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by thomas11 16y ago
Sorry, I abbreviated "the projects on Codeplex that are run by Microsoft" as "Codeplex". That's how I understood the statement of the article where he said Codeplex wasn't real open source. If a project is under MS' wings, sure you can subm
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by thomas11 16y ago
Can you try to generate some test data first, and create a mockup of the web interface? A web developer can do that and add some interactivity step by step in relatively little time. When you have a vision of a finished product, it seems li
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by thomas11 16y ago
OSS projects cannot guarantee to merge any patch they receive, that would mean disaster. The difference between Linux and MS Codeplex is that if you submit a patch to the former, it will be discussed in the open and it will be judged on its
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by thomas11 16y ago
Sure, but that should be independent of the TeX template. At least in the few I looked at, you can create sections with any title in any order.
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by thomas11 16y ago
The author focuses on the removal of features from Java, like generics and method overloading (!). His polemics about complex features ("Scala [...] quickly bites your head off") are unnecessary. But from a hacker's point of view, Java is n
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by thomas11 16y ago
You keep hinting at Dancer's inferiority without giving any examples. When I said Dancer is "similar" I was only thinking of Mojolicious::Lite. Feature-wise Dancer and Mojolicious are obviously not in the same league, and are not meant to b
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by thomas11 16y ago
I didn't mean to attack Mojolicious at all. I've never played with it, but it seems very cool. I have used Dancer, and liked it very much, that's all I wanted to say. It's great that you promote your framework, but it doesn't mean that simi
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by thomas11 16y ago
Another vote for Dancer from me. You can start with a tiny one-file script and then slowly use sessions, templates, Plack middleware etc. as you need it. It's very elegant.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Does anyone know the "Making it Big in Software" book? Is it any good?
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by thomas11 16y ago
I found the article a good read and would have found it somewhat convincing, if it wasn't on a page loaded with everything from a giant photograph to different horizontal bars to all rainbow colors at the bottom, directly under a pink bar.
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by thomas11 16y ago
What the heck is with the "third world" comment on France? Have you ever been there?
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Haystack project responds to 'security concerns', looks like it's falling apart(blog.jgc.org)
44 points by thomas11 16y ago|23 comments
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by thomas11 16y ago
Any website that you use could store all kinds of data about you without even telling you. Not to mention your ISP, who knows everything! At least Google is making it clear via Google History that they do have the means to do it.
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by thomas11 16y ago
This would make sense for the crowd here, but not for 90% of users whose searches are very fuzzy. So, another vote for "expert mode"...
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by thomas11 16y ago
Even worse is the fact that most of these blog posts just seem to be rehashes of previous blog posts about getting stuff done. Avoid distractions, declutter, pomodoro technique... I don't know how many of these posts I've seen on HN.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Your last statement is most likely not true for Europe. So in the end it comes down to cultural preference. If the majority prefers a certain way of doing things, it makes sense to back it up with legislation to harmonize it and make it saf
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by thomas11 16y ago
Note that books appear more than once on that page, because they can be in multiple categories. That being said, it is entirely plausible that he has read them all in his career.
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by thomas11 16y ago
--HackrTrackr (HN users directory by location)-- http://hackrtrackr.com/ HN Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942
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by thomas11 16y ago
Ah, mais apparemment il y a qn! Interested in a meetup? My email is in my profile. I wrote to three users a while ago whom I found on hackrtrackr, but got no replies. There's also PeterHammar and Pollux (Nyon), of whom I have no contact inf
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by thomas11 16y ago
Fantastic site. I like the aggregating map, did you make that yourself? I've almost given up finding fellow hackers in Geneva, CH, but who knows...
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by thomas11 16y ago
My only machine is an 11.6" Acer Aspire AS1410. It's a great machine, especially for it's very low price. Plus an external 27" display and a few 2.5" hard disks that's all I need. My DE is Gnome, at home and at work. I live mostly in Emacs
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by thomas11 16y ago
I make sure to always have a paper notebook with me. I use it for anything from to-do lists to scribbling software designs and ideas. Often, I open it on the bus and don't even write anything in it. It has become a kind of token or reminder
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by thomas11 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love this kind of "get it done" policy, but it's not vacation if you work "a couple hours a day". Vacation is when you are able to really forget about work for a while. That being said, I fully agree about the impossib
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by thomas11 16y ago
Exactly. To elaborate a bit for those who never used it in that way: you want to separate your unit tests from your app code. But you still want to give your tests access to non-public methods in order to test them independently. The soluti
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by thomas11 16y ago
The idea is that you continue to meditate regularly after the retreat. It will be much less practice, but it will build on the experience and monumentum you got during the retreat.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Ideally, you would find a regular meditation group that has one or two weekly sessions of maybe 30 minutes and some members with experience who can give you hints. That gives you a commitment to regular practice and a supportive group of pe
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by thomas11 16y ago
What makes you think that? NetworkManager is independent of the UI, it has a command-line client, too. And you can even run the Gnome NM applet in any panel-thingy/dock that implements the right spec, I believe it's EWMH. I have it in stalo
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by thomas11 17y ago
The Guile VM can run Emacs Lisp. So the only thing that has to be changed is Emacs itself, all the elisp code out there will run unmodified.
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by thomas11 17y ago
If you look at guile's history up to 2007 or so, it might indeed look like a failure. But since then, development has been taken up again, and progress is amazing. Andy Wingo did a lot of the work and has been blogging about it at wingolog.
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by thomas11 17y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm German.) It is only a tiny extremist minority who is even somewhat supportive of Hitler. Even if the media was completely controlled by a vocal minority - not entirely possible in a free democracy like today's Germany - you

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