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by phr 15y ago
Last time I looked, MacPorts had a more paranoid approach to dependencies. That can be good and bad. Homebrew can be easier to use, until you run into a corner case that trips it up. MacPorts can be frustrating in how many dependencies i
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by phr 15y ago
Intriguing idea. Extending it to absurdity: All functions should be stored in a searchable key/value database, where the key is a cryptographically signed canonical representation of the function source code. By "canonical representation"
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by phr 15y ago
Wooden boat building is a lot of fun, and doesn't have to take a lot of space. There are kits available for beautiful kayaks and such that people have built in their apartments. Be sure to plan how to get it out of the house if you build
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by phr 15y ago
Steve Yegge says every programmer should be a fast, accurate, touch-typist: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html I couldn't find his minimum-speed prescription, just now, but he does say 70
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by phr 16y ago
When receiving criticism, I should do as you say, and assume my mistakes are the target, not my (oh so sensitive) self. But when handing out criticism, I should assume the other person will take it personally. It's like that principal for
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by phr 16y ago
If, like me, you have heard bits and pieces about McLuhan, but never delved deeper, the 20 minute introduction by Tom Wolfe is well worth your time.
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by phr 16y ago
I thought EMC bought VMWare?
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by phr 16y ago
I can't judge how useful the data-mining stuff is, but there's some nice Lisp code in there. Simple, powerful, and makes it look easy.
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by phr 16y ago
If you own several different media properties like this guy, is it a good strategy to incorporate each one separately, to keep an unintentional Adsense TOS violation from affecting all the others?
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by phr 16y ago
Any thoughts on Heroku, now that you have some paid experience with it?
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by phr 16y ago
16/19: No surprise that I missed php and groovy, but I should have guessed fortran. I read somewhere that Backus was involved in the early stages of the functional programming language movement, and got sidetracked by that. He is also the
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by phr 16y ago
Same on Mac Safari. Webkit bug?
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by phr 16y ago
A cancel button?
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by phr 16y ago
Very cool. I didn't see a link to back out of the page for adding a component, for example a hard drive, other than the browser back button of course. Maybe it's there and I'm blind?
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by phr 16y ago
I'm also strongly against drug use, and think society should discourage it through education. On the other hand, the war on drugs is destroying Mexico, and is not stopping drug use here in the States. I just don't think we can afford the d
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by phr 16y ago
I'd rather see a fairly low karma and a few weeks or months account age thresholds, but then I'm biased, being mostly a lurker here.
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by phr 16y ago
Several comments mention the upcoming intersection as if crossing traffic were likely. It is actually a classic cloverleaf. Search google maps for Renton Washington and look for highway 167, where the incident occurred, and its intersecti
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by phr 16y ago
Two questions: 1) What is best for my business? The answer may well mean sticking with a flawed technology that nonetheless is serving the business well. Remember there is still lots of COBOL chugging away. 2) What is best for me? If it's
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by phr 16y ago
I have to agree that the higher-education bubble is just as cruel in its way as the real estate bubble was. Please don't let yourself rot away at your parents' house: work on open source projects, build a web app, do some on-your-own lear
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by phr 16y ago
I remember when "structured programming" was the new silver bullet all the guru's were talking about. This must have been the late 70's or early 80's. I was programming in DEC Basic-Plus on the RSTS/E operating system on a PDP-11. All v
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by phr 16y ago
One small thing I noticed is that selecting a white background on the main screen doesn't "stick" when you choose news/america. Another small UI thing: the choice of large font is welcome, but didn't go as large as I wanted. When I used c
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by phr 16y ago
I spent this spring and summer walking about an hour a day, first in Vibram Five-fingers. I have a funny twist in my step on the left side which wore holes in a couple toes in the first 30 miles, so I switched to cheap Wal-Mart sneakers (i
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by phr 16y ago
If I had built a working time machine in my garage, I'm pretty sure mass production would not be my next step.
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by phr 16y ago
Typical grade school teachers spend their days on their feet, rushing from one crisis to another, trying to help mainstreamed kids with serious disabilities, kids with chaotic home-lives and resulting learning and behavior problems, politic
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by phr 16y ago
Michael, I've been working through the HTML version; great job! I especially appreciate the coverage of Ruby Version Manager, git (topic branches, merging), Heroku deployment via git, and TDD via rspec. You can read all about something, b
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by phr 16y ago
You graduated shortly after 9/11/2001 and you feel old already? You're just a kid! Take some of the great advice here and be glad you got to this point so early in your life.
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by phr 16y ago
Yes, we pay by tolerating ads and nosy engagement ploys, but we receive in exchange, curation of the raw news. On places like HN, we can participate in that curation process, which, if the community is a good match for our interests, can
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by phr 16y ago
Emacs is suggesting improvements? I want that extension!
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by phr 16y ago
Oh, you're right. I was thinking a parable didn't necessarily have to be fictional. So I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable "The word "parable" comes from the Greek "παραβολή" (parabolē), the name given by Greek rhetori
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by phr 16y ago
Absolutely: the plural of anecdote is not data. But Steve is not marshaling evidence for a proposition here, he's teaching a concept by telling a story to bring the concept alive. That's quite a different thing, and exactly what parables

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