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by baha_man 19y ago
'So what's more important — money or social standing?' - aren't they the same thing, at least in modern America?
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by baha_man 19y ago
'If the comments and code disagree, then they are both probably wrong!' - I think that's from Code Complete by Steve McConnell, I'll check tomorrow. BTW, does anyone here rate Code Complete? I heard great things about it, but by the time I
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by baha_man 19y ago
Check out the section titled 'What do users say about file-swap.com?' in the FAQ: http://www.file-swap.com/info/about Whoever said Germans don't have a sense of humour?
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by baha_man 19y ago
'English has no elegant way of expressing the difference between libre and gratis in Spanish' - 'Free as in beer' versus 'free as in speech' works for me. Also, shouldn't it be 'Which programming languages should you know?' if you're conce
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Why we are the biggest obstacles to our own growth(weblog.raganwald.com)
14 points by baha_man 19y ago|1 comments
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FreeBSD developer Kip Macy charged with tenant terror(regdeveloper.co.uk)
2 points by baha_man 19y ago|1 comments
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Scrum: Putting a Name on Intelligent Development Practice(bobgrommes.wordpress.com)
3 points by baha_man 19y ago|5 comments
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Tim Bray - "Why is Ruby on Rails so darn slow?"(regdeveloper.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 19y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 19y ago
"I think he mentioned mobile phone chips..." - that would be ARM, one of the (sadly too few) UK technology success stories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_RISC_Machines
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by baha_man 19y ago
Great article - seconded. I also liked the fact that it wasn't split across six pages, and reader comments were kept separate from the article itself.
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Geek Politics FTL(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
1 points by baha_man 19y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 19y ago
Do you mean this thread? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78322 I haven't read the book mentioned so I can't comment, perhaps someone else can.
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by baha_man 19y ago
No, I'm not concerned, there's nothing against it here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Does it happen a lot? No, I don't think so.
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by baha_man 19y ago
Does anyone here have a single example of a performance problem caused by using a 'dynamic' language rather than a 'static' language? The only performance problems I've ever encountered 'in the wild' have been down to things like database
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by baha_man 19y ago
Direct link to Real Audio stream: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/live/today5_20080328.ra?start=00:07:39.0&end=00:10:39.0&BBC-UID=b4d73c94521ab6daf980b0939050aef6cba12739904031d4b40fe8b1acaa657f&SSO2-UID= This is a short (~3 minut
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Auctomatic founders interviewed on BBC Radio Four Today programme [see comment](bbc.co.uk)
6 points by baha_man 19y ago|3 comments
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by baha_man 19y ago
This reminded me of an episode of 'From Our Own Correspondent' I heard a few years ago. When you move house in Switzerland, apparently, you get a visit from the 'hygiene inspector': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_corre
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by baha_man 19y ago
The Register? The posted article is from the Independent on Sunday.
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by baha_man 19y ago
You'd think someone writing about "editing, publishing, and the future of journalism" would know the difference between "it's" and "its"...
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by baha_man 19y ago
"Well, Google's results are quite linear and is built on the notion of sites," If Google's results don't include junk like this, so much the better.
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by baha_man 19y ago
I think by 'readers' he means whoever has to look at your Elisp code.
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The Huff ["How to lie with statistics"](badscience.net)
7 points by baha_man 19y ago|3 comments
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by baha_man 19y ago
"Sometimes their shoes are even cheap and beat-up, even though it's a mortal sin in England". It is?
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Programming Habits(web.mit.edu)
21 points by baha_man 19y ago|1 comments
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LOLCode.net - Now your LOLCats can use the CLR!(blog.notdot.net)
8 points by baha_man 19y ago|4 comments
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Getting married saps your testosterone(space.newscientist.com)
14 points by baha_man 19y ago|25 comments
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Research Finds Firstborns Gain the Higher I.Q.(nytimes.com)
7 points by baha_man 19y ago|7 comments
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Mind games(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 19y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 19y ago
Unfortunately, Google Reader now doesn't work in Opera: http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-troubleshoot/br...
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"We found it!" - Search finally implemented in Google Reader(googlereader.blogspot.com)
2 points by baha_man 19y ago|1 comments

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