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721.
by snorkel 16y ago
Are you sure about that? http://www.google.com/#q=%22Expectations+are+high+that+this+...
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by snorkel 16y ago
Expectations are high that this year’s <% TEAM_NAME %> team is an improvement on last year’s. They’ll be bringing back a group that played <% TOTAL_MINS %> of last season’s minutes and adding the efforts of <% NUM_TOP100
723.
by snorkel 16y ago
Same here. My schools days taught me a simple recipe for bully repellent: headlock their neck and pound on their face like a jack hammer. Size doesn't matter. Winning and losing doesn't matter. But I also learned another interesting bit of
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by snorkel 16y ago
That's just plain irrational.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Mostly agree with Linus that typedef abuse is annoying except one example: size_t is platform-dependent and not the same as unsigned int.
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by snorkel 16y ago
I wish I lived in one of those places where you can buy a decent house for $300k. In this area $300k = rundown bungalow in economic development zone.
727.
by snorkel 16y ago
The 37 signals worship here is a tad bit annoying.
728.
by snorkel 16y ago
I can dig it. It's useful when tossing up a web server on a cloud host that assigns an ugly external host name and I'd rather address it by a cleaner host name.
729.
by snorkel 16y ago
That won't work for virtual hosted web sites, which is most web sites, because the unrecognized host name in the Host header which will hit the default host on the target web server instead of the correct virtual host, unless that web serve
730.
by snorkel 16y ago
Because the math is easier for suppliers who don't want make change.
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by snorkel 16y ago
The gaping vulnerability in the traditional ad-hoc waterfall approach is management is constantly interrupting work in progress and changing the priorities, then wondering aloud why nothing ever seems to get done. Agile is certainly worth t
732.
by snorkel 16y ago
The limited supply of taxi medallions is a good thing otherwise city streets would be clogged with taxis even more so than now.
733.
by snorkel 16y ago
Way to rain on Skype's IPO hype.
734.
by snorkel 16y ago
My take: Monads were created to allow pure functional languages like Haskell to have side effects, particularly input and output, without breaking the pure functional syntax. Monads have many other uses, but state and side effects was the o
735.
by snorkel 16y ago
Also Mac's Terminal app is only 16 color.
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by snorkel 16y ago
This is why Lycos was able to survive on life support for so long. Seems Daum thought they were buying a prestige brand in US after Lycos star was already dimmed. A classic example of a distant parent not understanding the local trends.
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by snorkel 16y ago
I visited their office recently. It is like visiting a living history museum of the dot-com boom. Their business plan called for more of the same served in classic web 1.0 style, and they seemed rather proud of it too.
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by snorkel 16y ago
You're right, and accreditation is key for value perceived by the job market, and accredited colleges will try to increase online enrollment thanks to the inevitable collapse of the student loan bubble. Physical enrollment in college now is
739.
by snorkel 16y ago
Adds a whole new level of enforcement to the left turn only lane.
740.
by snorkel 16y ago
"Here, I made a layout for you." On the other hand, we don’t want you to do our work for us. Too bad. Here's a layout. Make it work. asking for a “ballpark figure” before giving details just makes you look like a beginner Boo hoo. Now g
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by snorkel 16y ago
Not just for cleanliness but more importantly change protection: denying direct access to the internals assures that you can rewrite those internals and not break any external dependencies.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Well that was a fun way to crash my browser.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Coke is acting out of fear of future liability. Coke is fearing that someday HFCS will be proven to be materially more damaging than sugar, and when that day arrives the US Surgeon General will be pointing at the Honest Kids label as proof
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by snorkel 16y ago
Facebook and Wikipedia.
745.
by snorkel 16y ago
Interesting but it's hard to see how schizophrenia would ever be genetically advantageous for an entire species.
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by snorkel 16y ago
What teenage people want.
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by snorkel 16y ago
You can also have one Makefile that contains conditionals ( http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/make/Conditional... ) based on $(uname -s). I agree with the rant, autoconf has outlived it's purpose.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Also disagreeing with #9. Plenty of popular frameworks have "core". core provides a clear delineation between extensible parts of a framework and its inner foundation. A well designed framework allows you to extend its functionality and upg
749.
by snorkel 16y ago
Me too. I had a creative friend, a borderline poverty case with a lot of energy and interesting business ideas, but lack of capital, so I purchased startup equipment to get something going, and immediately my would-be business partner seize
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by snorkel 16y ago
Followup question: Where do you find buyers for website flips? How do you approach them?

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