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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
You win this round, The Simpsons Cartoon Guy.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> if you instead define "nerds" to be "people with a lot of interest in some academic subject, and/or people who are quantifiably 'smart'" So, the Comic Book Guy is not a nerd? Even Wikipedia calls him that.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
No hyperthreading though.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> I don't remember getting a cheque for all the interviews I've gone to. I'm wondering if anyone ("rockstars", presumably) demanded that job interviews be treated as temp consulting gigs that need to be paid for.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
It probably flickers very briefly, so your eye might not even see it (just a guess). Edit: give it a try, report back: http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html This might be relevant too: http://macosx.com/forums/1427678-post3.html
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Short-term, it's a PR win. Long-term, what kind of message would it send to the employees?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Hacker News and Reddit are gamed by advocates and bloggers. I recall "dons" (Haskell promoter) commenting on Reddit that it's awesome that 30% of Haskell's repositories can compile. The amount of FOSS code in some collection means nothing.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Yes, really encouraging: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortra... Someday, they might even catch up to Fortran.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> The growth of Clojure has been exponential both among users and clients. A few years ago nobody could have imagined that a Lisp would have such rapid uptake, but ... Reality check. Both are in the noise: http://www.indeed.com/jobtren
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> The engineer in question is a good friend of several of us here at HN. Do you mean that literally, or similar to "Ich bin ein Berliner"? If the former, that's a rather incredible coincidence, wouldn't you say?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Some of those old documents they're trying to digitize are in such bad shape that you practically need an electron microscope to decipher them. Red herring. I'm talking about the examples pictured. Do you know _for a fact_ that this i
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Is this the same one as featured here: http://recaptcha.net/digitizing.html If so, I'm not impressed.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
With any sane implementation, this just benchmarks the memory bandwidth.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
If you programmatically snap a picture through the webcam, how long does the light stay on? Perhaps it's difficult to notice?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> which provides students from its two high schools free MacBooks Can MacBooks have their webcams activated without the light turning on?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Maybe you should have instead posted your retort when someone claimed that Git's commits are as simple as taking tarball snapshots?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
You misunderstood the (already answered) question. I wasn't asking about binary search and its complexity.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Why do you say that I find this personally offensive?! You are not making a lot of sense. I'm just quoting Linus who probably had more experience with various VCSs than any of us.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> He says in this article that SVN is still better than CVS. He says SVN is better, but is more fragile (which for source control, I interpret as being worse): SVN fixes (supposedly) those "implementation suckiness" issues. .
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
I'm glad you agree, because for the rest of the equation (Tarballs > CVS > SVN), Linus agrees with me. So you see, I embody the combined wisdom of both of you, as far as version control goes.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> If you're say, changing an API, You obviously take the snapshot before. No different from the more over-engineered approaches. >> How does "bisect" know where the boundaries are? > Clever algorithms. Really?! You change tw
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> For the exact same effort, you can view changes to past revisions, revert any single file to a previous version, see exactly what you changed and when. Tarballs let you do that as well. > You said your are a solo developer Right.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> But you already make tarball backups -- taking the two clicks to commit your code is going to be much simpler. And you are saying I'm not doing it right? I have a 1-line script that does that, automatically adding time stamps to the
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> give it a try before dismissing it Giving it a try can only prove the presence of fragility, not its absence :-) Generally, people are very reluctant to criticize "hip" tools like e.g. Clojure, Haskell, Google Go, Git or its accessori
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Realistically, you wouldn't normally have more than two versions: one "solid" and one "experimental". But if you do, there's #elif. I repeat: I see conditional compilation as a temporary thing. My code does not end up littered with them. &#
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Now on the scale of version control, you're at a zero. After I went to all the trouble to explain that my system is the best one for me? :-) What problem that I have will switching to subversion solve? Suppose I have two versions of a
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Check out these replies: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500400/is-tortoisegit-re... It's not just the fragility and lack of integration, but also I'm just not seeing much of a benefit to counterbalance the complexity and awkwardness.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
I program solo, and for fine-grained version control, I use comments and conditional compilation, which I remove when the time comes. I also take periodic tarball snapshots of my code just in case. Before you downmod me to -∞ for my uncouth
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> That, and recorded conf calls show that GS analysts as trying to convince rating agencies to inflate the ratings of the underlying assets in the CDO. What happened to winking, nods and understanding looks on golf courses?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Wikipedia says: A Cochrane Review of studies published regarding NPWT stated that there was no evidence that the procedure significantly increased the healing rate of wounds compared to alternative treatment, calling for more and better res

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