> I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books I don't know about the quality of the original Polish, but ... some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking…
It's very similar to the argument that Jeff Atwood gave a while back that "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard... ) And…
> By your logic, if the Iranian government accuses someone of sluttiness, spying or apostacy, we should extradite the accused to Iran. If they were accused of sluttiness while they were in Iran, by an Iranian…
> Considering Assange has probably been pretty careful and paranoid You'd expect that, wouldn't you. But then his whole career show less risk-aversion than most people. To put it mildly.
Conspiracies are pretty rare, but opportunistic behaviour by governments is not hard to believe. Pissing off governments is like running for president; your transgressions will be dug up and used against you. Are you…
I agree that lack of email is mad. But how big a decision can this be? If it can run programs, it can run an mail client. Even an exchange client. "it won't have an email client" is not part of the hardware design, it's…
In summary: no, they're in CSS3; but it's all modular and might not be implemented at the same time. There is incentive for MS Grids to go forward soon, they're important to MS for use in Windows 8. Also, they're cool,…
Are the ms-grids and the multicolumn layouts in CSS4? It doesn't look like it from that draft. Are they just free-floating proposals at this stage?
It shows that the DMCA and Patriot act were not an aberration, were not an anomaly that would be rolled back; but the shape of things to come, part of a trend. Note the use in the title of the words "back" and "worse…
Have you tried reading a PDF on a kindle? It works. technically. But it's not pleasant.
> > In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs. > I think Yegge's just defined the best…
Maybe, but I enjoyed reading all of Steve Yegge's rant. It was informative and funny. And I don't even work for google. And it wasn't really even 10 pages long. The criticism of its length is fatuous and flippant, and…
In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Responding to Tone" and therefore always unconvincing.
Maybe it's my unenlightened European perspective coming out here, but why is this a big deal? Facebook chose to do business in Europe, Facebook chose to be governed by European law.
"oversized" is different to "larger"
I'd guess WordStar. Or failing that, WordPerfect. WordPerfect was more commonly seen, but WordStar fits the description of "Runs on CP/M and is not supported" better. Edit: See here:…
> Actually there is no difference between search page result sites like the OP and what you said Uh, yes there is. http://www.somesite.com/index.html?q=foo is obviously a search (right down to the choice if q for…
Great comment. > Before cars, towns were organized for churches or shuls to be within walking distance which means segregation. It's not gone. Some areas of North London are full of kosher delis, men with black hats…
> At the end of day, you seem to miss my point altogether. Testing for the skill is not useful in itself. It is just an heuristic. I see the point, I just disagree with it. There's some validity to using CS101…
> First, knowing your 101 Data structures is correlated to your Computer Science general knowledge. I can't quite shake the idea that what you're really testing is if the applicant has been to the same kind of…
> Even if we don't manipulate these data structures directly these days in code We don't manipulate them indirectly either; .Net or Java lists aren't implemented like that.
> implement an algorithm that finds the value of the element in the middle of a linked list I'm struggling to think of the last time I had to use a linked list for anything. I'd be tempted to give the troll answer:…
Good developers are hard to find at any price.
As others have pointed out, a the point of a "phase 1 trial" is to find out how safe the treatment is. This drug passed. Once that is done, how well it works is the Phase 2. See here:…
> I've yet to see a positive comment regarding this new feature Spotify -> Facebook integration used to be optional. Now it's becoming mandatory. It's hard to find an upside of that for users. The only upside…
> I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books I don't know about the quality of the original Polish, but ... some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking…
It's very similar to the argument that Jeff Atwood gave a while back that "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard... ) And…
> By your logic, if the Iranian government accuses someone of sluttiness, spying or apostacy, we should extradite the accused to Iran. If they were accused of sluttiness while they were in Iran, by an Iranian…
> Considering Assange has probably been pretty careful and paranoid You'd expect that, wouldn't you. But then his whole career show less risk-aversion than most people. To put it mildly.
Conspiracies are pretty rare, but opportunistic behaviour by governments is not hard to believe. Pissing off governments is like running for president; your transgressions will be dug up and used against you. Are you…
I agree that lack of email is mad. But how big a decision can this be? If it can run programs, it can run an mail client. Even an exchange client. "it won't have an email client" is not part of the hardware design, it's…
In summary: no, they're in CSS3; but it's all modular and might not be implemented at the same time. There is incentive for MS Grids to go forward soon, they're important to MS for use in Windows 8. Also, they're cool,…
Are the ms-grids and the multicolumn layouts in CSS4? It doesn't look like it from that draft. Are they just free-floating proposals at this stage?
It shows that the DMCA and Patriot act were not an aberration, were not an anomaly that would be rolled back; but the shape of things to come, part of a trend. Note the use in the title of the words "back" and "worse…
Have you tried reading a PDF on a kindle? It works. technically. But it's not pleasant.
> > In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs. > I think Yegge's just defined the best…
Maybe, but I enjoyed reading all of Steve Yegge's rant. It was informative and funny. And I don't even work for google. And it wasn't really even 10 pages long. The criticism of its length is fatuous and flippant, and…
In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Responding to Tone" and therefore always unconvincing.
Maybe it's my unenlightened European perspective coming out here, but why is this a big deal? Facebook chose to do business in Europe, Facebook chose to be governed by European law.
"oversized" is different to "larger"
I'd guess WordStar. Or failing that, WordPerfect. WordPerfect was more commonly seen, but WordStar fits the description of "Runs on CP/M and is not supported" better. Edit: See here:…
> Actually there is no difference between search page result sites like the OP and what you said Uh, yes there is. http://www.somesite.com/index.html?q=foo is obviously a search (right down to the choice if q for…
Great comment. > Before cars, towns were organized for churches or shuls to be within walking distance which means segregation. It's not gone. Some areas of North London are full of kosher delis, men with black hats…
> At the end of day, you seem to miss my point altogether. Testing for the skill is not useful in itself. It is just an heuristic. I see the point, I just disagree with it. There's some validity to using CS101…
> First, knowing your 101 Data structures is correlated to your Computer Science general knowledge. I can't quite shake the idea that what you're really testing is if the applicant has been to the same kind of…
> Even if we don't manipulate these data structures directly these days in code We don't manipulate them indirectly either; .Net or Java lists aren't implemented like that.
> implement an algorithm that finds the value of the element in the middle of a linked list I'm struggling to think of the last time I had to use a linked list for anything. I'd be tempted to give the troll answer:…
Good developers are hard to find at any price.
As others have pointed out, a the point of a "phase 1 trial" is to find out how safe the treatment is. This drug passed. Once that is done, how well it works is the Phase 2. See here:…
> I've yet to see a positive comment regarding this new feature Spotify -> Facebook integration used to be optional. Now it's becoming mandatory. It's hard to find an upside of that for users. The only upside…