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by shrughes 14y ago
Aaand lots of people look forward to those questions -- because they're not bad at programming and the questions are fun.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Hello? There's Palo Alto, Shoreline, Sunnyvale, Sunken Gardens, Santa Clara, just to name a few east of El Camino. This place has the second-best year-round golfing weather in the country. Edit: Also the U.S. Open was held this year at a
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by shrughes 14y ago
Now that he replied again I think I might have been wrong.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Your post's parent post is a joke.
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by shrughes 14y ago
The parent was joking.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Implicitly in contrast is a loud minority of newbs, with their resume-building blogs that have an about-me page, a picture of themselves, and reposting/paraphrases of old Joel on Software posts.
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by shrughes 14y ago
CPU can easily be the throughput bottleneck if you add enough network bandwidth. It doesn't just happen in Java, it happens in C++ stuff too, and it can even be the throughput bottleneck for data going from the right kind of disk to the net
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by shrughes 14y ago
Your comment could use some rewording ;-)
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by shrughes 14y ago
> Once you know which programming patterns humans best deal with, you can optimize the implementation stack all the way to the Nand gates. This is a complete hand-waving fantasy.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Or, How My Idiosyncratic Biases Prevent Me From Finding Qualified Job Applicants. See http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people for more details.
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by shrughes 14y ago
"Robbery" is often used when force isn't involved. If the object is stolen while you're nearby, people will often refer to it as a robbery. Outfielders rob batters of home runs all the time. The word "rob" is particularly useful because l
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by shrughes 14y ago
If you want the smallest possible device with a nearly full sized keyboard, you should get a Sony Vaio P. They're no longer made, but they are "real computers", being rather slow netbooks. They'll fit in a jeans pocket barely comfortably,
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by shrughes 16y ago
When I was a teenager, in the early 2000s, we hardly used email at all. We all used AIM to talk to one another. Pretty much the only reason to use email was to sign up for things online.
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by shrughes 16y ago
What are they going to do, sell it? Gosh, this will push the interest rates slightly higher! That would be so scary.
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by shrughes 16y ago
I've found these threads to be great as a former seeker.
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by shrughes 16y ago
$20k is hardly an irresponsible amount of debt. That's not something a year making software won't easily pay off.
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by shrughes 16y ago
It doesn't harm me.
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by shrughes 16y ago
Why do you ask?
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by shrughes 16y ago
Um, actually somebody tried to storm the cockpit shortly after they mandated that the doors be locked.
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by shrughes 16y ago
I got a piano and started playing difficult pieces on it. The pain and inability to squeeze things went away utterly completely.
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by shrughes 16y ago
I hacked my lights and some power outlets. I can turn them on by flipping a simple switch. I also hacked a lock onto my door and hacked some layers of paint on the ceiling. Then I paid some people to install a temperature control hack so
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by shrughes 16y ago
I'm not really sure what I'm writing, but I'm writing something. There is no focus character development, some action, and so far it mostly consists of the author trolling the reader. So far the protagonist has walked through a desert, ta
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by shrughes 16y ago
Discuss things.
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by shrughes 16y ago
Notability is why we do have a page for them, instead of a page for each of them.
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by shrughes 16y ago
Well, you're not bringing up a valid point. You see, HN is not turning into Reddit. The guideline is not creating a truth, it's stating a fact that has been true and remains true.
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by shrughes 17y ago
This article is written by a crazy person. It fires its first shot with "Wall Street corporations were designed for the sole purpose of making profits." Moving on, we see "US Economic and Financial System Is Incapable of Meaningful Change.
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by shrughes 17y ago
That's true. But there's still a syntactic cost and a cognitive cost to making useful abstractions that can be much less verbosely and more comfortably made in other languages. And I find myself going with less clean designs because of it
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by shrughes 17y ago
C++ and C++ development are hugely different from Java and Java development. If Java and C++ don't look very different to you, it's because you need to take another look at C++. About the only thing they have in common is their hideous ve
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by shrughes 17y ago
They want to make sure the hardware isn't broken.

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