smegel

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961.
by smegel 12y ago
> http://nakedoldies.com That's a bit mean spirited and ageist.
962.
by smegel 12y ago
"Designed and implemented MINIX, on which Linux was developed" Is that really true?
963.
by smegel 12y ago
Try and become a DBA. They are kind of expected to be old (as in 40+) and can rake in the $$$. Although the kind of "coding" you will do will be limited to scripting, SQL, and maybe some ORASQL/APEX.
964.
by smegel 12y ago
Am I the only one not getting this? Is it supposed to make me want to blink along with it? What's the point?
965.
Perl is Undead(developers.slashdot.org)
3 points by smegel 12y ago|1 comments
966.
by smegel 12y ago
No Youtube in list of apps...interesting. Not cheap either...
967.
by smegel 12y ago
I get that juvenile Redditors find pictures of cats amusing - I find it less easy to grasp why a technical hacker/start up community is less interested in the technical/business aspects of a major tech deal than the somewhat unsu
968.
by smegel 12y ago
Sad this is the top comment in this page. Is feminism really the most important issue for a hacker community?
969.
by smegel 12y ago
Defence from what? His own faulty preconceptions?
970.
by smegel 12y ago
> outdated barbell movements I stopped reading about here.
971.
by smegel 12y ago
I do it all the time. In production. While testing my code. ~ The most interesting man in the world.
972.
by smegel 12y ago
Who would have thought a specialized tool would be better at it's own domain that a general purpose programming language...
973.
by smegel 12y ago
Would play.
974.
by smegel 12y ago
Come to Australia and revel in the NBN. Oh wait...
975.
by smegel 12y ago
I suppose it's better than "Bro"...
976.
by smegel 12y ago
Automation can also mean automated disaster.
977.
by smegel 12y ago
“Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don’t think that is a coincidence.” Classic.
978.
by smegel 12y ago
I use AnkiDroid every day. Bit buggy but free and best on Android in my experience.
979.
by smegel 13y ago
Serious question: has Google done anything truly right since gmail?
980.
by smegel 13y ago
Reminds me of ColdFusion. It should be dead, but it's not.
981.
by smegel 13y ago
This rule is fine for blogs where each article had an overt title that can be (and should be) referred to. However, for simply linking to arbitrary websites, the "title" is often meaningless and does not convey the purpose of the
982.
by smegel 13y ago
To whoever changed the submission title, the whole point of this post has now been lost. Just cut it out already.
983.
by smegel 13y ago
> highlights one of the failings of open source software development. Sorry? Paid programmers writing closed code with probably less review and auditing have been shown to create less bugs? What are they trying to say?
984.
by smegel 13y ago
The network is chemical, not electrical, so why would a freeze/thaw change anything? (unless it actually did have some chemical reaction, which hopefully wont happen).
985.
by smegel 13y ago
Maybe he doesn't like the noise it makes...
986.
by smegel 13y ago
Was she claiming sexual harassment or just harassment and bullying in general?
987.
by smegel 13y ago
Also, the two stolen passports were using tickets bought together (sequential ids). Not sure the Freescale group adds to the suspicion though...
988.
by smegel 13y ago
Some people say all salaries should be open by default. I am not sure if this would be a good idea, but it would a pretty strong incentive against cronyism.
989.
by smegel 13y ago
Blah blah blah Surface is good for bland office related productivity tasks. Yeah we've heard it all before. Microsoft shills are truly the worst shills.
990.
by smegel 13y ago
> I use Java for application programming. I recommend Python or Ruby for learning programming. Define "application". There are plenty of cases where Python or Ruby makes sense. And Java actually makes sense as a learning langua

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