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by mpk 16y ago
'Linux programming' is fairly vague, but whatever you end up doing (C#/Mono, C/kernel, erlang, LISP, etc it's all there), you definitely want to learn (bash) shell programming and either Perl or Python because that's what most distros use f
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by mpk 16y ago
Because then we're still loving NAT and IPv4 in 2050.
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by mpk 16y ago
As much as I share this sentiment, I'd advise against it. They were very unprofessional and left you in the lurch, but that's not a reason for you to hit the blogs and start throwing mud. In a few years this company may not even be around a
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by mpk 16y ago
> Make a joke of it. This right here. If you didn't have immigration status to worry about I'd say just go find another RoR job, the market is full of them ATM. But in your case I'd say swallow your pride. You seem to be on good terms w
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by mpk 16y ago
I don't have an account there, but a few things immediately spring to mind. - Caching and cache invalidation are really hard - if you have to go there, make sure you can disable the cache at any time - Using regular expressions for anything
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by mpk 16y ago
Though not directly related to this post, the sentence 'well ... how hard can it be?' is a signature quote from the lead Top Gear presenter. This almost invariably leads into a challenge that seems easy in theory but the practical execution
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by mpk 16y ago
As this is a global project, you might want to make grams an option.
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by mpk 16y ago
I think you're missing the word 'allegedly' in there. The author claims that "Fred" claims that he torched a factory.
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by mpk 16y ago
Considering I figured they'd died shortly after the bust, 36M doesn't sound that bad to me.
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by mpk 16y ago
> They aren't patenting Where To, just showing how their patent could improve it. Most people just file a feature request.
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by mpk 16y ago
Yeah, completes documentation on a product he announced an intention to develop 5 seconds ago (internet time). Gotta respect the guy's work ethic and coding chops!
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by mpk 16y ago
The man in the high castle and Ubik by Philip K. Dick. They're next on my wishlist and I've already spent my book budget for this month. If that's not an option I'd donate it to the development of Mongrel2.
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by mpk 16y ago
That looks exactly like what I'm looking for, I'll take it for a spin tomorrow.
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by mpk 16y ago
I really don't get why it's generally assumed that Zed is an asshole. I exchanged a few technical emails with him when he was just getting started on Mongrel (v1) and his replies were always friendly (as well as being relevant). He's put a
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by mpk 16y ago
Wow, a one-line, canned, non-answer from Steve Jobs is good enough to warrant an article that makes the front page here these days. Come on people, really?
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by mpk 16y ago
Usually when people announce a product and give you little else but a future feature list, I'm sceptical. Not with Zed, though.
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by mpk 16y ago
Well, yes. It's not just comforting, it's also practical. Nobody ever gets to be head of state because that position is already taken by the royal family, who in turn are expected to behave and not mix in with politics. Works well where I'm
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by mpk 16y ago
I understand what an event horizon is. What I don't understand is how you could remove one.
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by mpk 16y ago
"[..] removing the event horizon around a black hole[..]" If somebody could take the time to explain this I would very much appreciate it.
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by mpk 16y ago
Any chance this is related to the mammalian diving reflex? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex *Immediately upon facial contact with cold water, the human heart rate slows down ten to twenty-five percent.*
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by mpk 16y ago
Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.
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by mpk 16y ago
Yes please. A +1 for more information on the business models of megaupload, rapidshare and similar services, preferably with some numbers.
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by mpk 16y ago
I wonder when pension plans will start factoring in developments in this area.
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by mpk 16y ago
> It is possible he had an older revision of their code. Unless he had a very ancient version of this codebase it is unlikely that it is different in structure from the current mainline. Adding comments or sanitizing local va
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by mpk 16y ago
Didn't some guy win the ignoble prize a few years ago for documenting the occurrence of homosexual necrophilia in ducks? You'd be surprised at all the things being researched.
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by mpk 16y ago
> I wonder what would happen if some sort of national emergency took place during this transitional period. Dutch politics are almost always led by a coalition. These fall apart every now and again. The cabinet then enters 'demissionary
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by mpk 16y ago
> [...] ditching the free accounts, after using them to gain a big following [...] Well, that - and using them to get the product past beta, of course.
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by mpk 16y ago
Am I the only one who expected a conspiracy site after clicking that link?
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by mpk 16y ago
"if Goldman comes out looking bad" Hate to break it to you, but Goldman already looks pretty bad. What people are looking for now is what kind of official version of 'bad' is going to come out of this and if there are going to be
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by mpk 16y ago
I wouldn't attribute that to race but rather to it working well for the needs of a small subset of a demographic (trend setters) and as they use it more, others join in. It would be interesting to see twitter networks broken down by demogra

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