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by samdk 16y ago
http://prgmr.com/ doesn't have space available right now, but they have VPS plans starting at $5/month and I've heard good things about them from people on HN.
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I think with something like Vim it's best to get a grasp on the very basics (saving/opening documents, moving into and out of insert mode, navigating with hjkl) and then add one of two things at a time as you get comfortable with those. If
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All of these feel a lot more native than Flash ever has.
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But now I’m down to the lucky 35, I can speak more freely about my personal life. Details of my family, my travels and my thoughts that were too sensitive to broadcast to just anyone are now fair game. Until Facebook decides at some point
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by samdk 16y ago
Most are. There are six criteria an (unpaid) internship has to meet for it to not be illegal. Essentially, the company offering the internship has to be offering it solely for the benefit of the intern and can derive no real benefit from it
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by samdk 16y ago
The Little Schemer is an updated version of The Little Lisper. It also happens to be much cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02... It's an excellent introduction to thinking recursively. The others in the s
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by samdk 17y ago
I got the five points he did without too much difficulty, but going beyond that seems difficult. This is fun! replay: D516 AAAA AAAA B55A AAAA AAA5 D6AA AAA5 D6AA AAAA 95D6 AAA9 5DAA A5D6 AA9D AAAA AAAA 9DAA AAAA A9DA AAAA A9DA AAAB 5AA
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Yep. The stride of the guy in the suit is way too long. When you're sprinting, you want to be taking short, fast strides that propel you forward and not rely on your momentum to carry you there. The general idea is that you raise your kne
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by samdk 17y ago
There are technologies awesome enough for people to want to evangelize for them. DuckDuckGo is one of them--it doesn't need sock puppets.
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This has the exact same problem that the JSMin "don't be evil" clause and all other similar licenses have. It's not compatible with other free software licenses. Code using this license can't be reused in the vast majority of other FOSS pro
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by samdk 17y ago
For Gnome, I really like Decibel ( http://decibel.silent-blade.org/ ). It does nothing but play music, which is exactly what I want in a music player.
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Couscous. It's cheap, cooks really quickly (about 6-7 minutes), makes no mess, and requires no dishes other than the pot it's cooked in. It's also really versatile. I often use it instead of rice in simple rice dishes (rice and beans, etc
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by samdk 17y ago
'Fork' isn't his choice of word. On github, a fork is just your version of someone else's repository.
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I've been using DDG as my primary search engine for the past three weeks. The author here doesn't discuss the downsides, and I haven't found very many either. Occasionally (say, when searching for specific error messages and things) I still
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by samdk 17y ago
But we're not talking about advancing language design--we're talking about a small modification to an existing, widely used language whose basics are not going to change. There are a lot of problems with Java I'd like to see fixed before n
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by samdk 17y ago
You can argue that null references are problematic and I'll agree with you. But they're a part of Java (and a whole host of other languages, too) and that's not going to change anytime soon. Saying that this is "a monstrosity" because nulls
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by samdk 17y ago
Of course you can. But isn't the entire point of Ubuntu supposed to be that things "just work"? Most people don't go searching through settings to fix annoyances--they just get annoyed.
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by samdk 17y ago
The delayed email sending is exactly what Gmail's 'Undo Send' labs feature does. It's really useful.
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by samdk 17y ago
You can disable it at http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html (You can also change the fonts and font sizes and a few other things.) It's the only infinite scroll implementation I've run into that I don't dislike, though. I don't find it jump
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by samdk 17y ago
That's not ok at all. You can't toss someone who doesn't understand what a function is into large-scale application development (which is what I was doing first semester sophomore year) and expect them to get anything out of it. There's mer
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by samdk 17y ago
I joined, and created my school. I've gotten four e-mails about new students joining my network despite no-one else actually being there. Not a huge deal, especially since gmail put them all into a single message thread, but it should proba
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by samdk 17y ago
At least in my case, this wouldn't have worked at all. Most of the stuff I wrote as a sophomore was orders of magnitude more complicated than what I was doing as a freshman. I wouldn't have understood what was happening at all.
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Preceden's been on here a couple of times before for those who haven't seen it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114834 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1157444
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My opinion on Scala is that while it's a much nicer language than Java, it's going to be quite difficult to pick up unless you have previous programming experience in at least one of Java or an ML-like language. If this can successfully tea
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by samdk 17y ago
Douglas Adams is always excellent, but his writing (and his speaking, now) related to endangered species is my favorite. If you can find a copy of Last Chance to See , it's well worth reading.
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It's working fine for me in FF3.6 on Windows, but not on Linux.
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SproutCore, for those who don't know, is an HTML5/JS application framework that works mostly on the client side. I've been playing around with it for the past week or so. It can do some really cool things, and works a lot more like desktop
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by samdk 17y ago
I don't have a problem unpaid summer or other short-term internships, although I can't afford to take them. (I'm a junior in college right now.) Asking someone to work from 9-5 with no pay for 6 months is completely ridiculous though.
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I built a Rube Goldberg machine in high school as part of Science Olympiad ( http://soinc.org/ ). It might be a surprise to some that the machine with the lowest budget one, but it's not to me. We also had essentially no budget--I think we
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Rube Goldberg Machine Competition(arstechnica.com)
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