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by kaens 17y ago
This article motivated me to give FreeBSD a go about a month ago. I haven't been using it consistently, but so far it's been like using linux, if there wasn't so much insanity surrounding how to do everything outside of the kernel in linux-
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by kaens 17y ago
Second the Concrete Mathematics recommendation. It's a challenging book, but approachable. It did wonders for my understanding of maths, and for my skill as a programmer.
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by kaens 17y ago
Vonnegut is light reading that leads to deep thinking. Doesn't teach anything deep, but can put your mental gears in motion quite well.
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by kaens 17y ago
It seems to me that having an open-source pet project or two that uses the relevant technologies would suffice.
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by kaens 17y ago
With regards to b, most of the reasons that people have against smoking have to do with nasty smelling smoke and increased chances of serious health problems from inhaling tobacco smoke, not addiction to nicotine. Nicotine isn't what's givi
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by kaens 17y ago
Nice. Looks like we'll have a browser that has extensions that aren't an utter pain to write, and rocks on all fronts. Chrome is looking like it's going to be as refreshing as fire(fox|bird|whatever) was back in the day - really, it already
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by kaens 17y ago
I seem to remember that being the case on HN a while ago, can anyone confirm? If it was, I don't remember why it got changed, but there would have been a good reason for it. Unfortunately, I may just be confusing my web-site histories.
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by kaens 17y ago
I assume that language implementors "like" flat namespaces because they are easy to implement. Or easier. I've never looked into how such things are done, but it seems like flat namespaces are a much simpler problem in terms of implementati
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by kaens 17y ago
This language offers contracts, and built-in unit tests - both of which could probably be done in python (contracts could be done as decorators, I would think), but are far from being built-in to the language. Eiffel is the only language I'
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Comparison of Cobra to Python.(cobra-language.com)
43 points by kaens 17y ago|20 comments
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by kaens 17y ago
It's annoying because it's been going on for a long time now, and he hasn't seemed to have taken a break to really bring himself up to speed despite having been shown, repeatedly, to have a need for it.
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by kaens 17y ago
The solution to this is to use a different escape sequence than C-a on the remote machine, or on your local machine. I put escape ^Ww in my local .screenrc, and this alleviates most if not all the problems with running screen on both
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by kaens 17y ago
Perhaps. In my case, I was part of that socioeconomic class from birth to 16, but from 16-20 I was homeless, and from 20-right now I was very poor, far beneath the poverty line in the states. I kept that sense of fascination, and I've met t
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by kaens 17y ago
I've never fully understood the way that some people go about entertaining themselves. I mean, I can't remember the last time I was bored. I'd almost go as far as to say that if you're ever bored, you're doing life wrong. I can analytical
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by kaens 17y ago
No, I have one slightly-convoluted-but-simple-enough-to-keep-in-my-head method of generating a password for a given site based on information about myself and the site along with some transformations. For important passwords that I might fo
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by kaens 17y ago
No, he is not. He is at best average. I agree, but he is perceived as being some elite coder by a large portion of pretty fresh web-devs, probably mostly because of the prevalence of his blog, and the readers lack of technical skill/kno
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by kaens 18y ago
I seriously doubt that Adobe made the spec all spaghetti'd on purpose. They probably just kept hacking on new features without cleaning old code, and eventually someone went "Our spec is a nightmare!". At this point, someone with decision
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Overcoming Bias: Telephone Game With Functions(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by kaens 18y ago|0 comments
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The Programmer's Paradox: The End of Coding as We Know It(theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
19 points by kaens 18y ago|26 comments
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by kaens 18y ago
Weird. I would guess that would be browser/configuration dependent? I use firefox for this, and whenever I load up a flash movie (to be honest, I haven't tried it with anything else), it sits in ram until it's loaded, and then it gets cache
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Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer(maximumpc.com)
1 points by kaens 18y ago|0 comments
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by kaens 18y ago
If you have a remote machine that has a microphone plugged into it, you can use this to listen to what's going on in the room remotely.
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by kaens 18y ago
You could try loading the swf in a browser, letting everything load up, and then checking /tmp.
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by kaens 18y ago
Regarding spreading, it seems to me that location doesn't matter as much as it could. I've never lived in the Valley, or in any other stereotypical "tech hub" though, so I could be wrong there. I'm currently working for what I consider to b
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by kaens 18y ago
This is the real reason, at least for myself. My level of skill currently rests somewhere between "intermediate" and "proficient" with the languages and libraries I use on a day to day basis, in my opinion. I'm nowhere near a guru with anyt
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by kaens 18y ago
You can do entirely different fronts for browsers with different capabilities.
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by kaens 18y ago
I can't watch the video right now, but I do have a question: Why would we want to save the newspaper?
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Clone digger - detect similar code in python and java(clonedigger.sourceforge.net)
18 points by kaens 18y ago|0 comments
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by kaens 18y ago
The thing is that for browser extensions, I want hooks into the UI (even if fairly limited), not just modification of page content. Hopefully chrome moves in this direction. I realize that it's a really hard thing to get right, especially
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by kaens 18y ago
I don't think that being content with your skillset is desirable. Being competent with your skillset is, being content with what you are able to accomplish with your skillset is, but not being content with it - at least not in the areas of

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