theshadow

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by theshadow 11y ago
A lot of what he mentioned can be done without writing a line of code. He is basically talking about a large scale home automation system with a voice interface to it
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by theshadow 11y ago
Even if you can find your package in the repos, you can always build from source if you like. In that case it a ./configure && make && make install away
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by theshadow 11y ago
I can't speak for OSX, but Ubuntu beats Windows these days in terms of usability, mainly because the software ecosystem is not polluted with crapware like it is with windows. If I want to find a tool to do x, it is an 'apt-get ins
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by theshadow 12y ago
This has to be a joke site satirically poking fun at all the "learn to code" sites that seem to be popping up every day.
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by theshadow 13y ago
Fascinating. This article (esp the part about young people not even thinking about their future knowing its already decided for them) reminds me of the novel 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro. Great novel but one of the criticis
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by theshadow 13y ago
Makes perfect sense to me. Webber and RedBull are not on good terms therefore RedBull doesn't give him Traction Control esp since there's a good possibility that he might blow the whistle on the whole operation if he finds out. In
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by theshadow 13y ago
I'm sure if a starving child in Africa read your post they would be angry that someone went out of their way to get angry over another person making very personal decision. There are greater things in life to angry over than another pe
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by theshadow 13y ago
Shocked that the top comment is not just another one criticizing or trying to diminish something about the article/story.
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by theshadow 13y ago
You are right. When I first joined HN reading comments was my favourite part. I would be in awe of all these intelligent and insightful people, I would often skip entire articles and read the comments first. Things have really taken a major
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by theshadow 14y ago
I see nothing in what you said other than subjective anecdotes. >> How exactly have their decisions "paid off"? The main complaint over the last year and a half against ubuntu esp in 11.* days was Unity. At this stage in its life c
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by theshadow 14y ago
This post is nothing but a nice heaping of FUD. Looking at it from a distance the decisions made the Ubuntu brass have largely paid off. I like many others had my doubts when I initially played with Unity in 11.04 when it was slow and lumbe
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by theshadow 14y ago
This goes without saying but no one is forcing you to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10. 12.10 is not an LTS release so naturally you should stick to 12.04 if you don't want any of the kinks that are a side-effect of being on the bleeding edge. F
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by theshadow 14y ago
While ORM level validations are nice to have, they are in no way substitutes for database level constraints. Just relying on ORM level validations is like saying "hey I'm doing error checking in my javascript code and therefore checking for
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by theshadow 14y ago
Did you read the article? It clearly states that the "species" is unstable, prone to health problems and has major reproductive issues. What do you expect is going to happen if they are in the wild?
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by theshadow 14y ago
The entire thing is solved by bothering to look at the caption on top of the info-graphic. Even if you don't read the associated article, it's reasonable to expect that a viewer is going to atleast look at the caption that describes what th
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by theshadow 14y ago
It's a shame that the ridiculous amount of hyperbole involved in anything that Stallman seems to say these days is probably reducing his stature among the tech community and the history books. IMO his opinions would be more constructive if
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by theshadow 14y ago
Using D3 for simple straightforward graphs (ie. where you just wanna throw some data in and get a generic graph out) is like using Rails for a simple 1 page static html site.
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by theshadow 14y ago
Why would having a fix width be a problem? In my mind the alternative is the canvas automatically expanding to the right and thereby requiring horizontal scrolling through the browser. Flot.js supports panning if you need to stretch out you
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by theshadow 14y ago
It might be, the design was different but this seems like an excellent resource too. Thanks!
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by theshadow 14y ago
This is slightly offtopic but there used to be a clone of Hacker News that someone created. It was HN without all the startup stuff, instead focusing on hardcore technical topics. I lost the bookmark a while ago and have never found it agai
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by theshadow 14y ago
Every developer is familiar with Shell and Unix tools, it's trivially simple to lookup documentation and get something working really quick with unix utilities even if you are not familiar with the tool in the beginning. On the other hand t
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by theshadow 14y ago
I don't see this as a problem at all. I don't know if remembering the entire body of knowledge by heart is even possible for the average human being. I like to compare learning in University and schools similar to how memory works in compu
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by theshadow 14y ago
It's amazing that considering Ruby's philosphy we didn't have named arguments until now. I think this was a case where the idiom of using hashes as named arguments working well enough that the core team didn't feel the need to address it ea
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by theshadow 14y ago
BB10 does indeed have an Android Player and in my experience it works pretty well. I played with it earlier in the year and while it did not support apps that made JNI calls at that time, it worked pretty well for vanilla Android applicatio
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by theshadow 14y ago
While this had a happy ending, can you imagine an alternate universe where the founders for whatever reason decided not to hire the guy? Leading him on for several months, making him jump through hoops and then not hiring him would have bee
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by theshadow 14y ago
The Ruby Way is missing in the Ruby section. One of the better Ruby books out there
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by theshadow 14y ago
Very cool. What's the software stack if you don't mind me asking?
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by theshadow 14y ago
It's possible that he/she is already familiar with the material but is reading it as review, in which case 10 days sounds more than reasonable.
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by theshadow 14y ago
Seems to cover less than CLRS. I find that most algorithm books cover the same general (beginner to intermediate) set of topics as CLRS does. I was hoping to find something that goes beyond the stuff covered in CLRS but not as far as the le
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by theshadow 14y ago
Seems like a hell of a lot of trouble just to write ios apps. I love Ruby as much as the next guy but sometimes you just have to invest some time into learning the native language rather than go through these elaborate and expensive workaro

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