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Having a productive discussion doesn't start with someone outright denying an issue exists, especially in such a white male dominated industry as ours. I'm sorry having an opinion means the only possibility is I'm vying for popularity.

Explain Shell 9 years ago

Not OP, but one I came across yesterday was `date`.

Linux: `date -d '10 mins ago'` Mac: `date -v -10M`

There's loads of tiny differences like this. Often just old versions, and you can pull in the latest with `brew` or something.

Swift 2.1 11 years ago

Haskell and Erlang come to mind. They probably weren't the first either.

I think ajanuary's point, and I felt the same thing, is that the name "Optimizely" does not say anything to me about A/B testing; hence, it doesn't do what it sounds like. In fact, I thought it was something about code/performance optimisation based on the name.

Apple CarPlay 12 years ago

The thing which excites me the most about this is the little LTE symbol in the corner. Why? So your navigation app can update itself. We had a Range Rover a few years ago which had some crazy proprietary satnav in which was stuck with five year old maps and a buggy interface. Software Update, mmm.

Maintainer here. Surprised but pleased to see this make it onto HN. I'm glad people find it useful!

I had a desire to read the book over Christmas, but found the PDFs really weren't very useful for reading on my Kindle (and the book being out of print meant it wasn't feasible or cost effective to acquire the paper version). As always, the perfectionist in me kicked in and I spent much longer than necessary converting it, so figured someone else might be interested in the fruits of my labour.

3. Software Engineer

18. Computer Programmer

What's the difference? We can barely decide what to call ourselves. Is there a correlation between job satisfaction and a disposition towards calling yourself an engineer?

Just run `lua` and you'll be dropped into a REPL. It's pretty basic compared to some other REPLs though, and I'd also be interested in hearing if there are some more user-friendly options out there.

My main gripe with the current REPL is it doesn't print anything to the screen without an explicit print call. So myMethod(x) will not print anything, instead you have to assign the result to a variable and print it or wrap everything you do in a call to print.

Etcd v0.1.0 release 13 years ago

Yes, that's true. It is pretty easy to simulate this with a short TTL and a heartbeat though.