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by tx 19y ago
Who is a CEO anyway? I have talked to a few business guys and answers varied from "salesman in chief" to "just an administrator with connections". In that regard there is really nothing to hold on to if you are a product guy. The article im
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by tx 19y ago
So true, it made me smile because just recently I had a great discussion with a very smart .NET programmer who truly believed that Microsoft's LINQ is a revolution in programming languages. When I explained to him that a similarly weak DSL
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by tx 19y ago
I was a person you are looking for. Two years ago. The founder took the prototype I built for him in my spare time and had terminated my employment two weeks before my "generous options" granted, explaining to me that it was hard to get fun
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by tx 19y ago
How did you get away with iChat? I don't know a single person on AIM account, everybody is either on Yahoo/MSN or even ICQ.
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by tx 19y ago
I switch between Macbook and Thinkpad/Ubuntu almost daily. Why? Because I get bored on either of them fairly quickly :-) I love both of them, but my vote goes towards Ubuntu/Linux (and I mainly code on ThinkPad) for three reasons: 1. Most h
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by tx 19y ago
Regarding old Lisp books: PG's "On Lisp" is available (used) on Amazon for $250-$450 depends on which day you look for it on.
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by tx 19y ago
There is an interesting idea growing bigger and bigger in recent months. Some say that proliferation of feedback-based recommendation engines and machine learning algorithms for predicting "what I may like to read next" is bad for our socie
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by tx 19y ago
No. I'll get a very smart computer from IBM to do it for me.
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by tx 19y ago
Great. In simple terms it means that machines will do all the work and we'll drink all the beer.
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by tx 19y ago
Most engineers never implement any of those classic CS algorithms or data structures manually since everything is in the libraries these days. Therefore they're in the same boat as you: general knowledge and a couple of books under a hand t
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by tx 19y ago
Every time mankind makes a major breakthrough it makes entire families of professions obsolete. This gives us opportunities to move onto more advanced forms of keeping ourselves busy. Most of the time when people ask about "obsolete humans"
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by tx 19y ago
Why did you assume web development? Sure, many people here build web sites, but don't forget that such startups still represent a relatively small fraction of total amount of software written. I am involved in two startups and both use C++.
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by tx 19y ago
After a year of Ruby programming I am in the middle of learning Python. The language part seems very easy (the "mechanics" of programming process) but "thinking in Python" part suggests that Ruby is a significantly higher level language. On
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Ask YC: Lightweight Python HTTP server?
5 points by tx 19y ago|2 comments
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by tx 19y ago
More than half of links on the site point to PDF files (who do they think we are? printers?) so I didn't even care to form an opinion. vim rulez! :-)
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by tx 19y ago
It's not "hating", it's called productive criticism. When I ask for a feedback on our product the thing I fear the most is a bunch of OMGs. I've seen that before: people say nice things because they want to appear nice, gain karma points, g
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by tx 19y ago
Nobody hates Java, it's too generic and plain to generate such strong feelings. People don't care for language, but they do dislike Java Programmers because a big percentage of them, but not all of course, got into CS only due to their n
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by tx 19y ago
Why Xen? I've been using VMware for years and I am curious about these newer tools: Xen and VirtualBox.
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by tx 19y ago
I know linux in and out----why am I not using it for a desktop machine? Because Windows is better at that. So many people, so many opinions. :-) I have to build software for deployment on Windows (stupid day job) but I code it on Linux be
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Ask YS: Java Platform Book Recommendation?
1 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I find it strange that a salesperson is named to be the one who creates wealth. If they could create wealth at will, why do they always want exclusive rights to their "territories"?
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Startup: File Destructor 2.0(xnet.se)
10 points by tx 19y ago|4 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree. If you're talking about personal projects or tiny start-ups with full control over server configurations, sure nginx is a viable option. But I too find it unnatural for so many Rails-related blogs and books to ignore Apache and
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by tx 19y ago
Every time I click on a link which is a PDF file, I feel like I stepped on a dog's poop. Replacing that with Flash is not the solution: give me just normal HTML, my browser deals with scrolling and zooming just fine, don't reinvent the whee
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by tx 19y ago
Thanks! I expressed my concerns regarding scons a few posts above. Another question: is there a place where Linux C programmers hang out? In case I need to ask a similar question in the future. Thank you again.
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by tx 19y ago
I am aware of scons and cmake, but how do I distribute the code? Every single piece of Linux software I ever compiled has always been configure/make/make install. I don't mind replacing autotools, but make seems to continue being a standard
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Ask YC: Linux C/C++ programming workflow?
8 points by tx 19y ago|13 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Well... FaceBook has attracted quite a lot of money and a very serious number of smart folks who aren't sitting idle as we speak. They must be working on something: generating ideas, bouncing them off each other, coding, etc. Articles like
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by tx 19y ago
Wow... I haven' seen such pretentious blog in a while. He worked for over 100 companies within last 20 years! Jesus... After those I was expecting no less but a comparison of his code printouts with football fields. "I become a wealthy prog
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by tx 19y ago
This is the result? http://changefeed.com/rss?url=c2ae2edc266d898a2a1f06d41e2f2b...

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