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by gbog 13y ago
Tools and equipment: It seems that the roommate did not use a lot of them. You can buy the best electronic screwdriver but you can also very often achieve the same result with a cheap screwdriver or even a kitchen knife. For me digging deep
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by gbog 13y ago
Well okay, Frank Herbert did not have the writing block. Against how many writers who have?
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by gbog 13y ago
Disagree completely: 1. Materials are cheap, how much did the roommate spend? 2. Laziness in code and physical is exactly the same psychological fuel: being bored doing always the same annoying task (eg remove the things to make room for th
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by gbog 13y ago
> If you miss one day you can miss two, if you miss two it's all over. This is oh-so wrong. Haven't you heard of people working inconsistently? Haven't you heard of activities that just won't come to your hand? If you
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by gbog 13y ago
Hm, but these clichés could accidentally carry some tiny usefulness for a few people, which would defeat the purpose of xthingsilearnedfromdoingyforzday.com. Maybe using random translations of the word "nothing" could be nice: Nad
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by gbog 13y ago
Am I allowed to be a bit disappointed? Writing so many words in one year and when reporting about it the carefully chosen title is "10 Things I Learned From Writing 750 Words a Day For 365 Days"? If I had a spare domain name and 5
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by gbog 13y ago
From my experience, I have seem many cases where the "let's help api users/client code developpers save some keystrokes" mentality has brought a lot of issues. Not sure if related to the question though, but still I thin
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by gbog 13y ago
Sorry to not share the enthusiasm, but this looks clunky, bulky, ugly, and disgusting. A sandwich has always been and will always be half a fresh baguette with butter and parisian ham and/or gruyere. Everything else is a fake.
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by gbog 13y ago
Maybe was just deleted: https://github.com/torvalds/linux-ng gives me 404s now.
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by gbog 13y ago
Interesting article overall, but: "it is inconceivable that Baidu would permit the acceptance of Bitcoins without first clearing the matter with Beijing authorities" It do not seem to be what suggested Kaiser Kuo http:/&#x2F
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by gbog 13y ago
I would say that the real boss debugging starts with finding a way to make it first a unittest debugging. Once the weird behavior is covered, usually print debugging is even better than pdb because it will encourage you to extend the test s
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by gbog 13y ago
I asked some colleagues (I am the only foreigner in a 500-sized web company in Beijing) and they were a bit doubful about the money laundry reason invoqued in the article. Sure, there is a huge business in money laundering in China and, for
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by gbog 13y ago
To add a bit of counterbalance, I tried to read a few pages and couldn't help but think in petto "what a loong string of platitudes". "How a program works and how it performs are very different things." -- Yes, yes.
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by gbog 13y ago
Looks interesting. I must have missed the part where they explain with which tablets and apps this pencil is compatible.
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by gbog 13y ago
> 3. put all changes that you are not interested in on shelve Usually what I want is the opposite: cherry pick a few changes, increasingly adding them to the staging area (or index in gitspeak), because oftentimes I have a change that I
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by gbog 13y ago
Maybe you could let git influence and hopefully improve the way you work. For instance, when refactoring something quite complex with good test coverage, you want each commit to be the smallest atomic commit that can pass all tests. But you
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by gbog 13y ago
I wouldn't rely on assert code for this, better say "if dataset is huge don't check".
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by gbog 13y ago
That's a bit short. Consumers of coffee, biscuits, etc do not need to know their trademarks are owned by the same legal entity or their subsidies, nor would they benefit from this knowledge. Completely the opposite with Google or Micro
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by gbog 13y ago
I did not switch yet. I use screen often, and each time I checked the diff with tmux it seemed to be the same thing with slightly different defaults.
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by gbog 13y ago
You should, ctrl-\ is the best process killer. No way to escape from xtail without it, for instance. And sometime it will help getting out of python scripts like nosetests.
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by gbog 13y ago
Well if you grep for MySQL gotchas you should find a bunch of them. One did bite me hard one day. I wanted to add a simple check constraint on a column, as I did often on PG. A quick glance at the doc, I send the ADD CONSTRAINT command, and
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by gbog 13y ago
Maybe it was not only for scalability, but also for reliability or embracing the Do the Right Thing thing? From my experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL, it is a bit like the difference between python and php, one is a great work of craftman
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by gbog 13y ago
Well, that's for theory. In practice I have yet to see a big CRUD like Facebook rewritten functional style, and would very interested to check how this magically dissolve the inherent complexity of such a beast. Until then, I'd co
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by gbog 13y ago
I don't know. Greatly influential hackers such as Torvalds, van Rossum, pg, rms, etc. do not seem to illustrate agnosticism very accurately to me.
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by gbog 13y ago
This is nothing. In Indonesia nearly half of the population do not have a surname. In Algeria many people have "around 19xx" as their birthday, hand written on their passport. So much for mandatory form fields...
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by gbog 13y ago
One reason for Chinese government to dislike bitcoin, and it is probably the same reason for Chinese individuals to be interested in it: bitcoins make it very easy to hide cash in your pocket at the customs. People may not realise it but th
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by gbog 13y ago
Then it would have been clever and borderline perverse to use a Japanese disguise for the creation of bitcoin. Anyway, I think the mystery around bitcoin I'd very captivating a story but probably the answer is more simple than these co
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by gbog 13y ago
> praying Do you mean preying, I dare ask?
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by gbog 13y ago
So you mean that the where-the-brackets guidelines found in core FOSS mega-projects, big corps like Google, down to many github personal projects having their own "please follow the guides" in the readme, all of them are misguided
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by gbog 13y ago
> will always [...] will always [...] will always Can't we hope a bit that on HN a little of auto education is possible?

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