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by t1m 13y ago
>1990 is calling… and it wants its product development cycle back. In the early 1990s, many developers were using an OS called Unix, with esoteric tools like vi, make, sh, and emacs. They wrote software in ancient languages like C, C++,
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Synesthesia(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why a computer buffer is called a 'buffer'(johndcook.com)
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by t1m 13y ago
Sometimes there is advice that seems wrong, but is actually really good advice. This isn't one of those times. The best advice for a young Jr anything is to do the job you were hired for exceedingly well. If the words obnoxious or ne
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by t1m 13y ago
It sounds like if IBM were serious about getting people skilled up on their platform you'd be able to get access to a system for a bit less than $600/month. $0/month sounds about what they should be shooting for.
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by t1m 13y ago
It's the recognition that fast, cheap internet access is good for the community - like water, schools and roads.
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Small town non-profit offers 1GB broadband to residents(htl.li)
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by t1m 13y ago
I made the switch from Smalltalk to Java. I remember how disappointing it was to return to such a primitive language. I also used the VisualAge for Java products, which I recognized immediately as Smalltalk tools. I wasn't at all s
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by t1m 13y ago
That may have been the case in 1979, but in 1980, we got Smalltalk. This environment was (almost) completely without the concept of a file. Code was stored in a persistent 'image', like everything else, and was accessible throug
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by t1m 13y ago
Note that tuples are immutable in python. I usually use tuples as default values for collections: def f(x=()): x = list(x) ... def g(y=(())) y = dict(y) ... f() is the pattern for lists, g() is for dicts. Note that you can pass in
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Twitter to use 3rd party data for ad retargeting(adage.com)
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by t1m 13y ago
Am I the only one who had to google the "docking problem"? I've been programming for over 30 years, and not once have I had to model the quaternary structure of complexes formed by two or more interacting biological macromol
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by t1m 13y ago
This is a great walkthrough, and a real trip back to the good old days. I learned programming on the Apple ][ and, like many started in Basic then moved to 6502 assembly. I am not sure how other teenagers made this awkward transition, but
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by t1m 13y ago
One of the reasons the big SF/Valley companies are opening Canadian offices is that even Canada's most expensive cities (Toronto, Vancouver) are a relative bargain. Engineering salaries are lower, rents are cheaper, and governmen
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John McAfee helps uninstall McAfee - NSFW(news.cnet.com)
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Iris - a decentralized messaging framework in Go(iris.karalabe.com)
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by t1m 13y ago
I find it fascinating that programmers working in C++ seem to spend a lot of time thinking about language design. There is a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of language designers. There is the notion of technical debt that we all de
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by t1m 13y ago
I remember being absolutely thrilled when function prototypes were introduced with the 'proposed' ANSI C standard (X3J11). The first implementation I got my hands on was Borland's Turbo C circa 1988. The standard now known as C89/C90 had b
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Ancient Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed(theage.com.au)
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Polite cycle activists hack streets, create bike lanes(seattlebikeblog.com)
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Exploring the forgotten urban underground(riversforgotten.com)
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Super Massive Black Hole(theregister.co.uk)
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by t1m 14y ago
pretty rude. why don't you offer to help?
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by t1m 14y ago
Compare this to Facebook's strategy, which is to open an ad exchange to give advertisers access to their users on facebook.com exclusively. The Amazon plan would allow advertisers to access Amazon's users anywhere on the net.