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Borders to file for bankruptcy(thirdage.com)
2 points by donaq 16y ago|1 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
you can bet that Apple will remain absurdly profitable in a way that embarrasses most of its competitors. It's just something that Apple is good at. I'm betting it's not. It's something Steve Jobs is good at.
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by donaq 16y ago
Eric Schmidt is a programmer. He was one of the authors of lex.
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by donaq 16y ago
Haha good point. How would you have put it, though?
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by donaq 16y ago
Just because you're not a suicide bomber doesn't mean that you're not a serious Muslim.
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by donaq 16y ago
Bravo! You, sir, are an artist. [Edit] What I originally wanted to comment on is that the metaphor this article uses seems invalid. Google is no stationary target. I presume the engineers working there are not just sitting around getting ma
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Was There Ever a Dinosaur Civilization?(strangehorizons.com)
5 points by donaq 16y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
The post already says that you will be occasionally great just by sticking around for a long enough time.
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by donaq 16y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
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by donaq 16y ago
If you work for BigCo, you learn to do things The BigCo way. Apologies for going off on a tangent, but this sort of jumped out at me. Is this consistent? Shouldn't it be either a) ... do things the BigCo way. or b) ... do things The BigCo
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Tmux vs screen(wikivs.com)
5 points by donaq 16y ago|7 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
I read the whole thing, and I think your parent does have a point. If you don't mind some criticism: That was my first guess – my first guess was that the difference between a generalist and a dabbler was that the generalist had some overa
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by donaq 16y ago
As a Vim die-hard who had ultra-edit as default text editor in my Windows box at work before I installed vim, I can only reply "nothing". It is significantly far from being the best text editor in the world.
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by donaq 16y ago
Impatience to launch leads to less feature creep.
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Creative's Android tablet offering(sg.store.creative.com)
1 points by donaq 16y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
I've not done any embedded stuff, but I've had jobs doing low level c/c++ to interface with poorly documented serial devices passing bit-masked instruction codes and status codes around and I'm now doing web programming and man, all I can s
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by donaq 16y ago
I think elements in this story would be familiar to most hackers.
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by donaq 16y ago
That seems like normal paranoia to me. :)
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by donaq 16y ago
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
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by donaq 16y ago
This is probably not representative, but my facebook feed is full of people posting links to news about this with comments that mostly semi-applaud those actions. The interesting thing is that my facebook acquaintances are mostly neither ha
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by donaq 16y ago
Judging by the negative/indignant comments, I think the title was unfortunate. Reading the article, though, I don't see the OP advising people to do anything actually degrading or unethical. Perhaps he should have clarified that only the pr
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by donaq 16y ago
I can only offer you the following anecdotal example. Back when I was doing my compulsory military service, I was really passionate about basketball. I used to play almost everyday, and there was a team in my neighbourhood with a coach I tr
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by donaq 16y ago
Good luck!
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by donaq 16y ago
Indeed. In Bangkok, every other person on the street is using a Blackberry. The OP is just linkbait with zero research.
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by donaq 16y ago
A mixture of different languages and ideas that was beaten together into something that might be identified as a language. Its adherents are growing fast, and although most people look at them suspiciously, they are mostly well-meaning peo
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by donaq 16y ago
Uh... I'm getting a 404 for this.
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by donaq 16y ago
Don't worry about it. In my experience, a lot of the criteria listed in these job postings were done by non-developers and have little to do with the actual job. Also, when in doubt, just apply. Interviewing is a skill like any other. It re
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by donaq 16y ago
The anthropic principle is not an explanation.
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by donaq 16y ago
So what do you really need… Free IDE like Eclipse You don't even need to use an IDE if you don't want to. Google, in typical hacker-friendly fashion, has provided pretty complete instructions for developing in your environment of choice.
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by donaq 16y ago
Huh. I thought it was an article about vector graphics vs bitmaps.

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