to their c
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by baha_man 18y ago
No, this is why Lisp is unpopular: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...
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Teens use Google Earth to party in strangers' pools(reghardware.co.uk)
33 points by baha_man 18y ago|11 comments
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Female Programmers: Read This Book(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
5 points by baha_man 18y ago|1 comments
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The Charities Commission think blogs have no educational value(badscience.net)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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MPs urge action as spooky caller ID-faking services hit UK(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Man accused of using LinkedIn to steal clients(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Real Thought for Food for Long Workouts(nytimes.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Blighty joins killer robot club with Afghan strike(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
C++? Linus Torvalds wouldn't agree: "C++ is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite fra

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