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by dmoney 15y ago
The advantage is probably just that it's owned by NASA rather than by a private entity. This could allow it to be used for sensitive or classified applications, or for space related applications (which could be classed as munitions, which
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by dmoney 15y ago
The author seems to say the formula for magic is imagination + determination. Turning on a light would be one kind (or level) of magic: the Harry Potter kind. Inventing light switches, when everybody thinks you have to rub two sticks toge
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by dmoney 15y ago
I don't have a question, but I do have an observation. The "science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will" could be the definition of a lot of disciplines: business, hacking, engineering, painting, politics. It's
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by dmoney 15y ago
What should they have done differently?
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by dmoney 15y ago
Here's a reason for SourceForge hate. At least as of a couple weeks ago, when you go to download a file, you are shown a survey (as a sort of ad). There is no indication that the survey is optional, and initially I thought it was required
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by dmoney 15y ago
The spammers would only have to translate each page once. Further, they could translate only the pages that users request in language X as needed and cache the results.
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by dmoney 15y ago
It would be useful to be able to display 24-hour time for a given row.
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by dmoney 15y ago
I found an article on making Ruby call Python: http://www.decalage.info/python/ruby_bridge Maybe they'll go out and one thing will lead to another.
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by dmoney 15y ago
And another thing. Using "an" when a word starts an H is followed very inconsistently. Is that a rule in American English? I don't remember hearing it in school.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Off topic, but the link to the shell script and the images in the article use Data URIs, which I didn't know existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
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by dmoney 16y ago
The article that the author links to[1] is talking specifically about unit testing in Java. I'm not sure it has ever been that popular in Java to begin with, although there may have been buzz about it for a while. The arguments for its wa
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The Pringle as Technology(theatlantic.com)
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by dmoney 16y ago
Megablogging. No post can have fewer than 140,000 characters.
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by dmoney 16y ago
This appears to be the essay you're talking about: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html The other way to tell an adult is by how they react to a challenge. Someone who's not yet an adult will tend to respond to a challenge from an adult
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by dmoney 16y ago
You should submit that.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Lots of people have thought of writing "twitter but open". Congrats on actually doing it. When I was kicking around the idea but never acting on it, one thing that occurred to me was that, in order to make it really take off, you have to
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by dmoney 16y ago
You could always write your own, more politely worded, manifesto.
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by dmoney 16y ago
If it means he just doesn't enjoy working in it, and thus might never get the business off the ground, then it's a good business decision.
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by dmoney 16y ago
What makes the difference between the one developer you would hire and the 89 engineers you wouldn't?
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by dmoney 16y ago
It doesn't say anything about the PDF on the Amazon page, not that that's an excuse for Manning to be rude. Was it really an "FU" or just a polite "no"? It looks like the page has been amended to say "The Joy of Clojure can now be pre-orde
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by dmoney 16y ago
If you define "luminary" ideas as those that aren't based on any previous ideas, then it's almost a given that none exist. Even when an idea is the logical next step, it can still be game-changing for those clever or lucky enough to realiz
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by dmoney 16y ago
Sun. Oh, wait...
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by dmoney 16y ago
I notice they have no bullet points listed under "Help your employees with career development." I wonder if this means they feel obligated to mention it but don't really want to encourage it (because developing your career will often mean
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by dmoney 16y ago
I've done a lot of maintenance programming, and I think it's a horrible way to start and a difficult rut to get out of. Fixing someone else's bugs all day is demoralizing and creates all kinds of cognitive dissonance about whether or not y
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by dmoney 16y ago
That's the one. Thanks.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I remember reading about the interface for making a class act as a boolean the last time I messed with Python. I thought it was neat that you could make any object act as a boolean, function, whatever. I can't seem to find the docs for it
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by dmoney 16y ago
Depends how thin the layer of JavaScript is over the CRUD part of the app. And if the app talks to a service hub for lots of offline processing, is it still a CRUD app?
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by dmoney 16y ago
How'd that work out? (I know in the end Divvyshot got acquired by Facebook. Before that though.)
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by dmoney 16y ago
At what point does a webapp become "ambitious" and not suited for PHP? What about PHP with a framework such as, e.g., Cake? I'm curious because I'm embarking on a project and probably choosing Rails over Cake, but only because the other d
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by dmoney 16y ago
I think it's laymen rather than philosophers that are responsible for things being left as "cool mysteries." To philosophers, I gather, they're "open questions," things that either haven't been resolved yet because discourse is ongoing, or

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