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by idea 18y ago
PG, where can i exchange my karma points for real karma?
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by idea 18y ago
"Karma" is just an integer in a database. I can't image many people here really caring about that.
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by idea 18y ago
That's right. I have Alt+Space mapped to Launchy so i didn't test that.
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by idea 18y ago
I'm not afraid to say that i'm using Windows XP. :-) But i don't see how this behaviour is related to a single click patent. Btw. it doesn't work with Firefox.
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by idea 18y ago
Neither do i. And i'm not arguing that FreeBSD should adopt git or another dvcs. But the time to learn them is imo not an argument against them.
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by idea 18y ago
I'm not convinced about the perceived difficulty to learn git et al. You and the other FreeBSD developers are OS hackers. You're telling me it's hard for them to learn a dvcs in a few days? Look at all the Rails developers and users. They s
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by idea 18y ago
Many languages focus more and more on multi-core and distributed programming. Mainstream language like Java and C# will get more tools and libraries, but other languages will likely be better. One thing i like about startups is that you can
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by idea 18y ago
I'm a small investor and i get free real time streaming data for Euronext Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris from my broker. It also shows the outstanding orders in the order book. It's fun to watch but if you observe closely it is very obvious
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by idea 18y ago
> I feel sorry for the animals. I have that with any zoo. They may be treated well, but wild animals shouldn't be locked up for entertainment and profit.
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by idea 18y ago
I've read about similar services here in Europe before. But how they intend to implement it is interesting.
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by idea 18y ago
I suppose you're right. Hopefully he will explain it more in a future blog post.
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by idea 18y ago
> So type inference. You can do type inference. Except that it's lame, because it doesn't handle weird dynamic features like upconverting integers to Doubles when they overflow. Pretty weak argument against type inference. Yegge has use
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by idea 18y ago
> When I tested the service I had something very similar to the “Aha!” feeling that ran through me the first time I ever used Google. In short, it is an evolutionary, and possibly revolutionary, step forward in search Google's search en
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by idea 18y ago
Is it really necessary to create a thread for something trivial like this? Couldn't you just mail PG?
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by idea 18y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if Google is working on its own competitor to Flash/Silverlight. Microsoft has big problems getting Silverlight off the ground, although it is imo technically superior to Flash. I don't think it would be easier
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HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases(infoq.com)
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by idea 18y ago
About a year ago i looked at the WordPress code. My PHP knowledge is limited, but it was easy to see that the code was not very good. Perhaps it has improved, but i personally wouldn't use it, especially on a server that runs important serv
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by idea 18y ago
Namecheap has recently become an ICANN accredited registar.
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by idea 19y ago
Even the openness is not what i was expecting last year. So what if it runs on Linux? You're stuck with whatever the Android SDK supports and you have to use Java.
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by idea 19y ago
Perhaps you'd like Microsoft's PowerShell if you have to use Windows. Microsoft is slowly realizing that many people like to use command line tools, especially for managing servers.
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by idea 19y ago
What in a Unix environment makes you more productive? The GUI of OSX is quite different from Gnome or KDE. Is it the command line with tools like grep?
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by idea 19y ago
[Rhino book] > When null is used in a Boolean context, it converts to false. When used in a numeric context, it converts to 0. And when used in a string context, it converts to "null".
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by idea 19y ago
I have recently tried the two OpenSolaris Indiana previews and for comparison Solaris 10 to see what Solaris is like. The Indiana project is a step in the right direction. But it seems to me that the complete lack of open development is a m
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by idea 19y ago
I had never heard about TipJoy and hacker news is YC central so there is still much work to be done for both companies before one can be called a leader.
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by idea 19y ago
I've learned Haskell by reading online tutorials and articles, but a new book (Real World Haskell) will be published and will likely be a good introduction to Haskell.
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by idea 19y ago
And the language for DTrace scripts is also called D.
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by idea 19y ago
Want to try my Exorcist script version 6.66 that turns a FreeBSD system into a Solaris system?
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by idea 19y ago
Facebook is overvalued. But the numbers 1 and 2 in a market are much more valuable than the rest. If you buy number 1 you are the market leader and if you buy the runner up you can fight for market share or buy some smaller players later on
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by idea 19y ago
Interesting story, but it also reads as a 4 pages long advertisement. I wonder if that's because Apple paid them, or if they are simply affected by the Apple hype in the US.
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by idea 19y ago
There's a new Haskell book coming written by well known people in the Haskell community: Real World Haskell ( http://www.realworldhaskell.org/ ). I would advice to read a few tutorials on the net first to get a feeling of the language. Down

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