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by fmstephe 14y ago
I would second this. justinguitar.com is a great resource for learning the guitar.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Great, I am glad to hear that you guys have turned a profit. I am over in the UK (in Germany with my wife for Easter) right now. I really enjoyed the Erlang user group while I was in Wellington. :)
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Did you work at the Metservice in Wellington? And run the Erlang user group?
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I love this. I just wish it was a joke. This is a daily reality for so many of us.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Good point. Thx :)
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by fmstephe 14y ago
(I am not a .net developer) But having read the msdn description of the ref keyword http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/14akc2c7(v=vs.71).as... I would expect that refs are roughly equivalent to the following http://play.golang.org/p
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Enjoyed your article. I think that you are a little off the mark with respect to pointers though. The simple solution to your first example is to simply write to the Name field of the struct being pointed too. http://play.golang.org/p/D3t0
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by fmstephe 14y ago
This looks great. I live in York and work in Leeds, and since I stopped working in London I have felt a bit isolated.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
It is true that there is some being, or noun, that is implicitly taking out the garbage in his example. I think the important thing to note is that we can happily describe the process of taking out the garbage without mentioning who does
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I would strongly suggest you give Erlang a try. It is a fairly pure functional language, but very very simple. You don't have to user the concurrency distributed parts. I think this is actually an important thing that is missed when functio
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I am enjoying watching this comment grow. I hit refresh every five minutes to get the next installment :)
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by fmstephe 14y ago
It is probably the most entertaining of all Yegge's articles. And I think it actually gives a really useful overview of the alternatives that are available.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
It's nice to see this classic appearing on HN. Certainly worth a reread. (Edited, thx tikhonj) The first time I read this article was about one year after leaving University. I graduated as a near pure Java developer and worked in a pure ja
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Could you please elaborate on this comment? Thanks.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I don't believe this is legal. Goldman was convicted and fined doing exactly what you describe. The investment banks are not allowed to intentionally deceive their customers. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16goldman.html?_r...
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I don't understand some crucial details of these deals. If anyone can fill in the gaps I would really appreciate it. From my understanding Goldman Sachs typically makes money selling these kinds of derivatives through sellers fees. i.e. The
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I have done both. I have used a Chromebook to code on a linode vm and I have installed Ubuntu on the same Chromebook to develop locally. For my purposes they both work very well. The reason I switched to Ubuntu on the Chromebook was that an
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Cheers for that. I passed the github link and your list of features to the guys I used to work with on the Enterprise project I mention below. If it solves any pain I'll try to let you know :)
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by fmstephe 14y ago
That is a great looking tool As a suggestion, I think you should include the list of features you wrote in this thread in your readme. That list made me really want to try out the tool. If I had only read your readme on github I would not h
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by fmstephe 14y ago
On an Enterprise project I was on recently this was a real problem. With about 12 distinct and large (5-10 developers per team) all working on a single git repo, the lingering branches were out of control. They had built up over more than a
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by fmstephe 14y ago
There is a fairly strong connection between poverty, stress and high reproductive rates. The baby boomer generation is largely the product of WWII. The birth rate of Palestian's is significantly higher than that of the Israeli population.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I never checked. Even thought the network cover was a disappointment, I never even considered sending it back.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
You are right that the hardware isn't novel. But for me it is 100% of the reason to actually buy one. Nothing new in hardware but solid, practical and inexpensive quality.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I bought one. I purchased a first generation Samsung Chromebook. I have written about this here on HN before (too many times), but I think it is worth noting. My experience with my Chromebook runs like this. I bought it because I thought I
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I recently installed Ubuntu on my first generation chromebook. ( http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chrubuntu-1204-n... ) This is a perfect setup for me. I have a linode as well, but found that 3G and wireless wasn't good enough fo
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by fmstephe 14y ago
It isn't immediately obvious to me what the Eve Alpha does. If I was to connect all my devices to a single bit of hardware what do I have now? Do I get a shared file system, or a specific service? I read a lot about the future of Eve but wh
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I have had a similar experience. I am a professional Java developer, which means 1G Eclipse + 1mm LOC projects. And started hacking on Go in my spare time. The difference is phenomenal. I can use a full screen terminal with vim + another sc
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I have been searching for this laptop too. The only solution I found was to dual boot my chromebook. Works beautifully and the hardware is cheap for what it brings to the table.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Have you tried overloading the search key (used to be caps lock). This key is roughly useless outside chromeos (and I never used it inside chromeos anyway). I am planning to bind that key to my windows-key when I get home tonight so I can u
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I love this setup. After the new ARM chromebook came out I got all excited and looked about for a way to dual boot a full OS on my old series 5. It turns out it's easy now ( http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chrubuntu-1204-n... )

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