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by 11ren 18y ago
Similar to your idea, if the laser wasn't rotationally stabilized, the image on the ground would jitter around as slight angular tilts of the bike frame would be exaggerated the further the distance the image was projected. Imagine standin
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by 11ren 18y ago
I take it back - you can publish scores after all: http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/2177201ae448ab894682b1... But I think you have to leave yourself logged in to do it.
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by 11ren 18y ago
A really nice idea (though music composition is pretty niche, that might be a good thing). The score looks beautiful. But too hard to start using. It took me 10-15mins to discover how to enter a note: you have to click where the cursor is.
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by 11ren 18y ago
thanks, I know. I referred to inline code.
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by 11ren 18y ago
Data: fat; small; tall fat: "tall is Life" small: "tall is Death" tall: "tall is Dungeon" Reasoning: tall is Life, Death or Dungeon. He can't be Life, because if he was, he would have said he was. So he's Death or Dungeo
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by 11ren 18y ago
There's a tribal aspect, too; not to mention jargon as a barrier to entry. And what professional wants to forgo hard-won knowledge? That said, I kind of like the weird names, esp grep. (Wasn't that in Stranger in a Strange Land or somethin
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by 11ren 18y ago
pgrep, pkill, rename
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by 11ren 18y ago
Excellent points. My experience is no further than a DIY provisional patent, using "Patent It Yourself" (which seems a little bit unreliable to me). A danger I've found with patenting is that it encourages a competitor-focus (attack and def
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by 11ren 18y ago
Most startups that succeed do it by getting bought, and most acquirers care about patents. Startup acquisitions are usually a build-vs-buy decision for the acquirer. Should we buy this little startup or build our own? And two things, espec
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by 11ren 18y ago
A pygmy marmoset with a joystick would make an awesome mascot. http://uartsjournals.com/2006_sara/wp-content/uploads/2007/0...
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by 11ren 18y ago
I think Haskell is intellectually challenging in a way that isn't needed to get the job done. The one exception is for proving things (which so far is not practical - but it's cool, and might become practically useful, one day). Don't get m
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by 11ren 18y ago
Q. If you append to a linked list, you can't avoid creating an entirely new copy of the list, can you? (prepending is OK, because you reuse the old list). Or can Haskell's laziness help with this? Can it somehow avoid actually creating the
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by 11ren 18y ago
I think part of Lisp's success was that academics liked it, so when they did clever stuff, it was related to Lisp. Today, it seems that academics like Haskell (is it true?), and so when they think of clever stuff, it will be related to Hask
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OSDI ‘08: Corey, an operating system for many cores(hnr.dnsalias.net)
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by 11ren 18y ago
I know this is the conventional wisdom, but can you provide support for your claim that multi-core will help FP? The usual claim is that the immutability of FP will avoid the problems of different processes writing to shared memory, because
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by 11ren 18y ago
It's common for geeks to phrase technical points with disrespect. A high-profile example is Linus's rant against C++ http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/ Common enough to warrant pg's How to Disagree. I wonder, is the emotional part really
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by 11ren 18y ago
If you don't know how to make the best of a bad situation, you will never get there. If you are not willing to put up with some shit work, you will never recognize that a good opportunity is staring you in the face. If you are not willing
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by 11ren 18y ago
I thought that was the reason - but if I give the wrong types, it won't work. Often, I can infer the types myself, but why not just tell me? I think there are conventions, like "it's a string or a number unless stated otherwise", and these
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by 11ren 18y ago
Haskell has algebraic data types, which are much more expressive than conventional types. You can see that from his example. Of course, the types don't define the functionality, but they narrow it down much more quickly than the ints of C a
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by 11ren 18y ago
I like Steve. I hope he's OK.
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by 11ren 18y ago
That's very cool. JSON seems a natural conceptual match for querying data like that. I think a different concrete syntax might be more readable for me - but could just be my unfamiliarity. And JSON is an instant, no-work solution, so there'
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by 11ren 18y ago
Yeah, I was thinking that. You're also omitting an explicit return , I would guess by assuming the value of the last statement (as an expression) is to be returned (this won't work in general, because Javascript allows multiple returns, li
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by 11ren 18y ago
Interesting, thanks. Would you say this "malleability" issue would be addressed if the XML could be bound (databinding) to arbitrarily different object structures? BTW: I meant that specific problem you mentioned (which was a non-conformin
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by 11ren 18y ago
Two different programs that use the same XML Schema - that write to the same interface specification. It's just an API. No, not magic pixie dust, but it helps. I think we'll get standard XML Schemas (like the per industry efforts), for spec
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by 11ren 18y ago
Error messages are difficult to do right, and it's one area where (for example) DSL's tend to fall down. You might have a beautiful DSL, and think that it's finished, because you - as the designer - don't make mistakes with it (perhaps beca
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by 11ren 18y ago
It's a cynical story, that of course has some truth to it. I like to focus on the visionaries, who are seeking a better way (to be more profitable). Once a new way is seen and proven, others (who are less comfortable with risk) become inter
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by 11ren 18y ago
I hadn't thought of that aspect. Being public makes it worse. Personally, I've always appreciated feedback on a website - but in a discussion, I agree it's a diversion that undermines the message (and is annoying). Commenting on blogs are s
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by 11ren 18y ago
Thanks. It's a bit odd, because I don't think anyone thought SOA would do that much. It's been always vendor-driven. At least it's better than CORBA, the previous monstrosity in that role. But yes, with the recession, there may be an opport
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by 11ren 18y ago
The article suggests Lispers could have used sexp as a front-end to LaTeX, in the same way that XML was used as a front-end to LaTeX. Very easy to do. > If S-expressions were easier to edit, it would be most logical to edit the document
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by 11ren 18y ago
If Javascript used JSON in the way I described, it would look something like this ( view page source for original): { "function": { "signature": { "name": "byId", "args": ["id"] } "body": {

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