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by nocman 16y ago
While I'll be the first to admit that many (perhaps most?) developers (present company included) have a tendency to quickly conclude that other people's code sucks (at least they do at some point in their careers), I have to disagree with t
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by nocman 16y ago
Yes, two years is very common. Most of the ones I've been aware of have been about that long -- three years at the most.
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by nocman 16y ago
If you want something closer to Vim keybindings in Emacs, try vimpulse: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/vimpulse
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by nocman 16y ago
Perhaps I'm weird (I've been accused of that before :-D), but I organize bookmarks into folders on the bookmarks toolbar (the folder is some topic which groups the links together for me according to some connection between them that is logi
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by nocman 16y ago
I agree with MicahWedemeyer -- it's creepy. I went from being very impressed by Hsieh's article to being completely creeped out in the last two paragraphs (and being glad that I'm not his employee). I fully understand the desire to have e
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by nocman 16y ago
Some would argue that if it lowers your opinion of the author it is an "autoding" already (whether you're willing to admit it or not). Take this scenario: You have a single position you are interviewing people for. You've got two candid
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by nocman 16y ago
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D58LpHBnvsI ) Seriously, though, this has irritated me since the days where dialup internet access was all a normal person cou
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by nocman 16y ago
"Why is this even a top link on HN? It's a stupid complaint." Obviously not everyone here agrees with you that it is a stupid complaint.
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by nocman 16y ago
I had a similar response. Perhaps it's me, but if I spent $500 on such a device, it would never be just sitting anywhere (and especially not in a kitchen where it could easily be doused with liquid or have something heavy fall on it). I
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by nocman 16y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. I got through most of the first paragraph, then quickly scrolled down through the article looking for an obvious summary. No luck. I just went back and clicked the link to the Unicorn readme ( http:/
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by nocman 16y ago
Is it just me, or do they have a terrible home page (as far as telling you what their products do)? I had never heard of them before this post, and from the name my first thought was that it was some kind of computer desktop sharing servic
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by nocman 16y ago
Yeah, that's the way I read it also.
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by nocman 16y ago
I don't see how you went from my post to Pascal's wager. Please explain.
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by nocman 16y ago
That's absolutely true. If there is one true God, you'd better make sure you've got the right one.
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by nocman 16y ago
"They can’t all be right and there exists no method of picking the right one except trusting you own feelings." I agree wholeheartedly with the first half of that statement: "They can’t all be right". The religions of the world have confli
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by nocman 16y ago
"if you don't actually believe in god in the first place, than the decision to believe in god or not is just about as relevant as the decision to believe in santa claus" That's not really an a accurate statement. What a person believes doe
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by nocman 16y ago
Thank you for that extremely well-written post. You have saved me the trouble of trying to say essentially the same thing (and I'm not so sure I would have been as successful as you have here). Good show!
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by nocman 17y ago
First let me say that I agree with you on one thing: there are probably thousands of jobs that I feel fortunate to not have to do every day. And many of those are physically difficult professions that are taxing on the body. I also fee
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by nocman 17y ago
I am confident that Paul has never released the book "into the public domain". He does have the book available at no charge on his web site, but that is not the same thing. Last I knew, Paul owned the copyright (I believe it was reverted
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by nocman 17y ago
I wrote my own utility which works a bit differently. Instead of calling cd, I call a different function which changes to a directory stored by an alias in a DBM database. Any time I'm in a directory that I know I'll want to revisit frequ
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by nocman 17y ago
Wow, the article says "Historically git worked poorly on Windows, poorly enough that we'd not suggest it. This has now changed, providing you run it using msysgit and not cygwin.". I find that interesting, and have 2 comments: 1) friends
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by nocman 17y ago
I was not arguing that programming is all there is to Computer Science (which is why I said I understood the point Dijkstra was making with his astronomy quote). However, I disagree with the notion that programming is "a very small subset"
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by nocman 17y ago
It is always amazing to me how much of a mix Dijkstra was. Many of the hand-written articles of his I read are filled with valuable insights, and are absolutely worth the read. And then there's those other sets of comments (like this one)
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by nocman 17y ago
Perseverance is an awesome trait, and real tenacity is a rarity in this instant gratification world. I deeply admire those who just keep at it despite incredible hardship. However, there are at least a couple of things I can think of that
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by nocman 17y ago
Somehow I find it difficult to believe that anyone who even knows about Hacker News, much less anyone who actually reads it would have interpreted the one comment to have said "any model complicated enough is best expressed in terms of a Di
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by nocman 17y ago
As a person who started learning Lisp after years and years of using mostly mainstream languages, I have to at least partially disagree. I will say this, however: Lisp is, at first, difficult to read for many people. But I think it is ma
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by nocman 17y ago
I'll second that. I have a relative who can stand fine, but can't walk for long distances. The Segway makes it possible for him to travel distances that he otherwise would not be able to travel. He doesn't look like a dork when he rides
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by nocman 17y ago
No, I think it at least seemed appropriate to whoever submitted it because of the interest in recipes that was expressed in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726544 Now, I haven't searched the site, so I don't know how many
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by nocman 17y ago
Your statement seems to imply a couple of different things. Perhaps I have misjudged what you meant, and if I have please correct me. However, for the sake of discussion, here are the things your statement seem to imply to me: 1) the fact
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by nocman 17y ago
Yes, yes. I've owned several Model M's myself (probably still have one around here somewhere). They are a very solid keyboard. They are also loud enough to wake the dead! Seriously, has anyone else here tried to type on one of those whi

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