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by sutro 18y ago
Early 2009
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If programming languages were bowls of clam chowder, what types of clams would be used for your favorite language? These things are so stupid.
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by sutro 18y ago
How about the fact that a significant portion of your machine's resources under Vista are devoted to DRM monitoring? http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.
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Tech Luminaries - "a Charlie Rose-style interview show for the tech industry"(techluminaries.com)
7 points by sutro 18y ago|1 comments
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We've all heard of single serving sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=399941 . Here the parent commenter is pioneering the latest incarnation of the trend: the single serving HN account.
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The parallelism of this guy's porn consumption must be truly breathtaking.
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Bush writes a lot of his own material as well. The following excerpts show Bush speaking in his own authorial voice. Commanding. Magisterial. Lincolnesque. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM
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If you are interested in why climbers die on Mount Everest, read Jon Krakauer's amazing first-hand account of Everest's worst disaster: http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/199609/199609_i...
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I recently pointed this impressive tool at a project of mine and got the following. Care to share the sloccount output for your project? SLOC Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted) 18246 sutro java=18246 Totals grouped by language
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Ask YC: What is the SLOCCount output for your project?(dwheeler.com)
6 points by sutro 18y ago|7 comments
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I liked the post-election New Yorker cover: http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cc90353ef010535f...
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Perhaps this "deep comfort with meaninglessness" explains why -- anecdotally at least, in my experience -- there seem to be higher levels of atheism among programmers than among the general populace.
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it is harder/nastier work and often deals with fecal matter Sounds like programming.
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That's true, their entire history encompasses the user experience, dating back to when they first stole the mouse and graphical user interface from Xerox Parc, then claimed ownership over the ideas and sued Microsoft for using them.
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That's great. Just don't write blog posts trying to convince me that breakage is something that makes Python better than Java when in fact the opposite is true.
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Exactly! You need to come into bprater's office when the lights are out and slap something down. Then, dive in and start churning. Wait, what were we talking about again? Oh, right, having sex.
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Lame article. One of the strengths of Java is the very conservatism that the author bashes. Generics may have broken backwards compatibility if you opt to use that language feature, but the VM and compiler preserved forward compatibility of
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it wasn't yet capable to do things like make phone calls This is overstated, but close to the truth. I care about technological freedom and openness, and I'm willing to endure some early-adopter pain in order to get it. So I tried the Fre
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Degrees of Hank Paulson(propublica.org)
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BS does come to mind.
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If this blog post were a type of music, it would be a Brittany Spears song.
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I used to read Carmack's .plan file updates as obsessively as I now read Hacker News, so I was happy to discover that someone "blogified" them. I came across this work log entry from November 1997, which is relevant to the current HN thread
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11 Days in the Life of John Carmack - November 1997(doom-ed.com)
2 points by sutro 18y ago|1 comments
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No thanks, OpenID, I'm going to keep managing authentication myself, on the client-side, with easy-to-use browser-based credential vaults. I don't need you to manage my authentication for me, nor do I trust you to. OpenID: a solution in sea
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Your little tool doesn't have to be doomed to obscurity: http://tinyurl.com/6aybvs

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