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by dunk010 17y ago
That is sad news. I guess the annual lecture at Edinburgh will be a memorial lecture now http://www.lfcs.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/milner-lecture .
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by dunk010 17y ago
They already have a namespace clash http://buzz.blogger.com
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by dunk010 17y ago
Last.fm are: http://www.last.fm/about/jobs
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by dunk010 17y ago
Very true. In fact Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations makes this very point. Every job sits at the confluence of a number of factors including recompense, status and unpleasantness.
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by dunk010 17y ago
I think that was an important point, but not the central point. I think more important was his argument that if you are using a tool and doing something significantly different from it's intended purpose then you're better off rolling your
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by dunk010 17y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by dunk010 17y ago
The author had a good point to be made but took too long to get it across.
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by dunk010 17y ago
Not having firm contracts up front was just silly - on Arrington's part. They've pulled a Microsoft on him, and it's fair enough. It's a jungle out there, and on a personal level, I don't feel any sympathy for tech crunch at all.
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by dunk010 17y ago
It's not really "original" though is it, it's the natural conclusion that everyone's coming to.
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by dunk010 17y ago
Sounds like you could use multiple inheritance / mixins.
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by dunk010 17y ago
http://www.last.fm/about/jobs
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Innovation: Ultimate jukebox is next step in net music(newscientist.com)
1 points by dunk010 17y ago|0 comments
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by dunk010 17y ago
"not bad but not that impressive either". I think the 75% is accurate, but even at 50% it's impressive. The number of lines of code in an application makes a big difference to understanding the code and maintaining it. Erlang is just a much
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by dunk010 17y ago
By the way, you really should try out Playdar - it lets you stream your music on any of your computers from any of your computers. It also lets you stream from your friends, and there is a darknet plugin too. Even neater is how it interface
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by dunk010 17y ago
And they split the thing into 3 so that they could put more midrolls in. It's really horrible.
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Advanced SSH Techniques(stearns.org)
89 points by dunk010 17y ago|19 comments
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Playdar - P2P music streaming content resolver (from RJ of Last.fm)(wired.com)
1 points by dunk010 17y ago|0 comments
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Loop Patterns(cs.duke.edu)
6 points by dunk010 17y ago|1 comments
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by dunk010 17y ago
I've got the O'Reilly bash book, it's well worth getting.
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The Best Answers to Tough Interview Questions(gowrikumar.com)
1 points by dunk010 17y ago|0 comments
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Common Bash Pitfalls(mywiki.wooledge.org)
60 points by dunk010 17y ago|25 comments
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by dunk010 17y ago
An oldie, but a goodie. His articles are forever destined to resurface randomly on hacker news...
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by dunk010 17y ago
Think of all the sites which use recaptcha for their signups - google will get some interesting stats through this.
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by dunk010 17y ago
I really wish that he did too. Seems that All the negative comments made it not worthwhile which is just a damn shame because the rest of the world has to lose out now.
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by dunk010 17y ago
Man, this is brilliant. A long time coming.
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by dunk010 17y ago
also, "set -o xtrace" is quite helpful
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by dunk010 17y ago
I can understand the use as a labeled jump for loops, that's handy. Are there other cases where this is useful? I'm thinking along the lines of things like Quercus.
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by dunk010 17y ago
Last.fm are hiring again (I work there). Looking for a range of roles - lead web developer, front end developer, flash developer and sysadmins. Check out http://www.last.fm/about/jobs
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Graphic of Michael Jackson's hits over time(quotesque.net)
16 points by dunk010 17y ago|11 comments
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Got experience with high traffic websites? Last.fm is hiring again.(last.fm)
4 points by dunk010 17y ago|0 comments

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