Chickencha

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by Chickencha 16y ago
There's an issue in the issue tracker for it that you can star if you haven't already: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=23... It might not make a difference, but it can't hurt.
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by Chickencha 16y ago
It looks pretty nice. I'm curious about how the code generation works and whether Clay has the potential to produce the kind of code bloat you sometimes see with C++ templates. Say I have a function min(a, b) { if(a < b)
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by Chickencha 16y ago
It's hard to tell what Thompson's level of involvement is with Go. His level of public activity is lower than some of the other Googlers on the project, but who knows what's actually going on internally. Also, there is a small team working
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by Chickencha 17y ago
I live and work in Olathe. It is a great town, no doubt, although I'm likely biased by the fact that I grew up nearby in Overland Park and have lived in this area for most of my life. Nobody on the Garmin Connect team or here on Hacker News
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by Chickencha 17y ago
He said it was an option. He didn't say it was necessarily a good one.
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by Chickencha 17y ago
This is the nature of free software and a big part of why free software is great. Sometimes a maintainer can no longer work on a project for a variety of reasons. A free license makes it pretty easy for someone to fork the project and take
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by Chickencha 17y ago
For what Kurzweil actually predicted around 2000, check out his book The Age of Spiritual Machines. It's wildly wrong about some things and overly optimistic about others, but still a pretty interesting read.
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by Chickencha 17y ago
You're not wrong, but I think you're missing the point. The fact is, a lot of computer science students intend to go out into the world and become software engineers. Likewise, many software engineering positions require computer science de
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by Chickencha 17y ago
Pretty accurate. It just misses the part where I read the manual (if it's available).
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by Chickencha 17y ago
It's an interesting idea, but this seems more like something that could be a neat tech demonstration rather than a product that people would want to use. First, speech recognition is very difficult. Fortunately you have a limited number of
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by Chickencha 17y ago
Okay, that makes sense. I guess the bar's a little higher for vandals anyway since it requires some programming knowledge. On a similar note, is any of the code run on the server side? If so, how do you prevent DoS attacks? Are there checks
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by Chickencha 17y ago
This looks like a pretty cool project, but the lack of Linux support is a deal killer for me. How does it handle vandalism? It seems to me that vandalism could be a lot more devastating in this environment than in, say, Wikipedia.
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by Chickencha 17y ago
To me, market segmentation is different when it comes to software. In your text editor example, the author can add an SFTP feature, but once it's coded it's coded. There's no extra cost to ship out all software with that feature after it's
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by Chickencha 17y ago
Chords will help you figure out the notes if you know your arpeggios and scales. Guitar Pro tabs are user generated and vary in quality. And good luck if you want to find an obscure song.
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by Chickencha 17y ago
This sounds like a really cool app, but I run Linux so I can't try it out. At least, not without messing with Wine, which I don't really want to do. Hook it into something I can use without hassle and I'll try it out immediately.
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by Chickencha 17y ago
I have fond memories of learning to program in a Borland C++ IDE, but right now I can only think of one thing related to this news: Please, please let StarTeam die so that my work might switch to something else. It will probably take a few
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by Chickencha 17y ago
I agree with you in the general case, but when some of those people are journalists who work for respected newspapers, then it becomes...maybe not impressive, exactly, but certainly significant. Journalists have a responsibility to make sur
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by Chickencha 17y ago
This type of circular reference has happened before: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090211/1249253735.shtml
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by Chickencha 17y ago
This kind of stuff happens all the time and it's really disappointing. Wikipedia is a good starting place for learning about things, but if you're publishing something and citing Wikipedia then something is seriously wrong. If you're using
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by Chickencha 17y ago
I would argue that such a "degree" already exists. Simply start a small business. If it's successful and you decide to move on to something else, having created and run a successful small business will look great on your resumé. If it's uns