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by erez 10y ago
"It was Robert who negotiated the business deals, Robert who represented Origin’s interests with the Software Publishers Association, Robert who put a sober, businesslike face ... Robert who found himself trapped between the practicali
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by erez 10y ago
I always tell non-programmers (and sometimes programmers interfacing with the systems I maintain): Don't tell me what I need to do, tell me what You want to do. Mostly clients seem to think they need to come up with the way to accompli
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by erez 10y ago
Human-readable json would've been a great idea, if it wasn't for the fact that json was NOT MEANT TO BE HUMAN READABLE. It is meant to be generated by a machine and not created by hand, neither it should be readable by humans, onl
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by erez 13y ago
Once reported/found, study the bug, reproduce it, debug it, and try to understand as much as you can about it, but once you get stuck, even for a couple of minutes, take all that you have found about it, form a simple, clear way of pre
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by erez 13y ago
emacs the Operating system is both the idea of the LISP machine and the situation that since it is extremely extensible, you can use it as a shell, for irc or mail, read pdf and view images, listen to music and do anything that doesn't
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by erez 13y ago
I've been using Calibre for several years now. It's managing my ebook library on every machine and I have yet to encounter a bug in any of its features. I use it to sync to my Nook, handle book metadata, convert from format to for
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by erez 13y ago
Is the world a 3d hologram created by clustering of sub-microscopic, atomic units of matter perceived by translating photon transmission to electrical pulses? YES.
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by erez 13y ago
This isn't a problem with vi(m) but with application implementing vi keyboard navigation. Neither vi nor emacs are just their navigation keys and I have a similar problem with anything that is like emacs in that there's always a s
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by erez 13y ago
There is no indication of whether you need to be in the northern hemisphere to watch this, and in which countries.
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by erez 13y ago
"Teach yourself" is actually a fancy-pants way of saying "learn".
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by erez 14y ago
Google, like every other company, "forgets" that when its users delete something, they want it purged from all the servers, not just marked as "deleted" in the database. While the practice is very common, it shouldn't be used when it comes
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by erez 14y ago
"Conspiracy theorists don't need reasons to argue." Yes, but that's still no reason to release a known "fake" image. Also, you can tag it with captions and disclosures, and someone might still link to the image as "look, there's no antenna
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by erez 14y ago
For example, the moon landing is a subject of many conspiracy theorists who claim it was fabricated. A doctored image (esp. by NASA) published just gives them another reason to argue that there was never a moon-landing as all the images fro
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by erez 14y ago
Here's a very comprehensive archive of images that have been manipulated by the source, or by the publisher: http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/
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by erez 14y ago
I remember asking the web-devs at the company I used to work for several years ago why do they support IE only, and their reaction was that they will not be able to pull off all the neat tricks they can pull off in IE in any other browser.
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by erez 14y ago
I'm trying to figure out what's "Open Source code" actually means. Judging from what little is shown at the video, and without watching any of that programme, I think the idea here isn't "open source" as in "Free and Open Source software",
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by erez 14y ago
Any connection with Hiveminder (hiveminder.com)? Both are ToDo lists with reminders etc, both have a bee icon, and the names are all but identical.
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by erez 15y ago
Are you referring to SQL the standard (which isn't a programming language), or to any enhanced flavour of it?
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by erez 15y ago
It's completely and totally within the rights of an employer to demand and mandate the usage of any tool. It's usually not a problem when there's a small, single-digit number of programmers, but once you reach a certain number, mandating pr
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by erez 15y ago
My pet peeve are books/tutorials that spend most of their time in the interpreter. I appreciate interpreters for what they are, but I don't thing the ability to type 2+3 and get 5 is relevant to any programming language skills.
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by erez 15y ago
Not an opinion about ext3, but "I have many machines using it" does not mean a system is obsolete or not, for obvious reasons. Besides, with companies still running COBOL/FORTRAN software on decades old hardware, what is "obsolete"?
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by erez 15y ago
"Good artist copy, great artists steal" Anyone?
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by erez 15y ago
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
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by erez 15y ago
"It's more sensible if the set of values is larger than just three ... It's even more useful if you reference the same set more than once" Both are correct, I am strictly referring to his rationale being it's too verbose.
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by erez 15y ago
One pattern that this guy misses is "better to be clear than to be clever". His "a == x || a == y..." example is a case of verbosity being a good thing, and probably the reason why most languages don't have a == (x or y or z) in their synta
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by erez 15y ago
Having a generic brand name doesn't mean other companies can do that, as there is no legal term defining generic brand names (i.e. a brand name that became synonymous with a product). What does happen is that people start referring to other
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by erez 15y ago
When 'Everything is a toy', there is no real meaning whether it's an ebook, a book, a cutting board... The question is, whether a book allows for anything special, or is removing books 'robs a child of a variety'. I think not. We can't all
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by erez 15y ago
ebooks have texture, color, they can make sounds, you need to interact with them to move. What you think of are toys, not books.
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by erez 15y ago
Crtl-Z, you mean. Ctrl-A is for start of line in bash and emacs, so that won't do
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by erez 15y ago
This is a very narrow, romantic view of things. If a future kid finds a 40 year old e-book reader, would that be less of a find than the comics? more? Are books better because they wear and tear? I can buy a new book, then leave it outside

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