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by qaexl 19y ago
"On death ground"
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by qaexl 19y ago
Huh, interesting idea. Customer provide their own USB thumbdrive for storage, and otherwise use Google apps.
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by qaexl 19y ago
Didn't say he was a script kiddy. I'm glad that there are people who will stick up for him.
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by qaexl 19y ago
They don't necessarily need to be excluded. Sometimes they are. In the Mongrel interview, it seems to me Zed has always been an in-your-face kind of a guy. Like I said though, I won't really know unless I talk with him face to face. Words a
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by qaexl 19y ago
I never met Koz or interacted with him in any significant way, so I don't really have an opinion about him. I've never met Zed. However, from the rant and from reading the interview with Zed about Mongrel a couple years back, I think Zed i
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by qaexl 19y ago
Gotcha. You're right, learning computer science is important to developing software.
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by qaexl 19y ago
Put it in context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91814 I'm surprised the business even survived that long with that many restarts per day.
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by qaexl 19y ago
I generally agree with you here. I also think that undergraduate CS degrees today, are diluted. That's not to say I have not met folks who know what they are doing with their CS degree. They are also the ones paying attention in class. For
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by qaexl 19y ago
By way of disclosure, I make my living off of Ruby on Rails. I'm not a mover or shaker -- not on the core team, and at most, I hang out on the #rubyonrails channels. I never met Zed Shaw, but I have known of him as the creator of Mongrel. T
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by qaexl 19y ago
You're talking about outsourcing non-programmers. The guy who was asking was asking about outsourcing programmers. I am wary of outsourcing. I've done some work on RentACoder ... most of the people there want cheap work done for crap. I've
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by qaexl 19y ago
Though that means that if the adoption of Ruby on Rails in the enterprise becomes widespread enough, it too will take the crown of "the new Cobol". Or it might be .NET What I mean is the rising population of unskilled so-called programmers
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by qaexl 19y ago
I am curious how many people who writes here are actually involved in some form of modern 'warrior culture'. Among my martial arts friends, we have a description of "Old Man Powers". What we mean by that is described in this Kung-Fu Magazi
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by qaexl 19y ago
Hmm, "tribal, violence-based political-religious movements." Going that way though, we could start pulling in examples from the Crusades, witchhunts ... I don't remember if they matched all of the factors: - Restrictions on the free flow of
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by qaexl 19y ago
That's fallacious. I'm getting tired of people bringing up 'semantic argument', soon to be followed by 'agree to disagree'. The toxicity of a 'semantic argument' comes from two or more people unable to emotionally get in rapport with each
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by qaexl 19y ago
I don't like how the original author failed to distinguish between Arabian culture and Muslim religion. Though they are intertwined, there are non-Arabian Muslim cultures as well. To add to DanielBMarkham's comment, though, Arabic culture c
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by qaexl 19y ago
Interesting. However, the author did point out a culture similar to 'thar' values without its toxicity -- Japanese bushido. It may have helped that the bushi-class outlawed the use of guns for a good while, and they were essentially warrior
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by qaexl 19y ago
As I was reading this, I flashed back to the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91794 about traffic jams. One person slows down, forcing people behind him to slow down. The whole thing ripples outwards depending on the t
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by qaexl 19y ago
http://iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/24/technology/LA-TEC-Peru...
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by qaexl 19y ago
Didn't know that. Ouch.
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by qaexl 19y ago
No, I'm talking about something different. I don't know Javascript well enough to toss off something, but the equivalent in Ruby looks like this: class MyBadassSword < GameObject is_immune_to_poison is_fire_resistant
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by qaexl 19y ago
Uh ... I don't know why this is made into such a big deal. There was a agent-based simulation done at Stanford back in the mid 90s that demonstrated this. About the only thing I can think of is if that these guys developed mathematical proo
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by qaexl 19y ago
I have not worked with Java much. I have, however, worked with Pascal, C, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby. When the Google Android SDK came out, I downloaded Eclipse and its plugin and worked through the tutorials. Having been working wit
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by qaexl 19y ago
I think it is your computer. My Linux box doesn't even hit above 10% CPU on that site, and it isn't as powerful as an MBP.
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by qaexl 19y ago
My first impression is that it is more like a virtual online space than a 'site'. A nightclub, instead of a Wally World. It doesn't feel as dirty as Myspace.
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by qaexl 19y ago
... and places like GaiaOnline seem to exist primarily as an international meat market for the underaged. There seems to be just as many females as there are males. (I made the mistake of going into the Towns once). It was not like this onl
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by qaexl 19y ago
That's a very interesting reaction. I find it interesting that a lot of people get suspicious over a 'good thing'. Part of the culture, I guess. I've been hearing about Google investing into alternative energy projects, including Nanosolar
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by qaexl 19y ago
Not so. With California getting ready to give government subsidies for solar-generated power, Nanosolar's customers are right there. They might even have gotten subsidies and tax incentives for locating their factory there. There may also b
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by qaexl 19y ago
Someone should make an indie film out of this.
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by qaexl 19y ago
Vindication.
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by qaexl 19y ago
I can make a forced analysis of System Shock 2. Starting also with the broken pseudo-maternal AI that guide you through the first half of the game before spoiler spoiler spoiler . Within my limited experience with talking to artists and p

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