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by xirium 19y ago
Compare http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/script-kiddie.ht... and http://www.bash.org/?742386
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by xirium 19y ago
I don't have direct experience of ML but I'd definitely recommend against Java because there's a tsumani of information. It is overwhelming for a newbie. Pascal is small and concise. The grammar is unambiguous. You know when you've outgrown
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by xirium 19y ago
A langauge with strong typing and bound checking is ideal when you're learning algorithms. A newbie coding a bubble sort in Pascal encounters less mysterious failure modes than a newbie coding a bubble sort in C. (Consider the off-by-one go
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by xirium 19y ago
You've already got the atitude to be an excellent programmer. Your success is assured if you learn more than one programming language. For you purposes, learn Pascal, learn C, learn Perl, learn JavaScript. This will minimise your learning c
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by xirium 19y ago
I've not read Peopleware but I've read Why Does Software Cost So Much? by Tom DeMarco and Slack by Tom DeMarco. The former focuses on technical issues and the sunken cost of software. The latter focuses on the agility of organisations. Tom
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by xirium 19y ago
I'd summurise as "Trust. Be friendly. Take genuine concern for your clients point of view." These are pre-requisites for "win-win" situations.
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by xirium 19y ago
I don't doubt the calibre of your judging panel. However, you may wish to refrain from using the phrase "top shelf" because it is British slang for porn ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=top+shelf ). Combined with your Apri
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Redundant Widget Of The Week: ClockLink.Com(clocklink.com)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
I was expecting a list of rewards other than cash, trinkets and junkets. I'm especially unenthused by the chance of winning a mountain bike. Just give them a bike or don't give them a bike.
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by xirium 19y ago
> how is this going to work for Flash based resources?? Thumbnailing Flash is fairly trivial if you take a bitmap from a browser rendering component. Indexing Flash is more of a PITA.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Google has such momentum now that it would be hard for anyone to stop them. Within 48 hours of this being published, Google anounces layoffs ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134967 ) and a new search engine from Seq
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by xirium 19y ago
You haven't used your account for anything other than self-promotion of a website which collects email addresses and displays banner adverts. You've made similar posts in other forums too. On four counts, you're unlikely to become an insigh
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123510
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134321
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by xirium 19y ago
This could be worthwhile even for the UK startups that YCombinator has funded. This is due to tax regulations that affect IT contractors and IT startups. UK IT contractors are encouraged to incorporate for the purposes of professional liabi
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by xirium 19y ago
SGI was originally incorporated as a California corporation in November 1981, and reincorporated as a Delaware corporation in January 1990. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics I presume that you pay lawyers in Delaware to use
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by xirium 19y ago
Commodore was incorporated in the Bahamas but it was problematic.
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by xirium 19y ago
This isn't new. The article investigates a Warren Buffett prediction with five years of hindsight. Indeed, when Buffett's Gen Re started unwinding its derivatives five years ago, some thought derivatives would be the primary source of a fin
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by xirium 19y ago
It looks really spammy, which is surprising because the site was designed by Electric Pulp, which was recommended on this forum ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134715 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
There's a similar example in Europe, but much more benign and regarding the water between England and France. In English it is known as the English Channel. In French, it is known as The Channel.
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by xirium 19y ago
There's definitely a level of premature optimisation, although it is becoming less common. I've lost count of the times that I've encountered forms that only accept five digit postal codes or 10 digit telephone numbers. Take your business e
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by xirium 19y ago
Spam!
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by xirium 19y ago
Well, I created a cronjob to remind people about System Administrator Appreciation Day ( http://www.sysadminday.com/ ).
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by xirium 19y ago
Spam!
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Ask YC: What Is Your Favorite Board Game?
16 points by xirium 19y ago|77 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
From user ptm's description ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133086 ), you could probably hack up the MySQL NDB Cluster interface.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: 5. know your competitors and their next moves Don't get obsessed by competitors. Failure modes include cloning your competitors implementations but without the userbase; losing passion; and it can be a time sink.
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by xirium 19y ago
> JSR-4567-compliant In 1995, Java was a fun language. Since then, the fun has been squeezed out of it and it has become more akin to accountancy.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Microsoft ... Java\Python\Ruby Is this an example of thinking in Blub? From the article: drinking from the Redman firehose Surely, that should be Redmond?
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by xirium 19y ago
His annual predictions for 2007 achieved 61.5% ( http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080104_0037... ).

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