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by zxcdw 14y ago
It's a shame that the old computing culture is dead. VX scene, demoscene, crack scene, ... Everything that used to be interesting for the curious is dead. Now we have... web development and "front end engineering" and "value creation" which
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> No one will hire you Out of curiosity, why is this? I've heard similar statements from people who have found or worked in startups that they'd never hire a programmer who's over ~35 years of age or so, but I've never been able to fi
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by zxcdw 14y ago
Well consider HN frontpage during the past 24 hours. I like to read stories, and I dislike it when half of the stories cover the topic I've already read about a few times. I want to ignore the stuff I am not interested in, while being subsc
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Quite frankly Muting in HN would be great, especially during the times like these when a celebrity dies and people go nuts over it. I want this to happen.
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I've noticed that if there's ever a stackoverflow question in HN, there's Mystical's answer at the top. :) He's a real genius, I can nothing but envy.
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I came to mention this. Can anyone elaborate on possible benefits of flexibility of such a device? I can't really think of any. I'd guess it would be very problematic to control such a touchscreen without something solid behind the device.
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One thing I've learned: do the excercises. Just do them.
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Somehow you seem to assume that optimizing code would lead to complexity. From personal experience I would argue that often the code is actually clearer and more readable after it has been optimized. This is because great care has been put
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It's sad how "Security" there's only one very generalizing item. "Implement best practices". Right. Is the author just ignorant, or am I a fool thinking that if anything it should be "Security" which has the most elaborate items?
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Intel of course is aware of the market and it's needs. They have their own strategy, R&D and future plans. Case in point: Xeon Phi.
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Anti Piracy? The insider's view(syprog.blogspot.ru)
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Do we have any privacy in future?
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Never thought of that. Thanks.
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> The reason for reinforcing positive discrimination is that you are not aware of your own bias towards negative discrimination. So in other words you think it is perfectly fine to treat people inequally based on what they are? Some
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What makes you think 'XYZ' aren't bettering the world in more suitable fields for persons themselves ? What would prevent 'XYZ' from "getting a chance" to do that in tech/"our field"? Why should the 'XYZ' contribute if they refuse to contr
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Why is lack of diversity considered a problem in the first place? > I think at this point we should start asking questions as to why we feel the need to poke hard at conferences, why are we positively discriminating, and what should we
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Have no fear, Go will not take your Java jobs away :)
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> This sure sounds like ... I thought of the same. Although the quote itself can't be attributed to Watson or anyone else for that regard, what the quote says used to be true. During the time, in 1943 there indeed was not much more ma
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I would rather attribute the current pace of things and C and C++ popularity to what is invested in those languages. Tons of big projects are written in C and C++. Many of them were begun during times when performance was a major issue un
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Music industry has to control the market or it will cripple itself tremendously due to not being able to adapt to the changing environment. It's only natural to defend your own grounds. Can't blame them, even though I strongly disagree with
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Sure, there's no escaping C, but that's mainly because of the investments we've put into it. Same goes for C++, but it's far more manageable from security point of view. Today we have modern languages which are only a tad slower than C, yet
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Gamification has gone a bit too far if points are as valuable as the provided content ?
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> But using a language like Ruby or PHP, for instance, doesn't really lead to fewer bugs, or more advanced software, or cheaper software, or fewer security concerns in practice. Which domain are we talking about? Of course web-based a
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But the beauty of modern programming languages is that the responsibility has gone from sole programmers to actual implementation developers . You would expect that people who implement the runtmies and libraries are far, far more know
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URL doesn't work. Also I consider IRC's decentralized nature to be superior, just as it's simple protocol and established communities.
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> Would your time really be better spent finding the most efficient sorting algorithm? Probably not, but it is my nature to work with problems like these. Not necessarily to find best algorithms, but to come up with the most efficient
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I am programmer because I am naturally curious and because I love creative problem solving. What honestly pisses me off, is that these days programming is way more boring than what it used to be. The paradigm has shifted from low-level to h
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We can afford it in 2012(in most areas of computing at least). We couldn't in 70's. Imagine scanning through an array with thousands of elements and trying to make it happen real-time with weak hardware. Suddenly that 1 ns grows to 1 second
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How does one cope with something like this when they're living and sharing a bed with someone? I've personally always been fascinated by rigid self-maintained schedules and routines. However, especially for me it's near impossible to mainta
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I consider 3D printing to be mature technology once a 3D printer can clone itself! I bet at that point von Neumann smiles in his grave for self-replicating systems.

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