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by hairsupply 17y ago
This is an outstanding audio essay on the state of copyright in America: http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=16
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by hairsupply 17y ago
I was going to say this too. You can download the bits and play with them. Its impressive that its all actually implemented/documented.
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by hairsupply 17y ago
The jokes are still relevant. Q: How many Prolog developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: No
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by hairsupply 17y ago
And of course, all developers should be familiar with U+F8D0 through U+F8FF.
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by hairsupply 17y ago
My good friend's dad did one of these when we was in his fifties. You are typically allowed to have people pace you (run along with you), so my friend ran with his dad from the 60 mile point to the 80 mile point. I remember my friend makin
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by hairsupply 17y ago
Second on Coding the Wheel.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
Main reason I am not an architect: I favor Judging to Perceiving.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
This is off topic, but if you are teaching (or learning) OO, designing an object model for Monopoly is a great project.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
"I write software" is typically where I start and if the other person wants more information we can go down the rabbit hole from there. Funny story though, my wife and I are friends with Eric Meyer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Meyer
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by hairsupply 18y ago
"Erlang is trendy Haskell is not." What!? You must not visit reddit.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
The people who I work with whom I regard as great hackers work almost exclusively in the real time embedded space (industrial automation systems) and don't have web notoriety. Slightly more prominent individuals could include Ted Neward (
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by hairsupply 18y ago
"We haven't met a single great hacker that relied on an IDE, although we hear they exist." The implication here is completely in the negative. Further, it's like saying "If you want to be a hacker, use English measuring units because we've
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by hairsupply 18y ago
- Type fast - Use Linux - Use TextMate/VI/emacs - Don't read documentation Sounds like "Core competencies of ruby on rails hackers"
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by hairsupply 18y ago
Agreed. Typing speed is very important when writing new features, but reading and comprehension speed is much more important for when you are fixing bugs in a multimillion line codebase.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
I used to, but its been just over a decade now. For me the creative effects were never realized. It just made me dumb. After my first year at university my average mark was 2.9. Then I quit pot and got 4.0 for 9 nine quarters in a row.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
I thought they went to tape to avoid the popping.
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by hairsupply 18y ago
Things Ruby isn't concerned with that people typically have problems with in C++: - No compiling or linking phase in Ruby. Linking problems can be hairy in large systems. - Header file hell - The static keyword (there are four different co
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by hairsupply 18y ago
Entrenchment. The main product I work on is 3.5 million lines of C++, built with MCF and ATL. We can frankestein other technologies into there, but its expensive and clunky. The cost of rewriting the whole thing is prohibitive, so C++ it