twir

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by twir 17y ago
URL shortening services break the internet. Please don't.
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by twir 17y ago
In my opinion, the author is just taking a basic interview question way to seriously. Granted, it's a silly question to ask somebody who has 15+ years experience. But consider trying to hire people out of college (for a startup perhaps.) As
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by twir 17y ago
Heh, I didn't think so. ;)
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by twir 17y ago
Wow, never knew one could do that.
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by twir 17y ago
This is a great philosophy, but I'd hesitate to say "all" variables; sometimes it just doesn't work out. ex, in class definition: final int foo; In constructor: try { foo = 1; } catch ( Exception e ) { foo = 2; }
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by twir 17y ago
I just don't get the article. Would somebody care to explain it? Rarely do I get exactly what I want by "just being myself." Being socially adept is a learned behavior, often requiring one to modify one's own behavior to fit in. I speak of
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by twir 17y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/231/
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by twir 17y ago
The kernel, of course. Silly of me to have asked the question in the first place then? I'm aware of many differences between distributions. Still, I wouldn't hasten to claim that the kernel is the only similarity between many or even most d
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by twir 17y ago
"Linux is not an Operating System?" Come on! That's just pedantic. Honestly, when you hear the word Linux do you automatically think of the kernel by itself or do you think of an entire OS? Personally, I go straight to the latter.
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by twir 17y ago
Indeed. Yet I was also trying to illustrate (albeit unsuccessfully) how the language snobbery is basically the same thing--a failing to recognize a language for what it's worth. As you point out, languages often have specialties and are bet
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by twir 17y ago
I hate to be "that guy", but I think you all might be misunderstanding the meaning of "blub". Remember, "Blub" comes from the Blub Paradox ( http://paulgraham.com/avg.html ) in which one paradoxically believes that his or her language of ch
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by twir 18y ago
I find learning each new language is easier than the one before it; the concepts of software development are largely the same from language to language and are often transferable from language to language. Then again, I started out on C, so