informatimago

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   by informatimago 10y ago

   And Don’t Ever Forget the giant on whose shoulders Linus Torvalds stands: Richard Stallman!
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   by informatimago 10y ago

   This is nothing extraordinary: it occurs all the time (there are a lot of reports during Obama). It occurred to me in 1986.
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   by informatimago 10y ago

   British Programmer 3D-Prints His Very Own Ultron Robot https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpwJoq86vov-v97fBMRfm... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpwJoq86vov-C5SldDA-A... But it's not as fl
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   by informatimago 10y ago

   I think it's no big deal: sooner or later, the answer will be: "Oh, it was me!". And then the programmer will reach next level.
5. 215.▲
   by informatimago 10y ago

   Yet another service I get first news when it shuts down. Why are the shut down announces more prominents than the starting up announces?
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   by informatimago 10y ago

   1- you've not posted anonymously (link to your resume with I assume your real name). Therefore the effectiveness of the advice may be reduced. 2- my advice would be to remove "Franco-American". If you want to profit from yo
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   by informatimago 10y ago

   Well, I didn't have the problem in the case of multiple developers, but then I didn't have git. One simple way is to enforce the rule that the database definition (schema) should be in the repository, along with a script creating
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   by informatimago 10y ago

   6502, z80, 6809, BASIC, LSE, Pascal, COBOL, 360 assembler, S35 assembler, 68000, Microsoft Basic, LightSpeed Pascal, C, Modula-2, Object-Pascal, 8086, FORTRAN IV, Smalltalk, sh, csh, awk. Some to learn, some to work, some for a hobby. At w
9. 219.▲
   by informatimago 10y ago

   Don't be silly, use Smalltalk !
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Yes, always have your keys and all your stuff with you, you never know when the Enterprise will travel back to your time and you'll be beamed up away.
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    openssl!
12. 222.▲
    by informatimago 10y ago

    Postfix is a good example of a system written in C with separate components (running in different processes for security).
13. 223.▲
    by informatimago 10y ago

    Well they both have names starting by "Hi", containing "l" and "r".
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Now for this, you would need to take random couples from the whole population (so you'll need almost 4 billion cars for the first round), let them have sex in the car, then crash the car. You'd repeat with the survivors. I'd
15. 225.▲
    by informatimago 10y ago

    Immigrants, no. Invaders, yes!
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Exactly. Then if you know multiple languages, the most useful will be the one you can use the more often, on the various platforms you have to write programs for, and for the various kinds of programs you have to write. In this respect, I f
17. 227.▲
    by informatimago 10y ago

    He menaces to punch on the table of EU. How much noise a hologram punching on the table does?
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Well, you basically got it. Your knowledge and know-how is not enough. You've been selected frmo tests, because you've demonstrated eagerness to learn, and probably some sound basic capabilities. Build on them, by keeping learnin
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    LOL! They couldn't print paper as fast as the Fed is creating currency electronically! What do you think all those "Quantitative Easing" are? paper currency is much less than one percent of the total currency dealt with by
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    emacs Python will pass, you'll use other programming languages. But emacs is your editor for life.
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Having experience with Java, I'd advise him to take two or three months to learn Android programming. Then, either earn enough money selling is own Android applications on the Play Store, or he'll find employment as senior Androi
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Imagine the amount of human resources stolen by the USA from all those countries, and the subsequent economic resources (taxes, jobs, international commercial balances) capted by the USA, instead of the original countries! Clearly, we shoul
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    The good use cases are: - drawing (painting), - manual (hand-written) note taking and sketching. - I like Omnigraffle on it, too, and other vectorial drawing. - musical composition both partition editing (with the pencil), and synthesizer&#
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Over the last 40 years, I've accumulated a 471 KB ~/notes.txt file. Currently, it's vaguely structured using the emacs org-mode And indeed, no database, nothing beats the speed and convenience of search with any random editor
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Companies should not promote any such view in the government. The government is by the people for the people. Only human beings should have any voice in the government affairs, and since we're assumedly in a democracy, with one man on
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Indeed! Imagine if instead, they've paid a universal basic income to everybody with that money, and people, including those engineers were free to work on useful stuff!
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Yes, there are certain streets with certain libraries that I used to avoid, if I didn't want to come back home with 1000.00+ worth of books... With Amazon it's a little easier to avoid over-booking, since you can just find the boo
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    It is legal because they don't license their software with a license ensuring freedoms of the user. The user is not free to use their software. That's the point of the GPL. If the users took care of only buying products includi
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    What about staying in one's country and developing its local economy, instead of filling the pockets of the 0.01% in the USA?
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    by informatimago 10y ago

    Yes. Read http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf Then read: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ You are responsible, as programmer or script writer, to ensure that th