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by educating 13y ago
If you want me to be blunt, I think he is incapable of it, and he is wasting all of our time with a "what if" post about a language that will never exist. Happy now?
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by educating 13y ago
I'm suggesting the combination of possible health problems combined with a pattern of trying to reinvent everything. I'm familiar with this pattern myself. I'm suggesting not to go down this road, and instead focus those crea
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by educating 13y ago
Going to try to address the whole problem here, not just the trying to invent a new language: from: http://fendrich.se/blog/2013/01/24/pre-programming-mental-si... > I am, in fact, a grumpy, skeptical
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by educating 13y ago
3 C's: Compatibility, Complement, Charisma. Compatibility: Is it someone you could spend a month with in the woods without hating, abandoning, or killing each other? But he must be able to argue his side and be right- you don't wa
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by educating 13y ago
> Documentation is often not the best way to understand code. I hope they teach that in college now. As much code as possible should be self-documenting. It can be short and/or efficient (one-liners ok), but it should be clear to so
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by educating 13y ago
I'm glad Linus and many others are reviewing Kernel changes still, but how long will it be before there is nothing stopping massive corporations from deciding what can be changed? And even with all of the experienced eyes, there have t
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by educating 13y ago
> TL; DR - The earth's rotation drags the tidal bulge faster than the moon's orbit slowing the earth and giving more energy to the moon which moves it into a higher orbit. Is there no way that this is a misinterpretation of the
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by educating 13y ago
> Descriptive declarative languages that aren't Sounds like Ruby! I mean that in a good way.
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by educating 13y ago
I would have shared this post with others, but the first graph is serioualy racist-looking. Regardless of how accurate it is, there is no reason to show faces with the names that show skin color going with a significant rise in debt.
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by educating 13y ago
Must be Russian! :) Not because they were poor planning- they just didn't want to waste vodka on mix.
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by educating 13y ago
If Tim reads this: Tim, you didn't fail. The industry has failed. For the past few-to-several years, books on technology have been obsolete by the time they are written- not just published, so you can't make money off of selling
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by educating 13y ago
Great post. Appreciate all of the details of how to leave Google vs just a rant.
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by educating 13y ago
Competition has always been a problem. But the answer to that problem was people buying records of music that they liked. No videos. Stop fooling yourselves. Piracy did seriously wound the music industry. CD-R drives in computers an
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by educating 13y ago
> Deep down, the people in charge either didn’t think languages make any difference or, worse, bought into the silly “availability of programmers” argument. I’m still surprised anyone would believe such a thing. If i guy came telling me
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by educating 13y ago
We had this back in the 80's. It was called just calling someone with your phone. Because there was no caller id. I remember when a group of girls called me, not saying who they were, and trying to trick me into meeting them out on the
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by educating 13y ago
Now people won't have to text to talk to someone a few feet away.
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by educating 13y ago
There should be the equivalent of wikileaks for scientific papers- a site where you can anonymously post them and their abstract. While I understand someone has to pay for hosting, archiving, validation- people should be allowed to view thi
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by educating 13y ago
Some security solutions actually rely on doing MITM to read secure packets to identify malware, etc. Really stupid.
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by educating 13y ago
A significant part of U.S. government uses FreeBSD (or derivation) - and they have laptops.
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Ask HN: Best laptop/computer, OS, IDE/text editor for development?
12 points by educating 13y ago|22 comments
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by educating 13y ago
The gold iPhone was the best gimmick Apple has come up with recently to sell more phones, because there are people that would buy gold anything just to show it off and look cool, even if the case is going to cover it up. I don't thin
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by educating 13y ago
I hope this is continued. I would have loved to have been a student in Feynman's physics classes. Unfortunately, I did not realize this until I had already taken a different path and now my mind has gone enough that it is probably good
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by educating 13y ago
I think HN took the API down about 10 min ago. Before people start iterating every code variation to hit the API and fill their DBs, I think you can download the data from here: http://www.bls.gov/data/
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by educating 13y ago
Some comments from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/ietf_floats_prismpro... 'The proposal has just one author - Phillip Hallam-Baker of the Comodo Group – which makes it a little unusual as most
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by educating 13y ago
> Passive attacks are however limited in the information they can reveal Of course they are limited in the information they can reveal. They can only reveal as much information as is there to reveal. That in itself is a limit. That is a
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by educating 13y ago
There is certainly much good intention, more than is given credit for, in most government agencies. The reason I don't want to fund them to a great extent is that the bureaucracy of almost any large entity causes serious problems in in
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Ask HN: Could Snowden still be a U.S. agent?
1 points by educating 13y ago|1 comments
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by educating 13y ago
> Just out of curiosity, how would we know even if a secret was let out to, say, the NSA And the smartest thing to do, whether you are the NSA or some other foreign government or any entity that holds that information, is to keep quiet a
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by educating 13y ago
This is misleading. It looks like a gear, but they are just evolved nodules that caused friction that helped the bug escape predators better. We call it a gear but it is just a mix of physics, life, and death.
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by educating 13y ago
Programmers' Day is UTC. If everyone used UTC, there would be no bane.

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