im pretty sure everyone knows who he is
removing barriers to entry might make it easier to innovate but it also makes it easy to copycat and beat ideas to death. the first rage comic might have been funny but they just get worse and worse with each new…
they tried to pass reform, but the office in charge of it keeps getting its funding blocked by congress.
in this case, saying "there's a chance" is the same as saying it's impossible to prove either which way.
java is the most used language right now and using the jvm gets you access to all of that infrastructure. it also makes it really easy to port code to linux, macs, windows, phones, tablets, etc. practicality is one of…
the little schemer series was very good. you can safely skip the first 5 chapters if you're comfortable with recursion. learn scheme in fixnum days is good too for learning the language right away.
what programs do you use to do things that emacs cant?
everyone should just become a computer scientist. problem solved
kay and arr
" a .torrent file pointing to thousands of scientific papers has just been uploaded to the pirate bay" doesnt really fit into a headline
not really. people who do the work are usually pressured to share it, and are ostracized if they don't. I don't really think its fair to punish a victim unless there's some kind of evidence that they played a more…
didn't the prehistoric groups of our ancestors probably have some kind of leader or hierarchy?
This is a pretty terrible argument for a guy whose main passion in life is philosophy.
I'm pretty sure it applies more to some jobs then others. I know you're being facetious but the main difference between prostitution and sex is that sex is generally with people you want to have sex with and…
i use mplayer with smplayer and it is amazing. I couldn't watch high res HD on any of my computers with VLC and now i can run it on my old, shitty netbook. I've also heard good things about potplayer but i've never used.
Is it really harder or a just a pain in the ass?
what os are you using? this was a problem for me before i set up hot keys to toggle touchpad on and off.
happened for me since 4. i had to switch to chrome on my netbook :*(
i always hear about how many jobs there are for cobol programmers to maintain legacy code. i've never actually met any though. maybe they all commit suicide.
exactly. if the viewers of these videos intend to become serious software developers then they can just correct whatever wrong shit they learn. if they don't care about best practices then it is still better that they…
Is this the one where he talks about how his experience at intel was analogous to steve wozniak's experience at hp? The idea that there were people just as smart and determined as them but weren't able to do anything…
why would anyone want to do that?
zed shaw taught me python, cured my hemorrhoids and showed me a how to be a real man.
you are light years ahead of everybody else. you could fall asleep for 5 years and you'd still be ahead.
i turned down my friends' startup offer to go work in finance. 3 years later, they are multi-millionaires and i am not. that doesn't really bother me though. what bothers me is that they are happy and doing exciting…
im pretty sure everyone knows who he is
removing barriers to entry might make it easier to innovate but it also makes it easy to copycat and beat ideas to death. the first rage comic might have been funny but they just get worse and worse with each new…
they tried to pass reform, but the office in charge of it keeps getting its funding blocked by congress.
in this case, saying "there's a chance" is the same as saying it's impossible to prove either which way.
java is the most used language right now and using the jvm gets you access to all of that infrastructure. it also makes it really easy to port code to linux, macs, windows, phones, tablets, etc. practicality is one of…
the little schemer series was very good. you can safely skip the first 5 chapters if you're comfortable with recursion. learn scheme in fixnum days is good too for learning the language right away.
what programs do you use to do things that emacs cant?
everyone should just become a computer scientist. problem solved
kay and arr
" a .torrent file pointing to thousands of scientific papers has just been uploaded to the pirate bay" doesnt really fit into a headline
not really. people who do the work are usually pressured to share it, and are ostracized if they don't. I don't really think its fair to punish a victim unless there's some kind of evidence that they played a more…
didn't the prehistoric groups of our ancestors probably have some kind of leader or hierarchy?
This is a pretty terrible argument for a guy whose main passion in life is philosophy.
I'm pretty sure it applies more to some jobs then others. I know you're being facetious but the main difference between prostitution and sex is that sex is generally with people you want to have sex with and…
i use mplayer with smplayer and it is amazing. I couldn't watch high res HD on any of my computers with VLC and now i can run it on my old, shitty netbook. I've also heard good things about potplayer but i've never used.
Is it really harder or a just a pain in the ass?
what os are you using? this was a problem for me before i set up hot keys to toggle touchpad on and off.
happened for me since 4. i had to switch to chrome on my netbook :*(
i always hear about how many jobs there are for cobol programmers to maintain legacy code. i've never actually met any though. maybe they all commit suicide.
exactly. if the viewers of these videos intend to become serious software developers then they can just correct whatever wrong shit they learn. if they don't care about best practices then it is still better that they…
Is this the one where he talks about how his experience at intel was analogous to steve wozniak's experience at hp? The idea that there were people just as smart and determined as them but weren't able to do anything…
why would anyone want to do that?
zed shaw taught me python, cured my hemorrhoids and showed me a how to be a real man.
you are light years ahead of everybody else. you could fall asleep for 5 years and you'd still be ahead.
i turned down my friends' startup offer to go work in finance. 3 years later, they are multi-millionaires and i am not. that doesn't really bother me though. what bothers me is that they are happy and doing exciting…