mmj48

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by mmj48 14y ago
Ah, yes, thank you for the explanation.
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by mmj48 14y ago
> It can't be that intelligent people can disagree with you on what is important and what is not in a language. This is quite harsh sarcasm, but if it isn't true for the GP, it's true for so many people. Well said.
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by mmj48 14y ago
Ah, now I understand. You're saying that it's fallacious to believe that an upswing will necessarily have a downswing, and vice versa, is that correct? What I understood (due to hastily coming to conclusions) was it is dangerous to believe
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by mmj48 14y ago
> The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojsLDYr7RY
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by mmj48 14y ago
> This perspective that life is a narrative with upswings and downswings can itself be treacherous. Is this not certainly true? > Your life is not a prewritten narrative with defined story arcs. It seems to be that someone could bel
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by mmj48 14y ago
I strongly disagree, for entertainment is not the only reason I read things.
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by mmj48 14y ago
The author, as it seemed to me, opened the topic of three semi-related issues - people who've done an incredible amount, social media and how he reacted to growth, and how life is after you've reached (what seems to be) your highe
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by mmj48 14y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... TL; DR: You're changing OSes, expect for a complete change in landscape.
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by mmj48 14y ago
> A different bunch of volunteers were asked to roll the die just once Was anyone else surprised to see "bunch"? Why did they use that, when "group" would be a much better word?
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by mmj48 14y ago
> "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few." As someone who likes to read quotes and examine the wisdom within (or at least I tell myself that), I see no wisdom here. The only possible interpre
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by mmj48 14y ago
Are you replying to me or the article?
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by mmj48 14y ago
Wrote my first makefile, which was quite an experience. https://github.com/mustafa0x/pafm/blob/master/Makefile
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by mmj48 14y ago
Minified: Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup? Stability and lack of passion. --- Two good reasons, however, not too insightful (subjective).
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by mmj48 14y ago
Didn't want people to assume emphasis was mine.
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by mmj48 14y ago
(completely off topic) for the rule: %.gz: % wouldn't you need something like patsubst? Regardless of your response, could you share more info? edit, that rule above only makes sense to me if the file name to be gzipped was pa
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by mmj48 14y ago
FTA: > We constantly have to ask ourselves: are we causing any issues or slowdowns on our customers’ websites? [sic] The GP's noting of irony (is that correct?) seems to be valid.
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by mmj48 14y ago
> If website backgrounds really bother you While I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, your wording deflects blame from the site's retarded text contrast to the GP (robomartin). (no snark intended)
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by mmj48 14y ago
Side note: have mercy on your readers and make the text contrast a bit higher.
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by mmj48 14y ago
.NET isn't a framework?
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by mmj48 15y ago
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by mmj48 15y ago
FTA: > This is why I don't believe in computer science degrees. What you learned 5 years ago may not be relevant today. CS degrees aren't about what you learned, but what concepts your mind digested and grew from.
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by mmj48 15y ago
Blogspam. Wikipedia's page on Launchy is more useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchy
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by mmj48 15y ago
pieces on the ground? Care to give an example of this?
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by mmj48 15y ago
> Jobs aren't obsolete. There are plenty of jobs. Part time, low wage, no benefits jobs. The 600,000 the article mentioned were mostly of this type, I presume (not the part time maybe, but the other two). E.g. Secretarial/bureaucracy ty
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by mmj48 15y ago
> But it also dismisses the value of ideas too glibly. Bill Gates may have Agreed. > It doesn't seem odd to anyone that we're reading a post describing the author's epiphany that epiphanies are useless? Not overly so. Meta can cause
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by mmj48 15y ago
Thanks, he made some strong points. I transcribed the most relevant part: If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute them You can tell yourself that you don't have the time or resources to do them ri
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by mmj48 15y ago
Two different issues As Ze Frank said: "The longer they [those with the "good" ideas] wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed, and they imagine it on a beatiful platter with glitter
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by mmj48 15y ago
Excellent points, thank you. Point 6 is quite critical.
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by mmj48 15y ago
Thank you for not taking offense. scotch_drinker accurately described my sentiments. Generalizing the points he made, I'll say two (and half) things: 1. Up the level of your writing a bit. It's currently in ripped jeans and an Ed Hardy shir
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by mmj48 15y ago
What atrocious writing. The message (which was poorly conveyed) is correct however. Have results as soon as you possibly can (just try not to sacrifice too much elegance). A (lousy) example would be Linux & GNU Hurd.

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