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by tragic 12y ago
My 'worst ever' comment is also the one that got the most upvotes ever. You all are a bad influence.
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by tragic 12y ago
People have talked about the zero marginal cost issue with trivially copiable goods, and I simply don't think this is a surmountable obstacle for the film business as a business . Already, when people say "I prefer to pay for a f
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by tragic 12y ago
I kind of feel the opposite. Yes, with CS there are thousands of people to play against and so on, but how different are the bouts from one another really? I much prefer linear, narrative-driven single-player games, if they're done wel
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by tragic 12y ago
> I think for myself, the key is knowing that the guy who biked across India wasn't writing a novel. Or at least, he wasn't biking across India, writing a novel, and maintaining a 40+ hour job and raising a family. Well exactly
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by tragic 12y ago
My first thought when I saw the website name was Screenwriter's Blues by Soul Coughing - which turns out to be looping on the info page! Very cool idea.
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by tragic 12y ago
> You cannot predict the future from the presents past. Every time you open your lungs in the expectation that they will fill with 20% oxygen and nothing toxic, you are 'predicting the future from the presents past'. The past i
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by tragic 12y ago
Also, that it's pretty clear that they were only able to do so because they had limited technical knowledge of email: to someone who runs a mail server, the idea of email not getting further than 500 miles is ridiculous and absurd. To
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by tragic 12y ago
I think in FFVIII it was Triangle to cancel. (O was the menu button.) They completely jumbled it all up for some reason.
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by tragic 12y ago
> Some other points: The wide variety of programming languages is good, but the list you provided is noticeably lacking C (the most widely used language) or any systems language. Er, perhaps I'm being thick, but doesn't Ubuntu
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by tragic 12y ago
A couple of reasons, I guess. Firstly, since Google/Facebook/miscellaneous mega-startups, there have been people with enormous wealth and power who got there through the 'engineering track', and love developing software,
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by tragic 12y ago
Joe Abercrombie's books (the First Law trilogy and three semi-sequels) hit some of the same notes. If anything, even grimmer in outlook, and with a substantial dose of dark "British humour". Richard Morgan's The Steel Re
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by tragic 12y ago
Welcome to the glorious new age of the internet of things!
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by tragic 12y ago
Alas! > Worst of all, the hilarious Yo, Hodor!, clearly a parody of Yo, has also received the notice. If I were you, I'd get Hodoring like it's the last night on earth.
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by tragic 12y ago
Er, isn't that the whole point of the article? "Every time we learn something new and want to share it, we face these issues all over again -- the desire to proclaim, to overturn received wisdom all at once -- and the worse the re
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by tragic 12y ago
So that would be "I don't want to be bothered with two clicks and a single terminal command." Really? Leaving aside the whole "PHP sucks" vs "PHP is great/fine for my purposes" thing, this is really b
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by tragic 12y ago
The other thing I find with reading technical books on a computer is that it's a different experience - I'm constantly flipping over to an editor/REPL to try things out, so it's not like I'm staring at a wall of tex
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by tragic 12y ago
Looks like some nice improvements. Interested in this canvas debugger...
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by tragic 12y ago
> How did you handle getting your browser to talk to a server running on a different port? (Cross-origin requests) Having run such things on entirely different servers, never mind localhost ports, what I needed to do was set the Access-C
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by tragic 12y ago
I know what it's not: applicable to Cornwall re scavenging shipwrecks and the like. It's part of the local folklore.
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by tragic 12y ago
No pinger will save lost cargo around Cornwall - they've been assiduous scavengers down there for centuries... But I guess it's just cheaper for all concerned to write off the lost goods and file an insurance claim. As they say: w
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by tragic 12y ago
I've often wondered whether we should think of things the other way round; ie, whether secondary education in mathematics could benefit from a programming component. Certainly, for my part, becoming a developer kindled an interest in s
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by tragic 12y ago
> Frameworks tell the programmer "I've divided your problem for you; just put this kind of thing here and those other things there in those special files in this particular folder" and that somehow is supposed to make it e
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Ask HN: Help me cram Java
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by tragic 12y ago
> Far better to test it in court with a stupid revenge porn website than testing it with a case of, for example, a whistleblower where authorities feels they need to win. Disclaimer: I'm one of the less privacy-obsessed posters on h
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by tragic 12y ago
As I understand it, the smallest run they can do is 20. So if you can find 19 other people who missed out, they could run another campaign. I'd guess Russell Keith Magee or someone else from the DSF would be the one to bother about it.
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by tragic 12y ago
Seriously. They even made a t-shirt[1] punning on it. [1] http://teespring.com/django17-v2
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by tragic 12y ago
For people who know about it, yes. But probably the biggest win from pulling it into core is that, here on in, a newbie will be told to get migrating stuff from the first tutorial they do, and thus get working with this particular best prac
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by tragic 12y ago
Grappelli[0] + django-filebrowser[1] = happiness. (Only gripe is it's not responsive.) [0] http://grappelliproject.com/ [1] https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-filebrowser
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by tragic 12y ago
Well, restricting the server to basically providing a REST API for client code is basically the dominant way of doing certain sorts of applications, particularly those that may have web and native implementations and so forth. Some of us, h
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by tragic 12y ago
I'm not sure why you'd hate the template language. Its deliberate dumbness can be tiresome, but on the other hand, if you're running into that, it's a code smell. I was sceptical about the whole "designed for design

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