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901.
by hapless 18y ago
PLT scheme is primarily used for education. Pedagogy is (or at least was) the project's central goal. Clojure is a general purpose project. It is not specifically competing for that space. I'm sure that the average student can get up and
902.
by hapless 18y ago
That sounds too much like slashdot. I do not want to see "RTFA" enter the HN lexicon.
903.
by hapless 18y ago
Folks, the really great thing is that "Bugsy" is going to get even more than he bargained for. For every sucker who (mistakenly) thinks he can get free labor out of hobbyists, there are a hundred hobbyists who (mistakenly) think their lab
904.
by hapless 18y ago
UNIX software is not perfectly portable. Portable software is less likely to run on niche systems. The fewer users that a particular platform has, the less likely it is that portability issues particular to that platform have been discove
905.
by hapless 18y ago
Windows has had a first party UNIX solution for a very long time: Microsoft SFU/SUA. It's bundled with Windows 2003R2. On all earlier versions, you have to go download SFU 3.5 separately. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc7795
906.
by hapless 18y ago
Yaws and Smallpox, just to name two, are practically extinct today. You will have NO immunity. Rubella, mumps, chicken pox, lockjaw etc were all common diseases then. Today, we vaccinate against them, even in the third world. You, like al
907.
by hapless 18y ago
I realize that someone, somewhere, is running webtv and would love a service like Scribd. That person is not able to use it because it's a flash and javascript nightmare. The rest of us, who have regular PCs with the modern software that s
908.
by hapless 18y ago
The IMF bailout was just enough to continue the most basic operations. It's nowhere close to enough to get them out of their present predicament.
909.
by hapless 18y ago
The best lesson to draw is that Iceland is still there. Their national bank, their currency, and their financial sector failed in the most dramatic way possible. Most people still have their jobs. There are no breadlines. The world didn'
910.
by hapless 18y ago
Most people think they know how to type, but actually don't. For that vast bulk of the population, a few hundred drills in gtypist are going to be more valuable than any number of hours spent ruminating on statistics: http://www.gnu.org/so
911.
by hapless 18y ago
Why did you expect "the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society" to welcome your "entrepreneurship" ? That's just not what they're about.
912.
by hapless 18y ago
Wages are negotiable. You don't like your pay rate? Work somewhere else. Ditto for CEOs.
913.
by hapless 18y ago
It's really very simple: - Bad developers won't work for less than a certain amount. - Good developers cost about the same. - Distinguishing one from the other before hiring is nearly impossible. If you were one of these magical 10x produci
914.
by hapless 18y ago
Nothing. My lifestyle and finances were in order during economic growth. They remain in good standing now. Life goes on.
915.
by hapless 18y ago
The postgresql contrib stuff used to include My2Pg.pl. It's never enough to finish the job for you, but it at least gets you started. (e.g. converts autoincrement to sequences.) Any conversion process is going to involve a lot of hand-tun
916.
by hapless 18y ago
It's not a good idea to say the word "Bankruptcy" on the phone with a credit card rep. I'm told it triggers all kinds of Bad Stuff behind the scenes. Not to mention, they want to negotiate with you. They have an obvious incentive to do so
917.
by hapless 18y ago
There are no IRC channels in which I want to admit being involved.
918.
by hapless 18y ago
I'm told NetBeans has considerably better JRuby support and integration than Eclipse.
919.
by hapless 18y ago
Mason is a really excellent templating system. I can't recommend it highly enough for that purpose. (It is also handy for abstracting away mod_perl2, CGI, and FastCGI with a uniform interface.)
920.
by hapless 18y ago
"Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership."
921.
by hapless 18y ago
Yes. First, there's a signalling problem. Users buy Vonage, it's terrible. Why should they believe anything the incumbent ISP says about VOIP, unless the ISP fesses up to meddling with their traffic? Secondly, how will they identify VOIP
922.
by hapless 18y ago
As stated elsewhere, the great danger is that a reorganization would fail due to tight credit markets. In a normal economic situation, a GM bankruptcy would be good news. The company could be held in trust, re-organize itself, and become p
923.
by hapless 18y ago
1. Do you have proof? 2. Does it matter? Consumer-grade cable service is so fast and such a big pipe these days, voice doesn't really require handling with kid gloves anymore.
924.
by hapless 18y ago
An actual poll from a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328901
925.
by hapless 18y ago
This ad is full of red flags. - It denigrates other companies instead of talking up their own. - It talks up past projects of the recruiter, not his current work. - It talks about the caliber of individual employees, not their team or cultu
926.
by hapless 18y ago
Median performance still beats half the sample. I'm encouraged by that.
927.
by hapless 18y ago
The american auto industry doesn't need saving. Honda, Toyota, Ford are all likely to survive. The world will go on after GM and Chrysler fold.
928.
by hapless 18y ago
Mono actually has a plug-compatible Linq to SQL, AND it has its own DB drivers. Even if you were so hopelessly dependent on Linq to SQL that you couldn't trivially port to Microsoft's newer persistence solution, you're still not up a creek.
929.
by hapless 18y ago
And IQ tests don't correlate very well with intelligence. Maybe the name itself is tongue-in-cheek.
930.
by hapless 18y ago
I suspect this essay is obliquely complaining about folks who THINK they're the smartest guys in the room. "What you get if you believe this myth is a room full of highly qualified people who waste their time explaining to each other how mu

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