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541.
by yan 17y ago
"definite must"? If I find a successful developer, for some value of successful, that doesn't blog, would that prove your friend wrong? You need to decide what your goals are. Are you striving to optimize your career for followers/notoriety
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by yan 17y ago
I completely agree actually. I'm not a huge fan of her music (or the genre), but she's an absolutely brilliant businesswoman, musician and designer. She meticulously engineered herself to be sellable, and was extremely successful at it.
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by yan 17y ago
I really don't understand the wave of alarmist posts on the 'end of a tinkering era'. Today, we have more communities and devices for tinkering than we've ever had. Magazines like Make, sites like Hack-a-day, platforms like Arduino, and co
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by yan 17y ago
You can't amuse thousands of techies with an import from a math library..
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by yan 17y ago
Likewise, productivity of surgeons can only be measured in numbers of stitches.
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by yan 17y ago
Do people pronounce trie as 'try' or 'tree'? I pronounce it as 'tree,' which is why it took me a second to catch the pun.
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by yan 17y ago
The web designer and windows programmer snippets are brilliant.
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by yan 17y ago
Next time the Duke of Pittsburgh needs to create a CRM solution, you will have a resume at the ready!
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Women’s higher earnings seem to benefit husbands as much as wives(economist.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs and the tablet of hope(economist.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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Privacy 2.0: Give a little, take a little(economist.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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The magic of 140 characters(economist.com)
5 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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Daytum.com: collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data(daytum.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
He sort of addresses some of that in his 'Comparing X to Lisp' articles, like: http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
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by yan 17y ago
I'm going to hold off my criticism until I spend more than 20-30 minutes with it and see how well it fits my ideas of what a device like this should be. Knowing Apple, their product design and eye for aesthetics, I wouldn't jump to conclusi
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by yan 17y ago
Wow talk about talent and hard work..
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Has Twitter peaked?(cnn.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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5 key-value coding approaches in Cocoa(cocoawithlove.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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In Obama's decision-making, a wide range of influences(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Command+3. It's the third shortcut in my Safari toolbar.
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Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet Access(wired.com)
7 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
It depends how much work you're willing to put into it. Yes, you can treat Lisp as a first language, MIT has been doing it for years (until recently). Their Intro to CS class, CS 6.001, used Scheme and is very highly regarded. Their text bo
563.
by yan 17y ago
When I climb trad or top rope, I tie in with figure-eight, but when I sport climb, the double bowline is preferable because it's easy to untie after taking a whipper.
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by yan 17y ago
That knot resembles the clove hitch, which is a very versatile hitch to attach a section of rope to an object. I think learning a few basic knots is an extremely useful life skill. Just knowing how to tie bowline, double bowline and a few h
565.
by yan 17y ago
I came here to mention this, and note that this is an excellent way to start conversations about anything controversial, including politics and religion. If I'm interested in having that argument, I usually start by saying: "One of us is cl
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What is a meta-class in Objective-C?(cocoawithlove.com)
20 points by yan 17y ago|2 comments
567.
by yan 17y ago
Digital analog of bumper stickers and Armstrong bracelets?
568.
by yan 17y ago
Agreed. I don't know why someone would attribute malice when laziness or verbosity is the probable explanation. The author knew about Quora and included it in a sentence.
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by yan 17y ago
Reading slashdot?
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Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show(wired.com)
132 points by yan 17y ago|113 comments

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