madhouse

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by madhouse 16y ago
While I do not know VB.net at all, or how hard or easy it is to access databases with it, Python has quite a few modules to ease DB access. http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ would be a good starting point, in my opinion.
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by madhouse 16y ago
The general consensus among the people I know is that average software developers write PHP. Based on that, I'd say that low-level languages are already irrelevant for most average programmers. On the other hand, I'm hoping that's not an ac
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by madhouse 16y ago
I do. However, not because I'm unhappy with what I do at work (I'm completely statisfied). It's just that I love to tinker, so I continue to do that even when I get home.
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by madhouse 16y ago
I've only used LESS (and less.js, mostly the latter), haven't seen any problems so far, neither performance, nor otherwise.
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by madhouse 16y ago
> I could imagine a text-only interface so that the sight-impaired could have universal text to speech access. Gopher says hi. Also, how does baked in anonymity mix with identity management? Can't really have both at the same time, and
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by madhouse 16y ago
You can mock up something reasonable with point and click gui, yes. But it will be horrible unless you can finish the programming.
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by madhouse 16y ago
Such a runtime check would be too costy, I believe. I do agree, though, that it's not glibc's problem, however, I also agree with Linus (and other commenters) who believe that knowingly shipping a Fedora release with broken flash is stupid,
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Glibc change exposing bugs (or how memcpy can bite you back)(lwn.net)
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by madhouse 16y ago
Either you don't mention it, or you mention you did grunt work, what you've been told, even if you knew you could've done better. Something like: "Despite my numerous attempts to convince the powers that be to implement $solution using $awe
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by madhouse 16y ago
The world is already filled with hundreds (and probably thousands) of programming languages, most of them fantastic in one way or the other. Some people will prefer to stick to one language, some will dabble in others, but... most of the ti
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by madhouse 16y ago
You will need digital signatures of some sort. But that raises the barrier of entry quite a bit.
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by madhouse 16y ago
I would continue to use whatever layout I was using before up until the point where my speed or convenience starts to suffer. Once I find myself trying to type stuff that'd be easier with a native layout, I'd change. Not a moment before. In
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by madhouse 16y ago
I had a brief encounter with Drizzle, didn't convince me, so I went the safest route, and abandoned MySQL altogether and switched to PostgreSQL. It was reasonably painless, thankfully, and so far, it's doing great.
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by madhouse 16y ago
Most of the code the company I work for produces is open source, which naturally has comments, along with our public git repository, with all the developers' names and whatnot. Though, for a company that does not do open source, the answer
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by madhouse 16y ago
Firefox & a severely hacked ezbl. The latter because it's in my editor, and I can control it from there, the former because of FireBug.
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by madhouse 16y ago
Or better yet, combine the two suggestions before me: take a year off while you can travel cheap, go to college, find friends, and let your creativity bloom during that time. That few years also buys you enough time to figure out if there's
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by madhouse 16y ago
I'd opt for open sourcing it. If you don't want neither GPL, nor a BSD-style license, you might consider a Creative Commons license, something like http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ .
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by madhouse 16y ago
My keyboard has no labels, and I didn't map caps lock to any key, so.. yes, I would. I actually am using a keyboard without caps lock.
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by madhouse 16y ago
A little bit nitpicking, sorry about that, but it's only the installer's beta, not squeeze's itself (testing, which is pretty much "the" beta for the next stable, has been around for a while).
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by madhouse 16y ago
Ubuntu comes with proprietary NVidia & ATI drivers, last I checked, along with a bunch of other things in restricted, which is part of the default install. So yeah, Ubuntu DOES come with non-free software by default, and the restricted
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by madhouse 16y ago
The reason you shouldn't really compare Fedora and Ubuntu, is that Ubuntu is a commercial distribution, while Fedora is not. If you want to compare, compare Ubuntu with RHLES or Fedora with Debian. Like Fedora, Debian has no proprietary sof
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by madhouse 16y ago
Debian, because of the stable / testing / unstable model mostly. On a server, I can use stable, on my desktop, which is supposed to have more recent software, I can use testing, and my development box is running unstable with the latest and
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by madhouse 16y ago
Emacs. While it might look dumb or something from the 80s at first, once you discover its true power, you'll be hooked forever. Using it since the autumn of 2000, never failed me, no matter what crazy thing I wanted it to do.
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by madhouse 16y ago
You might wish to have a look at git-annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/ The answer in any case is: yes, you can. However, the next question would be: "How?" and "Is it worth it?". I haven't used git-annex yet, but it seems to me, tha
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by madhouse 16y ago
If you're an Emacs user, or plan to become one, then ERC is the way to go. I would go as far as recommend it even if you're not (yet) using Emacs, but that might be just me. Otherwise irssi. Personally, I'm running an IRC proxy (znc), an ir
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by madhouse 16y ago
Emacs. Because it can have (and most often, it has) everything else built into it.
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by madhouse 16y ago
I use a variant of this, I sign up with myusername+uniqueid@mydomain.org, where uniqueid is something I will later recognise, often a shortened version of the target domain name. This has the advantage of being easy to filter and see where
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by madhouse 16y ago
The benefit of an ORM (apart from database independence) is that it lets you use the database as an object, something more natural to the particular programming language than raw SQL queries. While on smaller scale projects ORMs might seem
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by madhouse 16y ago
I consider myself reasonably fortunate, in that most of my side projects were made to scratch my own itch, and they all served me well. In that sense, none of them failed, since their primary purpose was to statisfy one of my own needs, and
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by madhouse 16y ago
The only coder who does not make any mistake, is one that doesn't code anything. Since - as you say - you recover quickly, that's a good trait, and a good sign, and an important ability for a coder.

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