SpookyAction

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by SpookyAction 15y ago
"Look! We're passing in a function as an argument. Can your language do this?" Umm, yes it can.... #!/usr/bin/perl sub cook_time { ($hours, $min) = @_; $result = "$hours hours and $min minutes\n"; return $result; } sub animal { $animal
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
The reason kids pick up languages and concepts early in life is a result of evolution. It has nothing to do with self-awareness and disregard with social norms. It's the complete opposite. Survival of early humans depended on learning and c
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
Is this Google's "moat" or is Google beset on all sides? It seems Google is making Microsoft's mistakes and making enemies in every market it can.
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
Im sure Bill Gates feels fine about saving Apple. The only reason Microsoft bailed out Apple was to fight the antitrust suit the U.S. government filed against it. By saving Apple, M$ could (and did) claim it still had a competitor in the ma
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
Patents on a product's "image" are just as ridiculous as software patents. Apple tried the same thing when they sued Microsoft over the Windows GUI and lost. 'The court ruled that, "Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the idea of a
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
But at the same token, just saying "use this language" presents the same problem. What if Python doesn't work for the OP but picks it because he/she was "told" too. Maybe the OP is a math-centric person and would excel at a functional langu
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
I agree with the generalities of the response but disagree with some of the particulars. Learning programming should be language agnostic. The "best" language is the one that works for you. Everyone is different and every language is differ
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
http:// equals port 80 and https:// equals port 443, the 2 ports web servers run on. Regardless of the subdomain, if you have http:// or https:// in a URL your getting a webserver. Having to specify www.whatever.com to reach the web
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
China requires ID to register a domain now, so there's also a complete lack of anonymity too. http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/02/buy-cn-domai...
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
Your worthy point embiggens us all.
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
I agree, you'd think they'd conduct usability tests BEFORE making the choice to switch to Unity. It seems that Ubuntu makes UI changes for the sake of being different, not better. Like moving all the window controls to the left side of the
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
That's one thing that always bugged me about Linux desktops. I've been using Linux as my desktop OS since Debian 2.0 and the naming convention tendencies of desktop environments are counterintuitive to non-Linux users. The uninitiated just
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by SpookyAction 15y ago
I don't see how "Numbers" is any more intuitive than "Calc", not that Calc is really a good name for a spreadsheet application, but at least it makes sense. Spreadsheets do calculate things, it's just the name collision with the Windows app
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Criticize Kevin Poulsen in a comment on Wired.com? That's a banning.
9 points by SpookyAction 16y ago|2 comments
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by SpookyAction 16y ago
Also, how do you search for anything with punctuation? I frequently use Perl, which makes use of punctuation for functions, and am constantly frustrated on how you can't search Google for them. Try searching for "perl $!" and you won't get