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by kluck 11y ago
So you seem to want to: - socialize with other engineers, - work (= program, I suppose) on interesting projects together. My opinion is that programming is actually a very lonely activity to the point where I think it is actually harmful if
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by kluck 11y ago
It seems that the contents are copy/pasted from a bunch of different messages. Here is the list of messages from that day: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/22 . Torvalds's responses are in there as well
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by kluck 11y ago
My personal favourite combination as well! Don't care about if its old-fashioned or what other people think about Perl and C. To me, a programmer should start learning C then work his/her way up!
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by kluck 11y ago
+ for writing unit tests ;) I traded the buzz for the long-lasting personal software project that scratches my own itch (and probably only few people care about).
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by kluck 11y ago
Maybe you can try to use a relational DBMS to model the graph data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316872
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by kluck 11y ago
Thank you for the ideas ;) At heart I am a realistic optimist. Some people will never learn and some things never change.
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by kluck 11y ago
That's a shame for Slashdot - I like that site!
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by kluck 11y ago
You could write a small program that, everytime some calculation is done with money, cuts of the remaining fractions of cents and puts them into your bank account. Over time it will be a lot of money and no one will notice ;)
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by kluck 11y ago
While I do not particularly often take part in meetings, I know of some colleagues who often go and have programming to do. I really can see the stress in their eyes, when the meetings for the day are over shortly after lunch time and they
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by kluck 11y ago
Yes, reindexing ES is a pain in the ass. While it is reindexing, I constantly stare at the screen asking myself "Why the f* do you have to reindex, I just added a field to the mapping you f* piece of sh* moronic database".
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Ask HN: The most boring/frustrating activities during your job as a programmer?
8 points by kluck 11y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: What are examples of large websites without JavaScript?
2 points by kluck 11y ago|1 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
PiedPiper
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by kluck 11y ago
I am not active on either platform. My guess is that both platforms have something missing. When I am shopping for music, which is what Spotify is supposedly for, then I think it is not enough to supply the music in digital form. The physic
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by kluck 11y ago
Donations: yes. Commercial support and training: yes, but for that the software has to exist. A good idea for later on though.
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Ask HN: How to fund Free Software Development
3 points by kluck 11y ago|3 comments
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Simple online notepad that is client-side encrypted(protectedtext.com)
1 points by kluck 11y ago|0 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
Interesting. Can you elaborate on this? I am not sure what "inconsistent replication" means.
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by kluck 11y ago
The kind of "passive" you mean would be truly awesome! Anyone an idea?
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by kluck 11y ago
Great topic and from scanning the table of contents the guidelines are well chosen. The matter maintainability is discussed far too seldom! I would like to add that "maintainability" more often than not refers to maintenance &quot
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by kluck 11y ago
Human behaviour is hardly random. Also requires JS.
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by kluck 11y ago
Thank You. Hopefully there is more ;)
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Ask HN: What online services encrypt user data?
1 points by kluck 11y ago|2 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
It is the responsibility of the inventor to think ahead as far as possible about how an invention may do good and/or harm.
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by kluck 11y ago
I would really be interested in the Nixar commands beeing implemented as normal bash alias commands.
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by kluck 11y ago
The problem at the core of the issue might be that whenever something is bought (be it labour or products) not _all_ its costs are considered. Usually only the cost on the "price tag" is recognized but follow-up costs are ignored.
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by kluck 11y ago
It seems all rather obvious: Of course you have to believe that what you do makes sense in order to feel at least a bit of pleasure doing it. Everything else is just a job. What I am worried about is that maybe it is sometimes taken too far
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by kluck 11y ago
"For 999 days [the airbnb founders] didn't see traction. But, they brushed their resume."
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About the development of the Space Shuttle software(fastcompany.com)
1 points by kluck 11y ago|0 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
Yes. I bet it is a search engine that is based on a distributed search index, hosted by individuals not by a giant corporation. At least I would hope so.

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