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by sprout 16y ago
s/writing/distributing/ There's nothing wrong with charging for writing code. It's when you charge people to use your code (that they will need to make modifications to to get it to work) that it becomes detrimental to the community. On the
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by sprout 16y ago
Not in the cloud they don't.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm going to assume by 'hot' you mean 'badass.'
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by sprout 16y ago
What? I'm just saying I don't like the spotlight, and beyond $60000/year I'd be inclined to give most of my money away.
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by sprout 16y ago
Personally, I find both the preoccupation with money and status a little foreign. Me, I just want to do things that make people happy, that make their lives easier. If I could do that and still have some free time, and still have some peopl
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by sprout 16y ago
>This is actually a _very_ complicated issue No, it really isn't. If Apple really wants to force standard formatting on them, they can do what they did in the browser, and have a "readability"-type button. They've already solved this pr
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by sprout 16y ago
>learning how to use a hammer is very simple How so? What are you learning how to do with the hammer? Pry up nails? Hammer nails? What thickness of nail should you use to go through a given board? How should the way you hold the nail di
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by sprout 16y ago
Yes, but how much time does it save the other 5% of the time? If the other 5% of the time stuff takes off and becomes standard throughout the projects using your code, then it can more than make up for it.
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by sprout 16y ago
Casual games are more web programming. He's talking about the multi-million dollar productions that tax the top consoles to their limits.
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by sprout 16y ago
HashMap is implemented as a dynamic array, and you could probably get "good enough" random performance from accessing the underlying array, picking a random element, then iterating over that bucket and picking a random element. In the avera
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by sprout 16y ago
Basically the same thing could happen to anyone. I own two domains with my name in them, both of which host my blog and a few random projects. Either registrar could hold my domains hostage and make me unable to receive mail for a week, jus
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by sprout 16y ago
Yeah, I use VLC strictly as a fallback. It's always MPC/mplayer first. But VLC is invaluable for always showing something.
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by sprout 16y ago
The point is you're already stepping in. There are tons of laws just like this one on the books, and the whole concept of a corporation falls apart without these laws. Throwing up your arms and saying "it's not my decision to step in" is si
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by sprout 16y ago
It's a very fair point though. Time not spent studying is not automatically leisure.
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by sprout 16y ago
I've lived in housing for 3 separate Universities in the states. At all of them, Linux machines were allowed to connect to the network without any fuss, and presumably Macs too. Windows machines were required to install university-provided
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by sprout 16y ago
Actually, the other day I was installing a patch to a Microsoft game, when it crapped out on me and rebooted. I got the "would you like to report this information to Microsoft" prompt, figured "hey, it's Microsoft game after all" so I hit y
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by sprout 16y ago
>My breakfast would involve stuffing myself with as much food as I could fit in my morning stomach. I followed that with a light lunch around 2-3pm, and then almost no dinner (or a low-calorie snack if I was hungry – examples in the app
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by sprout 16y ago
Any chance GitHub could turn into a first-class Android market? The inability to distinguish at a glance FOSS apps from closed apps has been one of the odd little components of the Android ecosystem for me.
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by sprout 16y ago
>However, I wonder whether such slight, but no doubt data-driven, infelicities, such as the launch of Google Buzz, the riotously misguided home page designs, or the launch of Nexus One, might have done with one or two fewer data-driven
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by sprout 16y ago
It's perhaps even more trivial than that: no one can effectively estimate competence.
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by sprout 16y ago
We're already using the tongue to replace optical input for people who have been blinded. There's also the possibility of tapping in at the ears, the spinal cord, hell, it's entirely conceivable you could cut off a hand and attach an implan
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by sprout 16y ago
You're taking this entirely too seriously. There is no such thing as a perfect language. Most flaws are features when looked at in the right light. And obviously the reverse is also true.
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by sprout 16y ago
I discovered the other day that Android's WebKit forgoes SVG support to save 1mb in the binary... which kind of pisses me off on my Droid, where that is really unnecessary. But mostly I would say it's timing, you have to freeze at some poin
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by sprout 16y ago
I just quit a job where I was mostly doing BASIC, but I got to do a bit of PHP here and there. PHP is more like driving a modern automatic. No, it's not as fun as a six-speed, but it is fairly relaxing. BASIC, now that's like a rundown 1970
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by sprout 16y ago
I'd say it pays a lot of dividends to remove programming from that lineup. It eats up almost a third of the links.
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by sprout 16y ago
Apple is a hardware company. Apple hardware could easily compete with Apple software running on third-party hardware. As far as software goes, I would rather be running Windows 7 (though I say this as a desktop Linux user.) I don't think th
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by sprout 16y ago
This is a good call to action, but at the same time, I think the problem is not really the FSF. We are the problem, and by we, I mean Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, and a variety of other community sites. If you look at http://www.fsf.org/
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by sprout 16y ago
I truly, profoundly do not like to watch sports in any way shape or form. However, I love carrying on about meaningless rivalries in social settings, just so everyone is rather tongue-in-cheek about it.
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by sprout 16y ago
Somewhat crassly stated, but Mike's argument is equally false, even if more polite. Basically, Mike's argument was "either you're afraid of failure and you need to suck it up, or you need to quit because you don't belong in scouts."
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by sprout 16y ago
The problem is when your job is to get stuff out the door as quickly as possible. I just quit a job where I was writing primarily in a proprietary extension to a proprietary dialect of BASIC that has all manner of weird compiler quirks and

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