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by donaq 17y ago
That sounds really cool. Where can I get one of those?
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by donaq 17y ago
Really? Has the mobile market eclipsed the laptop and desktop markets already? I wonder if Apple's core business is now Macintosh or the iPhone.
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by donaq 17y ago
I am also reminded of Marklar from South Park.
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by donaq 17y ago
It's not called "Hacker News" for nothing. :)
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by donaq 17y ago
I didn't grok git until I found out that it's just magic. --> http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ I found that document rather more useful in getting me started than the official man pages. :)
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by donaq 17y ago
That's an interesting tidbit. Thanks.
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by donaq 17y ago
Precisely my point.
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by donaq 17y ago
Maybe RMS will become the hero and Linus the villain.
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by donaq 17y ago
What's a "scripting language"? Or interpreted language, if the nomenclature is that important.
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by donaq 17y ago
Granted, but that's still an extra step that I wouldn't want clients to have to take.
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by donaq 17y ago
Hmm, a language interpreted by a parser implemented in a scripting language. Won't that be rather slow? I'd be more comfortable with using it as a compiler that outputs js I can then include, rather than letting clients' browsers interpret
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by donaq 17y ago
It doesn't seem likely that Google GSA uses the same algo as their web search. Not to mention that security by obscurity is most effectively breached through trial and error Really? I'm not a security expert, but isn't brute force impract
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by donaq 17y ago
They're not really analogous. You can get a copy of Windows and poke at it until you figure out exactly how it works. You could even theoretically disassemble the machine code. You can't, however, get your hands on a Google box (or cluster)
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by donaq 17y ago
This article is ridiculous crap. At the end of the day, Google gives you their freakin' code , damn it. This means that if you're not happy with the way Google is running things, you can go ahead and fork your Chrome OS or Android. And if
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by donaq 17y ago
If your fundamentals are sound, you should not have to fear. That said, you might want to pick up some non-Algol descended languages such as Lisp or Prolog, just to expose yourself to different programming paradigms. :)
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by donaq 17y ago
Uh, it gets me spot-on in a lot of cases. The reason why stereotypes exist is because they're often true.
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by donaq 17y ago
Uh, what sucks about Unix and C? I don't think they suck at all.
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by donaq 17y ago
Indeed. It is also highly ironic how he uses a laptop and has a blog, both of which require the existence of a technologically advanced society.
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by donaq 17y ago
OTOH, sometimes you get an alley-oop or an assist.
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by donaq 17y ago
<snark>I define crap as gold. Anyone noticed that gold has a funny smell these days? </snark>
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Things go better with persistent branding(designer-daily.com)
1 points by donaq 17y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 17y ago
Maybe I'm slow here, but I didn't know that bug #1 is still unresolved. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
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by donaq 17y ago
Continuing the analogy, that was more of a hostile takeover. <joke>Yeah. Bugger should have taken the deal and bought himself some bling.</joke>
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by donaq 17y ago
I subscribed for a while some time back, but I couldn't find an option for an online-only subscription and I started running out of space to put the dead tree versions, so I stopped. Do they have an online-only option?
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by donaq 17y ago
it makes developers look sad and pathetic and overly horny Not commenting on whether it's right or wrong, but erm, really? Do racing drivers evoke those impressions? Because they sort of have the same thing at car races.
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by donaq 17y ago
Well, yes, but sometimes the king can become richer (and more secure) by making his kingdom the vassal of an empire.
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Boffins 'write directly to memory' of living brains (of flies)(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by donaq 17y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 17y ago
I think you can be as sure about that as you are sure that writing a desktop application for MS Windows will run on most machines running Windows regardless of the underlying hardware.
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by donaq 17y ago
Good move, though the price of membership is a tad steep for a debt-ridden code monkey such as myself.
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by donaq 17y ago
Ok from now on I shall laugh at nothing so that no one can read me.

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