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by eliben 15y ago
Github is a great site, but it's not the only place where developers publish code - so be careful. For instance, there are other places like Bitbucket (which I use myself because of Mercurial and the unlimited amount of private repos), Goog
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by eliben 15y ago
It has a download link you can use to get an offline file.
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by eliben 15y ago
It even comes in waves of 6-es, brilliant :)
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by eliben 15y ago
Well, let's see if this one manages to recognize and correctly use all the hardware devices of my Asus laptop. 11.04&11.10 were so bad for it I had to revert to 10.04 which I'm still using.
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by eliben 15y ago
Incredible, and kudos to everyone involved. I wish I'll live long enough to see the fruits of such efforts harvested.
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by eliben 15y ago
I agree. I have Dropbox for a couple of years now and the Public Folder was always there, allowing me to drop files in an ask (by right-clicking) for a public link, that "just works". Perhaps DB made this feature available for all files and
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by eliben 15y ago
-- "Although the very term “coding” evokes an image of tedium" This is ridiculous.
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by eliben 15y ago
The SO database is very liberally licensed and available for download, by the way, so it's surely one of the most open ways to store your data.
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by eliben 15y ago
ISTM that Instragram appealed to FB simply because Google+ has a very convenient automatic upload of all pictures taken by the phone. You can then easily choose which circle or person(s) to share these pics with, or not share them at all an
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by eliben 15y ago
What age are the kids?
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by eliben 15y ago
I agree. I deliberately stop drinking coffee for a month or two once in a while (just to prove myself that I can), and it never takes more than 2-3 days to completely withdraw from the physical effects.
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by eliben 15y ago
Are you comparing the amount of attention cats need with the amount children need (particularly infants & toddlers)? You are so going to have a wakeup call one day :)
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by eliben 15y ago
Thanks!
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by eliben 15y ago
Each of PHP, Perl and Ruby has their niche(s), but excluding those Python is far more popular. And the comparison with Java/C is irrelevant here since this is a different domain of languages (dynamic) we're talking about here.
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by eliben 15y ago
Please, please, stop with this TIOBE nonsense. This index is a joke - can't someone with a burning desire for a weekend project create an open-sourced index website and engage with other hackers to incrementally improve it?
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by eliben 15y ago
Yes, but the Python eco-system didn't remain standing in one place either. Lots more libraries, more stable and feature-full releases, and great support for bindings for well known libraries/frameworks/APIs all across the board, as Python h
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by eliben 15y ago
47237 [ http://stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-bendersky ]
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by eliben 15y ago
I think most of the comments here are taking it too far. Not using classes in some cases is not equivalent to stopping using classes altogether. Classes are yet another tool in the programmer's toolbox. Sometimes the tool makes sense, somet
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by eliben 15y ago
Cool hack, nicely done!
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by eliben 15y ago
Did you even try to read the linked article :) ? Here's the second section: A language-advocacy digression ------------------------------ This article doesn’t attempt to suggest the addition of an until statement to Python. Although I think
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by eliben 15y ago
Voted. Thanks for doing this!
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by eliben 15y ago
I know that :) But if one thinks Makefiles are complex with ugly syntax, CMake will be a revelation (more complex, uglier syntax)
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by eliben 15y ago
You'll be surprised !! - http://www.cmake.org/
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by eliben 15y ago
Seriously, why shouldn't a guy with years of programming career behind him be able to take 6 months off? It's only basic financial wisdom not to live on 99% of your earning and always save so you have something to fall back to.
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by eliben 15y ago
I think programmers have achieved harder tasks than detecting which protocol the server speaks and speaking its language, starting with the most optimal protocol and falling back to simpler and more common ones.
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by eliben 15y ago
Why? AFAICS, SPDY is open and available for everyone who wants to implement it. What's so bad about companies making it open, free and open source, thus contributing to a better Internet experience for everyone? No one limited SPDY to Googl
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by eliben 15y ago
I would say the title of this link (and article) is misleading. Simplistically taken, it can mean that FB aims for $5B valuation, which isn't true.
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by eliben 15y ago
Alexandrescu is a great programmer, and it's well worth heeding to his advice. While reading "Modern C++" and being honestly horrified by the complexity of C++ and the way you have to fight the compiler and the language to get flexible code
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by eliben 15y ago
Interesting! Can anyone point to/recommend other articles or books on the topic of machinery & computers replacing human workers? I'm very interested in this subject
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by eliben 15y ago
I think the idea is to draw attention of the non-technical crowd. Those who can "put up a greasemonkey script" are probably well aware of SOPA already.

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