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by kostya-kow 14y ago
A lot of people on HN don't like this ad because they are not the target audience. This ad is not made to hire new employees. Most effective advertisements are not logical and don't have good argument, because they are aimed the lowest comm
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
For some companies, it is important to keep a good public image, and for some it's not. But it's always done to maximize their profits, not because of good intentions. For example: Valve, Google and Facebook all try to be "good," since thei
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
From jargon files: > hacker - A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and stretching their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary .
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
GHC and GCC are 2 of the most widely used compilers for the respective languages. The research uses most popular compilers, which are used by many different projects, not the most micro-optimized once.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
I also liked the one for Java is "So you're a believer in AbstractMethodFactoryBeans?" and C++ "So you like long compile times and incomprehensible error messages? That's cool, we do too."
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
From programmer's perspective, Minecraft is nothing special (and it's written in Java!). There is much better code out there. Quality of programming and success are not necessarily related.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
>The only other plausible choice would be KDE. Not the only one. There is also Cinnamon. And hopefully, Enlightenment will soon be stable enough, and even included in a popular distro.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Good. EA is scared, and taking the threat seriously. They are not scared enough to actually address the issue (instead of doing fake PR speeches), but hopefully it will soon be too late for that. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at y
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
The number of Apple fanboys on this website is extremely surprising, considering that Apple's attitude & products go against every true hacker's values and culture.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Or even better, XMonad! http://xmonad.org/
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aqdxn/temple_o... This guy has schizophrenia, and a some of things he says is really weird.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
>Find something that needs to be built (preferably by someone other than yourself). >The reason you're stuck is because you're too focused on yourself. Remember, it's not about you. It's about others. I disagree. Often times, great
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Are you using OS X? You need GNU Sed for this to work.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
https://github.com/KostyaKow/shell_matrix Bash version
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Stack overflow uses IIS??
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
One can argue that not everyone has an i7, and offloading work to the server enables it to run on weaker computers.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
>The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before. >Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Or use Rybka which can do it much quicker.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
This is a horrible, selfish advise, and you should be ashamed of yourself! It harms both the community and the games. What's more surprising is that this is a top comment! People who upvoted this are not any better than you are! It's always
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
I usually buy HIB for $0.01 and the games that properly work on Linux and have a working Steam package, I re-buy them for higher price.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Thank you. You words are great inspiration, and it encourages me to work even harder to achieve my goals. I am definitely picking the harder path, but I believe that in the end it is the right decision.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
You are strawmanning. I wasn't claiming that all the knowledge that comes from people with advanced degrees is useless. Most people don't need an advanced degree to contribute to society. Proportionally, only a small number people are neede
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
Most of the knowledge you will ever need you can attain for free on Internet with MOOCs. And some of the more advanced concepts that you mentioned are not beneficial to know for majority of things you will do in day-to-day work, although I
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
I completely agree with you. You expressed exactly what I was thinking. I am 15, and I am planning to drop out of school. It is extremely frustrating trying to persuade my parents that dropping out of school doesn't mean I am giving up on l
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
> As a side node gamification drives me mad. IMHO only an idiot would care about made up "achievements". Idiots make an overwhelming majority of population.
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
How does this compare with Tor network?
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
This is funny to read, especially after spending several hours trying to get a project to compile with make, while tracking down an annoying and cryptic error that doesn't even make sense. Make is a horrible tool, and is extremely hard to l
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
>5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard. I don't think it did. Lisp itself didn't become popular, but a lot of functional ideas are being implemented in more mainstream programming lan
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by kostya-kow 14y ago
I have AMD Radeon+Arch, and it works perfectly.
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Nullpointer.be - Linux emulator written in Javascript.(nullpointer.be)
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