10ren

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   by 10ren 17y ago

   thanks! "Vim contains every features you could possibly imagine, and then some. Even when taking this law into account" - 10ren's Law
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   I too use tabstop=2 But `cat` uglifies it, so I added this to ~/.bashrc: alias tab='sed "s/\t/ /g" ' You needn't say "cat myfile | tab"; you can just use it exactly like cat: "tab myfile" (I'm not saying that you'd not instantly
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   Doesn't work in FF2.0 (unsurprisingly). BTW: a nice thing about xkcd's drawing is that the heads are slightly off-circular, to imply direction, tilt of head, and some cases even expression.
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   I was surprised to find that pg also says "where there's muck there's brass" http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html , as does Joel.
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   If you've designed something well, then all changes can be easily accommodated. But to "design something well" requires omniscience, because it depends on understanding the problem, and in what ways that problem will likely change in future
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   China Controls Rare Earths(nytimes.com)

   1 points by 10ren 17y ago|0 comments
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   Thanks. found == searched for it; "found" == pretend quotes, meaning you uploaded it and faux-found it. It makes perfect sense, now that I know what you meant. Quotes have a few meanings, but it didn't occur to me that you might have meant
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   Wow, that does seem to be it (e.g. it has the scalping bit). But what does your last line mean?
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   by 10ren 17y ago

   Thanks, I picked the unobtainium issue: the tree is supposed to be above the largest deposit, but it doesn't float. The movie could have been longer: afterwards, I misread the time, and literally thought it was only 1:42 long (not 2:42). I'
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    As far "release a crappy version", it's just a blunter way of saying release early, release often And the following part "No response, abandon. Complaints, improve" is just the concept of the minimal prototype; also used in "Discovery-dri
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Oh gimmick it is. It's just that the spring-sprung-brake concept has fascinated me since I was 5 yo. It would be cool to make this work; if sufficiently light, it would be a net win.
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    A few of these are predicated on an improved economy, which is probably right.
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Can you give an example of a loop in an algebraic syntax please? (All I can think of is CFG style, like "A -> (aA)?" oh, of course, there's also "a*" - still, it would be interesting to see an eg.)
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    6. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Maybe that generalizes, to say that it's the code that lisp doesn't turn into "Fungible Cogs", and so it can't be used by others in a standardized way. Standardization seems to be anathema to the individuals who are attracted to lisp's po
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    If it stored energy when braking, it would be more efficient. But on my bike, I only really brake in rare situations, for safety reasons (cars); unfortunately, friction automatically supplies adequate braking for me. I also choose paths tha
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Switching from a petrol-powered car to hybrid power makes sense. Switching from a human-powered bicycle to a hybrid is not as compelling.
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Perhaps one source of data is YC startups. What's the success rate of lisp vs. non-lisp? Yes, of course, many things contribute to success other than language choice. That's my point.
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Yes, his love is competition instead of cooperation and creation. About trying to be clever: If you are a human being, you an intelligent animal; you are already clever. If you are trying to understand something or someone, or solve a pro
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Also parseable as "is late". Why not iTablet?
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    So, whether a trend starts depends more on the environment ("tinder-dry forest") than on the starter ("careless smoker"); but you get a much bigger trend if you start with an Influencer. So you get more bang-per-buck from Influencers, r
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    print http://www.fastcompany.com/node/641124/print
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    I don't recall. Someone pointed out an example in a thread a while back.
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    C combines the power and performance of assembly language with the flexibility and ease-of-use of assembly language. However, I was amazed to find that modern assembly language (since I was last in the game 25 years ago) has many high-lev
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Performance-based pay for creative work reduces productivity.
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    Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator(gnu.org)

    5 points by 10ren 17y ago|0 comments
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    Performance-related pay doesn't encourage performance(management-issues.com)

    15 points by 10ren 17y ago|8 comments
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Oh come on. What about Sun "The network is the computer" Microsystems? What about Java, originally designed for a settop box, as described, way before 1995? Although I tend to credit Sun with the idea, the concept was in the air. There's ev
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Assessing the truth of a claim by who says it is an unreliable guide, to tell what pjhyett has shown. Note: it's not "do what you like", but "do what you love". It's not about pleasure, but meaning - to do what you believe is worthwhile a
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    by 10ren 17y ago

    Some insightful comments on slashdot (browsing at 5): http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/22/1936214/Microsoft-Ord...