pistacchio

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by pistacchio 15y ago
i guess microsoft has enough money to buy the best designers around. maybe they have an idea or two about perspective and also a couple of ideas about when to break those rules in exchange to something that simply looks better, and this is
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by pistacchio 15y ago
i got a kindle for xmas. it is amazing. however i've grown up in a house where every wall is covered by a bookshelf full of books. i love owning them, i love the fact that my father and me exchange books and than when i was a kid i could re
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by pistacchio 15y ago
i am generally regarded as an intelligent person, but i personally believe that intelligence is a highly overrated quality. speaking generally, being surrounded by intelligent people is "better", but if i ask myself, i'd rather have my girl
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by pistacchio 15y ago
hmmm... python had taught me that "battery included" means that out of the package i find a web server, drivers for at least one database server, graphics libraries... a compiler and a lexer aren't what i call "batteries".
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by pistacchio 15y ago
did i just miss the roguelike part?
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by pistacchio 15y ago
the fact that rails is not for beginners is true (and main developers say so), but suggesting for beginners a smaller framework that gives you less and hence requires you to do more, know more and make choices that rails has done for you is
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by pistacchio 15y ago
i have a new favourite website now. thanks
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Programming OOP: Organizing interconnected objects
1 points by pistacchio 15y ago|0 comments
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by pistacchio 15y ago
i can summarize this pretty easily. competitors that see the argument like "apple is giving 1GB RAM for 500$, i'll give 2GB RAM for 500$!" are really missing the whole point. when you buy an apple phone / mp3 player / tablet / computer you'
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LulzSec takes down cia.gov(twitter.com)
14 points by pistacchio 15y ago|6 comments
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by pistacchio 15y ago
as a programmer, i wish i ranked in the second position, but really i feel closer to the help desk :(
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by pistacchio 15y ago
none of them works... a friend of mine said! @:)
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by pistacchio 15y ago
no, the biggest problem is that i never got the extra keys (eject, volume mute...) of my dell to work under linux, nor the second earplug output, and it pissed me off because i actually paid for them. also, the day i was like "you know what
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by pistacchio 15y ago
i don't think silverlight is going away in the nearest future, but if you're really "infuriating", the only reason i can assume is that you based your whole business in a proprietary technology owen by a company known for promoting somethin
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by pistacchio 15y ago
> And the resulting way is far simpler and didn't require paying for anything. because, of course, time is free.
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by pistacchio 15y ago
my joy of using linux gone away long ago when i realized that i was spending more time searching forums, hacking drivers, trying solutions, paying more for compatible hardware, not having my laptop extra buttons work or trying to speed up a
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by pistacchio 15y ago
if you can afford a mac, i guess you can afford saving 0.80 dollars a month for buying a $30 OS update every 2 years.
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by pistacchio 15y ago
wandering what they'll do with those who paid (recently) for mobile.me
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by pistacchio 15y ago
while i like project euler, i find rosettacode to be more down-to-earth. in everyday life you're much more likely to have to solve rosettacode's tasks (eg download a page from the web, parse something, generate a bitmap, send a mail) than p
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by pistacchio 15y ago
what are fun are the reactions of those "wtf, what now?!" microsoft fanboys. how can you get on without wcf? change your webservices with 10 liner restful json-based services.
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by pistacchio 15y ago
i'm reading the manual right now ( http://opalang.org/public/book_opa.pdf ), it is a lengthy pdf that also features a wiki, advanced chat, web service client and server and a reference of the language.
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Opa: one language for all the web app stack(opalang.org)
22 points by pistacchio 15y ago|11 comments
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by pistacchio 16y ago
Gimp is one of the main reasons why I left Linux. After years of Windows I finally gave Linux a chance and immediately fell in love with it. Being a programmer it gave an incredible boost to my productivity and creativity. Having a proper s