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by compay 16y ago
What a great story. One of the things I love most about our field is hearing from and meeting people like you who obviously love what they do for a living.
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by compay 16y ago
What an idiotic premise. Nobody deserves to die from having sex.
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by compay 17y ago
I couldn't agree more. I left linguistics 10 years ago for the same reasons you described and never once looked back.
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by compay 17y ago
Exactly. There are more than a million natives of Haiti living outside their country, many presumably with potentially decent internet access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_diaspora And even people who don't have internet access at
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by compay 17y ago
Canned Unicorn Meat: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/unicorn-meat.shtml
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by compay 17y ago
Brazilian websites are just as bad, if not worse than American ones about this, probably because websites that do online sales in Brazil tend to cater to a primarily domestic clientele. If you happen to live in Argentina, as I do, entering
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Chess and Autism(chesscafe.com)
4 points by compay 17y ago|0 comments
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by compay 17y ago
I started learning how to program with Logo when I was in 4th grade. Perhaps it's a bit out of date now (haven't looked at it in over 20 years), but I did end up becoming a programmer.
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by compay 17y ago
But only when you follow a Google search result link. If you bookmark it and come back, or follow any other link, then the result does not appear. Edit: I meant to say, the replies do not appear.
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by compay 17y ago
Yes, I also want to come here to read and talk about code/startups - that also means NOT reading and talking about HN itself all the time. I'm fairly tired of seeing so many "meta" posts like this voted to the top.
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by compay 17y ago
I wonder if by accepting the challenge, it indicates that the "guru" believes his own bullshit. That's even more scary/pathetic than thinking he's just a fake.
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by compay 17y ago
Damn, Spolsky can't even get a puppy without people second-guessing him. Can't a guy catch a break?
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by compay 17y ago
I have everything installed in ~/Homebrew and have had no problems. I really wanted to keep liking Macports, but I got sick of having to install a new perl just to install git, among many examples. The kicker for me was installing pandoc; M
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by compay 17y ago
A lot of people seem to think that simply being reasonably fluent in two languages is sufficient to be a translator. It isn't, unless your standards are incredibly low. Translating is a skill, and if you entrust it to random people, expect
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by compay 17y ago
First? I doubt it. Also, I don't know if they were before or after these guys: http://www.didyouwatchporn.com/
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by compay 17y ago
No, I'm pretty sure the author is simply not a native speaker of English. Still, that doesn't mean he can't make some good points despite a few minor grammatical errors.
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by compay 17y ago
"No offence to Joel or Jeff, they are doing something nice, but we don't need more Joels or Jeffs, that area already have been covered." Sorry, but that's simply terrible advice. That's like telling Kafka, "don't write your short stories, P
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by compay 17y ago
Maybe you'll never like hip-hop; to each his own. I don't like most contemporary hip-hop either, but think Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Nas, Jurassic 5 and Del the Funky Homosapien all made some great albums in the late 80's - late 90's.
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by compay 17y ago
I agree Sequel is awesome, and will probably be my default ORM once Rails 3 settles down. However, the new AR in Rails 3 using Arel is pretty nice too; it's a massive improvement over AR 2. You might want to give it another look.
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by compay 17y ago
You're right, I chose a lousy example. Much of my experience with Ruby revolves around Rails, so perhaps that colors my perspective a bit more than I sometimes realize.
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by compay 17y ago
You're right, but I think this is much less true now than it was a few years ago. With the libraries developed by the Kepler project (for example) you can do quite a bit of useful coding without ever touching C. http://github.com/keplerpro
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by compay 17y ago
Lua attracts a lot of devs with a pretty low-key, humble attitude. If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mostly be a resounding "yes." On the Lua list, people will often tell you "that de
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by compay 17y ago
At work, probably.
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by compay 17y ago
Bingo. I stopped reading right there.
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by compay 17y ago
That post sounds like the happy driver of a 1986 Honda Civic complaining about unecessary gadgets like fuel injection, power steering and antilock brakes.
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by compay 17y ago
One in German: Wenn fliegen hinter fliegen fliegen, fliegen fliegen fliegen hinter nach. It means something like, "when flies fly behind flies, then flies fly after flies."
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by compay 17y ago
Use RVM: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
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by compay 17y ago
I spend a lot of time on the command line, and personally find having that much info in my prompt incredibly distracting. I would really prefer to leave things like battery monitoring to my OS or Window Manager - not my shell prompt. The
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by compay 17y ago
Rails 3 is doing a lot to "fix the fuckedness." This was a patch from a contributor, not the implementation of some kind of puritanical new policy by the Rails core team. Personally I find the all the ZOMG comments in the source code stupid
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by compay 17y ago
Just because some people on a forum laughed at the iPod when it launched doesn't make the iPad awesome.

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