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by careersuicide 10y ago
Bandcamp has been heavily used by many hardcore punk bands for a few years now. The ability to charge a reasonable price for high quality downloads or give them away for free and also sell physical media like records and tapes is a huge dea
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I agree whole heartedly. When I'm programming I typically want most things that would cause a warning to stop me in my tracks. However I cannot count the number of times I've been trying to build someone else's code and the c
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by careersuicide 10y ago
I had a similar experience. Every highly rated recommendation was either one of my favorite movies or on my list of movies I need to see very soon but haven't made the time for yet. It knew to put The Holy Mountain at 100% based off me
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by careersuicide 10y ago
This arguman thing is really cool! It's such a neat idea in fact, that I'm willing to overlook the horizontal scrolling. That's saying a lot! With that out of the way... I'm firmly in the "but" camp here. I&#x2
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by careersuicide 10y ago
I think you're 100% correct. But, I also think that even implying that that is the purpose is itself a form of signaling of your wealth/social class. "I'm much too smart/frugal/down to earth/in the know ab
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by careersuicide 10y ago
It isn't just effectively "nerd blackface". It is "nerd blackface". Every time one of my well meaning friends asks why I don't like Big Bang Theory I just direct them to a blog post [0] I came across a while
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by careersuicide 10y ago
Yeah, but part of my point, which I suppose I could have made more explicit, was that I don't have to work for a large tech company. Or any company at all. I can, if I really want to, strike out on my own and do it myself. That's
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by careersuicide 10y ago
Frankly I hope that that regulation never happens. It sounds like a dystopian nightmare to me. The biggest reason I became a programmer, besides the fact that I really enjoy programming, is that there was no one to tell me I couldn't b
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by careersuicide 10y ago
If you're interested in trying out BCPL on your own machine the inventor of the language, Martin Richards, maintains a working environment/compiler[0]. I've gotten it up and running on both Ubuntu and OS X. The readme is stru
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by careersuicide 10y ago
Not so much in the language itself (I'm not a fan), but the process of embedding Lua and pushing data into a Lua context and pulling data out of a Lua context is so simple the first time I got it working I thought, "Surely I'
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by careersuicide 10y ago
As a long time Rubyist here's a brief rundown of the features Elixir has that made me reach for it with increasing frequency: * Pattern matching: http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/pattern-matching.html * Guar
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by careersuicide 10y ago
A couple of jobs ago I didn't give any sort of notice when I quit. I waited until the CEO and CFO (a husband and wife duo) left for the day, said my goodbyes to my coworkers, and left a note with my office key under the door of the CEO
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by careersuicide 10y ago
I was actually just about to post this, almost word for word, before I read your reply. I often see lamentations about people not being friendly to strangers in big cities. I've never quite understood it. It's one thing to not gre
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by careersuicide 10y ago
Ah! Thank you so much for posting this! Whenever I attempt to learn a new language I find that static analysis tools and linters, if available, help me get over any initial confusion about what constitutes good idiomatic code. Guides like O
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by careersuicide 10y ago
Having worked at a large and (within the industry) well known ad agency I think you're vastly overestimating the amount of knowledge the people making those decisions at ad agencies have regarding things like web best practices and sec
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by careersuicide 10y ago
I love this kind of stuff. The similarities and differences of programming languages is something of an obsession of mine. In my free time over the last several years I've been working on a chrestomathy that collections solutions to Pr
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by careersuicide 10y ago
I think you mean "a art".
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by careersuicide 10y ago
I dunno. Reading this I can't help but feel like maybe the author is doing it wrong? I'm going to be charitable and admit that Apple has made iTunes incredibly difficult to use effectively, especially since the store is awful and
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Ecto for Rails developers – The basics(renderedtext.com)
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What a timely coincidence. I just finished reading Cixin Lui's "The Dark Forest" (it and the first book in the series "The Three-Body Problem" I cannot recommend enough). I think the central premise of the book is p
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by careersuicide 11y ago
If you enjoy Sleep I highly recommend "Dopethrone" by Electric Wizard.
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by careersuicide 11y ago
I'm going to go out on what might be something of a limb and suggest that perhaps Twitter is not the place for meaningful discussions, or even, discussion in general. Obviously there's no right or wrong way to use Twitter, but I g
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by careersuicide 11y ago
Assuming you want to learn modern x86-64 assembly your best bet is to start by learning C well enough to write simple toy programs on your own. If you know enough C to understand what a bit of totally uninteresting code like int foo(int
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by careersuicide 11y ago
Jim Weirich's "Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming"[1] is perhaps the most entertaining and interesting technical talk I've ever seen. It would absolutely not be as cool or as fun without the live coding. Additi
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> Give me a spec as complete as precise and as a blueprint for a building or a bridge and I can give you a pretty good estimate. I would argue that that would in fact be the source code for the program! I know that sounds flippant, but -
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by careersuicide 11y ago
> is it reasonable to consider react when you just want to add some interactions and dynamism to a page that was rendered server side? This is more or less what I've been using it for at work. My general "rule" is that if
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Ask HN: What should I ask a startup CEO in an interview?
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Every time an article like this makes the front page I'm always pleasantly surprised at the number of (usually) old hardcore punks that come out of the woodwork and comment. This article in particular has made me realize just how long
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by careersuicide 11y ago
After reading that I feel the need to thank you. Seriously. Thank you so much. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, and every time I see UO brought up, UO is responsible for the entire trajectory my life took since I was 13 years old
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One of the very first actually useful programs I wrote was a simple macro program for UO. It would read a text file, parse the very basic commands in the file and then send them to the UO client by finding its HWND via FindWindow and callin

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