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by tung 16y ago
My face-value interpretation of it is that you don't become a great programmer by impressing your boss.
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by tung 16y ago
Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980909
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by tung 16y ago
I suppose you're right. I just felt frustrated seeing the same topic over and over, and wondered if anybody agreed. On the whole, Hacker News is a great place, arguably the best of the news aggregation sites on the Internet. Even people who
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by tung 16y ago
I might if there are another 20 of them over the next week or two, and they aren't about combining them into an astonishing new mountain climbing strategy that involves aspirin-based dietary habits. :)
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by tung 16y ago
It looks like more people agree with you than me, so I'll take the opportunity to at least explain my point of view. I come to Hacker News to see people talk about technology, innovation, trends, start-ups and tiny projects that pop up that
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by tung 16y ago
I posted this in the BBC thread linked: Despite my low level of contribution to this site, I must say I'm tired of seeing WikiLeaks/Assange on the Hacker News front page. Granted, all this may be newsworthy, but going by the Hacker News Gui
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by tung 16y ago
Despite my low level of contribution to this site, I must say I'm tired of seeing WikiLeaks/Assange on the Hacker News front page. Granted, all this may be newsworthy, but going by the Hacker News Guidelines, it feels more "Off-Topic" than
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by tung 16y ago
No, the submission has it right (AFAIK). My guess as to why so many people use the former instead of the latter is because they get their wires crossed with the whole "see no evil, hear no evil, do no evil" saying, which has a different sou
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by tung 16y ago
My guess is that what people complain about isn't really the parentheses, but rather heavy nesting of Lisp programs compared to other languages. If parentheses were replaced with something else, they'd probably complain about that something
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by tung 16y ago
People who see this fall into one of two kinds: those who are shocked by this, and those who are shocked by those who are shocked by this.
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by tung 16y ago
The HN Toolkit userscript [1], amongst other things, shows a preview of the new submissions page to the right of the usual front page links. [1]: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
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How to contribute to open source, for companies(x264dev.multimedia.cx)
12 points by tung 16y ago|0 comments
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by tung 16y ago
Also available on its official site: http://www.lua.org/pil/
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by tung 16y ago
He implements call/cc with Python's exceptions. Pretty clever.
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Go Concurrency Patterns: Timing out, moving on(blog.golang.org)
6 points by tung 16y ago|0 comments
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by tung 16y ago
Anybody can say "yes". Somebody needs to say "no". -- Linus Torvalds http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&...
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by tung 16y ago
The graphs don't start at zero, so the differences are exaggerated, at least visually.
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by tung 16y ago
It makes a tiny bit more sense when the commits are patches. I don't mind the difference too much; if I'm in a team, I just go with what everybody else does.
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by tung 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but is this really something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"? It's just a photo tour of the reddit team visiting the Digg team.
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by tung 16y ago
> There are actually three ways to open the Activities Window: > 3. Click the Super key (often referred to as the "Windows" key). Well, there goes my free unused keyboard shortcut modifier.
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by tung 16y ago
Lua has packages. http://www.lua.org/pil/15.html
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by tung 16y ago
This page has blink tags, but oddly/sensibly they don't seem to work on my version of Chromium: http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
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by tung 16y ago
The author has a mental model of innovation which I don't think is accurate. The patent system helps people look for "open spaces": new ideas, and work in them. He goes on to say that this eventually fills the space of ideas, pushing to a "
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by tung 16y ago
> never write a commit message without the diff in hand To do this in git, use the --verbose flag with git commit. I use it in my configuration by default, and it really helps.
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by tung 16y ago
Maybe I missed it, but did the article say anything about the differences of the Nautilus file browser compared to Ubuntu's?
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by tung 16y ago
If you found this blog post a bit abrupt, you might want to look at Mark Pilgrim's take on HTML5's semantic elements. http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html
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by tung 16y ago
Just a correction: Google's slogan is not "do no evil", but "don't be evil". The first evaluates only the actions of the company, but the second evaluates the company itself.
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by tung 16y ago
Or perhaps beauty is hard to gauge when all you have is the corner of a mock-up/screenshot and a few comments.
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by tung 17y ago
I managed to make it work in Chrome (well, Chromium) by splicing in some support functions from another script, and tweaking a line at the bottom. http://gist.github.com/355697 To install, click the 'raw' link at the top right of the sour
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by tung 17y ago
For passer's by, the title of the actual article reads, "Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days".

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