lsiebert

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961.
by lsiebert 12y ago
The expressive power of a language is definitely based on what's in the standard library. If the C standard library came with default dictionaries and other common data structures (while still allowing you to build your own) it would
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by lsiebert 12y ago
I think being opinionated about which tools to use is fine, as long as it's clear that it's an opinion. I'd add my praise to what other's have said. One thing that strikes me is that installing python might be difficult
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Edit: There is the argument that this bill is a step in the right direction. The problem is that too often, steps in the right direction are the last step taken, and then people treat the problem as solved. I think there is something to b
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by lsiebert 12y ago
C, Node.js, angular, bash.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Charge for promoted ads?
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by lsiebert 12y ago
One of the main problems for books, and particularly technical books, is breaking out and getting word of mouth, not avoiding piracy. There are a lot of technical books out there, and a limited amount of time to find the good ones. Free co
967.
by lsiebert 12y ago
The weird thing is, many if not all of the arguments apply to C with structures, unions, and function pointers... and I don't know that consider that properly object oriented.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Thanks, that was a very interesting paper (though I had to google to find a copy).
969.
by lsiebert 12y ago
I use my local hacker space (HackerDojo).
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by lsiebert 12y ago
I'd start by actually talking to the people facing the issues. Talking to users is important for product development; I think this is similar to that.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
How do you define merit then? It may never be possible to eliminate all the disadvantages, but moving towards equality in outcome is still worthwhile. Like a blind person can't be made to see, but screen reading software and braille te
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Consult your local lawyer, which I am not. That said, see The Supreme Court case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Steelworkers_v._Weber It lays out requirements for a legal quota system.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
So you don't say what you consider best. Do you need a discrete GPU and a huge screen? Do you want a lightweight ultraportable with great battery life? Also after christmas sales are often good for tech, if you can wait. You can oft
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by lsiebert 12y ago
They aren't directly tied to merit. They may be indirectly tied to merit; that's the argument many people make. But we also know college attendance, especially at elite schools, and GPA are correlated with other things... things
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Sorry that was unclear, I meant no menu bar and no drag bar with minimize and close buttons; my terminal window goes from the top of my screen to the bottom. I realize I can use a DE that lets me do that, but my preferred DE on linux atm i
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by lsiebert 12y ago
I like roxterm, but I recently switched to xfce's terminal, which lets me load it without a menu bar, (I like having more vertical space). More options are good.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
There is a fair bit of land controlled by the United States that is not part of any state. Us Territories like puerto rico, guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, areas treated as Territories like the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samo
978.
by lsiebert 12y ago
Yeah, mostly senate republicans want to limit trial lawyers, and strengthen large businesses. Trial lawyers serve as one of the ways that people in the US can impose limits on companies, through class action suits and other ways of seeking
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by lsiebert 12y ago
doxygen supports more languages then javadoc, but it definitely shows a preference for c family languages, so I feel you. Glad to here performance isn't an issue though.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
A quick glance suggests this seems a little more flexible then doxygen or cweb in terms of what you can annotate, but it seems like it could have been built to expand on doxygen/javadoc syntax, whereas this looks like it reinvents the
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by lsiebert 12y ago
If someone wants to do something like this in the SF Bay Area, I will happily help organize space at the Hacker Dojo in MV.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
This seems to be more like a universal virtualenv than chef or puppet, just the way it's written up.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
I was recently playing with libcurl (easiest way I know to interact with a rest api in c), and libcurl's default callback for writing data does this too.It takes a file handle, and if no handle is supplied, it defaults to stdout. It&#
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by lsiebert 12y ago
One reason could be that the current version of both Chef and Puppet are licensed under Apache, and this is GPL licensed.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Pick something you use regularly that's open source, and check out that. Something you have familiarity with is going to be a lot easier to contribute to, because you will notice bugs, or think up a feature. Like I added an option to
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by lsiebert 12y ago
I'm a fan of Doxygen, which works on a bunch of languages.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Okay, so this splits sf by having the north and extreme west be joined with tiburon and part of the north bay, and the rest of the city is another district. Seems like it would be better NOT to split the city into two districts. Probably t
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Coding. Coding. More Coding. You spend a lot of time working on problems. You learn to generalize. You save and reuse code. You go off and try stuff and make mistakes. You read less tutorials, but you actually try to implement more stuf
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Just remember, there is survivor bias. An interesting and complementary survey would be women who have left tech.
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by lsiebert 12y ago
Ugh... So the British Colonial Chief, in 1966, wrote “Unfortunately along with the birds go some few Tarzans or Man Fridays whose origins are obscure and who are hopefully being wished on to Mauritius.” And from the Wikileaks cable: 'H

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