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by 13ren 18y ago
Megginson's essay "All markup ends up looking like XML" compares XML, JSON and s-exp http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/01/03/all-marku...
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by 13ren 18y ago
It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. — Henri Poincare It's very encouraging to hear that proving theorems is difficult for real mathematicians too.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Those tales sound interesting. Can you give an or some examples please?
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes, XSLT written in XML itself is abominable. It's easier to read if the program and data have different formats (lisp notwithstanding...). But it's escaping less-than signs that got really me: (i < 5). But transforming trees with a
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MapReduce in Erlang(weblambdazero.blogspot.com)
31 points by 13ren 18y ago|13 comments
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XML Backlash?(ajaxonomy.com)
20 points by 13ren 18y ago|43 comments
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by 13ren 18y ago
Does performance matter when seeking "simple" examples? I vote for quicksort - not because it's quick, but because its implementation has the same form as its proof. It's simple if you use the Erlang-style version.
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by 13ren 18y ago
"English is what English-speaking people speak"
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by 13ren 18y ago
You know how only children have a reputation for being a little... ah... selfish? (I am one). Now, imagine a nation of only children.
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by 13ren 18y ago
REST's big win, as a commenter said, is caching. I think of REST-style as the read-only calls in any program being hashed to their results (e.g. "mult(5,2)" -> "10"), and used as a cache. If those parameter values are frequent, this can
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by 13ren 18y ago
I agree it's not a perfect correlation, but there would be some, most of the time.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Now that many people have clicked on it, he wrote the story?
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Tour of 1985 formal proof of a limit on asynchronous processes (won Dijkstra award)(hnr.dnsalias.net)
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by 13ren 18y ago
HN and reddit have swapped roles on this particular story: http://www.reddit.com/comments/6w1v0/pink_box_testing_are_yo... BTW: I recently wanted to make an inane joke on a HN article, so I found the article on reddit using the below (I h
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by 13ren 18y ago
In the bigger picture, ASUS need to fill in all the gaps between the low-end eee and a laptop proper, so they don't open an opportunity for a competitor. Their brand "eee" is their best way to signal to consumers that they have a smaller-
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by 13ren 18y ago
Intriguingly, bike shops do not sell long sleeve tops (that protect you from sunburn) - but surf shops do. Cyclists have told me that they don't get sunburn - even when cycling in the sun all day. But surfers do get sunburn. I'm not sure wh
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by 13ren 18y ago
It's similar to the argument of riding on half-flat tires, because it gives you a better workout. But it feels fantastic to move efficiently. I don't know if that gives a better physical benefit (though I bet it's a factor) but it provide
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by 13ren 18y ago
I've found a sauna helps by sweating the compound out of my skin.
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by 13ren 18y ago
This story is making the rounds, but as presented, it doesn't distinguish cause and correlation. Maybe the people who enjoy running are the ones who were fit in the first place? eg. if you have bad joints and a bad heart, you probably won't
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by 13ren 18y ago
I'm curious: what's the rationale for not being able to play with Wufoo without signing up (for a free account)? Was it found to be more effective to require some (minor) commitment from the user?
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by 13ren 18y ago
You mean because they don't consider combinators for parsing? That's the only example I can think of for higher order functions used in compilers. Combinators are much more powerful (though less efficient) than the construction of automata
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by 13ren 18y ago
It wouldn't open links in a new window (FF2, linux); and I could find no way to extract the URL of a found page. Cool design though. Expectation management: I felt delight at the effect, then disappointment that it didn't animate the it ful
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by 13ren 18y ago
When is it bad luck? Sometimes it's obvious you're making mistakes, not working on the right thing in the right way. Sometimes it's not. It would be nice to know.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Listen instead ... to your vision
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by 13ren 18y ago
Interesting point that Brook's square law of communication between project members might change if you can effectively access what anyone said to anyone at any time in the past - i.e. if all communication is in searchable electronic form (e
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think there's no way to be safe from patents, except to be not worth suing. And since anyone can sue you for anything at any time, so there's no point fearing the uncertainty. BTW: I've seen a strategy for avoiding patent infringement of
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by 13ren 18y ago
There's also waterfall vs. incremental approaches. Most (successful) open source projects can be added to easily. That is, they are modular, with a basic core architecture, so a contributor can discover then understand then modify the part
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Skunkworks are probably the corporate version of open source. They work well.
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I read this a decade ago, and tried to practice it. The only problem is that people pay less attention because you don't sound as impressive... OTOH maybe I can recommend it: using this approach, I did win a prize for an essay-based subject
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by 13ren 18y ago
Has anyone managed to get a fail out of YouNoodle (whether for a present, past or hypothetical startup)?

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