ameoba

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by ameoba 12y ago
It's cheaper to lie to people about a position having a long-term future & getting them on board with a salary than being honest & paying them hourly.
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by ameoba 12y ago
Why Ada Isn't Popular (2014) : Everyone outside the DoD wrote it off as dead in 1998.
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by ameoba 12y ago
> But I would not recommend Clojure as a first Lisp. Its community is very much organized around being a better JVM language You can say that again. If you don't have a background in Java, it's a lot to swallow.
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by ameoba 12y ago
We're talking about a website that provides commentary on rap music. You can find things far more misogynistic and tasteless than this idiot's manifesto without even trying. How is talking about a mass murderer off limits while
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by ameoba 12y ago
Google's been an advertising company since the day they realized they could make money off of search.
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by ameoba 12y ago
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?
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by ameoba 12y ago
Backups? If you lose the outline of a character's life, just kill them off.
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by ameoba 12y ago
The timeless Epigrams on Programming: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html There's a few dated references that show its origins in 1982 but most of the fundamentals still stand.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Falsey objects mean "there's no data here" which is why they're falsey. Having an empty list of arguments to a command is the same as having no argument list. There's nothing about midnight that makes sense for it
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by ameoba 13y ago
Front page exposure on HN will probably be enough to get them to sell out their first print run.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Dreamcast had a modem that was supported by very few games. There was an optional Ethernet adapter that's very rare and supported by even fewer. The ethernet on the PS2 was optional until one of the later hardware releases. Very few
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by ameoba 13y ago
So we all know that everyone is on LinkedIn & every recruiter in the world is spamming us with invites but who the fuck actually uses it & gets any value out of it?
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by ameoba 13y ago
I thought Clojure's biggest problem was barfing giant Java-flavored stacktraces on simple errors?
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by ameoba 13y ago
Google exists to advertise. Academics are woefully underpaid. Who wants to advertise to a bunch of broke intellectuals that are just going to ignore your ads anyways?
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by ameoba 13y ago
Yes, it's free but that doesn't mean it's painless. Going to SP2 and SP3 broke backwards compatibility with some drivers and software. It increased the RAM/CPU requirements for running the OS comfortably. They weren&#
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by ameoba 13y ago
You can't talk about Windows XP like it's a single, fixed point in the release cycle. XP was released in 2001, giving you your 12 year number, but there were also major service packs released in 2002(SP1), 2004(SP2) & 2008(SP
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by ameoba 13y ago
Many people new to IRC feel the need to immediately take their questions to private message. Much of the same logic the blog makes about personal email apply to personal messages on IRC - don't do it unless you've got a really go
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by ameoba 13y ago
...but you can be sure that it's going to be posted every time MongoDB comes up. Somehow, people will vote it up as if it's still funny or adds something to the discussion.
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by ameoba 13y ago
That's not real money, much of that was overvalued Facebook stock.
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by ameoba 13y ago
...and enterprise software vendors (eg - Oracle) officially support their software running on RHEL. If you're paying 6 figures for a software license, the difference between APT and RPM fades quickly.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Heroku, being top dog of the PaaS market, doesn't really have a lot to gain from being able to migrate. Being a market leader, they're already the default for many projects; a standard, easily movable, container for applications
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by ameoba 13y ago
I'm not saying that it's "too "mathy"", just that it's commonly trotted out as a good resource to develop programming skills when, IMHO, it's better suited to honing mathematical reasoning. All the s
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by ameoba 13y ago
Nor are there articles asking why men aren't nurses, waitresses or receptionists.
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by ameoba 13y ago
I remember them having checksums to ensure line integrity.
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by ameoba 13y ago
PE has always struck me as more focused on math than programming. The easy problems handle brute force but the hard ones are generally bested by a mathematical understanding of the problem rather than programming prowess & algorithmic
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by ameoba 13y ago
Facebook started at Harvard, a 20k student school. It might be more of a tradition at the old East Coast institutions - growing up on the West Coast, I've never heard any reference to anything of the like.
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by ameoba 13y ago
If you're running a private criminal enterprise bringing in millions of dollars, why would you risk drawing attention to yourself by putting you manifesto on LinkedIn allowing them to xref your crazy with your lack of unemployment?
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by ameoba 13y ago
Server's down - anyone got a mirror, announcement or enough experience with the project to give a good rundown of what it is and what it does?
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by ameoba 13y ago
4:45pm on a Friday before a long weekend.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Payment processing is a commodity when things are easy. If you're shipping T-shirts with cheesy movie quotes to college students, you don't have a problem. If you're selling credits for nude webcam chat, things get more com

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