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by pangram 16y ago
I also found overview.txt (link below) in the documentation useful for getting a picture of the project, which if I had to summarize in three words would be "git-like content-addressable filesystem." Some of the things they're talking abou
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by pangram 16y ago
So if I write "Starbucks sells burnt sludge in place of real coffee," Starbucks will get to advertise right by my statement?
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by pangram 16y ago
I can't think of a natural language equivalent for the comma operator, other than (maybe) incredibly awkward and confusing uses of parenthetical statements
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by pangram 16y ago
I agree with you about the classpath being a pain in the JVM, but Leiningen ( https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen ) does make the classpath much less painful.
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by pangram 16y ago
I've seen lots of high quality blogs that have AdSense just to pay the traffic costs -- you would potentially be filtering out a lot of good content. (Not to mention the fact that since Google makes money off AdSense, you'd be asking Googl
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by pangram 16y ago
Ditto. I have tried four or five and iSSH seems the best (but substantially better on the iPad then on the iPhone)
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by pangram 16y ago
... but there aren't many ordering problems with one button. Daring Fireball has some good discussion on this; he thinks that the rumors of removing the Home Button are false (due to difficulty of discoverability and one handed-use). http:
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by pangram 16y ago
Yeah, it's a neat idea. It has now become 100x easier to submit source patches than changes to Wikipedia!
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by pangram 16y ago
Programming is probably as challenging as any other intellectually demanding task, but it does have one advantage to other skills: it can be done fairly cheaply. It doesn't require any sort of capital investment other than a cheap netbook
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by pangram 16y ago
Yeah, I thought that one was interesting. I can't imagine hiring or not hiring a candidate based on whether they sent a thank you note, and I certainly don't expect a handwritten note! However, if a candidate follows up in email with some
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by pangram 16y ago
There are four active competitions going on right now -- you could try one of those. Good luck!
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by pangram 16y ago
Agree 100% -- ubiquitous tablets will cause some really interesting changes in society. It's illuminating watching a novice user use an iPad; I've seen both young kids and senior citizens become proficient with it in an amazingly short amo
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by pangram 16y ago
Oh, clever idea, but probably wouldn't work. First off, it's labor intensive (you have to go to the airport and check in, it's not like you can speculatively buy 500 tickets), and the amount you could potentially make is bound not only by
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by pangram 16y ago
Picolisp, although I suspect you can make a stub for most Lisps to get them to be usable in a shell script. Also, have you considered taking a look at SCSH, a Scheme shell? There's even a topic for it on the HN front page: http://news.y
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by pangram 16y ago
Perhaps this is a problem that the Snazzy Napper folks should jump on!
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by pangram 16y ago
Either Python or Ruby will put you in good hands -- I suspect Ruby is probably better overall if web development is your main focus, but I have to admit that I prefer Python, just due to its amazing infrastructure (scipy / numpy, SAGE, NLTK
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by pangram 16y ago
It's a bit cleaner than that -- it gets the decryption key from the reader with the Windows debugging APIs, and then removes the DRM. You're left with the original ebook.