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by knv 17y ago
Judging by online version calling this book a definitive guide is somehow misleading. There are still many crucial details about CouchDB that you cannot find in this book and you have to search for them in mailing lists/blogs/wikis. I think
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by knv 17y ago
What if those handful people had started/contributed to some open source project? Now they don't have access to their own code.
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by knv 17y ago
All three of them crashed my Chrome 4.0 tab.
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by knv 17y ago
Haven't read it but given the context of your question should be interesting. Thanks for the pointer.
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by knv 17y ago
> When a "glastnost" comes to China I think it's more accurate to say: If a "glastnost" comes to China . There's no rule of thumb that something like that is going to happen in every undemocratic country.
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by knv 17y ago
I am a little perplexed here. His friend died and then as a way to restore his personality he created a female sex robot?!
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by knv 17y ago
I'm all for map/reduce chaining.
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by knv 17y ago
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins Business Stripped Bare, by Richard Branson Programming Collective Intelligence, by Toby Segaran Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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by knv 17y ago
>start with a specific goal/project in mind and find out what steps are required to get it done. Best advice you can get especially when you start learning to program.
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Fairwell Erlang(pokingarounderlang.wordpress.com)
1 points by knv 17y ago|0 comments
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by knv 17y ago
It's so good nothing useful has ever been written in it. Care to elaborate a little bit?
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by knv 17y ago
I think it's more like: Land Travel -> Sea Travel -> Air Travel -> Space Travel
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by knv 17y ago
Previous discussion on this matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544755
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by knv 17y ago
Why code listings are empty?
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by knv 17y ago
I can confirm that. I have heard the same logic from War Veterans (Iran/Iraq). During the war Iran had 2 kinds of rifles AK-47 for IRGC and HK G-3 for Army. G-3 was notorious for its ability to kill in 1 shot in torso which removed one enem
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QNX Ignores Desktop Standards, Security(trollaxor.com)
2 points by knv 17y ago|3 comments
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by knv 17y ago
Haven't seen something this intriguing on web since the guy who claimed that he has travel back in time from 2038 to obtain a 70's IBM portable computer.
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by knv 17y ago
Evan Williams: "Trust your instincts - except when they're wrong." It's more like a Zen proverb/koan.
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by knv 17y ago
The whole thing with genetic programming is to have the population converge onto some optimal solution... I think what you are referring to is "Genetic Algorithms".
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by knv 17y ago
+1 for Shogun. It's one hell of a book.
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by knv 17y ago
Quantum Psychology, Robert Anton Wilson Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
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by knv 17y ago
4 spaces in python otherwise tab
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by knv 17y ago
+1 for re-reading crytonomicon every year
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by knv 18y ago
+1 for GEB. I'm reading it right now, it's mind blowing.
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by knv 18y ago
Smoke pot.
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by knv 18y ago
It's not just the oceans, for example, how much of Himalayas is actually discovered? Or African Sahara?
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by knv 18y ago
Or maybe Steppenwolf by the same author.
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by knv 18y ago
+1 or Cryptonomicon. Although I don't call it SciFi. Nerd Fiction?!
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by knv 18y ago
If you use RTL languages like Farsi, Hebrew, ... both of them are kinda useless.
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by knv 18y ago
you know 2000 years back people might thought what would be psychological effect of living more that 40 years on average...

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