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by holygoat 17y ago
Heh, too true. I often have 10-20 tabs open, in 2-4 windows, and some days spend 50%+ of my day in Terminal (the rest in Vim/Mail/OmniWeb). I'd go crazy if I had to use Cygwin, PuTTY, or even XTerm/KTerm/GTerm.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I've had this in Leopard for a long time. It's not obvious, but it's possible. See http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-tip/display-the-date-on-t...
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by holygoat 17y ago
Are you aware that your challenge is rapidly approaching "without reference to anything better, tell me about PHP's failings"? The usual technique for evaluating something is to compare it to its competitors, and some of those are functiona
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by holygoat 17y ago
Here's me thinking you don't spend that much time in a terminal :)
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by holygoat 17y ago
Tenets.
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by holygoat 17y ago
Selecting a variable name is actually very meaningful, and not just for maintainability reasons. If you have difficulty naming a variable, it could be because you don't have a good grasp of either the problem or your solution, or concepts a
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by holygoat 17y ago
I've ranted on this subject to my coworkers many times in the past. Python's API is full of missing inverses, missing analogues, and similar things with oddly different shapes.
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by holygoat 18y ago
Context is important.
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by holygoat 18y ago
I don't believe I agree. Ruby is straightforward; I don't have any trouble at all understanding it. I enjoy _why's cartoons. That doesn't mean that reading _why's cartoons is in any way a good way (for me) to learn Ruby, which is a countere
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by holygoat 18y ago
Because it takes about 30 seconds to download and try, and the visual effect is not well demonstrated by a screenshot.
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by holygoat 18y ago
This discussion is about "the going rate for programmers", so...
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by holygoat 18y ago
This is why I like EC2, as opposed to something like Azure. If Azure goes away, you're out of luck. If EC2 goes away... bring up your own Linux, Windows, or OpenSolaris instances, and run your apps there. Granted, that's not true of S3, SQS
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by holygoat 18y ago
At least from my perspective as an engineer, AWS in particular removes huge layers of nonsense, and there are no increased layers of communication. It's cheaper than buying machines (by a huge amount!), cheaper than keeping them running, an
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by holygoat 18y ago
> What is the relevant difference between axe-handles and music? Interaction: calling back to the singer, requesting a song. Fidelity: being right there . Shared experience: being right there with a whole bunch of other excited peopl
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by holygoat 18y ago
kragen's point is that most people don't know how or when to do so. I think most of us would agree that it would be best for everyone to suddenly get much better at written English, but it's unlikely to occur.
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by holygoat 18y ago
I somehow suspect there would be more comments on this post here on HN if anonymous comments were allowed.
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by holygoat 18y ago
Just goes to show that it's not easy to match location to measurement standard: you would be wrong if you picked Imperial measurements for the UK, unless the person viewing the page is of a certain mindset and born before about 1975. I was
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by holygoat 18y ago
Yes... getting dangerously close to two years' worth.
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by holygoat 18y ago
The later C standards add additional features. However, I'd argue that there is no such thing as a "great feature" in C++: almost everything in the language is a mistake, either intrinsically or in combination with other 'feature's. It's a
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by holygoat 18y ago
Returning -1 is an obvious failure. What you're saying is that you want your programs to blow up when a function returns a known error (such as "disk full"). One of the points of the article is that C makes you think about all the possibl
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by holygoat 18y ago
In my experience, MS does not seem filled with puzzle-oriented smart people.
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by holygoat 18y ago
Because going to the mall is a soul-destroying experience, at least for me.
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by holygoat 18y ago
That's a really interesting feature, implemented without UI suckitude. Always nice to see...
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by holygoat 18y ago
I think Design Patterns is mischaracterized as a "classic text of computer science". It's only 14 years old (which rules out some definitions of 'classic'), not nearly so profound as TAOCP and SICP (the other two books in your list), and it
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by holygoat 18y ago
You probably want to time against fgrep (grep -F). When you're searching for simple strings, it's often faster than the regex grep.
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by holygoat 18y ago
I hate to point out the painfully obvious, but the discussion in this article isn't about why one should use a DVCS, but about the respective pros and cons of Git and Mercurial. Your comment is a little like saying "man, a visual text edito
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by holygoat 18y ago
This is exactly the kind of RFO I would like to get from our telephony providers after an outage. Detailed, honest (no point lying -- you just had an outage!), and taking steps to improve matters in the future. Everyone has outages: it's wh
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by holygoat 18y ago
+1, correct use of quotes.
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by holygoat 18y ago
On the East Coast, it's often cheaper and more environmentally friendly to buy imported French and Spanish wines rather than trucking them from CA. (I forget the study, my apologies.) On the other hand, if you're just being patriotic, go ri
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by holygoat 18y ago
MS's QA is oriented towards making sure that individual pieces function, not that the right thing happens. Their aim is 100% automated unit testing... but nobody ever tests that doing something is intuitive. The UX folks do, but that does

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