rimmjob

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by rimmjob 15y ago
im pretty sure everyone knows who he is
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by rimmjob 15y ago
removing barriers to entry might make it easier to innovate but it also makes it easy to copycat and beat ideas to death. the first rage comic might have been funny but they just get worse and worse with each new iteration.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
they tried to pass reform, but the office in charge of it keeps getting its funding blocked by congress.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
in this case, saying "there's a chance" is the same as saying it's impossible to prove either which way.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
you care way too much about what other people think
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by rimmjob 15y ago
java is the most used language right now and using the jvm gets you access to all of that infrastructure. it also makes it really easy to port code to linux, macs, windows, phones, tablets, etc. practicality is one of the stated goals of cl
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by rimmjob 15y ago
the little schemer series was very good. you can safely skip the first 5 chapters if you're comfortable with recursion. learn scheme in fixnum days is good too for learning the language right away.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
what programs do you use to do things that emacs cant?
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by rimmjob 15y ago
everyone should just become a computer scientist. problem solved
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by rimmjob 15y ago
kay and arr
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by rimmjob 15y ago
" a .torrent file pointing to thousands of scientific papers has just been uploaded to the pirate bay" doesnt really fit into a headline
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by rimmjob 15y ago
not really. people who do the work are usually pressured to share it, and are ostracized if they don't. I don't really think its fair to punish a victim unless there's some kind of evidence that they played a more insidious role.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
I wish it was at least a little more standardized across schools and majors. A little variance is fine but i went to a school where evreryone,not just me, had to study into the night to maintain barely passing grades in any technical subjec
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by rimmjob 15y ago
didn't the prehistoric groups of our ancestors probably have some kind of leader or hierarchy?
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by rimmjob 15y ago
This is a pretty terrible argument for a guy whose main passion in life is philosophy.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it applies more to some jobs then others. I know you're being facetious but the main difference between prostitution and sex is that sex is generally with people you want to have sex with and prostitution is not. The differe
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by rimmjob 15y ago
i use mplayer with smplayer and it is amazing. I couldn't watch high res HD on any of my computers with VLC and now i can run it on my old, shitty netbook. I've also heard good things about potplayer but i've never used.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
Is it really harder or a just a pain in the ass?
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by rimmjob 15y ago
what os are you using? this was a problem for me before i set up hot keys to toggle touchpad on and off.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
happened for me since 4. i had to switch to chrome on my netbook :*(
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by rimmjob 15y ago
i always hear about how many jobs there are for cobol programmers to maintain legacy code. i've never actually met any though. maybe they all commit suicide.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
exactly. if the viewers of these videos intend to become serious software developers then they can just correct whatever wrong shit they learn. if they don't care about best practices then it is still better that they know how to do the bas
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by rimmjob 15y ago
Is this the one where he talks about how his experience at intel was analogous to steve wozniak's experience at hp? The idea that there were people just as smart and determined as them but weren't able to do anything interesting because of
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by rimmjob 15y ago
why would anyone want to do that?
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by rimmjob 15y ago
zed shaw taught me python, cured my hemorrhoids and showed me a how to be a real man.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
you are light years ahead of everybody else. you could fall asleep for 5 years and you'd still be ahead.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
i turned down my friends' startup offer to go work in finance. 3 years later, they are multi-millionaires and i am not. that doesn't really bother me though. what bothers me is that they are happy and doing exciting work and i am not.
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by rimmjob 15y ago
that doesn't seem to be a very good criticism at all. he completely misses Lustig's point, skews the argument and tries to obfuscate his own lack of expertise with buzzwords and shallow analysis.