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by lelele 13y ago
I stick with GNU/Linux (Desktop or not) because it is the most widespread OS designed and maintained by hackers for hackers. Enough said.
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by lelele 13y ago
Life does not end after 35, but your energy levels and stamina will be lower than in your younger years. Yes, even if you exercise and eat healthy (indeed, you'll have to stay fit just to keep going). Moreover, with age (hopefully) com
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by lelele 13y ago
Instead of SBCL, I recommend Clozure CL. Apparently, SBCL does not operate smoothly on all the platforms it supports.
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by lelele 14y ago
What? Companies call your current employer for references? That's unbelievably stupid. A smart company would call the employer before your current one, because your previous employer would have no interests at stake.
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by lelele 14y ago
> The post is spot on. Firefox is a great browser, but reading the OP's last paragraphs, users rarely choose software for quality alone. Quality is not the same for everyone. I have switched to Chrome, and it feels like it's build much
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by lelele 14y ago
> This isn't really relevant to the thread of discussion. It was, before I got carried away: I was going to say that Turing-completeness does not translate to practice. And whoever chooses a language according to its Turing-completeness
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by lelele 14y ago
> So if a choice must be made between superior language and reasonable amount of time, project managers usually choose reasonable amount of time. Sure. Of course project managers usually choose deadlines over people, then when talented
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by lelele 14y ago
> the programming language is just a tool Not really. > I’m not a programmer That says it all. Talented programmers prefer to work with tools they feel productive with. While it is true that inexperienced programmers lack pragmatism
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by lelele 14y ago
> Java can produce any result that Haskell can produce. End of story, full stop. But can average Java programmers produce any result that average Haskell programmers can produce? I'd bet they can't. Haskell programmers are self-selectin
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by lelele 14y ago
The truth is that only smart people can make remote working work. What medium to big companies can afford to hire only - or even mostly - smart people? Not to mention that smart people who really want to dance at their own beat start their
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by lelele 14y ago
I have been away for a while. Has HN fallen so low in the meantime? Time to change its name to Code Monkey News, maybe?
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by lelele 14y ago
More like: the most clueless programmers are the quickest to Google. If you know what you are doing, there isn't always an urge to look for ready-made solutions.
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by lelele 14y ago
Exactly. "Why I'm quitting Facebook"... and making a lot of buzz about it.
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by lelele 14y ago
Then bully the bullies to make them stop. Otherwise, you are kidding yourselves.
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by lelele 14y ago
For me, the hidden cost of C++ was the mental overhead of programming in it. I had to be constantly alert about the many many ramifications of almost every line I wrote.
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by lelele 14y ago
"I started learning C and C++ about three months ago. My reasoning is, they're used all over the place. My operating system is written using C..." Your operating system is written in C. Why learn C++? The return of investment of learning
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by lelele 14y ago
Also, people struggle with weight loss because they approach it only from the side of burning excess calories with exercise, but as long as their caloric requirements stay the same, the moment they stop exercising, calories start piling up
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by lelele 14y ago
I don't understand why you can't mix and match Python 2 and Python 3. I mean: Python can link C libraries and it can't link libraries from a different Python version? Having different languages coexist and call each other in an applicatio
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by lelele 14y ago
Java reputation suffers because of the association of such language with corporate drones. We may say that with the current crop of languages running on the JVM, Java is a low-level language. It is to the JVM what C is to hardware. You av
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by lelele 14y ago
If only keyboard manufacturers - especially laptop manufacturers - agreed on where to put modifier keys other than Shift. A small difference in locations can thwart your muscle memory.
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by lelele 14y ago
Social skills are the most important skills. Strive to improve them. A well-connected likable person goes farther than a skilled one.
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by lelele 14y ago
> I use it inside the company I'm working at as a part of video series that all developers new to JavaScript are required to watch (during office hours, actually). What are the other videos? Thanks.
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by lelele 14y ago
> Scott just reminded them that they'll be screwed at some point, and he's here to help. Problem is: he doesn't know how to help, yet people are going to trust him because they don't know better. I'd bet they are going to store their us
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by lelele 14y ago
> THIS is exactly what people on HN should be doing. I don't think so. If you start a business and you neither have a clue about your core product - i.e. security - nor care about asking someone who does, you better fail soon and the wo
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by lelele 14y ago
"discontinuing a product and then relaunching it is standard practice for companies which want to get rid of anchoring biases." Would you provide a few examples, please? Thanks.
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by lelele 14y ago
http://www.vimgolf.com/ http://zzapper.co.uk/vimtips.html http://www.thegeekstuff.com/vim-101-hacks-ebook/
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by lelele 14y ago
> Why shouldn't adding functions on "as-needed" basis be the case? No body can see what might be needed in the future. All programming languages evolve, so does vimscript. Other languages evolve in favor of language design and libraries
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by lelele 14y ago
What about delicious.com?
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by lelele 14y ago
Yes, it is common because too many people drink the kool-aid. You should be entitled to be paid according to your contribution. "Should" because other factors may be involved: - paying you more might upset some employees with a degree; - pa
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by lelele 14y ago
Being able to mark an email in a to-do system as "Waiting for reply" with an expiration date would be useful. This way, such to-do system could alert you when an email has not been answered to and prompt the next action. Emails could be cr

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