mahmud

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481.
by mahmud 14y ago
it looks like the space battleship from Galaga.
482.
by mahmud 14y ago
this is Bill Wulf, compiler hacker extraordinaire, designer of Bliss programming language and optimization pioneer. One of my personal heroes.
483.
by mahmud 14y ago
Who cares about XP? I was fearing legislation because his cry of wolf was heard far and wide.
484.
by mahmud 14y ago
Except when he went on record opposing the addition of raw-sockets to Windows XP saying it would help hackers and spell the end of the world. I remember clutching my Redhat CD, just in case raw sockets were banned ;-) http://www.theregiste
485.
by mahmud 14y ago
We use UUCP at work to send POS data from some of our stores to head office.
486.
by mahmud 14y ago
tell them what browser you're using and what version.
487.
by mahmud 14y ago
I ran cygwin and mingw on win32 for nearly a decade. Switched to Ubuntu earlier this year, never looked back. I write 100% portable code for work; write on Unix, deploy on everything. Even our accountant's Excel macros work for me in LibreO
488.
by mahmud 14y ago
(Shrink the size of math text books. No reason why an algebra or trig text needs to be 900 pages, each page in primary colors)
489.
by mahmud 14y ago
Mikko, Mikko Hyponnen. Not "Mykko".
490.
by mahmud 14y ago
yeah, don't be like Fermat.
491.
by mahmud 14y ago
sshhhh! don't get in the way of gushing uninformed enthusiasm.
492.
by mahmud 14y ago
Oracle lost face on this one. They now look like reactionaries who tried to sue progress and lost. This paragraph stands out "Is Oracle moving away from competitive product marketing to a more defensive Intellectual Property litigation stra
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by mahmud 14y ago
I know Islam is the cry-baby of organized religions, but the Turkish state (specially the secular military junta tha runs the show) uses these sort of thought crimes to both silence opposition, and also to pander to the right-wing factions.
494.
by mahmud 14y ago
In Northern Somali dialects you can pretty much put "dee" between every other sentence. People do it sometimes to buy time while gathering thoughts. It vaguely means "therefore". In the South it's "noo", and it vaguely means "why don't you?
495.
by mahmud 14y ago
ummm, those are not tips in India, they're "Government official motivation banknotes".
496.
by mahmud 14y ago
There is already an app called "Collusion", a Mozilla add-on: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
497.
by mahmud 14y ago
I'm sure it was Oscar Wilde~
498.
by mahmud 14y ago
He is amazing on twitter. Sources some of the most interesting stuff on my timeline.
499.
by mahmud 14y ago
Makes complete sense, now that you put it that way. I didn't realize the whole thing was a joke.
500.
by mahmud 14y ago
you are not shooting big enough guns. loading my 15th century portuguese pirate canon has me shreded, brah.
501.
by mahmud 14y ago
Your job is to select the best tool for the task, not the best marketed tool. Harden up and evaluate software correctly .
502.
by mahmud 14y ago
Where does it say stateless? seems like a stateful framework, it has fat-bottomed sessions: http://laravel.com/docs/session/config
503.
by mahmud 14y ago
I didn't think he was. I think it was stylistic hyperbole; deliberate heavy-handed response, just I pulled out the "webinar" gun to label someone a "suit" :-)
504.
by mahmud 14y ago
You have been conditioned by far too much hype. You need to evaluate your software, not be sold on it.
505.
by mahmud 14y ago
How about a webinar, or a conference call? I think written documentation is just fine.
506.
by mahmud 14y ago
it looks like the Indian government is targeting file-sharing and Tamil nationalism?
507.
by mahmud 14y ago
Hopefully, a Lisp implementation that doesn't use tag bits for type & GC. At those low machine word lengths, every bit is precious. E.g. if you take 2 bits for type and 1 for GC, you're left with 5 bits, or a total of 32 unique values r
508.
by mahmud 14y ago
you are very much right :-)
509.
by mahmud 14y ago
oh, that would do it.
510.
by mahmud 14y ago
Beautiful.

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