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by tragic 12y ago
Ask yourself which hipster start-up is going to do a comprehensive rewrite job on OpenSSL - or, for that matter, which SV VC is going to bung a few million green sheets into something like this (which, if we're honest, we could all do
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by tragic 13y ago
You can get around it to some extend with source maps and so on - just make sure you're generating them with whatever build process you use. In practice, however, all that lovely Coffeescript syntax can easily trip you up; often someth
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by tragic 13y ago
I might show this to my mother. She is of the opinion that no disease is sufficiently severe that it cannot be cured through large quantities of probiotic yoghurt.
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by tragic 13y ago
Things like this do happen, unfortunately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCKG#Victoria_Climbi.C3.A9.27s_...
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by tragic 13y ago
I have very limited familiarity with Haskell, but I find the syntax pretty clean and readable - I spend most of my time getting my head around functional/lazy/etc semantics, which make my head hurt (in a good way) - that presumabl
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by tragic 13y ago
I'm on ten or twelve different mailing lists. Only two have anything whatsoever to do with tech. The rest are - as per dfc above - politics-related. So I don't view lists as somehow a techie habit - quite the opposite, in fact. Th
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by tragic 13y ago
I'm sorry, but this is fatuous. Only the most recent declarations of human rights have included any provisions about sexual orientation at all. The UN declaration was in 1948 - hardly a friendly time for homosexuals. The US bill of rig
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by tragic 13y ago
> Hypothetically, if the CEO of another tech company was revealed to have political interests in slavery, would we feel the need to tip-toe so carefully? Well, knowing what we know about working conditions at FoxConn and so forth, I don&
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by tragic 13y ago
Well, this is more the problem I have with these arguments than the superweapon bingo thing in the OP. In the kind of feminist/SJ arguments that are gaining currency in the tech world, what's put at the forefront is people's
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by tragic 13y ago
A list of reasons not to use MySQL: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
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by tragic 13y ago
It seems like in the time I've been using python (about 18 months, really) the community has really stepped up the pressure to switch to 3.x. The vast majority of what I use day-to-day has now been ported (just noticed Paramiko support
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How computer generated fake papers are flooding academia(theguardian.com)
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by tragic 13y ago
The biggest change I noticed from web pre-1999 to modern web is ... Times New Roman. (And bright blue links, obviously.) Every time I've knocked together some markup and haven't written any CSS yet, I get a big old dose of nostalg
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by tragic 13y ago
It would depend if you include large-scale bank frauds as 'robberies'. Or, indeed, if the 740k BTC all went to one person/organisation, rather than a lot of opportunists.
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by tragic 13y ago
No. It isn't now, it hasn't ever been, and I would be surprised if anyone expected it to be so. The more important question is: will it still be possible to earn a respectable crust doing web development in Ruby in twenty years ti
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by tragic 13y ago
As someone who's always hated the Star Wars movies (except Empire, natch), I've nevertheless lost a lot of my life and worn out at least two joysticks to Tie Fighter. Fantastic piece of work.
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by tragic 13y ago
The Lumia 820 was 800x480 on a 4.3" screen, and I found it perfectly pleasant to use. 5" would be adequate for that end of the market. It was less pleasant when I dropped it a foot and a half onto a carpeted floor and the screen c
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by tragic 13y ago
> I have as a rule that if you are in a situation where there can only be 1 element with those properties (it would make no sense at all to have more), I should use the id. Not a good idea: IDs take massive priority over classes in the c
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by tragic 13y ago
Well, it's the 'don't be evil' thing. It seems to me that it's perfectly possible to not be evil - until you go from being a nimble startup to a billion dollar business with serious shareholders to impress, rather t
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by tragic 13y ago
It's just Ubuntu but (presumably) on ARM so ... yes.
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by tragic 13y ago
The evolution is not always slow: the Banking Act of 1863 transformed American currency very rapidly, for example[1]; as did the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694 for the pound. Of course, your underlying point is correct - both the
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by tragic 13y ago
OK, so we've gone from > Luck is invented to be an excuse for the feeble minded. > There is no luck involved in getting rich. If you want to get rich you have to 1) work hard 2) be smart 3) be unscrupulous. ...to drawing a fatuou
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by tragic 13y ago
Oh, I'm happy to admit I don't have what it takes, according to your little calculus. I'm lazy. I'm smart, but not that smart. And I find it emotionally difficult to climb over other people's bodies to get to the ca
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by tragic 13y ago
Wikipedia does. But really, the status bar hover thing in every browser since IE5 is more than enough for me to work out where a link is going to go. (Guess it's not so useful on mobile.)
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by tragic 13y ago
Yes, Paris Hilton had to put in a lot of hard, astute and unscrupulous work to get those parents of hers. In a past life, presumably.
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by tragic 13y ago
Uh... http://pypi.python.org/ - 40,037 packages http://rubygems.org/ - 70,678 packages http://www.cpan.org/ - 129,447 packages http://packagist.org - 24,244 packages There'
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by tragic 13y ago
Er... From my perspective the fact that good people were clearly split suggests that either option would work perfectly well. I trust the new stewards of pid 1 will take that responsibility as seriously as the Upstart team has done, and be
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by tragic 13y ago
I remember watching Psycho with my first girlfriend. She had what you'd call a sheltered upbringing. (If readers have had one too, SPOILERS FOLLOW.) Janet Leigh gets in the shower. "Is...is this the film with the shower scene?&quo
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by tragic 13y ago
You say that now - and the inevitable procurement carve-up bonanza hasn't even started yet! I for one can't wait to see what overpriced proprietary toy language my hypothetical children will be pre-emptively de-skilled in.
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by tragic 13y ago
The document ref'd in the OP is not a press release, or an arsey comment on HN, but an investor's note. JPM are telling their clients not to invest in bitcoin, because they do not rate it as an investment. That is what is 'be

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