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by ohyes 15y ago
Not Garbage. Default configuration is not optimal, however. I use it all the time on Windows XP to run Ubuntu. Initially, I did have a few problems because I didn't have Ubuntu or Virtualbox configured correctly. Also, I wasn't using 'VBOXA
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by ohyes 15y ago
>It's actually more like playing a video game within a video game I was in one of the larger player alliances before I quit; I'd compare it more to having a second job within a video game. By the end I spent more time working in excel a
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by ohyes 15y ago
This is particularly true with a solution like Redis, where there are data-structures like hash-tables and lists and sets. It allows you to do things can be arduous and annoying with a traditional SQL database.
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by ohyes 15y ago
I kind of think of it the other way. It is overkill to implement a full fledged SQL database and write a bunch of SQL queries, if all I need is a persistent key/value store. I've been playing with Redis lately, and it is really incredibly e
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by ohyes 15y ago
Perhaps you aren't trying to find a great dev, you are trying to weed out the pigs in pokes. Anyone who isn't a total fraud of a programmer is lauded as an excellent hire. It seems to me that just as with reading and writing, nearly anyone
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by ohyes 15y ago
I shouldn't have to sign up and sign in to check it out. A 'public' forum page so that you can just check it out (see what people have posted) would go a long way. 95%+ of people who use things like HN and Reddit are lurkers (I consider my
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by ohyes 15y ago
> Also, it's disingenuous. Of course a 7" "tablet" is cheaper than Apple's 10" tablet. Film at 11. It isn't obvious that the screen size is really the sticking point on price for tablets. The iPod touch retails for $229 and is much smal
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by ohyes 15y ago
To be clear, Wikipedia is really just a jumping off point. You can only put so much information on a topic into a Wikipedia article. You really start learning when you read the references, and have 5 or 6 browser windows open with web searc
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by ohyes 15y ago
I didn't do CS as a major in undergrad (I found it too easy... that sound pretentious, but the program at my college simply wasn't difficult enough for me), but I did do a MS in CS afterwards. It helped a lot with basis for algorithms (term
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by ohyes 15y ago
>Given a whiteboard and one hour, determine whether the person across from you is someone you’d like to work with, in the trenches, for the next n years. If we ignore the requirements of one hour... Brute force: Hire a random candidate
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by ohyes 15y ago
My favorite was Dogpile. edit: it still exists. I still like dogpile.
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by ohyes 15y ago
"Google had developed a number of people who spent much, if not all, of their time preventing change...The fear was risk and safety." I think you nailed it here. But something to realize is that this is not unique to Google, this is true in
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by ohyes 15y ago
"they can use questionable patents themselves to shut down competitors" Particularly small competitors, who cannot afford to go into a legal battle with a large multinational. Android is kind of a special case in that Google has a warchest
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by ohyes 15y ago
Your 'about' says that you learned Django and Python, is that what you are using for Yipit? What does your technology stack look like?
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by ohyes 15y ago
Exactly, that we have sent that instructions correctly is what we are testing. Then they take a picture of something that we both can see (like a star), and if the image is actually 'mirror flipped' of what they would see, we know the instr
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by ohyes 15y ago
A simple solution might be to devise a test with non-expensive results for failure. For example, we could teach them to construct and transmit a jpeg using their words for left and right. If the jpeg comes through flipped, we got it wrong,
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by ohyes 15y ago
Or so he can set up his own vault full of gold similar to the bank of England.
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by ohyes 15y ago
How is that different from any other job application? The job will clearly go to the boss's nephew, who is totally great at computer stuff because he plays so much WoW. (Though it is a well known fact that the best middle management comes f
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by ohyes 15y ago
> C is something that works better for the average user. difficulty of using vs. difficulty of using correctly. (And I'm not even sure worse is better makes sense in a modern context). Difficulty of using a programming language (regardl
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by ohyes 15y ago
s/ CLOS and MOP seem like they are welded on to an otherwise good language, whereas loop is beautiful in all its loop DSL glory. /s (In truth, I find that both have their uses). Basically, different people disagree about which part of Commo
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by ohyes 15y ago
>Has[ve] there been ANY programs written in lisp that has risen to the status of anything more than novelty? Yes.
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by ohyes 15y ago
What does margin have to do with it? Why is using the money efficiently important? What is your definition of efficiency? Lets assume he is dirt poor, rather than broke. Everyone needs food and groceries. If he spends the food-stamps on foo
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by ohyes 15y ago
Zero deaths directly from radiation so far. This isn't too surprising, given that everyone working at the plant knew that it was melting down, and were taking precautions. You can expect elevated cancer rates in the surrounding population,
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by ohyes 15y ago
>It's a fact - you don't tax your way out of a recession and you sure as hell don't tax people to create jobs. It simply doesn't work. If it is a fact, where is the data? Economies are stimulated by people spending money. A tax cut to s
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by ohyes 15y ago
I was under the impression that there were funds that were legally required to not anything lower than a certain value, but those values were much lower than AAA (AA or AA-). Which funds cannot hold anything lower than AAA, and are they rea
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by ohyes 15y ago
Don't think it this really matters. The US still has the strongest economy of pretty much anyone (even with recession). There isn't going to be a massive dumping of US bonds. The AAA credit rating is helpful, but is only used by certain inv
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by ohyes 15y ago
You also have to remember that Minecraft as a Beta also happens to be more polished than the majority of pieces of 'software' that make it to market as final releases. 'Beta' in this situation is a modesty thing, I think.
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by ohyes 15y ago
I've thought about this a bit, and I am not sure whether I disagree. I think I do. "But honestly, if ClojureScript programs are composed of data forms directly manipulable by the language itself then why not just provide eval anyway? The an
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by ohyes 15y ago
And make it impossible for the little guy to, for example, sue Microsoft due to the potential huge legal fees. The issue here is that patents are being used for extortion, and none of these cases ever end up going to court. Maybe what would

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