mapleoin

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721.
by mapleoin 16y ago
With the persona he had created I think it would've been sadder to watch it fade into obscurity rather than go out with a bang.
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by mapleoin 16y ago
How about hacking just for the fun and joy of it ? Like the website proposes. @jacquesm (replying here because it seems I've exceeded the reply limit) How about hacking on something that really has no purpose other than just being fun. Lik
723.
by mapleoin 16y ago
What day should we pick as his birthday? Since we're celebrating his persona rather than his actual person, what should this be? The day he launched his first ruby project? The day he published his first post on the redhanded blog? The day
724.
by mapleoin 16y ago
What if _why was the person who motivated you most for picking a career in programming? _why's persona is an inspiration to see programming and life in a different light for some people (myself included).
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Baby Gender Selection in Thailand (video)(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by mapleoin 16y ago|0 comments
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Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal(markshuttleworth.com)
59 points by mapleoin 16y ago|25 comments
727.
by mapleoin 16y ago
It stops making sense economically if you consider the high risk of failure though.
728.
by mapleoin 16y ago
How are full blown Rails/Django webapps bad for caching?
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Illumos's response to Oracle killing OpenSolaris(gdamore.blogspot.com)
37 points by mapleoin 16y ago|11 comments
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Diary of a Zergling(us.battle.net)
3 points by mapleoin 16y ago|0 comments
731.
by mapleoin 16y ago
And I copied your text here: http://jottit.com/rje78/ Because I wanted wrapped lines.
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Periodic Table of Perl Operators(glyphic.s3.amazonaws.com)
3 points by mapleoin 16y ago|0 comments
733.
by mapleoin 16y ago
I think the frontpage explains it well enough: http://flattr.com
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Get Your API Right(wonderfullyflawed.com)
18 points by mapleoin 16y ago|3 comments
735.
by mapleoin 16y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. This needs to be a major factor that I'll take into consideration in my next relationships. It's not just about my interest in what the other person is doing, it's also about that person taking the time a
736.
by mapleoin 16y ago
How would this deal with ads? I'm supposing they'd want the ads on even the smallest screens. Would the publisher have to provide a range of different ad sizes?
737.
by mapleoin 16y ago
Wow, I started reading this without looking at the bottom to see what the proposed solution was. It turns out there is none. Still, it was pretty interesting for the quick analysis of the various ways that an open source programming languag
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by mapleoin 16y ago
You can easily check that on Google Preview. From what I've seen, both temperatures and weights are given in both American and European systems.
739.
by mapleoin 16y ago
This is great, but is there any RSS feed? I couldn't find one.
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by mapleoin 16y ago
Can anyone recommend anything from this list? I'm almost through Learning Python after having worked with Python for about 2 years and I really appreciate it. It goes into great depth on all of the commonly used features of the language.
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O'Reilly $9.99 Exclusive Best of "Ebook Deal of the Day"(oreilly.com)
40 points by mapleoin 16y ago|47 comments
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The best and most right and pure way to do open source software(poelcat.wordpress.com)
2 points by mapleoin 16y ago|0 comments
743.
by mapleoin 16y ago
I don't know if you appreciate people pointing out grammar mistakes, but I think you meant to say affect instead of effect in your second bullet point. Check out: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affect#Verb and: http://en.wiktionary.or
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Interview with the new Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith(linux.com)
1 points by mapleoin 16y ago|0 comments
745.
by mapleoin 16y ago
You could try something like this: timeout 3s cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
746.
by mapleoin 16y ago
Ok, I'll bite. What are the other 2?
747.
by mapleoin 16y ago
We were discussing OpenSolaris, not Solaris 10. I looked it up and it looks like they have gnome 2.30 since their 2009.06 release[1] which is actually the latest version. [1] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=opensolaris
748.
by mapleoin 16y ago
It's approximately where RHEL5 (and maybe other enterprisey distros) is right now, which is an old version of gnome. I don't think that's a big problem to solve, provided they actually get more man-power.
749.
by mapleoin 16y ago
Well I suppose there's more than one way to read it. You could try reading it again with your irony button switched on.
750.
by mapleoin 16y ago
And here's Greg's response to Mark's response: http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/its-not-about-...

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