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by hartror 16y ago
This is where Carmack excels, give him a constrained canvas and he blows the technology away. Heres hoping they've sorted out some game design this time around (or they licence the tech to others).
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by hartror 16y ago
The java programmers I know are moving onto other languages that use the JVM so IMO java the language might be dying but the VM is going strong.
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by hartror 16y ago
The current batch of flight search startups (ie YC backed Adioso & Hipmunk) are disruptive in a space that has long stagnated. First using them I felt like I had been unchained, the incumbents are so restrictive and clumsy whereas the n
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by hartror 16y ago
Spreadsheets with python . . cackles evilly . can you feel the POWER! In all serious I play with data in CSV format with python all the time so this could be extremely useful especially when I want to automate something spreadsheet relate
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by hartror 16y ago
This looks fantastic, with some obvious advantages over other todo list apps. A couple of obvious todos I would like to see done before I can use it. Firstly a search throwing up a list of notes that match (browser text search is okay for t
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by hartror 16y ago
It is the network effect. Sure you could try to get all your friends onto Friendster but most of them are already on Facebook. (poor example I know, why would anyone want to do that!?).
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by hartror 16y ago
Considering they have to prove it was unsuitable for purpose and intent I would expect just proving unsuitably for purpose is their fall back position.
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by hartror 16y ago
When it comes to debugging, nothing beats a few strategic print statements to inspect variables or a well-placed panic to obtain a stack trace. I respectfully disagree with this statement. Beyond simple issues a debugger is invalu
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by hartror 16y ago
Oooh nice, a payment system not encumbered with a framework. What would be really awesome is for this to turn into something like the standard database api spec PEP249 ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ ) but for payment gateways!
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by hartror 16y ago
Scary :( I wonder if officaldom gets the irony of acting like this? I mean this is exactly what terrorists set out to cause.
851.
by hartror 16y ago
I know several people who still have to struggle with CVS on a daily basis. Git/Hg are going to take a long time to get entrenched into enterprise.
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by hartror 16y ago
I doubt the investors are unhappy with an exit, employees and users on the other hand are probably disappointed (though I hope the employees saw something of the exit which probably alleviates disappointment).
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by hartror 16y ago
In a perfect world with perfect coders we wouldn't need tests, things would just work. So tests are a trade off, insurance against our human fallibility. As with other types of insurance you weigh the probability and costs involved in somet
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by hartror 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=0.30000000000000004
855.
by hartror 16y ago
I am so in!
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by hartror 16y ago
Fear? The ability to transition parts of one's code base to C/C++/ASM through CPython's excellent library makes using python from day one such an easy decision. It is even easier as there is a library ecosystem that makes the transition eve
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by hartror 16y ago
What is the point of a list like this if not to stimulate discourse?
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by hartror 16y ago
I remember back in `95 building websites that were basically just animated gifs, (no judging i was a kid). I used some under construction ones because I had seen it everywhere and I was constructing!
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How I learned to stop worrying and love Apache(roryhart.net)
3 points by hartror 16y ago|1 comments
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by hartror 16y ago
This is pretty much my experience of learning Python but I had had drastically less coding experience than Eric Raymond did when he learnt.
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by hartror 16y ago
When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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by hartror 16y ago
Yeah it doesn't set a good precedent for future customers. "Oh that is the team that ragged on the Minecraft guy when he payed them off but didn't use their code" Certainly would make me think twice about working with them.
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by hartror 16y ago
Everything has degrees of originality. Google didn't invent the search engine but they came up with a great way to monetise it (oh and some algorithm too).
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by hartror 16y ago
Still a sample size of one, my the drake equation is still looking rather full of letters. Though it is looking like we may be able to make a decent crack at fp (fraction of stars that have planets) soon given the success of keplar!
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by hartror 16y ago
The same thing goes double for restaurants. All I want is your phone number, address and opening times guys and you bury it two menus back in a clunky and noisy flash site. All that said are either of these business types currently reliant
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Why complex life probably evolved only once(newscientist.com)
113 points by hartror 16y ago|76 comments
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by hartror 16y ago
Anyone have recommendations on which ones to watch first?
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by hartror 16y ago
Pythoneers have BeautifulSoup, it is fast simple and can deal with real world html. I have used it for site scraping with great success.
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by hartror 16y ago
Suggestions for good alternatives with good scaling?
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by hartror 16y ago
Beat me to in! :)

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