extofer's comments

On: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997)

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I agree, the first statement was captivating. It's nostalgic and yet, a form of forecasting in it's own right, what becomes future technology in this architecture

On: Ask HN: What Git features would you like to know more about?

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The one feature I thought that made more sense to me when I learned it was Branches... the more about branches and pull request the better. That and rm --cached as well

On: New enterprise.github.com

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Git Hub launched new Enterprise homepage and a redesigned dashboard

On: There is no such thing as a CEO of pre-product startup. Get off of it.

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I agree having a flat organization over a hierarchy should work better for start-up. Dropping the C titles is only opening a door for problems between co-founders and early employees.

On: Google honors Topeka, Kansas by becoming... Topeka.

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There's no Tokeka Voice or Tmail... but it makes for a good April fools joke on the more gullible web users

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I meant Topeka

On: Ask HN: My nephew wants to learn programming. What should I recommend?

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Definitely start with Python. I found this great book http://www.manning.com/sande/ that is a good start regardless of age. In any defense, read this article (Section: "The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language") to determine why learn with a language like Python rather than Java. http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchon...

On: Microsoft rips off Plurk

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why doesn't this surprise me

On: Shodan Computer Search Engine

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perhaps since nginx is available in the German language, among other European translations including Russian, Polish, French.

On: Results of The Hacker Survey

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Mirror: http://go.cleverinnovative.com/hacker-survey.htm CSV: http://go.cleverinnovative.com/data.csv