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by cbetz 18y ago
The themes/messages are timeless, not the works themselves. Here is my point: Would you rather read Plato, Aristotle, and the like, or the writings of a more "modern" philosopher who had conceivably based his opinions on all three? And yes,
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by cbetz 18y ago
The message/theme of this book is timeless. I hope my children (not yet conceived) will read it, and their children too. There will never be a shortage of youth that are lost/confused and at the same time coming of age. Some argue that we
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by cbetz 18y ago
I think the real problem with exceptions is that their usage is ambiguous. What do you call an "exception"? In other words, the really egregious usages of exceptions come when they are used to handle normal system behavior and not exception
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by cbetz 18y ago
Wait, why does C need defending?
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by cbetz 18y ago
A programming language should be simple to understand. C was simple. Adding classes/inheritance to C was not such a bad idea either. However, everything else in C++ just makes it massively complicated and a general pain in the neck to work
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by cbetz 18y ago
The reasons there is a ton of talk about scaling here: a) everybody wants to start their own Facebook someday so they think they need to know this stuff AND b) scalability is actually kinda neat to study. Reorder them as you like but I thin
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by cbetz 18y ago
Don't be discouraged by the haters saying: we don't need another X. If building another X interests you, than do it.
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Javascript Harmony: Douglas Crockford keeps the terrible ES4-rog at bay(blog.360.yahoo.com)
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by cbetz 18y ago
I highly recommend the LeechBlock add-on for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 ). You can tell it to only let you read X minutes of HN (or any other site) in a day, and then it will block you. This add-on has rea
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by cbetz 18y ago
You really have to visit one of these places to understand the whole setup. They most certainly will try to rip you off and will use every trick in the book to do so. My favorite is this one: You pick a cheapish looking rug and they tell yo
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by cbetz 18y ago
Does the author think we are so boring as a community that all we ever want to read are purely factual and though-provoking articles that we must sit down for a half hour and read? Don't get me wrong, I love these kinds of articles, but hac
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by cbetz 18y ago
I highly recommend Phd::Simple
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by cbetz 18y ago
Jeff Atwood has said that stackoverflow.com is partially a response to the massive suck factor of sites like Experts Exchange. One of the most annoying things about researching programming topics is trying to find something on google and ac