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by username42 12y ago
I think printing houses is the app killer.
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by username42 12y ago
'GOTO considered harmful' is practically biblical law amongst many programmers, but it's worth remembering that he made that statement in the context of an argument with Donald Knuth. Knuth won: ( http://web.archiv
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by username42 12y ago
Teach them. Whatever the subject, when you have to teach it to someone, your level of understanding increase. If you can find a public ready to listen to you, teach the subjects you want to master.
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by username42 12y ago
Do the redirect always the other way. People understand when the www appears that you have done something to help them.
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by username42 12y ago
I think there is no use to master bash, sed and awk. When you have a task that becomes tricky (beyond entry level) in sed, it is often easy in awk. When you have a task that becomes tricky in bash or awk, switch to a more powerful scripting
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by username42 12y ago
In fact I wonder why they do not have the problem yet.
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by username42 12y ago
I love the slide where plan9 is compared to Linux (37 syscalls, 148,787 lines of code). For me, the missing tools would be a good up to date browser (google chrome or firefox) and something like virtualbox for virtual machines. I think the
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by username42 12y ago
> Apple has no dominant position in smartphones Where do you live ? Inform yourself ( https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2014/3/comS... ). Apple has 41.6% when the second one, Samsung has
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by username42 12y ago
Well, I have lost 7 karma points because I agree with an article.
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by username42 12y ago
Please, do not joke about my english. This article is about the iphone that has features that are blocked by Apple. If you own the phone, you remove the block and use the feature. Take the example of a car where there would be a huge stone
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by username42 12y ago
I agree that stuff like this is expected but I am still shocked. I think that this kind of revelations means you never really own the iphone you have bought. It is more like a leasing. The only way to own what you buy is to switch to open a
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by username42 12y ago
I like very much this introduction to git. Most of the other tutorials considers git as a magic black box. Here, it explains what is performed internally by most of the commands, without going into tiny useless details. This is probably not
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by username42 12y ago
Yes, that is the reason many good chess players switch to the game of go. For example Jan Bogaerts in belgium was about 2350 ELO before switching to go.
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by username42 12y ago
"X considered harmful" articles are harmful articles.
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by username42 12y ago
excellent proxy
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by username42 12y ago
down again ?
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by username42 12y ago
RIM should have sticked to keyboard based phones and use their energy on developping the application market. I do not disagree with you, but I think they could not develop their application market because all their energy was devoted to the
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by username42 12y ago
A datepicker seems missing.
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by username42 12y ago
Mayer seems to view Yahoo primarily as a place where you can find all sorts of stuff on one giant app. “Once the user’s in that app experience, the easiest thing to do is stay in that app experience,”. I think this is a very insightful anal
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by username42 12y ago
VirtualBox with a shared directory is also a way to have all the niceties of unix without installing MinGW or Cygwin.
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by username42 12y ago
Why did they choose the same name as minix compiler ack ( http://tack.sourceforge.net/ ) ?
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by username42 12y ago
Something like http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-compu... would be more realistic. With USB3, you could even avoid hdmi port and turn your computer into a dumb "keyboard, screen, storage, network&q
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by username42 12y ago
I think that becoming an Apple follower was the misstep of RIM. RIM was the leader on the market of professional phones with keyboard. I am a geek, I need a phone with good keyboard and good battery life (big touch screens have a negative i
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by username42 12y ago
If I want to tamper a picture, I would use izitru to check the quality of my work.
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by username42 12y ago
At that time, the main idea of OO was binding data and operations. Ada 83 does not provide polymorphism, nor inheritance, but provides many levels of encapsulation: package, generic package, generic types. Since Ada 95, child packages and t
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by username42 12y ago
or fix the clock skew ?
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by username42 12y ago
maybe he is using youtube as a hardrive backup.
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by username42 12y ago
When I did the test, it was garbage. Since your answer, I have repeated my test with results similar to yours.
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by username42 12y ago
Just tested with a random scanned page ( http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/info_theory/ShannonWeb/fullsi... ) the result is almost garbage. It seems as bad as most OCR software I have encountered. This was to be e
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by username42 12y ago
I thought that it was quite regular. I have two little girl 8 and 10 yo. I can ensure you they are learning tons of exceptions I did not realise.

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