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by compay 17y ago
Sometimes, less than nothing. I was in the University of Connecticut's graduate linguistics program for a year before deciding it wasn't for me and dropping out. I could have stuck around for one more year and left with a master's, but in l
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by compay 17y ago
The Acid3 test page is currently down. Coincidence?
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by compay 17y ago
Pure bunk from the the first sentence on: "It’s easy to argue that the primary reason Microsoft has become the world’s largest software maker is that the company has repeatedly shown the ability to ship products." Did the authors ever hear
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by compay 17y ago
Android is quite a ways along already. Though it's not as polished as the iPhone's OS it's much closer than, say, Linux desktops are to OS X. In fact I just ditched my first generation iPhone for a G1 running Android. While I admit the iP
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48 of 48(nytimes.com)
35 points by compay 17y ago|47 comments
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by compay 17y ago
In other news, over half of McDonald's customers said they would also eat at Burger King. Not exactly informative.
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by compay 17y ago
PHP is easy to pick up but will likely teach you bad programming habits. This is coming from someone who got their start with PHP. :-) If you want to do web stuff I think Ruby and Python would be better choices. If you want to avoid the lea
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by compay 17y ago
I was in a similar situation in 2000 and ended up in a job I really enjoyed for 2 years. It was at a startup with a cool boss who let me more or less make my own hours as long as I was getting the company work done. I'm still good friends w
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by compay 17y ago
Zed may have his quirks but he's a good programmer and is right more often than not about these things. Guido's reply is classic: "you can't criticize my work unless you fix everything you complain about." This is a nice way to avoid having
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by compay 17y ago
Lua. Minimalistic elegance.
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by compay 17y ago
"But do you doubt for a moment that Longhorn will provide more improvements from Windows XP than desktop Linux will gain during the same period?" If I were reading that at the time the article was written I would probably be nodding my head
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by compay 17y ago
PIL is definitely the book for experienced programmers. "Beginning Lua Programming" from Wrox is also worth looking into you're relatively new to programming, it maintains a more informal style than PIL and covers most of the core things
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by compay 17y ago
Thanks everyone for the insightful answers, you've given me some good ideas to look into.
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Ask HN: Best working file format for writing open source books?
2 points by compay 17y ago|5 comments
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by compay 17y ago
Very interesting, but I think being closed source and not working well with Rails are probably a major obstacles to acceptance.
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by compay 17y ago
The reason why some children from bilingual households stuggle in school probably has more to do with the economic and social challenges immigrants usually face; not because of bilingualism.
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by compay 17y ago
So I guess Windows 8 will not be built on Solaris now.
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by compay 18y ago
I think that's probably too broad a generalization. In much of the world multilinguialism is the norm, and monolinguialism the exception. Most people in India, China and Africa speak 2 or more languages or dialects. This is also true for mu
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by compay 18y ago
I think zombo.com is the other time you're allowed to do it.
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by compay 18y ago
"First, put the fingers of one hand on your throat when you speak. If you can feel your vocal cords vibrating, then you are definitely a throat speaker." This is utter gibberish. Your vocal cords vibrate when you articulate voiced consonant
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by compay 18y ago
Yup, exceptions that prove the rule.
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by compay 18y ago
Agreed, MacOS 7 brings back more bad memories than good. I think the virtue here though is not Mac OS 7 itself, but rather the interesting exercise in OS porting.
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by compay 18y ago
Writing has no effect on the "complexity" of the grammar. Language is almost always acquired by children in the absence of writing; a 4-5 year old who is just starting to read already fully understands almost 100% of the language's grammar
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by compay 18y ago
Here's a very quick and dirty one for Ruby: require 'zlib' base = "whatever" salt = "whatever" Zlib.crc32(base + salt).to_s(36) This will generate 6-7 character strings. Not sure how likely collisions are, but they should be rare enough tha
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by compay 18y ago
Ah, ok - right on.
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by compay 18y ago
I've been down this road before and I agree with everything said here. Just to clarify something, I think mseebach meant that you should charge $20/month for yourself - and have the company pay for the Slicehost account. The smallest slic
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by compay 18y ago
It's "missing" because it's not an every day operation, and it's easy to do using other built-in functions. Languages in general should leave out things that are specialized use cases but easy to implement using simpler pieces. If you fill
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by compay 18y ago
The links RSS feed doesn't have much information beyond the links. No submitter, no points. This makes them a lot less useful for hacking.
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by compay 18y ago
I love the simplicity of HN but yeah, I would love to be able to tweak. There's definitely something strange about the concept of a website for hackers these days being... well... not hackable.
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by compay 18y ago
I love how Groovy refers to that as the "Elvis" operator.

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