tgdavies
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15 years ago
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on: Atlassian, AU company raises US60M, unheard of for Australian company
tgdavies
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years?
Or will Javascript just be the machine language of the internet, with software written in more expressive languages such as Java via GWT?
tgdavies
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17 years ago
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on: Arrays, What's the point? - Stack Overflow
But if you turned all your ArrayLists into LinkedLists, what would happen to the performance of your programs?
tgdavies
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17 years ago
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on: The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers
"the idea of quizzing candidates on whether they can diagnose and track down compiler or processor bugs is similarly useless"
Maybe Ada compilers have lots of bugs. :-)
tgdavies
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17 years ago
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on: The Hydrogen Hoax
The author claims that mining Hydrogen from the surface of the Sun would be difficult, but ignores the solution of doing the mining at night.
tgdavies
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18 years ago
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on: Poll: Suggestions please, which JavaScript library?
If your back end is Java, use GWT -- that gives you statically typed RPC calls between your client and server, which makes life easy.
tgdavies
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: Prank Hacking
One of my colleagues was recently welcomed back fromholiday with this addition to his cron file:
0,20,40 * * * * /usr/bin/killall -9 java
Or is that going too far?
tgdavies
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18 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are some good biographies to read?
Tim Pat Coogan's "Michael Collins" is good -- it's as much a condensed history of Ireland from 1916 to the mid 1920s as about Michael Collins.
tgdavies
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: I have to iron. Where can I quickly find interesting non-fiction video besides ted.com
You don't say what your interests are, but the googletechtalks channel on YouTube has lots of interesting stuff, not all Computer Science related.
tgdavies
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18 years ago
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on: A New Operating System -- What to Call It?
mudnicks
tgdavies
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18 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Autoposting script?
What's the point of copying every article of anything which has its own RSS feed to news.yc?
Anyone who wants to see every xkcd will already have the RSS feed in their reader. Posting it here is just noise.