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Vimer - Avoid multiple instances of GVim with gvim –remote[-tab]-silent wrapper(github.com)
6 points by grepgeek 7y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What is the tiniest FOSS code you've written that does something useful?
1 points by grepgeek 7y ago|0 comments
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Uber lost more than $5B last quarter(techcrunch.com)
2 points by grepgeek 7y ago|0 comments
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by grepgeek 7y ago
Did they try to ask for donation? Linux Journal has a huge reader base most of who probably grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Most of these readers are now probably working professionals and earning well enough to donate a small amount to
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by grepgeek 7y ago
I have travelled to India often but I don't understand Indian politics enough. So if someone here can help me with these questions, I'll appreciate it! * What does it mean for Lakadh to not have a legislature? Does it mean that th
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Ask HN: Is Perl 5 or Perl 6 still worth learning in 2019?
15 points by grepgeek 7y ago|15 comments
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by grepgeek 7y ago
This is cool. I wonder how outline.com manages to get past the sign-up wall.
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by grepgeek 7y ago
> Register to read this article in full: Sign up I don't want to create a new account to read an article? Is there any other option to read this article? I know one could say that if I don't want to create an account like the w
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by grepgeek 7y ago
I like the way Creative Commons licenses do it. First there is a simple bullet-point-wise summary for layman like this: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Then there is the entire legal code fo
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Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014)(susam.in)
74 points by grepgeek 7y ago|55 comments
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by grepgeek 7y ago
This does not look like the description of "10x engineer" at all. An "immature engineer"? Yes. But "10x engineer? No. A true "10x engineer" would also care a great deal about documenting stuff, communicati
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by grepgeek 7y ago
I am honestly unable to decide whether the original tweets by @skirani were said in seriousness or as sarcasm!
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Quantum Theory Proves That Consciousness Moves to Another Universe After Death(physics-astronomy.org)
2 points by grepgeek 7y ago|1 comments
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JavaScript Semicolon Insertion: Everything you need to know (2010)(inimino.org)
2 points by grepgeek 7y ago|0 comments
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by grepgeek 7y ago
Which websites do you still find using Flash? I ask because I am genuinely interested to know. I think it has been years since I came across a website that used Flash. I uninstalled Flash the day I found that YouTube does not require Flash
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Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn
7 points by grepgeek 7y ago|13 comments
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by grepgeek 7y ago
It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20454966
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by grepgeek 7y ago
Anyone knows what theme is used in this blog?
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by grepgeek 7y ago
The swift-http-import README is great. Can you describe what do you see especially nice in the castellum README? Honest question because it looks like a regular README (which is not to say that a regular README can't be great) but I ju
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If PHP Were British (2011)(aloneonahill.com)
94 points by grepgeek 7y ago|46 comments
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by grepgeek 7y ago
You could have still kept the massive state in a dict or a list or a tuple and passed that dict around from one function to another, could you not? Why did it become necessary to implement classes?
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by grepgeek 7y ago
Only if there are major contributing developers who do not work for Google. Is that the case with Go? If there are no major non-Google contributors to Go, then the fork may not be successful due to lack of familiarity with the code base.
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by grepgeek 7y ago
Can you elaborate? In what ways, is modern Java a more pleasant experience compared to Go?
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by grepgeek 7y ago
The community of free and open source software developers. Really, with the kind of license proliferation that was going on due to every Tom and Harry that wanted to publish their own license, it was difficult to understand which license wa
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by grepgeek 7y ago
You might be aware that in Google not every application team works together with the security teams. They are supposed to work with them. That is the best practice and that helps with security compliance and review. They often do. But it is