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by younata 15y ago
Work: xcode 3.1.4 Home/personal projects: xcode 4 I need to be able to build/test for OSX 10.3.9, which isn't something that I can do on xcode 4. Though, for my company, the production building is done with xcode 2.something. For my persona
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by younata 15y ago
> The issue isn't "word choice" it is tone and writing style. Forgive me, my vocabulary failed me when I was writing that particular sentence. > Writing in leetspeek is equally objectionable, for instance, and people do d
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by younata 15y ago
My point was that "this. <explanation and clarification>" does not deserve a downvote (should get an upvote), because it has actual content. However, a content-free message of simply "this." does deserve a downvote.
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by younata 15y ago
I'm not going to downvote you, but that's an incredibly stupid reason to downvote someone. "Oh, I don't like your word choice, so I'm going to downvote you regardless of the content."
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by younata 15y ago
> Monads as commonly explained on blog posts are cargo cult mathematics, and monads used in languages like C++ where they make code longer and more complicated instead of simpler, are cargo cult programming. I upvoted both of your comme
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by younata 15y ago
Each USB device has it's own unique ID, so yeah, it should be possible.
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by younata 15y ago
Every job I've had, I got through personal connections. I did event videography up until last fall (went away to college), every gig I got was because I knew person planning it (theatre: I knew the director, weddings: I knew the wedding pla
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by younata 15y ago
> getting involved in nuclear weapons Pretty much every western country has nuclear weapons. If you're referencing the fact that the US is the only country to have dropped nuclear weapons on another country, keep in mind that it wasn't
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by younata 15y ago
Wow, am I glad I chose to read the comments on this article before opening it up. Thanks!
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by younata 15y ago
I have friends who had to take an intro to C++ as their first (and only) programming class. I heard them talking about passing arguments to functions as "call by reference" many times, and it was obvious they had no idea what they were talk
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by younata 15y ago
I like Sal's stuff. I've used his videos on math to review stuff I didn't quite get during a lecture (given the quality of math professors I get, this is often). I've watched his other stuff because they're generally interesting (and really
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by younata 15y ago
This is not new stuff, just your list in a more readable format: - website analytics - logs processing - business intelligence - extracting data from third parties - exposing data to third parties - security alerts - website
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by younata 15y ago
I think his point was that it's better to work for yourself, than be some nameless peon at GS.
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by younata 15y ago
As I'm sure just about everyone here would tell you, we'd be more than happy to help you.
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by younata 15y ago
I just finished my first year of Uni. I'm spending the summer at an intership, where I'm writing very low level code. (For example, right now, I'm writing a utility to arping an address range. I've learned all about OSI, ethernet interfaces
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by younata 15y ago
tcpdump is also great, and I prefer it to wireshark. I've learned how to read the packets coming through in real time, at an office environment. I can tell people "I don't even see the code anymore, all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."
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by younata 15y ago
I think that, as part of the clock, a sign should be placed near it that states "not predicting the end of the world."
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by younata 15y ago
wasn't a startup, tweeting machine. The guy posted a 2 part writeup on his experience [1]. [1] http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-... http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-...
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by younata 15y ago
on computer vision? (judging from your profile) Any chance it's up so that we can see how it was edited?
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by younata 15y ago
I wrote a script to do that for you. [1] (and am having my server download the first fifty listed in the xml file). I'd like to point out that there's a little bit under a thousand talks, so I highly recommend you only download a few videos
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by younata 15y ago
They're releasing the source. From the third paragraph of the second page: "Other Web browsers could also employ Instant Pages, because Google has released the necessary code for all to use. "We are opening up the code because we want other
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by younata 15y ago
ah. right. they weren't blue, so I didn't identify them as links. Thanks!
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by younata 15y ago
All the links (Disclaimer: I didn't test all of them) go to http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_on_averting_climate_crisis.... which happens to be the first video in the list.
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by younata 15y ago
Not precisely. Firefox and Chrome have enough marketshare that games with WebGL can just detect IE, then throw up a message "your browser does not support WebGL, click here to download a browser that does.".
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by younata 15y ago
It's amazing how much awesome tech can be traced directly back to Xerox PARC.
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by younata 15y ago
> This place feels more like Reddit every day. That's why I downmodded you.
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by younata 15y ago
There are places where it's a criminal offense to go deface some person's facebook? First reaction: AWESOME. I won't see any spam about that in the feed (which I rarely view anyway). Second thought: This cannot end well. It's so easy to spo
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by younata 15y ago
For my internship this summer, I actually write code! I've found that I do little to no non-work programming during the week. However, I do spend a lot of time during the weekend programming.
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by younata 15y ago
But... how will I know to buy it if Billy Mays (RIP) isn't shouting at me to buy it?
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by younata 15y ago
I don't get the reference, and google doesn't help.

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