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My Appstore, Right Or Wrong(marco.org)
2 points by mdemare 17y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
Firefox is the coolest software of the decade because they were the fifth browser(1) to use tabs? I like tabs, but, really, tabs ? 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(GUI)
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by mdemare 17y ago
I so envy that display. Wish there were monitors <24" with similar pixel density, or that the 13" MBP had a similar screen. That would mean 1500x950. Makes a big difference.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I've heard the theory that men mostly agree about who they consider attractive, but that women have much more varied tastes. Which of course suggests that women should approach men, not the other way around.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Of course you should read your own code. How can you not read your own code? This is about whether it makes sense to pick an open source project and start reading.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Well, men (but not women) apparently give grades on a bell curve, so you'd expect 40% three stars, but only 5% 5 stars.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Realistically, browsers aren't going to implement this, whether it's a good idea or not. But I could see this working for websites in the lowest tier of security (like HN). Set a cookie for a year, and if you lose it or move to a different
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by mdemare 17y ago
The only evidence that the author gives for the proposition that reading code is key to writing good code, is indirectly, by analogy to the arts. But music, painting and poetry are completely different subjects. There may be similarities be
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Ask HN: Software Update RSS - does this exist?
5 points by mdemare 17y ago|2 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
Yes, this is the same problem that the Pharaos tried to solve, and look how well that turned out.
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by mdemare 17y ago
They did show how IE8 is orders of magnitude slower than its competitors - that display of honesty shocked me a little.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Settlers isn't just last year, it's last century (1995). It did however spawn an entire new genre of boardgames with less emphasis on money and conquest, and more on game balance, allowing trailing players to catch up, and creating a variet
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by mdemare 17y ago
True, affect is officially pronounced /ə'fɛkt/, versus /ɪˈfɛkt/ for effect. Compliment and complement really are pronounced the same, though. Pronunciation is fairly discrete, either there's a noticable difference, or there's no difference
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by mdemare 17y ago
But you'll break backward compatibility. Also, there are too many different accents for any one-to-one mapping between spelling and pronunciation to work.
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by mdemare 17y ago
They're not homophones - lose is pronounced /lu:z/, and loose is pronounced /lu:s/.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Nice article, but calling Go not innovative because it has a C-like syntax is a bit naive.
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by mdemare 17y ago
There will always be a need for a bottom layer language, but 20 years from now, will it still be C? I hope at some point the world will migrate to a newer language.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I like C, maybe it is Good Enough, but don't you think C has some real flaws that could be fixed in a newer language?
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by mdemare 17y ago
Our kind is so dominant on the net that our interests eclipse the original concepts. Try googling Java, Python, Lisp or Ruby - not much about Indonesia, snakes, speech impediments or gems to be found.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Garbage collection, type inference, built-in maps and arrays, immutable strings, concurrency support. Very nice! Best of all, no header files!
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by mdemare 17y ago
Looks interesting! I feel that an improved C is what's mostly lacking in the programming language landscape nowadays. So now Google's got its own OS (two actually), browser, and now its own programming language. Anything missing yet? Their
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by mdemare 17y ago
Are you implying that Bootcamp is Apple's gaming strategy on the Mac?
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by mdemare 17y ago
The strange thing is that even though Java is very much backwards compatible, big vendors behave as if every new version would break everything. I've had to move heaven and earth for an upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 when Java 6 was just aroun
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by mdemare 17y ago
That goes for the Mac too. I've got several friends who'd have switched to the Mac long ago, if it wasn't for the fact that they were enthousiastic PC gamers. These people are power users. Convert them, and their friends and family will fol
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Multicore vs. Cloud Computing(perilsofparallel.blogspot.com)
13 points by mdemare 17y ago|1 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
According to pg, seven: (quote, atom, eq, car, cdr, cons, and cond) Eighth paragraph: http://www.paulgraham.com/ilc03.html
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by mdemare 17y ago
Is the New York Times dying? I hope not - currently on the first 2 pages of HN, 9 articles (good articles too, mostly) are from the Times. That's 15%! I'd hate to do without those.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Brilliant! Is this the Y-Combinator, as a science fiction story?
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by mdemare 17y ago
True. One of the things I like about this place is that one-liners are frowned upon, even when they're somewhat funny. I feel that policy should be extended to sarcasm. Sarcasm doesn't work very well on the net, and is often rude and dismis
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by mdemare 17y ago
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

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