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Comment · 12 years ago
I think printing houses is the app killer.
Comment · 12 years 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.archive.org/web/20070927094626/http://pplab.snu.a...
See also http://web.archive.org/web/20051128093253/http://kerneltrap.... about goto
Good uses of goto are very rare with current programming languages. The only cases where I have found good uses were with languages that did not have exception handling and in each cases, there was some deficiencies in the specifications and the code containing the goto has disappeared with the corrected specifications. Maybe this was luck.
I still think it is ridiculous to hate goto.
Comment · 12 years 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.
Comment · 12 years ago
Do the redirect always the other way. People understand when the www appears that you have done something to help them.
Comment · 12 years 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 language like perl/python/ruby/?. I love perl, but I feel it is getting outdated. I try to improve my programming speed in python but I am still far from my speed in perl.
Comment · 12 years ago
In fact I wonder why they do not have the problem yet.
Comment · 12 years 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 browser can not work correctly without good video drivers. Libre Office would be a bonus.
Comment · 12 years 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 26.7%
Comment · 12 years ago
Well, I have lost 7 karma points because I agree with an article.
Comment · 12 years 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 on the middle back sit. You can not use the middle back sit without removing the stone, but the seller of the car prohibits to remove the stone.
Comment · 12 years 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 alternatives.
Comment · 12 years 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 a good tutorial for build management processes and not enough to rewrite git, but it fits perfectly well my "hacker" mind. Thank you very much.
Comment · 12 years 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.
Comment · 12 years ago
"X considered harmful" articles are harmful articles.
Comment · 12 years ago
excellent proxy