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by bitops 15y ago
I don't understand the Sri Lanka entry. It's data was from 1991 while all others are within the last 10 years. Why include such an outlier?
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by bitops 15y ago
From "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson: they think they're too smart to be sexist.
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by bitops 15y ago
That's correct - Ruby is from Japan, Rails was developed by a Danish consultant working for a US-based firm. (He now lives in Chicago I believe).
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by bitops 15y ago
Toxic waste is a perfectly natural by-product of our industrial processes. (You could argue those are natural too). Similarly, introducing these wastes into the air and ocean also leads to natural consequences. I think the issue is that peo
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by bitops 15y ago
CA - where software goes to die. (Besides Erwin).
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by bitops 15y ago
"All operating systems know when they were born. Their internal clocks start counting from then, so they can calculate the date and time in the future. It is unclear whether it was Mr Ritchie or Mr Thompson who set the so-called start Unix
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by bitops 15y ago
Your comment made me take heart if I understand it correctly. Sometimes I feel I'm the only person out there who thinks SQL has a certain beauty and elegance. I find it a little funny sometimes to hear all these "web scale" folks put down S
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by bitops 15y ago
Okay, follow up, I watched half of the talk. Wow. What an insightful guy. I really enjoyed what I heard so far. The section about testing and guardrails seems to have been blown way out of proportion. I fervently believe in Agile/XP practic
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by bitops 15y ago
That's an interesting point. I've noticed that as I grow as an engineer, I still place a high importance on tests, but the type of tests I write and how I write them has changed a lot. When I first started testing it seemed like the world s
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by bitops 15y ago
Thanks for distilling it. Your comment makes me want to watch the presentation and also to perhaps take a closer look at Clojure. Good thoughtful reply.
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by bitops 15y ago
I had never heard of that book, thank you! I feel the same way as many others on this thread, I wish I knew more about how to get artistic. It's nice when someone suggests a resource (and it's well-reviewed, I see).
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by bitops 15y ago
Of course, signing up for Facebook is completely voluntary in a legal sense. No-one can strong-arm you into creating an account. My point is that social pressure can often make people do things that they don't really want to do. And sadly,
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by bitops 15y ago
The OP may be being ironic/sarcastic to a certain degree but I'm always wary of these types of articles. "You are a bad programmer". How would it make you feel to hear that? Probably not open to further suggestions on how to improve. While
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by bitops 15y ago
Perhaps true in the US but not so in Europe. My 16-year old cousin in Denmark (the worlds most FB connected country in the world, 3M users out of 5M population) told me that it's basically impossible to have a social life without being on F
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by bitops 15y ago
Sorry, let me clarify: everything even remotely mainstream is blood and gore. Or, if it's not totally blood and gore, it's been dumbed down significantly to appeal to the masses. Good list of games, but... - Sam and Max is cheating because
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by bitops 15y ago
Ah, Sierra On-Line. I spent innumerable hours as a kid playing all the Kings Quest games. (My uncle also gave me a copy of Leisure Suit Larry but let's not dwell on that). It makes me sad to consider that the old Sierra games don't seem to
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by bitops 15y ago
I've heard anecdotally that the reason computer voices and avatars tend to be women is that people tend to respond better and believe the data more. The story that was told to me (don't know if it's true, couldn't find a link) was that they
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by bitops 15y ago
What shocked me at the time was the "real" blood. I remember thinking "ew, he fell on those spikes and was impaled". It actually made me afraid to play the game.
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by bitops 15y ago
Sooner or later we all have to die. It's inevitable. But, if you feel like you might have wasted your life if you were to die tomorrow, why not get up and do something about it?
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by bitops 15y ago
I doubt that the tech industry will ever move completely away from C. (I had a friend who was doing graduate work in physics and he was required to do all his work in Fortran, believe it or not, so old languages do stick around). For "mains
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by bitops 15y ago
I'm going to admit my ignorance here...what is Blit and what is its significance? Most of Richie's contributions were made before I was born, so I did not grow up with many of these things.
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by bitops 15y ago
That's very normal in the US.
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by bitops 15y ago
I agree and thank you for writing this reply. As of late I notice that the one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off is the phrase "that won't work" or "that's not going to work". My reaction is always: "okay...you took the time to tear i
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by bitops 15y ago
Hi Kevin, good job on Raven so far. I agree with other commenters that it needs some more work before it'll replace my regular browsing but I think you have a really interesting idea here. Being able to create an app on the fly would be nic
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by bitops 15y ago
Best reason to use Sonic: dial their support number, you get a real person picking up right away. It's the only time I believe it when they say "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?".
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by bitops 15y ago
I actually really like that I can use arrow keys to navigate between links on the Google search page. I'm a keyboard geek and I prefer not having to use the mouse. I especially like that I can say Cmd+Enter and it will open the link in the
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by bitops 15y ago
Not exactly - once someone dies they cannot evolve their thinking any further. No matter how stuck, people can change. (And sometimes, yes, there is very little chance that that will happen). So as long as he's alive, there's a chance for c
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Steve Jobs: Death is the destination that we all share(techcrunch.com)
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by bitops 15y ago
Agreed. My first real programming experience was on a Macintosh doing BASIC.
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by bitops 15y ago
Very cool! Is the source for this available anywhere?

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