prunebeads

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by prunebeads 13y ago
I sort of agree with you, but there's also a form of over expectation from recruiters and HR services. In order to pass the screening tests, sometimes applicant must have demonstrated skills to save the world, and have proven track records
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by prunebeads 14y ago
>think bags of groceries in both hands and you forgot to preunlock If you've got both your hands busy, whichever keylock system is on your door is irrelevant. Only a voice activation system would be Ok.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Or you could have a login system on the phone to get access to remote storage. Stealing phones wouldn't be an issue anymore, except for people using trivial passwords, or writing their password on the phone.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Great! How does a novice like me get his system setup to work with C++, lisp, javascript, or PHP? Do I need to write my own plumbing? Is there repositories of conf files for acme/sam (at least to have some examples to get inspiration from)?
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by prunebeads 14y ago
I mean for instance changing the name of a value across multiple files, or fixing calls of a function whose prototype had been modified. That sort of things. There are other services that an IDE can provide: - name completion - list of vari
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by prunebeads 14y ago
The issues you're describing has been solved by cellphones, but it doesn't mean it was the only solution. More payphones, more reliable phone cards (in France we use smartcards for that) would have done the trick.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Personally, I switched to a tiled WM because I didn't want to go back and forth between keyboard and mouse all the time. I want an editor which I can handle using keyboard alone, and only use the mouse when I really have to (web, drawing, g
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by prunebeads 14y ago
That's interesting, but what would be the alternative? Rob Pike's dream setup "is a computing world where I don't have to carry at least three computers - laptop, tablet, phone, not even counting cameras and iPod and other oddments - around
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by prunebeads 14y ago
What is better now with cellphones than before? Why is personal communication so much better now that we can be reached anywhere? I think it's a legitimate question. In most cases, people indeed want to be reachable, but is it really a good
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by prunebeads 14y ago
XMonad is really great, provided you're willing to spend some time learning Haskell to configure it, which isn't a trivial task. It's in my book a very rewarding experience.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
It's noise in disguise to me: filler to make it look like he has more arguments than he really has.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Actually, no. What I have now is comment blocks which may contain normal annotations and escaped ones. There's no need to go deeper in meta-meta-something. Regarding the comment inside comment system, if it were possible to have nested comm
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by prunebeads 14y ago
There are different kinds of death, and the ones mentioned in that study are not really the kind I would like to go through.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Well, You're still young, that's a plus. You mention your project (in your company I assume), which seems to mean quite a bit for you. Besides leaving your friends, that's another point worth considering. Is this project close to completion
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Some people may not be familiar with C macros, and an example could help grasp the problem you're talking about. You could have pointed out all the things that are done in the C obfuscation code contests, to illustrate your point, but maybe
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Indeed, but what if you don't? I'm not saying that intuition is bad. I'm saying that intuition is bad when trying to make a reasonable point.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
verbosity.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Some people don't like 4 space indentations, some don't like using tabs, and in most cases there's just an icky feeling behind it. Who's right? In your own post, you give a reason for why you think (and not feel) it is wrong, and that's t
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by prunebeads 14y ago
give us a pointer to an example please.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
by escaping them? Some annotations are meant to affect the code, some aren't. Those who do and need to be given as pure comments need to be escaped.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
depends. What other side of the world would it be? How old are you? What will it cost you to move back if it fails? Do you have that contingency plan ready? Your career prospects after that experience will be impacted by how this experienc
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by prunebeads 14y ago
It is very useful, thanks!
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Why worry about this? There is no scientific evidence that "genetic modification" (the new kind, rather than the kind of genetic modification that has always been done by breeding) poses any health risks whatsoever. Search for "french stu
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by prunebeads 14y ago
I think that twig got its root in the django templating engine (which is python based), because of the resemblance. It's very good indeed. I'm not sure if the original had support for filters though.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
PHP followed a very uncommon path. Features were added as needed, in an incremental fashion. Nice syntax is never a huge problem, though that's probably most people complaint. That said, it isn't worse than its "contenders" in terms of feat
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by prunebeads 14y ago
The strong selling point of PHP for a long time was cheap hosting. Combine that with a fast learning curve and you're set. Nowadays, it's not so clear cut price wise, but PHP took a strong advance in term of user base - look at the number o
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by prunebeads 14y ago
I prefer the compact view of HN. Style is really just a matter of taste though.
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by prunebeads 14y ago
For having extensively programmed using C++ and OCaml, I could not agree more. The issues that most people focus on however are : portability to the platforms they're concerned about, performances on these platforms, richness of the ecosyst
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by prunebeads 14y ago
That's a misunderstanding it seems. The real meaning is that "under the hood, it's javascript", and not "it's like javascript". People read "It's just Javascript", and jump to the second meaning, without thinking of the first, but the rest
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by prunebeads 14y ago
Yeah, I thought so, but the play on word was nice, given that they waited for Red Hat to acquire the tech.

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