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by jwhite 15y ago
I think it's REALLY important for devs to learn the command line too. But not everyone on the project who needs to interact with revision control is necessarily a developer. They may not have the background and skills to come to grips wit
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by jwhite 15y ago
Agreed. Every time git comes up on HN there seem to be a lot of people making arguments that boil down to "I don't want to know the details of my revision control tool's user interface", and it really puzzles me. All software development
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by jwhite 15y ago
Good point. Unfortunately statements like "you should probably use whatever tool is best given your skill level and the nature of the task at hand" isn't quite as catchy in a blog compared to a one-sided, opinionated, do-it-my-way prescrip
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by jwhite 15y ago
If you had enrolled in electrical engineering then by half way through second semester of first year you probably would have been having lots and lots of light bulb moments. Complex numbers and fourier series and transforms rapidly become
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by jwhite 15y ago
I agree with spacemanaki. Your article introduces higher order functions, which is a big enough concept to keep those unfamiliar well-entertained without going a step too far and throwing in a not-particularly-useful macro. The last part
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by jwhite 15y ago
CL allows question marks in symbols without the || quoting. Try it out at a repl.
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by jwhite 15y ago
Wow! That's really good news!
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by jwhite 15y ago
I generally agree with the sentiment that writing programs, which are supposed to be advanced technology, is done with tools that are often woefully bad and seem stuck in a long past decade, but be wary of generalizing about "you" so much.
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by jwhite 15y ago
I upvoted you to encourage you to tell us why you downvoted it.
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by jwhite 15y ago
I don't think he has any responsibility to be tactful at all. The question is this: by whose standards should someone's words be judged as "angry, hurtful, and unnecessary"? Yours? His? Mine? Many years ago, it was very clear whose st
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by jwhite 15y ago
Late to that party, but I'll give my $0.02 regardless. I won't defend C: it's all that you say. I think one of the acknowledged reasons for C's longevity is that it is impedance-matched for UNIX because they grew up together, and for vario
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by jwhite 15y ago
The 3G connection does not aim to provide completely reliable "connections" -- it aims to provide an as-reliable-as-it-can data link, given channel conditions and configured transmission parameters (which are to some extent controlled by th
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by jwhite 15y ago
I've got roughly the same use patterns as you, and if it weren't for the one or two regular events that I attend that are organized on Facebook, I'd probably delete my account. And yes, it is a dreadful time sink. That's why after the fir
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by jwhite 15y ago
Very interesting, thanks!
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by jwhite 15y ago
That was my reaction too. Bit of a fluff piece. Here's an interesting link with some opinions from a commodities investor regarding China, and whether the ghost cities are a significant problem or not: http://www.moneymorning.com.au/2011
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by jwhite 15y ago
My bank (Australian) requires SMS-based two-factor authentication on international transfers -- they send a one time code in an SMS to your registered phone number, and you have to enter that, as well as re-entering your bank website passwo
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by jwhite 15y ago
Exactly. The graph showing that older coders' answers are not significantly better than those of younger coders is a case in point: maybe the good older coders are too busy actually coding to spend time answering questions on StackOverflow
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by jwhite 15y ago
The phrase "Mainstreet Fairness Act" sounds like something directly out of Atlas Shrugged.
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by jwhite 15y ago
It may be displacing a local purchase... in a third, unrelated state. Only the affiliate lives in Connecticut, the purchaser may live in Colorado... or Czech Republic, for that matter. I think you have the argument about capitalism backwa
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by jwhite 15y ago
Reminds me of this from a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131550
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by jwhite 15y ago
But the Internet also has a significant winner-take-all character at the large end of the spectrum, due to network effects. See Facebook vs. MySpace and all the other social network carcasses in its wake. Mr. Khan's teaching videos might
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by jwhite 15y ago
That's certainly why I'm surprised about it. Don't transactions of this size have to be okayed by the board of directors? And by series G shouldn't the original founders and early investors be diluted out of board control? Perhaps Groupo
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by jwhite 15y ago
It wasn't a symmetric situation though. The Germans generally held better ground because they were the ones who initially made the decision to entrench after First Marne. They chose the best defensive positions they could find, and the Fr
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by jwhite 15y ago
Agreed. It's a hard skill even when you're trying consciously. One way to improve the situation is to actually give your draft documentation to a trusted user for feedback. I've been lucky enough to have an enthusiastic user in-house who
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by jwhite 16y ago
I'd upvote you twice if I could. Much of management-ese seems to be thinly disguised attempts to get employees to work harder for the same pay, and creating loyalty via T-shirts is one of the more transparent ones. I get really strange lo
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by jwhite 16y ago
I think you're right that the low-fi junk will only increase, but just want to point out that it's not always less qualified people who produce the low-fi crap. Sometimes CS majors just want to go for the cash :)
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by jwhite 16y ago
Everyone, especially those on the left of the political spectrum, should read 'Economics in One Lesson'.
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by jwhite 16y ago
Agreed. I've seen projects that have their own username to host the project repository (or repositories), rather than using the author's username. Quicklisp does this, for instance.
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by jwhite 16y ago
The Federal Reserve has responsibility for both interest rates and creation of money (check out the Wikipedia page). I believe the parent was referring to the Fed increasing M0, the base money supply. Interesting things have been happenin
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by jwhite 16y ago
The government can see your Facebook wall. If you don't yell it out the window but pass the message along by more subtle means, the government will have to go to more effort to find out what was said at the poorly lit restaurant.

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