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by tx 19y ago
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by tx 19y ago
This advice is not for everybody. We needed our own mailserver with a TON of storage, so getting our own U1 worked best. But for most people it's too much hassle.
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by tx 19y ago
That's the most uninteresting of things he said. The real value of the article were his thoughts on hardware vs software cost. Every hardware manufacturer must LOVE Linux for its own sake. And not just Asians, I would add. Ultimately, if DE
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Philip Greenspun: "$1K HP desktop running Windows Vista"(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
4 points by tx 19y ago|4 comments
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by tx 19y ago
It is not. Depends on what do you refer to by "current practices". Dumb CRUD projects surely can be coded on the fly using so-called "agile" approach without much thinking. "Steer left or right as required" works very well for them. The th
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by tx 19y ago
Dijkstra could not predict that in 2007 to-do lists and message boards like Facebook will become multi-billion dollar businesses. Sorry to poop on your beliefs, but "agile" BS can be applied only on CRUD projects that have nothing in common
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by tx 19y ago
Did you bother to read the interview?
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by tx 19y ago
You have a lot to prove. A giant as big as Dijkstra was, he publicly said that "corentin has mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" and you're out to prove him wrong. Good luck. :-) Makes me feel more lucky for starting with x86 a
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by tx 19y ago
I find it helpful to just explore the areas of math that "stand in the way" when I am studying something practical. After all, math is rarely a target, math is a language that you use to solve a problem. Sometimes a wikipedia article (along
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by tx 19y ago
Search for "Turner patches" on google. They enable native font hinting. My font rendering settings are set to: (a) native hinter, (b) automatic subpixel rendering, (c) slight hinting, (d) subpixel smoothing. Settings a) and b) are set in d
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by tx 19y ago
I have always admired Dijkstra and feel sorry for myself for arriving to Austin too late. And this quote is something I wish I could have had a discussion with the man about: "I feel that the effort to use machines to try to mimic human re
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E. Dijkstra: Computer science is paralyzed by accepting this moron as their typical customer.(cs.utexas.edu)
23 points by tx 19y ago|24 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Isn't the true metric is always time? "How long will it take me to implement algorithm X in language Y?" Paul assumes that program size == coding time. However, do we really spend most of our time typing? And can we honestly say that shorte
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by tx 19y ago
Nice to see you here, Lisper. Thank you for a nice writeup. If anything, it only heated up my desire to finally learn the language. Somehow it seems that getting disappointed in Lisp is very hard: people get disappointed in their other favo
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by tx 19y ago
Someone downmodded you for simply asking a question. I didn't know we had Ubuntu nazis here... The answer is yes and no. I cannot stand KDE because it reminds me of Winodws too much. Gnome is more "authentic" - sure there are close/maximize
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by tx 19y ago
They're abandoning it later this year. Shuttleworth isn't a big fan of brown either.
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by tx 19y ago
Microsoft is so dead... I was intrigued by your post and went ahead to research Groove a bit more, but their site is full of "marketing messages" and I ran out of patience looking for an answer for "WHAT DOES GROOVE DO?", therefore your po
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by tx 19y ago
Do you really believe that by "Trillian of Social Networks" he meant something as trivial as an RSS feed of updates? I have been at "RSS startup". The problem with RSS feeds is that sites (sources) are smart and are using them to BRING visi
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by tx 19y ago
:-) If Mac owners are "assured of their superiority than the population at large" then Windows users probably pee in their pants (just a drop or two) every time a dorbell rings, while Linux users are genuinely poised for world domination.
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by tx 19y ago
Peter, where do you get your data from? Just curious. Among our users gmail addresses are by far the most popular with yahoo being distant 2nd. In my opinion google seems to dominate every market they wish to enter, with one notable excepti
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by tx 19y ago
Google maps and gmail are "dysfunctional" and behind MapQuest and hotmail or yahoo mail? I don't know (personally) a single hotmail user, AFAIK people only use it for spamboxes. And MapQuest? WTF?
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by tx 19y ago
You cold have said "API", this is not a press conference, we're all normal here.
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by tx 19y ago
It's hard for me to imagine myself working at a company where CEO looks, talks and walks like Ballmer. I just can't stand the idea of a sleazy car salesman being my boss. In fact I just can't stand the idea of having a boss who's never wrot
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by tx 19y ago
To all sarcastic commenters: Hey, dudes: he built a bunch of cool and famous software, some of which you are using without paying a dime for, and even making money with. He has no blog. Can't be found on Facebook. Apparently doesn't even li
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by tx 19y ago
Finally, someone has said it. Besides Ozzie. But who listens to Ozzie, he's a "Microsoft guy", nobody listens tho those anymore.
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by tx 19y ago
No MP3s? No OGGs? Proprietary adware with DRM? Nah, I'll go with BitTorrent instead.
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree. Sure price/performance ratio is only going to get better. However, there will always be high end, low end and stuff in between. After all, the equivalent of Pentium II with 64MB of RAM and a basic video card can be had for next
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by tx 19y ago
It will be very, very, very hard for you to compete with google. If there is a problem, and it is more or less common, there are going to be message boards, IRC logs and various blog entries talking about it. Google finds them all. You, on
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by tx 19y ago
Jesus... "Java is faster than C" argument again. Inferiority complex aside, I did not mean scaling in a technical way. Java did not scale out as a general purpose programming language - it remained foreign and inadequate on all major platfo
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by tx 19y ago
It was. And it didn't. Very few applications have been created in Java. Java stuck in the isolated server environment, but everything survives there, since servers are like zoos: easily controlled environment where animals get exactly wha

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