AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a "gambling site"
Humor isn't HN's strong spot :S
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AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a "gambling site"
"This reminds me of another situation several years ago, when BadVista campaign pages were conspicuously absent from Microsoft's live.com search results,..."
If you have poo, fling it now!
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Outsourcing Birthdays and Flirting
".. if nationalism and religion were taken off the table, we'd revert to tribalism within that framework."
It's all tribalism really. Just on a larger scale. We never evolved beyond any of it.
I think dr42 was talking about moving to a radically different perception of the world. Not just bigger or smaller..
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: RIP, Nokia (1865 - 2014)
And bought by Samsung.. That would rock. Make ALL the Android phones!
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Russia, China, Tajikistan propose UN "code of conduct" for the 'Net
Did they submit this together with the RFC I saw yesterday..?
They aren't even trying to be subtle.
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: JavaScript game of Tron in 219 bytes
I read 'j' 'k' 'l' and thought "Sweet! Vim controls"
Not... :(
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Must-read programming books?
I get my recommendations from stackoverflow mostly, so I know the books I read are good. My brain knows the information is legit and takes it all in.
On the internet I spend too long reading short pieces, reviews, articles... A book is nice and LONG :)
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs
To bad switchbuf doesn't actually work with :b.
Only buffer related split commands like :sbuffer, :sbnext
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing
Took ages before I figured out how to flip pages O.o
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect on development time
In my own experience: if I write dynamic code I'm still thinking of types. Especially in Python.. What's mutable, what isn't... This is what my professors at school say too. Less typing (pressing keys) doesn't make you think faster!
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl
Doesn't matter... Dynamic languages are slow by design!
Caching and JIT compilers to the rescue!
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: The Microsoft Update mechanism has been used to spread malware
Oh yeah, sure, blame it on the Belgians!
AlexFromBelgium | 13 years ago | on: A Boggling Return to C
I've already read K&R! Don't worry. I know it's the must-read book on C.
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: The rise and fall of Sony
Not a single successful game console will be launched in the next 5 years. I'm sure of it.
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: A Boggling Return to C
I'm a student who learns C#, Java, Php, javascript... at school. I bought "C: A Refence Manual" to learn this summer...
Hope it will make me a better programmer.
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: What Startups Can Learn From Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War
The Facebook, Twitter, Google.. buttons hover over the text. Not everyone is surfing the web on a 32' monitor in full screen you know!
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements
One by Microsoft for everyone, including themselves. Not respecting standards is just retarded on too many levels.
EDIT: Unless, of course, they have a private internal standard...
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements
I would argue that's a Microsoft problem... I don't think office files are even compatible with their own standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML .
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)
I wonder if it was harder on the American or the European soldiers. Going home to a land where nobody knows what you've been through.. My grandfather fought in WW2 and he talked about it all the time. But I feel like he got over it, psychologically. Everyone here did it together.. I think.
AlexFromBelgium | 14 years ago | on: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL
Works perfectly on a macbook (Chrome 19).
I've not gotten WebGL to work on Linux with nouveau drivers though..
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