10ren

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by 10ren 18y ago
Perhaps it's simply dogmatism? For example, test driven development and design patterns can be (and sometimes are) practiced dogmatically, and raise questions about how something "should" be done within the paradigm. Being forced to think
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by 10ren 18y ago
But the beauty of the minimal Hacker News design is that users can create their own idioms on top of it, that, in effect, become part of the design - a domain specific design, or DSD, if you will. Crystallizing a common idiom into an expl
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by 10ren 18y ago
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html...
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by 10ren 18y ago
Much of achievement is circumstantial: a product takes off because people need it (which is something outside the product). You notice a connection between two things, because you knew about them both and happened to be thinking about them.
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by 10ren 18y ago
Constraints can also encourage creativity, because people have something to push against. Larry Niven (science fiction writer) claims that constraints make a story (although he arguably writes puzzle fiction; and puzzles are defined by cons
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by 10ren 18y ago
Digital photo keyrings are around $10: eg http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/2023270/art/vtec/digital-pho... One guy hacked one (different model), and found its CPU was a 6502 (same as Apple 2e). I don't think linux runs on that, as no memor
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by 10ren 18y ago
You can't analyse a market that doesn't exist yet.
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by 10ren 18y ago
I think it's also an instance of reducing rigidity by letting go of what you are most attached to, as in "5. CUT WHAT YOU LOVE" from Joss Whedon on screen writing: http://dannystack.blogspot.com/2009/01/joss-whedons-top-10-w... There's al
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by 10ren 18y ago
What is your strop? For me, it's physical exercise. And, concrete coding (as opposed to reading specs, designing, modeling or proving). It's easier for me to not do them than to do them, but I'm always amazed at how refreshing they are.
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by 10ren 18y ago
It's only pyrrhic if his victory caused the loss of his wife, which isn't apparent from the story. It is however sad. I think many people dull the sadness of loss with sour grapes. He has not. Respect.
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by 10ren 18y ago
I don't want you to be right, but... I think you are right. PageRank is an application of an algorithm; seeing a problem in such a way that it can be solved. I therefore instead nominate the algorithm which Pagerank applies.
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by 10ren 18y ago
Seeing the scores doesn't affect my opinion! I'm impartial! ... except that a few times, I've observed my attitude towards a comment change when its score changed. What is a little frightening is I have also witnessed a struggle within me
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by 10ren 18y ago
Why do you think he is not good at locking himself out of his account? (He is now posting from a new account) In what way do you think he is "dictating" guidelines?
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by 10ren 18y ago
I find the vim help profoundly unhelpful (unless you already know about the command you need...) Googling (or searching on vim.org) fills this gap a bit. The main navigating commands are: Ctrl-] (on a "hyperlinked" word) - and Ctrl-t to ret
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by 10ren 18y ago
Agree. In the same situation: Ctrl-x-Ctrl-f for filename completion. I recently discovered that Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n will also work across files, if vim knows about them: vi file1 file2 file3 BTW: I learnt all the windowing commands at
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by 10ren 18y ago
> please send me your nominations, pointing to ... any evidence for its impact . I think that's the hardest part of the question.
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by 10ren 18y ago
Basic algorithms for arithmetic, when first originated thousands of years ago, have probably had a far more profound effect on the world than any recent computer-based algorithm. Particularly in accounting and engineering, they would have c
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by 10ren 18y ago
PageRank, in least in terms of transfer of wealth (only one measure, but at least it is a measure of impact on the world).
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by 10ren 18y ago
In IE, before firefox, I opened a new browser for each link, and used the taskbar as tabs (you can switch with alt-tab instead of ctrl-tab). Maybe firefox making it explicit increased awareness of this approach. For me, the huge value for f
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by 10ren 18y ago
I usually dislike multi-page, but I was surprised that I didn't mind in this case. I realized that it's the latency of multi-pages that I don't like. This site loaded instantly (for me). A factor in this was that I adblocked all the ads
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by 10ren 18y ago
This reads like fucking Ender's Game meets Atlas Shrugged. Some bozo makes shitloads in the internet goldrush, and thinks he's some kind of fucking genius, so he appoints himself to solve "solar power, space travel, and electric cars". But.
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by 10ren 18y ago
Totally agree. I wonder, with a market of a billion users, does a set of software apps that are not back-compatible with our bloated legacy become plausible? You could use old Windows or Unix apps. Or DOS apps. Or even old Apple ][ apps. Or
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I literally hate it(slate.com)
22 points by 10ren 18y ago|36 comments
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by 10ren 18y ago
If their engineers and patent attorneys are really that well integrated, it's a sign that Palm, Inc will be one hell of an organization to beat.
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by 10ren 18y ago
An aspect of some meditation is getting into a sensing mode instead of a judging/thinking mode . One way to do this is to focus on perceiving: - focus on your breath (count to N as you breath in; count to N as you breath out - where N=4
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by 10ren 18y ago
Reminds me of Sinatra, a ruby DSL for web-apps http://sinatra.github.com/