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by devnonymous 10y ago
One of my pet peeves about that phrase is that the reality is 'practice makes permanent, not perfect'. I was taught this when I was learning the guitar. If you practice something with bad habits you'll just end up retaining t
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by devnonymous 10y ago
I read the same news but from a different perspective yesterday. Thought it might be of interest to some. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/us-decommissions-us...
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by devnonymous 10y ago
The language you know.
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Just my experience: Ever since it came enabled by default on fedora I've been using it in Permissive mode ie: don't enforce but notify about violations. IIRC, since the last couple of releases I've seen maybe a couple or so n
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Learn Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. In practice there won't be many that you'll encounter. Although you might encounter the same issues (small subset of differences) repeatedly when dealing with Python 2 modules.
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Seems like there exists a win32 hdparam port http://axh.mbnet.fi/hdparm-win32.html Fwiw hdd spin up / spin down is an ACPI function and you might want to research ACPI tools to see if that's possible using these t
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by devnonymous 10y ago
> but there are other ways to fight a modern war: Refusing to employ people from the other party, DDOS attacks Do you really think any civil war with people taking up arms, did not start with protests and civil unrest? What you're s
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Its not like nobody's thinking about it http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-to-l... https://www.google.de/search?q=autonomous+bus Another advantage that seem to be overloo
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by devnonymous 10y ago
I submitted this earlier, but thought I'll show it again now that I've created a demo.
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Show HN: Improving the python shell experience, using just the stdlib(github.com)
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Show HN: An improved python rc(github.com)
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by devnonymous 10y ago
The well known interviewer chest thumping / pissing contest aside, I don't know you but going solely on what you told us you don't sound as smart as you claim to be if you interview at startups for a job although you are actu
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by devnonymous 10y ago
> 1. How should I feel about being brought in one level lower strictly because of years of experience on paper? If there were doubts about my ability, they certainly didn't test harder questions during the interview. Personally, I w
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by devnonymous 10y ago
> Asking someone to get a XMPP client so they can > communicate with you normally just ends in confusion. That's not entirely valid. I mean, look at bittorrent, they had an ^official^ client and then there were other
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How the son of Ireland's richest man lost his job leading India's TATA(thejournal.ie)
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After buying Pebble fitbit now acquires Vector(androidauthority.com)
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Coincidentally, today is the first day for the coursera course 'Data Science Math Skills'[1]. I've signed up. Hopefully this is what we are looking for. [1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/datasciencemaths
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by devnonymous 10y ago
I suggest that you (re)read Cathedral and the Bazaar if you really are curious about the difference between a project worked on by 200 odd developers in a company and an open source project. The more we learn the less we know.
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by devnonymous 10y ago
> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them. cough Thiel cough
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by devnonymous 10y ago
I'd recommend fedora as well. It's cutting edge yet stable. The only caveat is, use it if all hardware works right off the box (Eg: you don't need proprietary drivers for your display and suspend/resume works without twi
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Historically speaking real time was not actually about absolute timing but the guarantee offered about a task's completion within a time slice. More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Cr
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by devnonymous 10y ago
As an Indian growing up in the 90's, I went thru' the perhaps unique situation during the growth of the Web, where hyperlinks were targeted for breadth but the existing connection speed enforced the decision on you whether you&#x2
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by devnonymous 10y ago
It's amusing to see the loss of information going on in these summaries itself. My take away from the article was we as programmers (hackers?) need to go beyond the tl;dr to really understand what it is we are doing and be conscious of
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by devnonymous 10y ago
I agree. After reading through that article I looked up gapminder ( https://www.gapminder.org/ | https://www.gapminder.org/data/ ). Good time sink.
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Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’(nature.com)
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0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt(arstechnica.com)
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Yeah, we'll downvote the comment, that'll serve 'em right! :-)
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Insightful. (I read the transcript rather than watching the video and it made a huge difference because that afforded me time to pause and think). Good stuff.
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by devnonymous 10y ago
For brainstorming and note taking when reading books I use the boogie board sync ( https://myboogieboard.com/ewriters/sync ). I recommend it to anyone who 'thinks' by scribbling and doodling. I am now waiting
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Hah! The interesting thing about 'reputability' is this - Your ideas have to be in about the same ballpark as mine. If they are any more, then you're just a crazy conspiracy theorist who I shan't waste my time on. Any le

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