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by scelerat 8y ago
Agree. If I had to explain Usenet succinctly to someone who had never seen it, i'd just say, "a decentralized Reddit."
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by scelerat 8y ago
If youre giving that talk, don't skip the early web and httpd's commonly-enabled feature to host the contents of people's home directory, a la http://example.com/~username .
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by scelerat 9y ago
Dave Seabury is a friend of mine and he indeed did an incredible job both in the care and presentation of the photos and of sleuthing out the original photographer. And as this story illustrates, the journey is the reward. Dave's adven
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by scelerat 9y ago
Would people feel differently (lots of talk in here along the lines of "why bother at this point?") if Perl 6 had a completely different name?
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by scelerat 9y ago
I've been eating at In N Out since the '70s (store #3 is a block from my high school, the same alma mater as the founders) and the consistency is amazing. It's been pretty much the same great recipe, as far as I can tell, the
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by scelerat 9y ago
I'm having a waking dream of Click and Clack (RIP) discussing the phenomenon.
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by scelerat 9y ago
Beyond the simplest of apps, if you don't use someone else's framework, you will -- like it or not -- be building your own framework.
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by scelerat 9y ago
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." It sounds like the author is conflating sophistication with complexity. In my experience, "simplistic" programming leads to greater complexity. It is the ver
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by scelerat 9y ago
You dodged a bullet. If a recruiter is that dense, that doesn't speak well for the company they represent (they are helping to recruit others, too!) You can do better. Nothing in your response was wrong or out of line.
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by scelerat 9y ago
A cavalcade of GOTOs
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by scelerat 9y ago
I guess I don't recall seeing any computer publication in a grocery store until the '90s
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by scelerat 9y ago
My local public library branch and high school library (LA County; San Gabriel Valley) carried BYTE and you could easily find it in computer and book stores in the 1980s. By the 1990s it was on its way out, but it was as mainstream as any o
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by scelerat 9y ago
NIMBYism is merely one of the theories why the buildings in Emeryville to which you refer were set ablaze. Another begins with the phrase "follow the money..."
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by scelerat 9y ago
True story (radically abbreviated and redacted): One group, group A writes crap code. Another group, group B is meticulous and careful, constantly refactoring, using good testing and code review practices, taking care to design their softwa
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by scelerat 9y ago
I was hoping for an announcement like this as well. Maybe next time?
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by scelerat 9y ago
Huh, I've just started learning Japanese after spending several weeks there and looking forward to visiting many more times, and I would never characterize it as especially difficult. There are some challenges, but nothing mind-blowing
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by scelerat 9y ago
I agree with this comment. A friend of mine is a programmer taking a year off of work to volunteer for a refugee aid organization to analyze and improve their databases. It's important work, not necessarily sexy, but helps these organi
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by scelerat 10y ago
I miss delicio.us.
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by scelerat 10y ago
L'enfer c'est les autres.
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by scelerat 10y ago
To be perfectly semantically correct (which he was no doubt attempting, as I is a purely visual/appearance tag, and EM connotes some meaning), he should have used <span lang="la">
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by scelerat 10y ago
People probably quit electric guitars more than acoustics because you have to plug them in to get a decent sound. Not because of the steel strings (which are generally pretty light and forgiving on an an electric compared to a typical steel
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by scelerat 10y ago
Either I can't draw a bear or the AI can't recognize a bear. Probably both.
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by scelerat 10y ago
We do, for professional drivers. Next time you're on a bus, look around; there's usually a sign saying something like "please don't make conversation with the driver." This isn't because municipalities want the
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by scelerat 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This has been proven in several instances to be more cost effective than the "system" (such as it is) San Francisco and much of the US has in place. e.g. Utah tried this and it seems to
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by scelerat 10y ago
Likewise, several searches for upcoming trips of mine on Google Flights result in significantly more expensive flights than on Hipmunk.
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by scelerat 10y ago
It took me about six months of using vim every day to feel like I was as efficient as I had been with Textmate or BBedit (the best options available to me at the time). I was already very agile using the keyboard shortcuts in BBEdit and oth
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by scelerat 10y ago
Up until the mid-2000s, if you wanted an easy up-and running web application environment without paying Microsoft, PHP plus MySQL was the only game in town. There were alternatives, but they invariably involved maintaining your own server a
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by scelerat 10y ago
"One Friday afternoon, [...] I deployed the changes" Good god, this should be taught in high school.
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by scelerat 10y ago
This is a quote from the source, the 2015 San Francisco Housing Count Report: "Seventy-one percent (71%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless, an increase from 61% in
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by scelerat 10y ago
The price of housing not only affects incentives for landlords to evict; it affects it affects the cost of shelters and temporary housing; it affects the cost of running clinics and social services facilities, and so on.

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