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by ptn 14y ago
This reminds me of Neil DeGrasse's Tyson's "two main philosophies in life": http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qccer/i_am_neil_degras...
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by ptn 15y ago
Tags make it easier to choose which books to examine and which to pass, so maybe just always show them, not only on hover over.
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by ptn 15y ago
Perú.
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by ptn 15y ago
If you are into Emacs, magit is rather awesome. Yes, it can do line-by-line commits (you can commit highlighted text).
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by ptn 15y ago
Linus' feedback would make GitHub ready to support larger projects, regardless of the kernel staying or not. Supporting larger projects can't be a bad thing, that wouldn't be wasted effort.
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by ptn 15y ago
My very first webapp (now lost) used a similar idea. I wrote a web text editor in plain CGI with Python to allow users to create and edit an unlimited number of files. What the user saw as files in the UI were directories in my FS that cont
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by ptn 15y ago
"I regret having done a startup"
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Amazon Launches "Mac Downloads" Store(amazon.com)
2 points by ptn 15y ago|1 comments
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by ptn 15y ago
That's why I thought that a bad answer to pg asking "how did users find you?" is what the guy from the graph db gave him, "because we are the easiest!". Total marketing talk.
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by ptn 15y ago
I too thought that the questions were blatantly obvious, yet wouldn't have asked (some of) them myself. This is an indicator of mastery, to make the difficult seem easy.
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by ptn 15y ago
There's bash in there, and I think there's some Python; some plugins (git-svn) are in Perl. I also wasn't under the impression that there were 10 languages there.
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by ptn 15y ago
I second this. It baffles me when I see an article with 100+ karma and 5 comments. How can something be so interesting and yet spawn so little discussion? It makes no sense.
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by ptn 15y ago
FWIW, I'm already liking not seeing the score of comments. I can see how it really contributes to the discussion. Maybe do a poll later to vote for which changes should stick around?
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by ptn 15y ago
"it is very hard for highly technically proficient people to be nice to everyone" They being so damn smart does not give them the right to be condescending and insult people who can't keep up. So I'm not as smart as he is, does that make i
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Explanation of The Matrix(reddit.com)
30 points by ptn 15y ago|10 comments
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by ptn 16y ago
"HN can be gamed quite easily" is precisely what Zed proved yesterday with programming mofo.
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by ptn 16y ago
I bet pg upvoted
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by ptn 16y ago
Try opening it with Chrome (seriously)
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by ptn 16y ago
Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.
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by ptn 16y ago
Command-lines are faster and more flexible than GUIs, because you define your own workflow - you can chain commands together with the unix pipe, pass arguments to commands that are the result of other commands via the backtick and a lot mor
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Those Gray Beard Hackers And Their Tall Stories(jacquesmattheij.com)
55 points by ptn 16y ago|27 comments
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by ptn 16y ago
It got mine wrong.
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by ptn 16y ago
Does anybody know who those 4 guys were?
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by ptn 16y ago
Now, that scrambled my brains. Uncomplex? I thought this was pretty complicated and that mojombo was a scalability God (and he may be). Could you point me to more complex examples?
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by ptn 16y ago
Added the date to the title. Sorry about that.
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How We Made Github Fast (2009)(github.com)
166 points by ptn 16y ago|32 comments
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by ptn 16y ago
Or using those ideas for anything useful. Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.
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by ptn 16y ago
Spanish is my mother language, I'm fluent in English, did 1.5 years of Chinese, and I'm planning to start with German this year.
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by ptn 16y ago
If I may offer a suggestion, such a summary would have been tremendously clarifying in the original article, IMHO. Maybe try to add something like that in future posts? :)
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by ptn 16y ago
If you are offered more money if you get it, even if the extra money doesn't come from the original source, more people will be tempted to apply. "I can do more with more money", "it's not as risky as before", some will surely be thinking.

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