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What a moron.
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This could be taken as a surprise display of intelligence by a non-human species or it could be interpreted as a testament to our arrogance in thinking that we are so far above the rest of nature. Almost every attribute traditionally though
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One step ahead of the curve and you're a genius. Two steps and you're crazy. Three and you're dangerous. RMS#2
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And there I was thinking that IANAL was a sexual preference.
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People who make good CEO's are more likely to be mentally ill than the general population - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-stack-the-psychopat... .
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For crying out loud, this comparison is apples to oranges, will people please stop making it? Microsoft have closed source operating systems and are leveraging that to stop competition. Mozilla is developing an open platform where anyone ca
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He meant that anyone is free to take the B2G source code and modify it to boot into another browser.
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Corporations are sociopathic by design. Don't hate Microsoft, Apple or Google (the players), hate the way we do business and our economic model (the game).
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I use PHP. /cowers in shame
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I still call them directories. "Folders" are for toddlers who do not know the tao of unix. So are icons. Real men stare at text all day, eat with their hands and sleep when they're dead. The funny/sad part is that I'm half serious with thes
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Except that a) some people did a study on this and published a white paper, it's really difficult to find but I'm sure you will if you look hard enough (hint: under your nose) and b) I've introduced very non-technical people to Ubuntu and t
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Here's what works for me - jobs at small, established companies who want to Do It Right. Corporations are too burdened with bureaucracy, startups are too stressful (unless they make it worth it with a decent share of the business).
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Interesting hobby project. Since there's no readme, a brief summary: * Implements a minimal bootstrap environment (very small kernel and tiny libc implementation) which hands over control to Javascript * JS code is precompiled to bytecode u
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I'm not a cat and it still seems like an arbitrary change.
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Also not meaning to be a jerk, but that file has a thousand line switch statement. For the love of all that is holy, won't someone think of the children?!
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I think that a good developer is one who can strike a balance between correctness (solving the problem at hand), elegance (the system is no more or less complex than it must be) and consistency (the "culture" of the program is the same in a
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After five years in the industry, I'm mortally afraid every time I see one of those four wheeled demons speeding past me on the road.
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I think that the trouble is that high school teaches people how to follow, so they are conditioned for that. When people get to university-level education and, even more so, complete a masters degree, they have access to all sorts of inform
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Started losing me at: 学 字 - creative teaching & boring teaching, I don't understand how those two stack and what they mean in unison. The last paragraph lost me completely.
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You mean like being a code monkey at a web agency, yet they get paid shit all? You mean like hitting rocks in a mine all day until your back gives up on you, yet they get paid shit all? You mean like trying to run a farm and competing again
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Thanks for the tip, might try this out.
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I would modify that to read (since this article even stated that the engineers there found this to be obvious): >The Google CEO's have the point of view of an engineer. And, more generally: >The Google CEO's have the point of view o
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The green background is too dark to have black text on it, not enough contrast. Either make the background lighter or darker with white text.
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It's surprising that we haven't managed to create languages/editors which can break code down into atoms which can be presented however the developer working on said code likes. E.g. if a segment of code was tokenized properly and the edito
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>And in the vast majority of cases, when you ask that question about a specific problem: One of those men is wrong. Even if they're both smart. But how to tell? If a huge number of other smart and experienced people have been convinced
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Best practices are invaluable when used as a guideline. They are abhorrent when used as a rule.
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http://www.charleswarner.us/articles/competit.htm https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:yWqCGDpfGLwJ:... Google for more if you care to question your assumptions.
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Some types of information are essential to survival.
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>And I'm sure you'll agree that's something of a leap from "it produces nothing"? A diamond is worth a great deal in a lot of peoples' eyes yet it produces nothing. Interestingly, the goal of advertising and marketing is to increase the
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>Please don't confuse your personal opinion of the advertising industry with 100+ years of empirical evidence. It really depends on what your definitions are. My personal take on it is that advertising is duct tape for a broken economic
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