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by erez 15y ago
This is a yet another article reminiscing about "the old way" claiming "the new way" takes away something which was never there. There is nothing romantic about a book. There is nothing especially important to kids about print in contrast w
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by erez 15y ago
Sure, that's how it's marketed. And granted, it can be used to much good. But from what I've seen of it, the dynamics are like any other social network. A suit-and-tie one, but still.
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by erez 15y ago
First, it's not a given. Second, selling the company puts money in the pockets of the shareholders, while going public means the company is getting the money. Going public, by definition, means revealing your data, your balances, budgets, r
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by erez 15y ago
Google's already in that space, they are so ubiquitous with almost anything. Take Google analytics, that's in probably 50% of the web. Google search is default in any browser that is not IE. Take gmail, Google calendar, Google docs, the l
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by erez 15y ago
Now I'm confused, I thought they were ninjas. Or Pirates. One of those, I'm sure
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by erez 15y ago
I always joke that it's a social network for people who consider themselves above, or too professional, for social networks. But it's the same thing
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by erez 15y ago
I was kinda wondering about the "too late", turns out it means "before they go public", which is too late in the "more expensive, less control" meaning. As for the "should", they really don't. They could launch they're own LinkedIn-like ser
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by erez 15y ago
I came to LaTeX from LyX, years of frustration with the office metaphor evaporated in seconds. I have more fun writing a presentation in beamer ( http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/help/Catalogue/en... ) than I could've ever imagine
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by erez 15y ago
The guide says that immediately after the terminology paragraph
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by erez 15y ago
Looks like random list generation using PLT scheme. The long number is the actual list, printed without breaks. EDIT: apparently not, see below
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by erez 15y ago
Yes, the Gospel according to Mark. I've used Unity on the netbook for the past 6 months, and when 11.04 beta was released, switched to Kubuntu. It was just too slow, what with the 3d reliance and the idea that everytime you searched the lau
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by erez 15y ago
That's true, but, IMO, there's a difference between learning to program in a language and learning a language (aka "Thinking in X"). The K&R is still the best source for the latter.
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by erez 15y ago
I disagree, for instance, here's a (IMO) exact description of the K&R 'relevance': "It's not even a very good way to learn C. The idioms and best-practices for C programming have evolved substantially, even since the second edition was
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by erez 15y ago
I see, in this thread, a lot of good examples wrt good python books, but the nature of the question left me to wonder. When I hear "What is the K&R of X", it makes me think of "what is the book, preferably by the creator of the language
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by erez 15y ago
I'm really interested in this project. The abundance of C as "the new machine language" for language implementation, as well as the JVM-based languages, makes me wonder what it means for the programming language landscape. I would be very i
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by erez 15y ago
Am I the only one who's been jaded by all those Buzzword-driven "methodologies"? If anything, its development-driven-development. Anything else is practices.
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by erez 15y ago
As always, quoting the actual text helps ( http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/IWtbF.html ): "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the oth
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by erez 15y ago
I love Chinese chess, it has an aesthetic which is much closer to my heart than chess. I like chess variants that still retain some the war-game feel, and this variant satisfy that. I think a much better description of the game, and other c
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by erez 15y ago
This is kinda the Anti-Gosling and his "Don't use emacs" spiel. ( http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/207799/don_t_use_ema... ) EDIT: That article is really golden. It starts with the silliness about not using emacs, without any clear r
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by erez 15y ago
As with Twitter, I don't think Rails, nor Ruby, is the issue. Whatever you do with a framework, or a language, is mostly your fault. Ruby on Rails can only be as good as the people use it are, and while I realise the Rails aggressive market
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by erez 15y ago
> Security and privacy were, after all, Diaspora's raison d'etre. The irony of its all is that Facebook's privacy issues has nothing to do with open/closed source. They can open they're entire source-tree tomorrow, it wouldn't make them
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by erez 15y ago
>How else can users express whether or not they find a comment suitable unless they say so? Isn't that what the upvote-downvote system is for?
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by erez 15y ago
a: he just did, and b: let the users here decide what's suitable or unsuitable to comment here. This is exactly what Andy Lester is talking about.
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by erez 15y ago
Once, in the sense of "we don't need no stinkin' native apps, web apps is all you need"?
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by erez 15y ago
One should hope Haskel, and other functional programming evangelist come with a better element to display. The = operator is just syntax. Pascal uses :=, you could use ## for all the compiler care (as in x ## x + 1), or I could eschew all o
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by erez 15y ago
The whole system of a corporation owing only to its shareholders demands this "do stuff and see if you get sued" mentality. The Mozilla foundation, being a non-profit doesn't need to bully anyone into submission. But that's besides the poin
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by erez 15y ago
Integration of the browser with the OS, down to the API level. Forcing OEMs not to pre-install Netscape on Windows machines they sell. Releasing their own Java VM on IE (for which they were sued by Sun). Creating JScript, a JavaScript imple
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by erez 15y ago
I simply can't think of the situation today as a browser war. In the late 90 there was the .com boom, making it feel like whoever wins the war will dominate the world, it was a more fuzzy world in terms of standards, so a lot of sites had t
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by erez 15y ago
"queue debate about tools that hold your hands vs understanding what you are actually writing" For a start, explain why, in Java, (int) Math.random() is a bug. A programmer that happens upon this thread, now knows "this is bad", but has no
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by erez 15y ago
Ubuntu/debian has a package called gdbtui which does exactly what gdb -tui does

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