IdeaHamster

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Read Before You Write(manhattanmetric.com)
1 points by IdeaHamster 12y ago|0 comments
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Swift: Is it ready for prime time?(toptal.com)
2 points by IdeaHamster 12y ago|0 comments
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Breaking the Chrysalis(loosebolts.wordpress.com)
2 points by IdeaHamster 15y ago|0 comments
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
> Also, what does the "structured" in "structured web programming" mean? I would guess it's a reference to the optional static typing. There's a growing movement behind static typing and functional programming that resembles the movemen
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Is there a reason they didn't just call this ScalaScript?
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
There's an interesting extension of this line of thought. My sister-in-law works in Istanbul for a Greek company. She says that most of the actual profit-generating work done for this company is done in Romania or Turkey. The Greek offices,
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Related: Are you considering remote employees? There seems to be a trend of the top Rubyists working remotely (that's if you want a top Rubyist, I'm pretty sure you can find a competent Rubyist if you keep looking).
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
I understand what you are saying...that Steve has the taste and design sense to guide Apple's development process. While I agree that this is true, I don't think this is why Apple has been successful. It's Steve's obsession with perfectio
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Turkey has a lot of potential Software Engineering talent going to waste...shame there aren't more entrepreneurs looking to harness that unrealized potential.
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
But there is no mystery! All successful business people have the one same trick. Warren Buffet put it best: Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
I think you're wrong. The last couple pivots weren't even his (though I understand that they did have his approval).
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
City's have advantages independent of a location to work. For example, do you know where the individuals with the lowest carbon footprint in the entire USA live? New York city.
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Clarke was right, about the technology. He was, unfortunately but rather predictably, so very wrong about people's willingness to adopt the technology. Currently, I'm looking to move from one very large city to another, even larger, city an
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Thank you for doing the digging for me! I've been hearing all this controversy about overriding 'cd', but when I open a shell (with RVM installed), I still see the following: ~/Desktop > which cd cd: shell built-in command
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Manhattan (well, it was just New York at the time) and Brooklyn were their own cities. Also, each NYC borough is in its own county (Manhattan --> New York County, Queens --> Queens County, Brooklyn --> Kings County, Bronx --&#
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Also worth noting that New Jersey is the only state to have a programming language named after it. Just saying...
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Speculation on Steve Jobs' successor strikes me as, well, pointless. The dynamic that drives Apple today is very much the same dynamic that drove it at the start: Woz and Jobs. We saw, in the late 80s and early to mid 90s what happens when
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Here's what I find most interesting about what has happened to the middle-class in America: When the middle-class in America was booming, you would have had to be crazy to leave America. Good job. Nice car. Family and a house? You're set! W
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Condolences to rtm and family. It's a poignant reminder of just how young our field is that we are mourning the loss of some true early pioneers. Imagine if you were a physicist just learning of the passing of Newton? It's also a reminder t
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
To answer #1, I offer you the biographical sketch of Jens Skou, who decided to take up programming in 1988...at the age of 70: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1997/...
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Parrot ( http://www.parrot.org/ )
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by IdeaHamster 15y ago
Not a bad idea...in fact, I'd wage there's a market for this sort of technology. :)
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Wait...but it is the AT&T from the Bell System. The fact that it was one of the spin-offs buying back the mothership probably has little consequence in terms of attitudes and/or business strategy. I imagine the AT&T ethos of old w
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." -- Wa
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Probably true, but the money to be made is probably less than what can be made by catering to the 80% of people who buy supermarket tabloids and are influenced enough by the ads therein to drive the ad supported economy...
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
But it is also worth pointing out that data != information. The human eye captures more data than a fly eye, but both we and the flies manage to get the same information out (i.e. avoid predators, find food, shelter, mates, etc.) and both s
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
As a quick counterpoint: I'm curious how much you pay directly for the quality writing/journalism/investigative reporting that you consume each day? So far, journalism knows only two business models: direct sales or ad revenue. The first is
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Or when NeXT bought Apple. I only see good things from this.
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Patch Is A Huge Waste Of Money(businessinsider.com)
2 points by IdeaHamster 16y ago|0 comments
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
I've often wondered to what extent programming is like learning a musical instrument or another language. That is, you can learn these things when you're older, but in order to truly master them you must start when you're young.

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