justin_vanw

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by justin_vanw 17y ago
600 per year PER user. 10 users? That is 6k.
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Version control does not require graphs. Git takes 30 seconds to set up. There are many free web front ends, and gui's, and of course the good old command line. If you have non-capable people who you need to provide some kind of system t
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Although the context (being on news.ycombinator) tends to make me think of Lisp macros, there is no reference to any language in the post's text. I believe c macros still count as 'macros'.
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Personally, I think compiler macros are far more interesting than 'regular' macros. I would love to see compiler macros even in mundane languages such as python. Example, in pseudo code: <code> defun regex_find(some_string, regex)
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Anyone who thinks that filesharing hasn't totally killed record industry profits is either crazy rationalizing or stupid beyond belief. I can tell you that I would have bought many, many albums if things like bittorrent didn't exist. Since
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Maybe you should think of the fun you won't be having when you're 80. I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but seriously, some day you will regret not having kids. On the other hand, I guess it is never too late for a dude.
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Most of them aren't that clever. Like why is it easier to load a truck with dead babies than live babies? I'm sure there are all kinds of reasons (mostly because live babies are very fragile and you would have to be careful) not just becaus
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
> But there's nothing more important than reproduction and the endless family trance? We all have 4 Billion years of ancestors who lived short and brutal lives. They sacrificing everything for their children in the total poverty of natu
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Make something non-trivial.
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
> I will live to be a happy old man if I never read another blog post ... I wish all I had to do to be happy for the rest of my life was to never use a computer again.
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by justin_vanw 17y ago
Well, you are both kindof taking the extreme view. If you build your app such that the webservers can act independently, then by using various methods of load balancing you can just throw hardware at the problem. However, this just usually