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by mwfunk 10y ago
Also, everyone gets sick of everything eventually. At some point the tasks being done in those 16 hour days will cease to be fun and absorbing and interesting, at which point it becomes a living hell because you have to spend all your time
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Wheels are Python packages, not unlike Ruby gems. They can optionally include shared libraries which extend Python with native code. This appears to be an attempt to standardize how such libraries are compiled for Linux.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Even more effective if the supposed reasons for non-greatness are one or more groups of faceless Others, within and without the country. Someone could go far in politics this way, with convenient scapegoats they could promise to drive out o
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You just made a textbook strawman. It doesn't do anyone any good to theorize about what the dumbest possible reason might be for Google to do this. It is infinitely more useful to think about what rational, informed reasons they might
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is just plain wrong, you have major misconceptions about how publicly owned companies work.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Tim Cook is an operations guy, Steve Jobs was a product guy. Tim Cook hasn't been "adding blur" to anything. CEOs have an executive role but whatever they do beyond the usual management and delegation stuff is more a function
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Yes? So far, at least. If not, there's a massive business opportunity here. C'mon guys, get to it, I want to be a fly on the wall when you pitch your big DRM-free subscription streaming service to Sony, Warner, HBO, etc. Money is
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by mwfunk 10y ago
How do developers on a slow and metered connection download OS updates? Surely that's 100x worse.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Not just their own domains, but in this case its own logo and Twitter account. Seems really bizarre to me, I don't get it.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's about ethics in tech journalism!
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by mwfunk 10y ago
How dare they consider end users! What is the world coming to?!?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I didn't downvote you (and I thought it was a thoughtful post), but I could totally see somebody interpreting "web-boy" as some sort of weird emasculating epithet a la "fanboi". On the Internet it's super easy
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Yes, be more specific, but also there's no point in posting it here. Email the site maintainer to let them know, HN is not a tech support forum or a bug tracking system.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If it's being used as a teaching language, it depends on the students. Some students will rail against the idea of learning a tool, any tool, that they don't think they would use professionally, even if the purpose of using the to
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Actually for those on the Mac, OS X will do the same thing. It tries to at least (not 100% reliable).
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by mwfunk 11y ago
"Here" is not very specific, so I'm not sure how to interpret that. :) I wouldn't say it's a trade secret, but for whatever reason, talking openly about salaries in the US does carry a stigma of unprofessionalism. I
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I would qualify that as reflecting how many candidates see themselves, and how they've opted to romanticize their life choices, rather than it being an objective statement about why people do what
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by mwfunk 11y ago
That's also not good for them, because it grants a potentially huge advantage to their competitors who do support adblocking. That may or may not be a long term big deal, but it's a risk.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Agreed, there are tons of hotels and restaurants and things to do in the area, just not necessarily in walking distance (which is easily ameliorated by taking a fraction of the money saved from cheaper hotels and renting a car).
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I see two ways to interpret what he said, and I'm kind of appalled at both interpretations: (1) "We can't afford to pay someone every time we need to bypass security, therefore we need the ability to force third parties to do
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If you're going to be that snarky and nonconstructive about it, you're going to get snarky and nonconstructive comments back. Or at the very least, you're not going to inspire any thoughtful and interesting observations from
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by mwfunk 11y ago
In my experience novices have an easier time learning programming with an intuitive IDE, but experienced users use whatever makes the most sense given the task at hand, which in many cases might also be an IDE. They're just different t
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Names aren't attributions though. Names are somewhat arbitrarily-chosen words people use to refer to specific things. Some names contain indicators about the history of the thing they refer to, but when that happens it's due to hi
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The FSF isn't a different culture though, not in the sense that you're talking about. They live in the exact same culture as the people around them. It's alienating because asking people reasonable questions and getting lectu
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by mwfunk 11y ago
URLs or it didn't happen!
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The alternative to C for systems programming in the '70s was not Modula-2 or anything like it, the only realistic alternative for most production systems was writing your kernel code in assembly. C allowed the industry to finally stop
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by mwfunk 11y ago
It's true in isolation, but on the whole I consider skepticism to be much more useful and constructive than cynicism. Skepticism is being mindful of one's assumptions, whereas cynicism is just the opposite of optimism. Alternately
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by mwfunk 11y ago
As an old-timer: that was the exception, not the rule. It was just as much "the Internet" in 1993 as it is now. It just wasn't as widely known by the mass public, so different usages were less likely to be caught by editors&#
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by mwfunk 11y ago
There's nothing on the page to indicate that it responds to hotkeys, and there's a big (dead) link front and center that's labelled as leading to the presentation.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
This is all fine and dandy, but it's based on a very optimistic view of human cognitive abilities. It only makes sense as a personal philosophy if you only attempt to apply it to your own behavior, and never ever use it as a way to exp

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