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by wting 14y ago
Internet porn was an industry leader in offering streaming video, online payment processing, one to one video conferencing, and geolocation advertising. Just because a technology is affiliated with a morally grey industry doesn't discount t
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Took me a while to find it: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/dtg4j/want_to_hel... Here's another version: https://archive.org/details/2010-reddit-research
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The presence of competition does not imply a fairly priced market, e.g. US telecom companies.
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Don't know, I saw them in September.
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I don't work at Google, but toured their Austin office during a hackathon. A friend confirmed that they did as well for their Mountain View campus.
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Google has been heavily pushing Go internally for a while now. They have weekly pamphlets that they put up in bathroom stalls to educate employees.
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It's funny to compare and contrast this article's responses with a recent one about gamifying his study for a Google interview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855928 The truth is people learn at different rates, and compensating in
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I used Jekyll up until 7 months ago before switching to Pelican and blogged about it here: http://blog.williamting.com/posts/2012/05/30/migrating-from-... tldr: Wanted to mess around with internals, but rather than learn Ruby I switched t
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"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'
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I'm going to plug a small CLI program I maintain -- autojump: https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/#name It tracks which directories used most often so you can simply use `j <dir>` to jump to that directory rather than type / t
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The biggest features I use from zsh is awesome tab completion. For example, partial tab completion: $ ls ./ ../ project-foo/ project-bar/ $ cd foo <tab> ----> cd project-foo Expand paths: $ cd
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Off topic design comment. The site is defaulting to FreeSerif on my Linux machine (tested w/ Chrome, Firefox, Opera) and the kerning is absolutely terrible: http://i.imgur.com/iQyq0.png
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Your argument taken to the extreme leads to code golf. Sure abstraction is worth it. You get code reusability, better unit testing, and faster understanding of the code. Maybe a small script doesn't need it, but once something starts growin
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> It highlights the selected text, grep --color > it shows which files, and in what line the text was found (and uses vivid colors so you can distinguish them easily), grep -rn --color pattern ./files/ files/foo.s
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I think Google Wave is an undeserved mention in the list of killed off DRM services. First of all, Google supported data export from Google Wave[1]. Additionally, Google open sourced the project and it's available as Apache Wave[2] or as a
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Apple v. Samsung 12/6 Hearing: Can Judge Throw Out the Jury's Damages?(groklaw.net)
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Yes. The two main designers pushing GNOME on its current path both work at RedHat: - William McCann: http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamjonmccann - Allan Day: https://live.gnome.org/AllanDay
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Coming from Metacity, Xmonad's handling of dual screen is definitely different but I prefer it now. Instead of treating both screens as an extended single desktop, each screen is on it's own desktop. This allows me to mix and match desktops
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This article has a good summary of features removed from Nautilus 3.6: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-ste... It's pretty easy to replace Nautilus with Nemo though (the Cinnamon fork version that emulates the old
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You take his statement (power management works in Linux / doesn't in Windows) and says it's false because it works in certain contexts (IBM + HP). Then you hold his argument to a higher standard by applying it to all PCs and providing anecd
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I worked on the GNOME project this past summer and went to GUADEC. Attendance at GUADEC has been steadily declining drastically over the past few years. The auditorium had ~100 attendees during the keynote speech . Many of the side talks h
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A sad fact is I had to look up the answer, and the algorithm is well known from one of my university's professors which I've had class with.
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I attended a Microsoft talk given 4-6 years ago where they were talking about Iron Ruby development. A quick search shows that they have Visual Studio tools available: http://www.ironruby.net/tools/
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`reversed(s)` returns an iterator. The much slower equivalent of `s[::-1]` is `''.join(reversed(s))`. It's odd how Python has list.reverse() but not str.reverse(). Probably a conscious design decision sometime ago.
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It's probably personally dependent to shore up your own weaknesses. Mine would probably more practice with recursion, dynamic programming, graph theory.
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Her "Crack the Coding Interview" book basically is an expansion of that blog post, goes into more details, includes a lot of problem sets of different types and various strategies for attacking each one. I like using it to study for intervi
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I'm kind of surprised at some of the negative comments people have towards these styles of interviews. I'm a current student still going through the interview process with Seattle / SV / Austin companies (big and small). Every interview i
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This is a pretty good solution, however there are a few things other programs add on: - $CDPATH requires manual management. You're using a line in profile, but I imagine that's limited to specific directories and creates overhead when creat
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The information is incorrect according to Jeremy Bicha: > Yet another poorly researched news item from Phoronix. Debian hasn't actually switched the Wheezy default desktop to XFCE. GNOME is the default today and could still be the defau