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by mark-t 18y ago
Computer programming is something that you have to do for a long time to be good at. Almost all good programmers started well before college, and a lot of them go on to study something other than CS. My BS is in Electrical Engineering, and
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by mark-t 18y ago
That actually happens a fair amount with non-native speakers, since our uncommon words are sometimes very similar to their common words. For example, an italian recently called me ascetic, and I had to look it up.
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by mark-t 18y ago
Yahoo! pipes does seem to offer the desired functionality. My first impression, though, is that the interface is too mouse heavy (admittedly my main complaint about everything that requires the mouse). I should be able to create a filter wi
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by mark-t 18y ago
For my personal site, I use rsync, and I keep the command in a makefile so I don't have to remember it (I also use the makefile to generate the static pages from templates). It looks like this: sync: rsync -az --progress ./ user@host
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by mark-t 18y ago
That might be accurate for shrink wrap software and maybe even shareware, but it's not for free (as in beer) software. I'll grant that it was never specified, but I got the impression this project was being freely distributed -- otherwise h
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by mark-t 18y ago
Then what would you do when you got to version 11? You'd have to wait for Apple to figure it out. You should name it 0.10, like almost every other project would. How do you think the linux kernel got to 2.6.25?
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by mark-t 18y ago
How did this comment end up in the rss feed? Interestingly, the "comments" link for it points to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196342 -- the original post without any comments shown!
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by mark-t 18y ago
Well, I could do his in my head. Actually, no, I have that one memorized. I had a perfectly good algorithm. It was a memoized recursion. The problem was that my program printed something like blah*10^27 and they were asking for an exact ans
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by mark-t 18y ago
You got lucky. Mine was 66x36. I wasted a lot of time googling for a copy of pascal's triangle with 100 rows and eventually gave up and learned how to get big integer support in perl. So, I guess I'm happy I didn't get such a trivial questi
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by mark-t 18y ago
It's probably ion (could be wmii or any other tiling wm), and the irc client is irssi.
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by mark-t 18y ago
Most of them are pretty easy to tell, but many could be done in just about any window manager. 1. Not real. 2. Mac4Lin. 3. Not absolutely clear, but note that thunar's internal menus are displayed in the toolbar instead of the windo
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by mark-t 18y ago
1. Notice something that bothers you. 2. Fix it! 3. Profit???
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by mark-t 18y ago
Well, I stand corrected.
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by mark-t 18y ago
Wow, you managed to find the one remaining page on paulgraham.com that hadn't been submitted before.
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by mark-t 18y ago
I think the most entertaining thing about this article is that they quoted Dr. Bashir. I wonder how often people make jokes about that to him.
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by mark-t 18y ago
For me, it's mostly avoiding the hassle of commercializing something. If I'm never going to try to sell it, I might as well give away the source. Also, there's not really much choice when a lot of what you do is in perl or ruby or ... -- ju
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by mark-t 19y ago
You can also look at http://hackrtrackr.com/ . It was developed in response to a lot of questions like this.
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by mark-t 19y ago
I grew up in a suburb of St. Paul. I've been around for the past couple weeks, but I'm going back to California tomorrow.
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Perl, the first postmodern computer language(wall.org)
7 points by mark-t 19y ago|3 comments
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by mark-t 19y ago
It's not possible for the answer to that question to be yes. You can't do the impossible. If he creates a perpetual motion machine, then it's not impossible.
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SoCal Linux Expo this weekend(socallinuxexpo.org)
1 points by mark-t 19y ago|0 comments
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by mark-t 19y ago
It's a book, so it'll take a while to read, but I found it very interesting and informative, so I felt I should share it.
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Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig(free-culture.cc)
2 points by mark-t 19y ago|1 comments
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by mark-t 19y ago
The only way to learn math is to do math, and you should learn to do math the same way you learn to program: solve problems that you find interesting. Personally, I like to do contest problems. You can find tons and tons of them on John Sch
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by mark-t 19y ago
It's just occurred to me that I'll have to switch my domain name registrar if this happens. Damn.
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by mark-t 19y ago
Nah, I really wasn't making any claims. I just didn't buy the argument. Personally, I find Lisp easier to write but much harder to read. The syntax certainly plays some role in that, but I don't think it's the key. The problem, I think, is
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by mark-t 19y ago
You haven't taken this thought process far enough. In assembly, according to you, you don't write trees. I guess this means you write sequences of commands (procedures), and you store data in a state system. Well, in that case, Lisp gets tu
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by mark-t 19y ago
> Really? How often will I need to make a directory structure that is several levels deep, but only one directory at each level? Didn't take me long to find one in my scripts directory. Just imagine you're doing something similar by han
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by mark-t 19y ago
I thought they were revolting already.
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by mark-t 19y ago
I got mine from Yahoo! Small Business a couple years ago when they had a $3/year deal. I haven't seen anything like that recently. They seem to be a good registrar; the only thing I've wanted to do that I wasn't allowed was subdomain forwar

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