michaelty

With a side of Bezos, Pets.com, and an AOL-Time Warner merger?

"2. Learn one or two words of a new (or old) language, translate a phrase:"

I wish more people did this. You'd amazed at what you could learn with such a small effort.

Filesharing: It Just Works.

Someday, the content providers will understand this and focus on providing a better, cheaper service to their customers.

One does not simply walk into...

Any overflow effect on HN?

Crap, we're still going to be using C when we get our flying cars!

"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers".

Alan Perlis

Learn Node.js, learn RoR, learn CoffeeScript. Read the Dragon Book. Lurk moar.

"Thanks. I think that this is really useful in some contexts, especially where you're trying to bring new developers up to speed on a language. One problem I've found with open source is that once the original developer team leaves the project just dies. Another problem is that new developers will add "new" features that are already in the language elsewhere.

Working with the actual source surrounded by an explanation of "why" the code exists and the ideas behind the code seems to me to solve both problems.

The other problem is that clever code is hard to maintain even for the original authors. I got my own "dirt simple" code back after 15 years and, while I understood what the code did, I had no idea why it was there. Sometimes whole subsystems die because they are no longer used but nobody is able to remove the dead code because they don't understand it. "

Thoughts on this?

Good for you. Personal development never ends.

"the malware was designed to spread throughout the Fannie Mae network of computers and destroy all data, including financial, securities and mortgage information"

Sounds like a prototype for the toxic mortgage derivatives spreading throughout the banking system.

Clojure. I miss map and reduce already.

RIP Frank Sobotka

:(

I'd like to go back to a country where I can keep my shoes on before I go on a plane.

Same here.