mtogo

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   by mtogo 15y ago

   I think this is a satire: * The survey lists it's purpose as identifying trends in software development. Hardly, as this will outline just what a small subset of trends on HN (and HN is just a tiny, itty bitty subset of all softwate develop
2. 92.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   It's especially strange since Ubuntu is not an operating system (though it includes GNU/Linux, which is). Pretty sure the whole survey is a joke/satire. Edit: Now 100% sure that it's satire, since it's actually spelled "Unbuntu".
3. 93.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Some more: If you have indentation set to use spaces, you can hit tab and it will add 4 spaces, then hit backspace and it will delete all 4 spaces. Most text editors won't do that. It matches parentheses and braces, but you can just ignore
4. 94.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Sublime is (excluding vim) by far the best text editor i've ever used. I just wish i could afford it.
5. 95.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Yeah, unless the person doesn't enable images in their email.
6. 96.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Try playing some of the older CoD games (4/WaW), they're full of various types of cheaters.
7. 97.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Instalyrics is cool looking and the interface is nice, but it failed horribly to find lyrics to any of the songs i tried. Songrabbit just works for me.
8. 98.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   More important things like making webapps that find restaurants in your area? Get over yourself. Your web/mobile apps, as cool as they are, aren't more important or any better for anyone than video games unless you're feeding starving child
9. 99.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Sure it's available, but it's error-prone to install, often an old version, and generally breaks all over the place.
10. 100.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    The JVM is mostly nonfree, controlled by Oracle, and isn't easily or readily available on systems other than Windows. I cringe whenever i see an application of some sort that relies on the JVM, as i know there's a rather small chance of tha
11. 101.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    How does this differ from Codepad, which has been around a while? http://codepad.org/ Edit: The ability to use the tab key is pretty awesome.
12. 102.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Really great news, as most people don't know what HTTPS is or why they'd enable it.
13. 103.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    A quick note, apps for domains are still served from https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/
14. 104.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    > He's like the Bobby Fisher of programming W H A T !? How is _why in any way the Bobby Fisher of programming? Bobby Fischer was a famous, amazing chess player. _why is a person that writes code and some people (some Ruby developers,
15. 105.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    He's a guy who wrote some programs and talked about programming and then deleted all his accounts. Some people worship him for reasons i find myself unable to fathom.
16. 106.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    My point is that CS should be of interest to them. I mean, they can become copy-and-paste ASP.NET programmers who botch projects all day, but realistically, they're going to love learning the basic CS concepts, or they're not going to love
17. 107.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Too much excitement? _why was generally a cool guy, but why (no pun intended) would you get yourself excited over his return? He's just a person, just another developer, not the messiah or anything.
18. 108.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Some of the advice in there is really horrible. Start learning to code with Tizag tutorials!? No. Pick a language. It doesn't matter which, pick any language. Python, Ruby, C, C++, Java, Smalltalk, PHP, Scheme, Io, whatever. Now find an i
19. 109.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Wow, thanks for linking that lawsuit. I had no idea there was a risk of getting sued just for not setting your site up perfectly for primadonna blind persons. That's really terrifying.
20. 110.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    I agree, I bought this book a while ago and it's been one of my best purchases so far. A really great resource.
21. 111.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Some people learn better with videos. It doesn't have much to do with the subject matter.
22. 112.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    See my replies above, Chrome and Firefox's features are nice, but not half of what DDG's !bang commands can do.
23. 113.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    But my disruptive agile cloud startup is going to pivot into being more of a social media cloud platform!!1!1oneone
24. 114.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    What, really? Buy a 2k+ computer to test a browser you can download on Windows?
25. 115.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Which is a problem, why not just force all app developers to use SSL? Additionally, the button disables SSL forever , rather than just while you're using the broken app.
26. 116.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    This is one of my favorite features of Chrome, but as i said in my comment below, that only works in chrome, it only works on the computer you visit those sites from, and DDG has a handful of hundred sites whereas chrome has only a few that
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html > If you revere competence, you'll enjoy developing it in yourself — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to be
28. 118.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    It's really similar, but you get a few hundred without having to configure anything in your browser, and it's the same no matter which browser[1] or computer you're using without having to sync anything. The downside, as you said, is that y
29. 119.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Interesting, thanks.
30. 120.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    > Or, you revise your query to "Java coffee". Right, but DDG makes it easier. Sure, technological advancement isn't required , you could still just do it the old way and edit your query, but this makes it easier and better. And that'