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by fergie 10y ago
To develop the technology for further exploration into space. Why explore? Man has been asking that question since the beginning.
872.
by fergie 10y ago
Music that was popular in the late '80s and early '90s always sounds good on tape. Any sort of Hiphop or heavy metal especially.
873.
by fergie 10y ago
Can OSX plus Linux combined really be below 7%? If so, I live in a freaky bubble.
874.
by fergie 10y ago
Its unlikely/impossible that somebody that incompetent could get through the Snapchat interview process.
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by fergie 10y ago
I kind of agree with this. Saw him give a presentation a few years ago, and was very impressed (and entertained). Tried out ember after that, and quickly found some dead ends for my use case, but hey- at least he actually got out of bed and
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by fergie 10y ago
This is a really strong argument for big government. The smaller our all-powerful military command is, the easier it is for it to go rogue.
877.
by fergie 10y ago
Separation of concerns == totally valid However, "Separation of concerns" doesn't always mean the separation of programming languages. Its completely reasonable to have one file that concerns itself with one thing, yet is com
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by fergie 10y ago
I used it from 2000ish until around the time that apt-get became good. I can't ever remember a time when sourceforge didnt make me try to click on ads when attempting to download software. It was certainly a valuable tool and definitel
879.
by fergie 10y ago
"No commercial products I know of do this today, and this seems like a big opportunity." sound of a million pitches being thrown together
880.
by fergie 10y ago
This stuff is flying under the radar at the moment, but all the peer-to-peer magic coming out of the dat project has the potential to completely democratise the web.
881.
by fergie 10y ago
SourceForge and GitHub feel different. SourceForge was always _really_ spammy from day one, GitHub has a far superior product. It seems logical that GitHub will eventually figure out how to make money, even if it is just by following the tr
882.
by fergie 10y ago
It seems that Yahoo has a problem with moribund accounts- many people had a Yahoo ID 10-20 years ago, and then abandoned it. If these accounts are not deleted (and there are a bunch of organisational reasons not to), then the MD5 hash has t
883.
by fergie 10y ago
Personally I've always found it to be inferior to Hangouts and Facetime.
884.
by fergie 10y ago
Is it actually a product people love or just a product companies buy? The Skype integration seems like a bit of a red flag.
885.
by fergie 10y ago
Oh for goodness sake- read the article!
886.
by fergie 10y ago
I hadn't considered the removal of the esc key from a vi/emacs perspective. Is this something that can be lived with?
887.
by fergie 10y ago
Sorry- this was a link to an article, although I think it looked like a "no url" post. Fixed it now.
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Guilds, Ethics, and Software Engineering as one of The Professions(medium.com)
14 points by fergie 10y ago|9 comments
889.
by fergie 10y ago
There has always been a discussion around this. Strictly speaking: no, a lack of a formal education will not disqualify you for _most_ tech jobs (although it will disqualify you from some, for example: consultancies staffing big government
890.
by fergie 10y ago
OK- so basically: async/await, when used with generators and promises, allows monads.
891.
by fergie 10y ago
"you can match async/wait with generators thus using them for monad computations in Javascript" I hear the words you are saying, I just cant visualise the concept. Could you ELI5, or post an example?
892.
by fergie 10y ago
Still not entirely sure what the big win with async/await is. Is it just a readability thing? Is there one "killer" case that demonstrates its superiority over callbacks?
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Ask HN: Honouring the Sabbath
3 points by fergie 11y ago|1 comments
894.
by fergie 11y ago
I hate to think how many of those hours I am responsible for...
895.
by fergie 11y ago
I kind of like that BASH allows you to make unconventional programs.
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How Good Are the Office 365 APIs for Node.js?(medium.com)
2 points by fergie 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Search-index- portable search with JavaScript and LevelDB(github.com)
2 points by fergie 11y ago|0 comments
898.
by fergie 12y ago
io.js is a program that makes JavaScript run on a server. io.js is a fork of node.js but is "better" because: 1) io.js always uses the latest JavaScript engine. 2) io.js is not controlled by private interests.
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by fergie 12y ago
As a well paid software consultant, I totally envy my friends and family who get to work in academia. I would love to do a PhD no matter how poor it made me.
900.
by fergie 12y ago
My big plans are as follows: - Start my own consultancy (and resign from my comfortable, well-paid job at a big consultancy) - Monetize my reasonably popular yet underpromoted open source project

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