eta_carinae

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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Actually, I think that's the exact wrong lesson to take from this. That's what Color did: look for something that hasn't been done before and did that. It was a solution to a problem that doesn't exist: meeting strangers Color has nev
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Thus far windows 8 tells me that it is time for me to shift totally to Linux This is like saying you're going to sell your Toyota because Toyota just released a car that you don't like. Why all the drama? Just stick to Windows 7, whic
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> But really, I wish someone would write an article like "why I switched from vim to Eclipse", but I only ever see ones where the author does the opposite. You haven't looked very hard, most Eclipse users today came from emacs or vi. An
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Eclipse seems to be a program that consumes all available memory to turn its windows grey when you type into it. I'm not sure how you think it's suitable for Java programming. Considering that about half of the Java community uses it
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> The best programmers use either Emacs or vim. No, only the programmers that you know. One thing that makes a programmer great is that they will always pick the best tool for the job, not the tool that they are used to. The point here
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> A few developers I've known have made the case that they just don't see text editing speed as the bottleneck in their day-to-day work. Right, it's only a bottleneck if you use the wrong tool for the job. As much as I love vi for text
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> And those requirements kept growing. If my calculations are correct, the standard setup for engineers now is a machine with 20 or more gigabytes of RAM just to RUN the software. Close. In 2011, all the engineer desktops got upgraded t
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Annoying as hell, that's what you get when you don't support exceptions.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> I use chrome but this line reminds me of "This site best viewed in Netscape Navigator", which is a tad irksome :( It depends on the reason. Recommending a browser because you are using mark up that only this browser knows is bad. Reco
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> It would be a disincentive to get out of the office and away from my co-workers once a day, which is something that I think makes me happier and more productive. If stepping away from your coworkers makes you happy and productive, you
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Complexity of Scala has been debated many times. Just because a language adds some new concepts and is different than other mainstream languages, is not enough to call it "complex". It seems to me that the JVM community has moved on f
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Advanced dependency injection with Guice(beust.com)
2 points by eta_carinae 14y ago|0 comments
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Because leaving the friggin' docs online costs so much? It's not so much about cost but about polluting the Google index with obsolete information. For example, look up a Java API and it's very likely that the first link you will get
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Asking someone experienced to write the "print a string in reverse" algorithm will naturally insult them. Being insulted is the wrong reaction. Either you are a good coder, you will write it down on the board in one minute and we'll m
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Some people seem to be immune to it, you might be one of the lucky few. Make no mistake, though: Dvorak is an aggravating factor in carpal tunnel syndrome. The faster you type by moving your fingers only and not your hands, the more likely
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
It's depressing that only one in five of these keyboards is ergonomic. If you're a developer today and you are planning on typing on a keyboard for at least the next ten years, picking any other keyboard than an ergonomic one is a guarantee
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
The PC gaming world is filled with huge game companies, yet the indie market is doing quite well. What makes Android different?
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
The fact that he's such a Emacs fan makes me skeptical about project Grok, to be honest. There is only so far you can take Emacs and for statically typed languages, IDE's leave Emacs in the dust. I with he were more knowledgeable on IDE's (
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this piece of metal traveled 350 million miles through space and then landed on Mars.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> One of these companies needs to put their weight into getting OEMs to pre-install Linux. Several OEM's do just that, but nobody is buying. > Notice that nobody has a problem with Linux on their phone, because it comes pre-installe
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Seeing Knuth talk about tweets feels weird. Does it make you feel better that he released the book as a .ps?
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
It's a tough call. On one end of the spectrum, you have a 100% direct elimination system. No cheating there (you lose, you're out) but you don't get a good feel for who is really the best since so few games are happening (log2(n)). Somebody
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Pretty damning: > One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPh
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Reinventing assertions(beust.com)
1 points by eta_carinae 14y ago|0 comments
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
The fact that it takes so much intimate knowledge of how the collections are implemented to get some decent performances in Scala is probably one of the many reasons why this language hasn't taken off.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> That's only the salary. Like I said, it's still very low for a CEO salary.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> If I was worth $300 million, I would not be working and I would be spending annoying (to my daughter) amounts of time with my daughter. Fuck work! Which is probably why you don't have $300M.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Your conspiracy theory about Google planting Marissa as a spy CEO is absurd. I'm sure Marissa's departure was considered a huge loss at Google, especially to go to Yahoo. No company is ever happy to lose an executive.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
One million dollars a year is still very, very low for a CEO of a major public company.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Nice, but it seems to busy wait: my CPU is pegged at 50% even when I am not doing anything.

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