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by jcapote 17y ago
Ah, now that makes sense.
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by jcapote 17y ago
so you want to make that google/microsoft money right out of college? Good luck.
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by jcapote 17y ago
"it's _good shit_. Get work done good. Think, hack, ship, bill for it good. 2-3 products per month good. You still have to know where things are, who is working on what, what's maintained and what's obsoleted by what. Sure. But there is abs
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by jcapote 17y ago
I agree with you as well. However, this should be taken into account (wish I could find a reference for this): "A study done by Bruce Tognazinni when we was at Apple (a company that has had a good track record of designing for the mouse)
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by jcapote 17y ago
This hardware just screams: "run erlang on me plz"
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by jcapote 17y ago
How does this comapre to grooveshark?
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by jcapote 17y ago
I wish they had rewritten netscape, maybe firefox wouldn't be total garbage now. This advice, while great for some things, needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Sometimes, a full rewrite is the only option.
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by jcapote 17y ago
Something tells me these are going to be as bad as PHP's closures; you can't just tack on lambdas at the last minute, it has to be part of the language design initially (no?)
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by jcapote 17y ago
Religion.
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by jcapote 17y ago
Can't you do this through COM? (Isn't that the point? I dunno, I've never programmed windows stuff...)
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by jcapote 17y ago
Become a mechanic; That's what I would do anyway...
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by jcapote 17y ago
My favorite line from the article which I think captures the real point here is: "So, if freedom matters to you, don't sell out the goal of a completely free operating system, without any proprietary blobs at all." This is not about freedom
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by jcapote 17y ago
org-mode for emacs has a timer you could use for this purpose.
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by jcapote 17y ago
Does anyone know of a brand of coffee thats 100% robusta?
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by jcapote 17y ago
"but your nerd would prefer to hide in his cave for hours on end chasing The High" - That's a beautifully succinct way to label that state of consciousness we all strive to attain throughout our day.
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by jcapote 17y ago
I have a semi-repl with autotest + ruby-debug and it's done wonders for my productivity; I can't imagine going back to alert/printf style debugging/development...
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by jcapote 17y ago
"We used OS X for a day."
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by jcapote 17y ago
gem install ruby-debug
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by jcapote 17y ago
I'll take thousands of braces over significant whitespace any day.
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by jcapote 17y ago
Maybe python, but rubygems kicks ass.
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by jcapote 17y ago
I would love to see a blog post about your usage of MongoDB
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by jcapote 17y ago
Amazon provides windows instances now...might want to look into that
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by jcapote 17y ago
someone should make overflowoverflow.com for all these sites
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by jcapote 17y ago
"AutoSys is a closed, proprietary system, and SQS / RabbitMQ are queueing systems, without support for scheduling." Right, why would a message queue support scheduling?
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by jcapote 17y ago
WindowMaker
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by jcapote 17y ago
I think I would've been a bully rather than a hacker had I met someone this arrogant and pretentious in high school. The only amusing part of that video is when he tells the story of getting chained to a truck and dragged up the street. Cle
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by jcapote 17y ago
I can't take more than 2 minutes of this guy... "I am closer to absolute truth than any man before me" get over yourself. source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0
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by jcapote 17y ago
Seems like it's going to be interesting: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23pragprowrimo
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf Challenge: Write a tech book in a month(praglife.typepad.com)
1 points by jcapote 17y ago|1 comments
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by jcapote 17y ago
I agree, those jabs at heroku were in very poor taste and I'm glad that they've taken measures to avoid sounding like that in the future. It's just sleazy.

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