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by f4stjack 15y ago
as far as I've seen the TC articles that make up here, their arguments are rarely thicker than air. The usual process goes like this: I begin to read, come up with their assumptions regarding X,Y,Z (depending on the product) as "facts". I
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Actually this kinda makes sense. "That guy" usually preaches switching to what is latest buzzword. That doesn't lead to anywhere but if you have a person who consistently says "if we switch to whatever(whatever is a const variable here) our
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by f4stjack 15y ago
I am not sure whether this is a good thing for node.js or not. Because I only search google if I encounter an error or something that documentation is not clear on. The search ratio for Rails is quite understandable because of its user base
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Combat mechanics are not gameplay but a smoke-and-mirrors thing, you think you are in control but seriously the games are nothing but interactive movies IMHO: they follow a fixed script; if you die on a combat sequence you will return to a
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Wow... I am astounded. In an age where computer games nearly rival, or surpass, movies in terms of storytelling; a game developer gets harassed because she prefers storytelling aspect over combat. But seriously, we deserve it. For some peop
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Y'know what this magazine reminded me of? The glory days of 2600: Hacker Quarterly. Sure, it is still active but... I feel they kinda lost the touch with what we care today. I got my bundle in Christmas and liked it immensely. Sure, it is a
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by f4stjack 15y ago
This is not a fashion show, or "my framework is leaner and executes faster than yours" competition. "Rails is old and busted; Node.js is the new hotness." Seriously? is this the mentality we should adhere to? What happened to the problem so
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by f4stjack 15y ago
dude, even if there WERE line numbers it still looks ugly...
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by f4stjack 15y ago
I don't believe the text is about failing more, it is rather trying to solve it by yourself first, and if you fail repeatedly and exhausted every solution then ask for help. Don't know why but this text made me remember Shunryu Suzuki's "Ze
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by f4stjack 15y ago
That is interesting... On one hand, you have Mac series which have divided mouseland and touchland(ew, that sounded gross) with an iron wall, on the other you have windows 8 which tries to unify them. I wonder why this approach had gained c
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Trello is pretty much awesome. It is flexible, offers a general overview of what will be done, is doing now and has done. Checklists, activity logs and document uploading makes it even more useful for handling a project easily. As far as I
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Productive? By whose definition? For example if I was an editor with the possible exception of Read It Later what addons in this list make me more productive? Just another "this is how I roll in the web and these are my addons/blings" post
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Whenever I read anything about piracy I often think of Gabe Newell's ubiquitous speech which underlines one single thing: Piracy is a service problem. And books are not an exception.
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Ha! I agree! And what a coincidence, I was listening to Rime of the Ancient Mariner when I saw your post...
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Feth me, it seems I am the only one who listens to classic heavy metal gods like Iron Maiden and AC/DC while chugging out code...
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by f4stjack 15y ago
K&R?
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Looks & feels great! But have some complaints: - I may not be affiliated with a company. That is not critical but annoying - Tasks screen should open a new task when I click at the bottom of the tasks. It somehow is more intuitive than
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by f4stjack 15y ago
My first thought was "Hmm it may be useful for learning nongui languages, but what would happen if I try to learn ExtJs with it..." Then it occured to me, you have to put a gui to present results. Thanks!
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Never heard of Anki( http://ankisrs.net/ ) before. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by f4stjack 15y ago
Wow, having a set of pet projects for using while learning a new language never occured to me. Thank you.
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Ask HN: How do you "learn" a new programming language?
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Hacker News rips off Reddit or so Mashable claims...(mashable.com)
15 points by f4stjack 15y ago|15 comments
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by f4stjack 15y ago
The problem with universities is they are taking the easy way out: grading instead of teaching. Nobody cares what you have actually learned, including yourself. As long as you get that A or B and be qualified for obtaining that diploma, eve
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by f4stjack 15y ago
"1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Sun lou
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by f4stjack 15y ago
"Untitled document" as title... way to go. :/ Still a cute robot collects stories... unbelieveably cool!