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by miguelpais 16y ago
Awesome! I usually download three or four of these a year from the DJs I like. And Yes! I'm glad this came to HN, otherwise I wouldn't find it and I love the Essential Mixes. From 2010 I recommend the one from John 00 Fleming at 13-FEB-2010
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Well, of course, and I ended up doing that. But that's not the point, is it? The guy in the blog post could also abstract all those lines in some method and it wouldn't make that OO design with factories and contexts any less bloated.
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Did the library design get any less bloated that way? I don't think the last line would work...
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Instead of code inspection, maybe the manager should impose short and easy to validate requirements (sub requirements of the general requirements imposed by the client) and ask the programmer to show the software passing them. Even if TDD i
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by miguelpais 16y ago
While reading that pile of code I couldn't help parsing it as Java, although syntactically it could be a wide variety of languages. Are there any other languages' libraries with complicated designs like that one or is this a problem specifi
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by miguelpais 16y ago
I have made exactly the same thing! But now I guess I'll either read their documentation or use one of the scripts/libs listed above.
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by miguelpais 16y ago
> But if it doesn't, and I want to impress people by showing that I listen to it, and there's no way to do that on Ping except by buying it from iTunes. Actually, there is. In my opinion it is a very bad way to do so, but you browse on
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by miguelpais 16y ago
I was still thinking of giving some credit to Ping when I saw, after being disappointed with all the other features, that you could post a music to your profile. That's something that I quite regularly do on my Facebook profile, simply post
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Amazing, they completely turn that first paragraph into a huge oxymoron. Let's see, we have this beautiful HTTP Live Streaming technology based on open standards but somehow it can only be appreciated on a Mac or iPhone... This must be on
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Oh, the director of Paprika, I saw that anime. It's complex but visually stunning. I would be proud of having accomplished something like that... Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJzEW_eE1G0
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by miguelpais 16y ago
In here you have a very interesting video about Kanji I saw some months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxihOeMPBg#t=4m10 (I put the flag to skip to the moment he speaks about this issue).
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by miguelpais 16y ago
How can it be the end of, for instance, Kanji if the whole language relies on it? You probably know that when a Kanji character is written in hiragana or katakana, you have no clue of the true meaning, it can be many different things. So ho
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by miguelpais 16y ago
A* is not just that. The way it is said seems to imply that it is equal to Best First Search. Best First Search only relies on the heuristic function, so for the following graph, where A is the start node and h is the heuristic function: +-
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Wow, an article raising a topic that the author finds interesting, relating it to something which it has nothing to do with, trying to correlate the two but ending up dismissing the correlation. Most interesting thing in the article, there
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Is he also calling ignorant to the OO Scheme or Lisp programmers? The best approach appears to me to be taking the best of both worlds. Functional may solve lots of problems, but you can't deny the advantages of a good OO design. Just devis
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Really, an average of 12 pills a day? Wouldn't that make you continuously high?
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by miguelpais 16y ago
I think Mourinho will finally give that club the stability it needs either by bringing new players, not particularly the big stars, but those who are able to play in the context of a team, or he will just take the big stars out of their ped
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Probably making the goalkeeper unable to save with his hands. To avoid injuries for the goalkeepers you could then reduce the height of the goal to something like 0.7 meters, so that saves would be done with the legs and knees. Then you cou
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Football (sorry, Soccer) is not the kind of sport which enables high scores, it never was. Actually, in the past, goals seemed to occur more often, but that was mostly because of the huge discrepancies between the opposing teams. I think it
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by miguelpais 16y ago
I just hope that ten years from now 3D televisions won't have become the standard to the point of buying a regular HDTV being impossible. I mean, 3D is nice for a change but I just feel like it was the new way for companies to create anothe
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by miguelpais 16y ago
The book is very concise and probably one of the books with higher ratio of relevant content per page. It also teaches you the grammar of JavaScript in one of the most simple and unambiguous ways I ever seen in a book (railroad diagrams). O
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Trivial Refactorings(refactoring.com)
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by miguelpais 16y ago
The thing is, there are tons of different and case specific physical disabilities. What works for some of them, doesn't work for the others. But anyway that's no excuse, they could create some accessibility mode based on an keyboard shortcu
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by miguelpais 16y ago
I just get the impression that someone who wants to do A/B testing after reading this article will just create a different version of the website, and probably analyze the average of the results in each version and end up deciding solely on
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by miguelpais 16y ago
To get the Verified Account badge?
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by miguelpais 16y ago
> Here in the UK there are actually quite good limits on that. I'm not sure you would, say, ever see Starsky and Hutch (the film) on at 4pm. I'm from Portugal and here is quite usual to see some Mission Impossible, van Dame or Schwarzen
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Much is said about protecting children from video games, but what about other mediums (mainly TV, given its exposure)? Any station can air some movie at 4pm featuring the good cops shooting the bad guys. Or, for instance, it is easy to be w
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by miguelpais 16y ago
You would need a large group of different skilled people to be able to do it successfully in a way that good points about the stories arise in the show, given the broad range of different kinds of topics that get submitted to HN. But for th
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by miguelpais 16y ago
The good point I think the article makes before generalizing about smart people's qualities is the fact that in many cases, such as argument, there are people who will toss some concepts, jargon or ideas without fully understanding them an
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Neither did I. So I find it strange that in news articles like this one: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/travel/13Harry.html?hp Readability still does a better job then the Reader extension that is based on it. Readability is able to

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