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by gcv 15y ago
HackerFollow has an SQL injection problem. When it asked me for a login phrase, I typed in "I'm a skier" and got a nice MySQL error, probably because of the ' character.
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by gcv 15y ago
King Lear (Shakespeare). Disgrace (Coetzee). The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky). Тихий Дон (Sholohov's name is on the cover; there are several translations under various titles as Quiet Don or something like that).
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by gcv 15y ago
Joe Nocera has written quite a few opinion columns about Russian politics, including a couple about Khodorkovsky. Looks to me like he's just interested in the subject.
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Pointer Fun with Binky (an explanation of C pointers)(youtube.com)
1 points by gcv 15y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 15y ago
Am I the only one who read "WinC++" as "wince"?
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by gcv 15y ago
The 12c is pretty nice — it maintains the classic HP calculator look and still has the really nice buttons. That said, the HP48 remains the best calculator ever. The m48+ emulator for the iPhone is a great substitute for the real thing.
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by gcv 15y ago
It's rather sad that Apple Dylan went nowhere. It would have been a terrific language to pair with Cocoa.
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by gcv 15y ago
Great article. I particularly liked the points about filtering out undesirable and unprofitable customers. Some clients really are just wrong, and far more trouble than their business is worth.
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by gcv 16y ago
I love this quote from the article: 'The coach of the Yale rowing team has a saying about high school recruiting: "7:20 2,000m time, 720 SATs. 6:20 2,000m time, 620 SATs."' In other words, it pays to be a winner.
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by gcv 16y ago
Good discussion. I agree with Rich in principle: a language's design should not say "yes" to everything, but I agree with Steve in some of the particulars. After programming in Clojure for two weeks, I had a list of complaints about the lan
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by gcv 16y ago
I totally disagree with espeed's comment. Setting up Linux teaches system administration skills. Useful, but nothing to do with programming. Learning Emacs is fantastic (I'm a huge fan), but again — nothing to do with programming. For that
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by gcv 16y ago
I'm about to give it a shot, and I'll let you know how it goes. :) Joking aside, I think the first chapter of SICP is the most useful, straightforward, and gentle (yes, gentle!) introduction to programming in existence. While it obviously s
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by gcv 16y ago
The original post asked for advice on learning "the ins and outs of programming" — and prototyping web apps most certainly does not qualify. No comment on HtDP, as I haven't read it. Heard good things about it, though.
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by gcv 16y ago
I've been a fan of advocating SICP as a first text specifically because students would then have fewer bad habits to unlearn.
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by gcv 16y ago
The best way to learn programming conceptually is to read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman. The book is available free on-line, along with video lectures. - http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ - http:/
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by gcv 16y ago
Doesn't (global-auto-revert-mode 1) do the trick?
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by gcv 16y ago
This thread is hilarious. The Universal Principles of Design (among other places) talks about the 80/20 rule — but Emacs is so powerful and customizable that no two people ever agree on which 20% is the most important!
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by gcv 16y ago
M-x delete-region
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by gcv 16y ago
Blender looks and feels different from any other UI I've ever seen. That said, I would hardly categorize Maya's UI as "easy-to-use." Fairly conventional, yes, but not particularly easy. 3D art is a difficult problem, so it rather makes sens
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by gcv 16y ago
It seems inevitable. Start a competition. Its prestige and monetary value attracts a large, rapidly growing pool of interested contestants. The organizers, with limited time and resources, have to decide between hundreds, or even thousands,
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by gcv 16y ago
Hats off to Virgin Galactic just for using the phrase "sub-orbital commercial space tourism." It reads like science fiction.
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by gcv 16y ago
This article is a bit long and waxes too philosophical for my tastes. But, from the author's screenshots, he spent a lot of time customizing it to do exactly what he needs — and that's great. org-mode is awesome because it can be whatever y
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by gcv 16y ago
Lines with multiple asterisks mean something different from outlines marked with spaces and asterisks (or hyphens, or numbers). You can only put a TODO, a priority, or a tag on a line with multiple asterisks. The spaces-plus-whatever lines
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by gcv 16y ago
I love the link to OTCC (the Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler, http://bellard.org/otcc/ ). It frankly blows my mind.
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All Operating Systems Suck (1996, classic humor)(linuxmafia.com)
1 points by gcv 16y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 16y ago
What about adding a separate "flag as politics" option to stories? That way, if enough people feel that it is off-topic for the HN front page, it could get banished to a separate news.ycombinator.com/politics area. Not deleted, just removed
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by gcv 16y ago
The aliased fonts made me think I'm having a deja vu experience. -webkit-font-smoothing: none;
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by gcv 16y ago
SEEKING WORK, Bay Area I'm working on a startup, but have to pause and do some short-term consulting to pay the bills. I am particularly interested in helping anyone who needs system-level work done, in C, on Linux or Unix environments. I h
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by gcv 16y ago
I think the author can make the loops faster by adding (the ...) forms where he adds and multiplies numbers. Also, he should declare the types of his loop control variables. Just a theory, though: I haven't run the code or looked at its dis
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by gcv 16y ago
You mean you would have a hard time forcing yourself to throw away a worthless hand (in Texas hold'em) after you already committed some money to the pot? Even if, e.g., you called in late position pre-flop with a bad hand just because the p

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