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by dmcg 13y ago
I'd like to buy the book, but is it really necessary to enter my email and password, twice each, then give my address, all to give you money through PayPal?
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by dmcg 13y ago
and the fact that you've had to do that since I was using VC6 in 1995 is the indictment.
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by dmcg 13y ago
As someone who can't let anything go, I found this is touching and inspiring. Thanks for having the courage to give it a go, and to stop.
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by dmcg 13y ago
If I was procuring military reconnaissance kit I'd be all over this. Efficient and quiet, but able to cross streams and obstacles way bigger than it.
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by dmcg 13y ago
I like articles that put the hack back into Hacker News. In a similar vein - http://www.doctormonk.com/2013/02/raspberry-pi-and-breadboar...
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by dmcg 13y ago
Interesting - PHONETIC not thread safe. There must be a story behind that, as its not obviously a contended resource. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel-help/phonetic-functi...
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by dmcg 14y ago
Maybe constraints rather than craziness? Constraints tailor a language, make it fitter for one purpose or another. But you have a limited constraint budget - overspend and everything is difficult. As an old boss of mine (hi Paul Earwicker)
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by dmcg 14y ago
and when Google fails, a well posed question on Stack Overflow can get results in 10 minutes. I worked my way through a whole Scala project that way - Stack Overflow Driven Development.
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by dmcg 14y ago
We've added 3 rounds of features to the language and it's still too complex.
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by dmcg 14y ago
Slightly off topic, but I've had a great learning experience by asking the right question on the Code Review Stackexchange http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
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by dmcg 14y ago
It should be said that the actual page's headline includes the qualifier, 'yet'.
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by dmcg 14y ago
I can see what it does, but not how it makes money doing it.
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by dmcg 14y ago
I'm curious to know what your business model is. Is the market for a utility, even on both platforms, really large enough to interest YC, or are you planning to fry bigger fish?
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by dmcg 14y ago
StackOverflow is constructed software. I don't agree with much of Geoff's writings, but I do admire his output.
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Raspberry Pi now on available for bulk order(raspberrypi.org)
15 points by dmcg 14y ago|2 comments
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by dmcg 15y ago
Yeah, the real solution is OLED tats.
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by dmcg 15y ago
The problem (and the feature) of tattoos is their permanence - what would you want to live with for the rest of your life? Not an easy question for an engineer who embraces change. The solution as usual is to add a level of indirection - a
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by dmcg 15y ago
On the one hand this looks like an admirable attempt to collapse the essentials out of Scala while removing the cruft. On the other, most of Scala's features got there for a reason, and have had years to be honed into a cooperating set. It
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by dmcg 15y ago
You have to mark methods as virtual - I believe classes are by default.
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by dmcg 15y ago
"The open annotation on a class is the opposite of Java's final: it allows others to inherit from this class. By default, all classes in Kotlin are final, which corresponds to Item 17 of Effective Java: Design and document for inheritance o
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by dmcg 15y ago
Not true if you mean that their syntaxes are compatible, they are quite different.
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by dmcg 15y ago
In the XP glory days we used to go home leaving one failing test in the workspace so we knew where to start in the morning.
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by dmcg 15y ago
I really miss the time when I felt that I was properly qualified to operate my computer.
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by dmcg 16y ago
I spent a happy year with a MicroWriter chorded keyboard in the early 90s. My right hand still knows the letters, so there must be something in it.
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by dmcg 16y ago
All so cynical. Take it at face-value, pay the guy to set up huge versions, and cancel fusion research.
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by dmcg 16y ago
Same here - that is quite a fail.
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by dmcg 16y ago
Their response has been, "just clear your browser history", and "lots of sites do this." That and hanging up on me twice when I asked to speak to a manager. I've not seen a URL like this for years, and I find it shocking from a company with
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by dmcg 16y ago
The query string is as you say, but it is an HTTPS URL. So I'm assuming that it is safe from network snoopers, but available to anyone with access to the machine until the browsing history is cleared.
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Ask HN: How bad is this security hole?
3 points by dmcg 16y ago|7 comments