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Timsort(svn.python.org)
3 points by donaq 16y ago|0 comments
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Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core(ebb.org)
101 points by donaq 16y ago|79 comments
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Angry Birds: 1 Million Downloads in 1 Day (on Android)(phandroid.com)
3 points by donaq 16y ago|2 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
No, they were not. At least some of those submissions were made in jest, but that's one of the things that attracted me to HN. The humor is at a pretty high level.
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by donaq 16y ago
I have noticed this too. Previously, I could pretty much tell (and mostly agree with) which comments would get downvoted. Nowadays it's more or less become a crap shoot, which is a damned shame. Is there some way to take downvote privileges
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by donaq 16y ago
Why did you add the emoticon?
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by donaq 16y ago
Well, the OP did not say they were problems.
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by donaq 16y ago
people here are very serious about everything On the other hand, there was that day when every thread on the front page was about Erlang. The funniest for me was a link to the Wikipedia page about Erlang Shen, a Chinese God.
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by donaq 16y ago
I know of no Android tablet available in the $199 price range. Someone please point one out if one exists. I saw one in Bangkok. Cost about 4000 Baht and was from China. I didn't get one because there didn't seem to be any warranty for it
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by donaq 16y ago
What do you mean by "ecosystem"? I'm Singaporean and AFAIK there's a shitload of people doing startups here, though of course not as much as in Silicon Valley. You're probably right, though, about the culture being traditional if you're ref
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by donaq 16y ago
Why would Google care about fragmentation so long as apps in every version can display ads? I don't really see the author's point.
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by donaq 16y ago
Lexus may outsell BMW, but that doesn't make it a better car While the definition of "better" varies from person to person, They just pump out what people will buy the definition of a successful business is rather less subjective. Pumpi
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by donaq 16y ago
This thread sort of shows exactly why ESR is where he is. Everybody seems to have a strongly held opinion of him, positive or otherwise.
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by donaq 16y ago
Well, it's a matter of opinion, but I would define "all versions" as versions sharing a major number, i.e. code targeting 2.2 should run on anything starting with 2. As for trivial code, just look at the string operations part of the docume
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by donaq 16y ago
It's sad and ironic (for Python) that Zed actually had to switch from Python to C to make Mongrel more portable. Disclaimer: I love Python, but I hate that anything but the most trivial code won't run across all versions.
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by donaq 16y ago
Did the fact that I enjoyed the essay mean that I read the essay right or that the author read me right?
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by donaq 16y ago
It saddens me and makes me giggle whenever I see the community patting itself on the back for the quality of its discussion. Amen. I have several times tried to comment to that effect, but couldn't come up with the words. Thanks for sayin
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by donaq 16y ago
The company I am working at actually does something like this. Cgi with bash, awk and sed. Painful to code and at times limiting, but blazing fast.
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by donaq 16y ago
Oh, I've been around long enough to know that HNers don't like that sort of comment. Still, I defy you to come up with a more succinct way to get the point across! Besides, what is life if you don't do something stupid once in a while? :)
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by donaq 16y ago
it is somewhat more likely that there is a God than that there is not [citation needed]
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by donaq 16y ago
That is interesting. The experience has been almost the opposite for me. When I first started programming, it did not take me long to start "getting it", and I was very confident that there was no programming problem I could not solve. As t
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by donaq 16y ago
Ah, that's enlightening. Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps due to the cultural gap, I've always had the impression that conservatives (the political movement) in the US were actually conservative.
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by donaq 16y ago
Let's not forget the fact that "conservative" is an actual word in the language and that it means "opposed to change". The change here would be not paying 40k for a university education, and arguing for preserving the status quo would by de
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by donaq 16y ago
Uh, block fits all patterns.
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by donaq 16y ago
Well, that's probably one of the reasons they find it hard to find good people then. They've already intentionally limited their pool of talent.
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by donaq 16y ago
I've been using Milestone for several months now and it's working great.
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by donaq 16y ago
Would they be able and willing to sponsor visa application?
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by donaq 16y ago
I think it would be rather easy in that universe to prove that Cheesodyne's studies are unreliable because their scientists are all made of straw. It also helps that Cheesodyne's office building is in the shape of a gigantic straw man.
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by donaq 16y ago
I get that too, but what I've come to realize is that mostly people aren't really asking you to fix their computers. They just have insufficient information for proceeding with the conversation in a knowledgeable way, so they try anyway wit
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by donaq 16y ago
Hmm. So what do you actually swig while languidly dictating to your busty secretary, if not dry martinis? Thanks for the hours of entertainment I derived from reading the Laundry novels, by the way. I especially loved The Jennifer Morgue. A

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