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by frio 16y ago
Thanks for that. I've been using StackOverflow for a few simple questions, but I'll check out the mailing list too!
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by frio 16y ago
Does anyone know if there are any plans to update Odersky's "Programming in Scala" book? I'm intending to buy it in order to learn Scala, but if there's a second edition pending I'd rather hold off. Alternatively, if someone knows a better
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by frio 16y ago
Living in NZ, we get the regional prices too. It boils down to publishers attempting to protect brick and mortar stores; if a game is no cheaper on Steam, then the thought goes that more people will go to the store and buy it as they see n
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by frio 16y ago
What gets me about Steam are the extra layers of DRM crud games get layered with by publishers. I recently purchased Arkham Asylum in a sale; to play it, I need Steam, GfWL and SecuROM activation. I understand that in this instance Steam
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by frio 16y ago
As someone moving into Scala, with previous work experience mainly in Python and a University grounding in Java (which only briefly touched on Ant, Maven etc.)., I could not agree more. Getting Scala up and running cleanly and figuring out
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by frio 16y ago
They're such two-faced shits. On the one hand, they pan Google for collecting the locations of wireless networks and logging some packets off them, criticising them for invading privacy . On the other, they're attempting to legislate a w
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by frio 16y ago
Anecdotally, here in my office in New Zealand, we have 4 HTC Magics, 2 iPhones, and then a raft of SE/Nokia devices for lesser peons such as myself ;). This is despite the fact that Android devices aren't available for retail through a lar
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by frio 16y ago
I hate the whole "internet trolling" thing. It seems like such a waste of time, although admittedly when I was younger I did it a bit too. Zed's a reasonably smart guy, he's made some decent software and generally, when he mouths off abou
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by frio 16y ago
I've kicked that idea around too (and would be surprised if there weren't others with the same thought). I started whipping something up in Django (tied to a SQLite database I could just throw around) when I was learning it a couple of yea
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by frio 16y ago
LaTeX is a fantastic tool for any word processing. Once you've got the hang of it, I'd be surprised if you didn't prefer it to any other publishing tool.
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by frio 16y ago
Well, it's not like it's going to go straight up. Keep in mind that if you pour vegetable oil into water and stir it vigorously enough, some of it will go beneath the water (admittedly, it won't dissolve into it or anything, it'll remain
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by frio 17y ago
There's TextMate on Mac, and e-texteditor for Windows (which is a port of TextMate)... but that leaves Linux high and dry until the developers finish porting it there too. It requires cygwin under Windows too :/. Other than that, there's S
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by frio 17y ago
I was interested to see how many of the bugs from the 5.1 release (which I haven't touched due to roundhouse slams from the bulk of the community) had been addressed, so I've had a look at the bugs in Monty's 5.1 GA blog entry - http://mon
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by frio 17y ago
I just scored a semi-nice film SLR the other day; it used to belong to my parents but they've gone digital and it hasn't been used in yonks. It's certainly nowhere near as programmable as even a cheap digital SLR, but whatever, it's fun to
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by frio 17y ago
Absolutely. When looking for a fridge rental for a flat I've just moved into, we had a quick Google - and the design on this site ( http://www.rentafridge.co.nz/ ) won them business. Simple, straightforward and tells the user exactly what
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by frio 17y ago
Surely the Kindle counts as the "stuff" the author is railing against, as opposed to hardcopy books. In fact, by not having a Kindle version, I'd argue she's sticking to her principles more than otherwise.
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by frio 17y ago
I'd say mercurial will be easier to deploy across that range of systems, and easier for people not familiar with the command line (Dreamweaver users ;)) to use. Personally, I feel that git is technically superior, but throwing Windows into
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by frio 17y ago
Perhaps, but I think for this particular market they had no choice but to launch big. Look at Orkut, their previous (dead) attempt at a social network. Facebook is extremely entrenched now, and there's little to no incentive to users to o