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by steerpike 8y ago
I read the article and frankly it's a pretty garbage take on philosophy. It's an even more garbage take on where modern or even post modern philosophy has taken us in terms of understanding. He seems to think philosophy ended with
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by steerpike 8y ago
You might like Netvibes. I've been using it for over a decade and it's still fantastic. https://www.netvibes.com/
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by steerpike 8y ago
Will happily concur with the many voices in this thread advocating a visit. The Prado is absolutely one of the world's great gallery experiences. Make sure to check out Hieronymus Bosch's triptych 'Garden of Earthly Delights&
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by steerpike 8y ago
Which is an anecdote that means exactly nothing. For example all the richest apartments and houses in London and Sydney are often owned by people who live outside the respective country. There's nothing in your story that indicates tax
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by steerpike 8y ago
apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health?
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Ask HN: Information on the philosophical nature of developing software
1 points by steerpike 8y ago|0 comments
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by steerpike 8y ago
First time encountering a Maciej idlewords post, huh? He doesn't even take himself seriously. That also doesn't stop him from being an excellent and thoughtful writer.
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by steerpike 8y ago
George Eliot?
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by steerpike 8y ago
Different data store types are used to solve different problems. An RDF store is designed to help solve the problem of ontological relationships. I wouldn't use an RDF store if I wanted to store information about who has the current hi
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by steerpike 8y ago
Hmm. I'm pretty certain Homesite was out by then which I always felt was the best web IDE. Such a shame what happened to it.
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by steerpike 8y ago
It's what we used to call anyone who was a web developer back then. Bit of a mix between a system admin and front-end developer with maybe some perl tinkering in place.
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by steerpike 8y ago
I still haven't found a single API as quick and easy to get started and test with than Flickrs
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by steerpike 9y ago
Something about the way this guy communicates reminds me of Maciej Ceglowski of pinboard and idlewords.
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Ask HN: Which companies/individuals best represent solutions to wicked problems?
1 points by steerpike 9y ago|0 comments
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by steerpike 9y ago
Personally I think this is a fantastic question and one I'm very interested in seeing what more experienced developers and managers have to say. The more I manage people (especially developers) the more I'm drawn to the adage of &
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by steerpike 11y ago
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius - some of the greatest words penned on living a simple, elegant life. I'm more of an Epicurus fan now, but this book made me a Stoic for quite a long time. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, by
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by steerpike 11y ago
I think the only really useful book I read for the steps towards becoming a parent (how to support your partner, being practical and useful during the actual birth, etc, etc) was Cheers to Childbirth http://www.goodreads.com&#x2F
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by steerpike 12y ago
Depends on the difficulty in connecting to the classified system. The entire selling point of email is its instantaneous nature and its immediacy. If connecting up to retrieve your emails becomes too arduous it stops being a useful tool and
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by steerpike 13y ago
39 and my oldest code online would be some LPC from 1993 that was part of a MUD that's still available. http://anguish.org/
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by steerpike 13y ago
Interesting you think that. Ever since I read the following http://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesi... I think the opposite.
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by steerpike 13y ago
You might find something useful in this list of News related APIs http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=News
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by steerpike 13y ago
If reporting a 'scoop' was the only kind of valid journalism then I might agree with you, but it isn't and the fact that TC relies on that form of journalism so heavily is reflective of their shortcomings rather than issues or barriers for
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by steerpike 14y ago
I'm afraid that even at the best of times those three specific things are very poor foundations on which to build web applications. Consider "1. seated close 2. relatively large screen 3. precise mouse" in the context of (what should be you
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by steerpike 14y ago
Seems pretty offficially supported in this blog post from Nov 2012 http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/announcin... and the associated drive SDK for publishing web content https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site
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by steerpike 14y ago
44 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4930652 I think it's fairly safe to say that by the time something gets a writeup in the Sydney Morning Herald the majority of readers of HN will already have heard of it.
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by steerpike 14y ago
One of my writing instructors once told me something that really struck me. I was struggling with an ending - something banal about two young people in love and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting the ending I wanted. I turned to my
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by steerpike 14y ago
I did something similar - a checklist for prelaunch which you might find some useful things to add to your list: https://bitbucket.org/steerpike/checklist
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by steerpike 14y ago
'Open sans' apparently. http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans
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by steerpike 15y ago
Well, it is six years old now. To be honest I imagine most of us already read it a long time ago :) (You're right though, it's still one of my favourite writeups about java)
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by steerpike 15y ago
Legend. Thank you.

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