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by msg 18y ago
I went through Classic Shell Scripting by Arnold Robbins and Nelson HF Beebe (O'Reilly) recently. It was a pretty solid coverage that highlighted portability issues and canonical uses of the shell. I don't know if you'd call it advanced, th
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by msg 18y ago
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/steve-ballmer-s.ht... Plus I heard that the DoJ settlement's API documentation has been delayed to next year. Or was that Duke Nukem Forever? Plus ca change...
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by msg 18y ago
The picture is changing quickly. In the fall there was an article about attach rate. It was something like 7 games per Xbox, 5 games per Wii and PS3. In December, Wii outsold Xbox 8 to 7 (I had to read the statistic twice because it's 8 gam
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by msg 18y ago
I can flag posts but not comments, and I'm at 118. I do notice, however, that I see the flag link for your comment now that I've hit the reply button. I think this is a bug.
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by msg 18y ago
The Fall, by Camus. Sometime after a friend of mine killed himself, I went to the library and picked this up basically by accident. I read it in the space of an afternoon. It was the beginning of my thoughts about the meaning of death. A Sp
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by msg 18y ago
My 2000 Corolla LE gets at least 30 mpg, averaged between fillups every 300-350 miles. We bought it five years ago for $8400 (not including tax/title/blah blah blah). It was a fleet vehicle returned after lease expiration at a Saturn dealer
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by msg 18y ago
Public universities are not bad. I did my time in Univ of Washington and Utah State University, and I definitely feel like I got my money's worth. A warning, though. UW's proximity to MS and the other tech companies made the department real
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by msg 18y ago
Point taken. If I say your experience is the exception that proves the rule, though, I don't think that's too far off. I had a similar experience until midway through high school. I was about three years ahead of my peers in math, due to th
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by msg 18y ago
It's really a question of whether you prefer supervised learning or unsupervised learning. Supervised learning is one-off and expensive, unsupervised learning is cheap and widely available. Supervised learning converges over a much shorter
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by msg 18y ago
You have some time now to find those opposing drug study citations. Your claims interest me and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter, but the rubber will start hitting the road for me if this conversation progresses from accusations to
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by msg 18y ago
I guess it's a question of how much you want to invest in your tools. Learning vi and emacs is like a lifetime of compound interest. I agree that if you just want to code something yesterday, you probably won't reach for these most powerful
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by msg 18y ago
I downvoted because there are a lot of assertions here without sources or context. My anecdotal experience, where my wife is in the doctor's office routinely due to Hashimoto's disease, is that your mileage may vary. We went to an immunolog
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Embracing Encapsulation [high-level vs. low-level programming](fluidinfo.com)
3 points by msg 18y ago|0 comments
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by msg 18y ago
One valuable point is that you always have holes in your education. I think Yegge's half right about not being able to interview for DGTS. There's no substitute for on-the-job judgments. On the other hand, there's a profile. Douglas Crockfo
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by msg 18y ago
And if you pay money for software, it's out on Tuesday.
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by msg 18y ago
He has actually talked about your question. Over the years he has come to believe that size is the enemy of code and verbosity is the portrait of n00b. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm... http://steve-yegge.bl
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by msg 18y ago
At my work (C++/Qt) we do a bunch of GUIs for a set of several customer applications that need the same look and feel. So we do end up reusing the team's custom widgets wherever they answer our requirements. I find I often write something a
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by msg 18y ago
Comment ranking seems to be according to freshness and quality of the top-level comment, but a good comment responding to a crappy top-level comment sinks with it. I find that sometimes good discussions are deep on the page with their +0 to
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by msg 18y ago
"be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" As a commenter, you have the responsibility to raise the level of the discussion. As a moderator (with the down arrow), you have the responsibility to be generous w
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by msg 18y ago
Along the lines of this recent thread and article, don't be too afraid of revealing your work outside of your cave. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216614 A great way to get some real feedback is to make it, then post it as an Ask YC.
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by msg 18y ago
I work on a small team with a large legacy codebase in ClearCase. Builds take long enough that it is easier to work on a large chunk and do a clean build once the couple of libraries and executables I'm working on are in good shape, then de
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by msg 18y ago
If you've done stuff with logic and theory of computation before, the opening of GEB is not terribly difficult, and it will pull you through to the next parts. If you haven't, you might consider it a fun introduction to the subjects that yo
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An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter(tal.forum2.org)
41 points by msg 18y ago|36 comments
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by msg 18y ago
My first C++ instructor compared operator<< and operator>> to eating and vomiting. I am having trouble reconstructing how the analogy worked though.
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by msg 18y ago
It's 97.3% times 96%, since it's a given that only those who got in got error pages. My calculator puts that at 93.4%. The error is more pronounced if uptime was say, 20%, and error rate was 4%. If we do it your way, it's 16%. My way, it's
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by msg 18y ago
I'm stuck with IE7 at work, Firefox 3 and Safari at home. So it all depends.
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by msg 18y ago
This is a three-year-old blog post. I'm not sure how much still applies to current Firefox, especially the comparisons to other contemporary browsers. That said, I often find Safari frustrating (cycle tabs with Cmd-Opt-arrows, for example,
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by msg 18y ago
You don't deal with death. It deals with you. In a short span when I was younger, a friend killed himself, my great grandmother died at 99 years 11 months of age, an acquaintance died in a car accident, and an old friend's brother died in a
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by msg 18y ago
This made the news recently. Bell Canada, throttled traffic upstream of independent ISPs that resell their bandwidth. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-canadian-isps-... In a case like that, there's no getting around Bell Cana
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by msg 18y ago
I find it hard to believe that the telcos will succeed on this issue in the United States. Especially because they're also morphing into content providers, it's hard to see this as anything but an antitrust issue. I think what's more likely

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