hobbs

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by hobbs 18y ago
I've heard the same from the lawyers I know as well. Suddenly, being an IT professional doesn't seem that bad...
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by hobbs 18y ago
Heh. It's ironic that XML was designed to represent text documents, but is now mostly used to hold data. Maybe if they had named it eXtensible Table Language, they would have enticed people to put text into it like they do with the <tab
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by hobbs 18y ago
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson That is, using div vs. table or vice versa, just because you're "supposed to" strikes me as being contrary to the true hacker mindset.
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by hobbs 18y ago
Well, there's democracy and then there's mobocracy. Democracy says that this place is peopled with hackers and if the hacker citizens upvote a story then it is, ipso facto, of interest to hackers. Mobocracy says that demi-hackers trickle in
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by hobbs 18y ago
Damn! That's why I can't get into Twitter again!
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by hobbs 18y ago
Hmm... does ballet count as social hacker news? No? Oh well, I can link to several sci-fi book reviews on Amazon instead. (Move along. Nothing to see here. All of you redders and diggers can go back home now.)
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by hobbs 18y ago
I didn't have a problem with the layout, since I tend to use lynx. I thought it was a shame, though, that the author isn't a better writer. The content is fascinating, but it took some effort to follow along. (I guess I'm too accustomed to
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by hobbs 18y ago
It did suddenly stop - because it hit a wall. The first one gave him absolutely no resistance at all. He just picked it up and threw it. Also, those have to be cheapest cube walls I've ever seen. The desks are the only things holding them u
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by hobbs 18y ago
Yeah, strange how the monitors didn't have any cables attached to them. I'd expect the computer case to hitchhike for at least part of the ride.
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by hobbs 18y ago
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by hobbs 18y ago
Come again?
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by hobbs 18y ago
And yet we have a sensationalist article about brain surgeons' cell phones shoot to the top spot? Good luck getting people to be picky.
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by hobbs 18y ago
Yes, but the more important question is: do urologists keep their phones on their belt or in their pockets?
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by hobbs 18y ago
You can get all of that by using mod_rewrite/mod_fastcgi/mod_wsgi to passthrough to a full-blown Python app server running behind the web server as a separate process. All of the other mod_* authentication and authorization hurdles will sti
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by hobbs 18y ago
For me, eBay was never about the auctions. I could care less about auctions - they're usually more of a nuisance than anything. It's about finding low-cost surplus or used products in a structured and organized shop. It's a one-stop antique
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by hobbs 18y ago
One word: indirection. With each level of indirection, you get one more level of sophistication, but at the cost of one more level of complexity. OO has tons of indirection (+cough+ polymorphism +cough+). Back in the old C++ days, before de
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by hobbs 18y ago
Call me skeptical if you will, but the article's flavor contains a hint too much breathless exuberance for my taste.
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by hobbs 18y ago
Most UI code is intrinsically event-based. e.g., "on click, do this", "on resize, do that" Erlang comes to mind as a good event-based language. Strangely, it is rarely (if ever) used for UI.
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by hobbs 18y ago
Indeed, I found that this statement sounded alarms in my critical thinking cortex: "the Singleton "pattern" encourages you to forget everything you know about OO design, since OO is hard, and procedural is easy." Why, oh why, are we encoura
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by hobbs 18y ago
For me, it's about passion and interest. I'd much rather be in a creation role: building, coding, designing. [Middle] Management, on the other hand, seems to be more about babby-sitting other people's kids.
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by hobbs 18y ago
Heh. Interesting that they've stopped using the term "piracy" so much now that pirates are thought of as debonair swashbucklers who are sticking it to The Man, instead of as the murderous thugs that they actually were (are). Thank you, John
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by hobbs 18y ago
Gack! Piracy IS NOT THEFT. It is copyright infringement. The copyright lobby would like you to believe that it is theft, but it is not. If you pirate a $10K software suite, you will not be charged with grand theft: software. Theft, by defin
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by hobbs 18y ago
Overheard from This Week in Media ( http://www.pixelcorps.tv/this_week_in_media ): Post-production houses and graphical design companies often demand that all job applicants already have Photoshop experience. Yet for someone who doesn't alr
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by hobbs 18y ago
True enough. I guess my point is that there were previous debates about banning TechCrunch, which has articles that are spot-on topic but of questionable validity, and then we get an article about farming regulations shooting to the top spo
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by hobbs 18y ago
Hell, if this is the criteria for what constitutes relevant news, we may as well have articles that debate the relative merits of different world religions. After all, the debates would help shed light about how to think about our own relig
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by hobbs 18y ago
This is the top "Hacker News"?
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by hobbs 18y ago
No rockstars here. We have plenty of ninja coders, though.
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by hobbs 18y ago
I know it's off-topic, but would you mind recommending an alternative that is reasonable?
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by hobbs 18y ago
It is possible to prove, mathematically, that DRM cannot work when an attacker has physical possession of the machine. It is simply impossible - unless the CPU can execute encrypted code where the decryption key is a galactic secret and can
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by hobbs 18y ago
Personally, I had to uninstall Alcohol 120% before SP3 would even install. (It somehow locks up atapi.sys) It was a bit of a pain to find the source of the problem in the knowledge base, and I imagine the problem would have been a total dea

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