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by fierycatnet 10y ago
Is there a source for this? I don't doubt you but I'd love to read more about this. That is an interesting fact.
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
It is a work of fiction but it's fairly dense. One of my philosophy classes used the first Matrix to explore some philosophical themes. It's been a while for concrete examples, one of the users pointed out Plato already. And this
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
One time I was craving some juice or smoothie, so at the gas station I took one of those 'Naked' brands and glanced on the label, it had some ridiculous amount of carbs and sugar in it, more than 50g. Put it right back.
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
> Schools force you to waste some of the most productive years learning about pretty useless things and are super inefficient at that too. I don't know if this is the part of the problem for hikikomori phenomena but you are right a
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
Here is an interview with Kennan that puts certain things in perspective in post-Cold War era. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-no...
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
Kennan was also pretty critical of American foreign policy towards Russia in the 90's.
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
I am not sure why Clojure is "stagnating". I don't think it's about Emacs, we have Cursive now which is very powerful and runs on top of IntelliJ. Clojure also is picking up in webdev. A new book just came out from Sotni
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
Prior to that you can find the same thoughts during Romantic era.
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
COBOL
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
From what I understand Kotlin is the language that was designed to be used in house by JetBrains to simplify their Java code. It wasn't born to be the revolutionary, just practical for Java developers.
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
Yes, so much this! I went to Wisconsin recently to visit relatives, they had a really nice house but in the rural location. They were always going over the data limit (30GB cap through satellite) and it was an awful experience overall. With
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
My friend got hired at the start up like that and now he is doing fine. The truth is that I am very honest and critical of myself, I just don't have the confidence in my abilities. He also had several years of experience, I don't.
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by fierycatnet 10y ago
I was messing with programming for years now but I can't manage build anything worthwhile, even for my own amusement. I was CS major but I got burned out on high level math and I switched majors. Through out these years it's alway
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
There's Clojure too, if you are into that. Check this out http://codahale.com/a-small-nice-thing/
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
Yep, but you also need to sit down with a certain amount of money, otherwise you'll be playing a different game and at different stakes.
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
A lot of well deserved praise for Feynman but this video stuck with me for some reason and I always pictured the guy as a bit arrogant and snobbish. youtube.com/watch?v=3D2RaDVkylY
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
Hm. I personally haven't used Parse and I didn't even know they were with Facebook but I've seen it mentioned as a pretty popular back-end platform for Android apps (for example). What's the alternative then? AWS probabl
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
What are you using then and why is it better than Rails? Just curious.
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
Cursive is great, glad to see it mentioned. JetBrains are doing good for themselves, I hope their Kotlin language will gain some traction eventually too. Cursive is amazing because it's built on top of open source IDEA but I'd lik
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
I think I've heard it on some podcast that they are using Clojure to process these requests. Is that the project? I know Walmart uses the language so I am thinking it's probably it. Which is kinda cool.
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
That was actually pretty big in Europe before he went viral on YouTube.
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
Pocket Zoo? This is actually a really awesome idea!
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
I think Udacity is great but I don't know about efficacy of it. I think it's going to face the same challenges as any other online education site. I think one of the founders had some doubts a few months back about direction of th
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
Wow, so this is THE "MMM" that people are talking about. They took Russians for a ride in the 90s, I didn't think I'd hear this name again.
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
What am I missing here? I've looked at it and it's just a collection of links to various resources. It's not quite the "book" I was hoping for.
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Phrack: Attacking Ruby on Rails Applications(phrack.org)
3 points by fierycatnet 11y ago|0 comments
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
Try Clojure and ClojureScript, there a few people who went from Ruby to Clojure, it seems to attract Rubyist. "Clojure Programming" book is very good and compares Clojure to Ruby/Python a lot so it's easier to understand
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
I think anything by Zig Ziglar is really good.
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
I don't understand the hate. Hackers was a really great niche film. It wasn't going for the Oscar but when I saw it for the first time when I was 14 it got me excited about computers. Movie was fun and soundtrack was great. When I
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by fierycatnet 11y ago
That's the game that I've dedicated most of my time in high school. It was gritty, challenging and full of possibilities. I managed to trade and find enough gear to buy high runes and elite rune words. I had a lance barb. It was d

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