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   by pconner 12y ago

   This one was honest
2. 122.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   Is there any non-anecdotal evidence for this?
3. 123.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   How could this cause any sort of long-term hurt to the kid? It's not like young kids with technical skills become "child stars" like young actors or musicians.
4. 124.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   This proposition (implementation of some of the regulations required for telecommunication services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934) is taken directly from a notice published by the FCC in 2010 http://www.fcc.gov
5. 125.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   Is there a video of the presentation?
6. 126.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   Nowhere in the post did the author say that Pottering deserved the threats and harassment. Verbatim quote from the article: "Again, you do not deserve the threats, and I truly do feel bad that you received them" From how I read th
7. 127.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   Ah, that's the first use of the annotations for this that I've seen. The only other "news" I've seen on Genius before was statements from Genius or a16z, and the annotations only provided more in-depth explanations
8. 128.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   I use Genius almost exclusively for its rap annotations, so reading news on this platform felt strange to me. While I can definitely see its merits for lyrics/poetry, I'm not sure how much I like it in this context. I think that e
9. 129.▲
   by pconner 12y ago

   It has a low barrier to entry. This tends to welcome really bad developers.
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    Processor Independent Embedded Platform(kickstarter.com)

    2 points by pconner 12y ago|0 comments
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    by pconner 12y ago

    The title is misleading. By itself, it seems to imply that the author has something against the practice of metaprogramming in general, rather than just Ruby metaprogramming.
12. 132.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    I don't get this attitude. It's decently well known that there are diminishing returns once you pass a 6-8 hour workday. Why would anyone want to spend more time working to produce worse results?
13. 133.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    Before reading this, I had no idea that Ken Thompson used to work at Georgia Tech
14. 134.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    This requires you to trust the VPN, though.
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    by pconner 12y ago

    This sounds a lot like the world in Vonnegut's "Player Piano" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
16. 136.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    This is like "Yo" for pizza
17. 137.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    HN self-selects "code lovers." It's easy to see that how the belief that this also applies to the industry can propagate here.
18. 138.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    My C education followed the exact same pattern (Georgia Tech). I'm really happy with it. The whole progression felt very organic.
19. 139.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    I think it's worth spending a while with user-level C (maybe complete 1 or 2 nontrivial projects) before attempting to write kernel modules.
20. 140.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    The safe way to use strcpy is to use strncpy
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    by pconner 12y ago

    I've seen this before! The interface/usability have definitely improved since the last time I tried this, but it still has a bug where audio cuts off if you switch to a different tab in Chrome.
22. 142.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    Is this a meta-meta argument?
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    by pconner 12y ago

    SQL makes sense, but at its core, it's a query language, not a programming language. You can do lots of arbitrary computation with it if you want and use it for things it's not good at, but for its intended purpose, it works prett
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    by pconner 12y ago

    You can apply a hashing algorithm to a string that contains spaces. The spaces are very much relevant. In MD5 "String with spaces" yields eab431cd212fb8b5ae223acbcfe58cca "Stringwithspaces" gives 3cd297b2d7e48709d92890f8
25. 145.▲
    by pconner 12y ago

    Spaces are just characters. Their presence has nothing to do with hashing algorithms working or not.
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    by pconner 12y ago

    At the beginning of the article, the author is too quick to dismiss the aesthetic and functional merits of a modern Linux installation. My < $300 chromebook can currently run two variations of Linux, both with aesthetically pleasing desk
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    by pconner 12y ago

    I go to a school with a highly ranked computer science program, and it's not too uncommon for nontechnical "entrepreneurs" to post openings for developer positions for some vague startup idea. Usually, these openings don&#x2
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    by pconner 12y ago

    Oculus might be Facebook's "Bing."
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    by pconner 12y ago

    The link 404'd for me EDIT: Working now
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    by pconner 12y ago

    Does Atwood's Law apply to Node.js?