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by hernan7 19y ago
Good list, but I disagree about the 'piping cats' point. It always seemed like premature optimization to me. Also, the cat at the beginning of the pipe can help readability. Something like cat file.txt | grep some_regex | sed ... Versus gre
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by hernan7 19y ago
For some reason I misread "XML Turnpike"...
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by hernan7 19y ago
Maybe he just wanted to show off his workshop skills. And notice that the machine has 2 disks... But I agree, it was mostly a pointless way of saving maybe $100-200 (edit: not pointless for the article's author of course, I'm sure he had fu
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by hernan7 19y ago
Wikipedia says Windows 3.1 = 1992 I wasn't paying much attention at the time (mostly working on Unix and DOS -- and playing on my friends' C64 machines), but I do seem to remember being shown a Windows version 2 machine in 1989-1990 -- it w
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by hernan7 19y ago
Can't MS just cancel the severance plan after buying Yahoo?
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by hernan7 19y ago
Weird that (according to the article) Scoble seems to have missed Mosaic... he only became aware of the WWW by the time Netscape was released?
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by hernan7 19y ago
You can always hire some high-paid consultants to come up with the perfect name for you: http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/11/30/naming/print....
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by hernan7 19y ago
Why do people think that MS needs "saving"? They have been predicting MS's death for, what 10 years now? And MS is still making money hand over fist, without any signs of slowing down. OK, maybe web apps are "where the future is" -- but so
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by hernan7 19y ago
According to Wikipedia, John was married to Cynthia from 1962-68; then to Yoko. Ringo married in '65; George in '66.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Yes, at least those LP's and cassette tapes stayed bought.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Wasn't this puzzle originally invented by Henry Dudeney like 100 years ago?
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by hernan7 19y ago
One thing I think Arc does (or intends to do) right is to be as cruft-free as possible. That is one thing you need to get functional programming to the masses. If learning FP means also having to master dotted pairs, associative tables, 1