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by shizzy0 13y ago
Great work, Dave!
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by shizzy0 13y ago
The interviewer is partly right, and students who have a natural aptitude[1] for programming often recognize this: Code is meaningless. At the application level, you may have something that looks like an image. Underneath, you may represent
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Workification, tricking people into doing useless work by making it seem productive and unfun.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Super yuck.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
So, we aren't then, and we don't want to be. Yep, that's pretty much what I'm saying.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
What's pay got to do with it? See http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d... Comments may mislead yes, but that's a problem with any sufficiently expressive language, and code
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by shizzy0 13y ago
See http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d...
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Cue the self-documenting, we-don't-need-no-stinking-comments rabble rousers in 3, 2, 1... AND that's one reason why we're not an actual profession, people.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
That's an amazing beard!
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by shizzy0 13y ago
I think that game industry's reliance on the proprietary model is somewhat odd because they could do a really nice code is open source, but the art assets, sounds, etc. are licensed. Let people have and modify the engine, and if they
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by shizzy0 13y ago
I disagree that it's distasteful. It's only distasteful if it's dishonest or coercive. I think it's actually a great way to fund a Free Software project. It's like github. You pay nothing, and everything is publ
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by shizzy0 13y ago
I had a similar experience a while back where it seemed to be the case that I ordered 1 BTC, but then only received ~0.7 BTC because the exchange rate had changed. More recently, however, when I've ordered 1 BTC I received 1 BTC x da
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Oh, I thought that was the crash button.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
He talked about inter-project conflicts due to injecting money into the system, but I think the intra-project issues are the bigger problem. Suppose the head developer receives $10^n for fund raising. Does this encourage or discourage oth
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Here's a potential solution to this mess. We treat app store placement like it's a free resource right now since it doesn't take up any physical space. However, it does increase its users cognitive load. All apps that have
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Replicating Thompson's Trojan Compiler in Scheme: Bootstraps, hacks, and quines(shift-reset.com)
1 points by shizzy0 13y ago|0 comments
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by shizzy0 13y ago
If you build it, they will EFF U UP!
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Great on these people for making this available as open source. But referring back to medium.com: Really, this is why people are giving their content away because it has a nice web-based editor?
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"We think that fame is deserved. We are wrong." Applies to people and tech.(nautil.us)
2 points by shizzy0 13y ago|0 comments
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by shizzy0 13y ago
This! You must become a user before you can become a contributor. Then the vacuous "What project can I contribute to?" question becomes more intelligible, "What software should I use?" That depends. What do you want t
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by shizzy0 13y ago
I strongly disagree. If you're a new developer looking to work on something, anything, completely indiscriminately then you're probably not ready to work on anything. The time required to contribute even on minimal issues is not
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by shizzy0 13y ago
> The slavery quip doesn't really make sense, because in that analogy the source code is the slave. Wrong. Your users who don't have the same power to make changes as you do are the slaves in the analogy, not the source code. I
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by shizzy0 13y ago
WiFi is no good outside one's house anyway. Every store/public-place sets up their WiFi to require you to agree to a terms of service, which is an annoyance. Best to just turn it off anyway; 3/4G always works. Why bother w
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by shizzy0 13y ago
I would like to add that I think your article on what should be in your README is awesome! I will be making use of it for a new project of mine. I just respectfully disagree on the licensing considerations.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
> It seriously limits amount of people that can use your library Yes, it does seriously limit the amount of people that can use your library--without giving anything back. > hopefully you are open sourcing a library because you want t
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by shizzy0 13y ago
I read this as "Emacsulating" and was disappointed to find I had misread it.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
He really tied the company together.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
Hacker News is too much about becoming rich to have much love for Stallman.
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by shizzy0 13y ago
The criticism of ENV only allowing strings has no bearing on his argument. ENV comes from the OS environment. Code in any other language--strong or weakly typed--would have the exact same issue. And not being able to coerce arbitrary str
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by shizzy0 13y ago
If this is the downside of having a DRM-less, open web then so be it. Isn't it the case that anyone who has purchased this template and uses it on their site that someone can then scrape the template? The source code is already out there.

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