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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
This reminds me of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus . Stereotype Woman wants to talk about her problems, for the sake of venting. Stereotype Man wants to offer solutions and fix things. Hilarity ensues and sitcom writers get rich. I
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Sure, I had a similar first reaction, but thought about it. If you have skills but haven't yet developed a deep-enough client base, you're in a quandary. You can't bill for $10/hour, or no one will take you seriously. Yo
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I see. Well actually I didn't mean to sound like I was arguing on the public vs. private axis. In fact my put-a-man-on-the-moon example was, of course, hugely about government. What I mean is I'm skeptical of the impact of efforts
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Individually in one thing. But usually people care about the aggregate: "How can our city/region/country have moar entrepreneurs?" Just like America today has a STEM deficit because being good at math or science isn&#x27
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I think his observation is relevant at any level of abstraction. Gates had a complete sense in his head of how his program worked at the level of machine language. But not at a lower level of CPU microcode, or transistors. So even he, even
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
From the second video (warning for language): http://youtu.be/GpdoBwezFVA?t=5m6s 1. Few things in life are more enjoyable than an angry British guy having a good rant. 2. Coincidentally I just yesterday (re)read the part of
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Knowing that would make me more likely to hire you. On the one hand, you recognize it was the worst code, and you've improved since. On the other hand, you recognize that going into an ivory tower and designing perfect code, is not nec
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Exhibit 99: The travesty that is the updated X1 Carbon keyboard. http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate...
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Bad headline. The interesting point from the article is that metadata can be more valuable than data. Plus it's smaller. Therefore it improves both sides of the cost:benefit ratio.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Why would you want to search Discussions or Blogs? Everything interesting is already on Google+. /sarcasm You know, someday Google+ will no longer be the "strategory" priority. There will be a new CEO. All the hands on the c
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
By the way, if you get called for Federal grand jury service, you need to serve one day per week for at least 18 months ! You get $40-$50 for each day. It is extremely hard to make an excuse to get out of it. EDIT: New link. http:/&#
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
But isn't `DISTINCT` sort of shoving an imperative square peg into the round hole of declaritive set relations? At least in my time with MSSQL, seeing `SELECT DISTINCT ...` was a red flag. It nearly always meant something needed to be
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Maybe it depends on how big your hands are, but reaching RET doesn't require a move off home for me? Although it does use a pinkie, it's a nice hand-opening gesture, like when playing piano. As opposed to the left-pinkie hand-scru
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> How can a static analysis tool keep up with a language that’s being arbitrarily extended at runtime? The prospect is daunting. I don't really understand that point. In Racket, for example, programs macro-expand down to a very sm
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Ergo it being an app that now only displays: Over Quota This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
So the loss of traffic is a good thing because advertisers aren't paying for impressions that aren't actually seen? ;)
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
They publicized this just after the conclusion of the year-end fund-raising push. The timing could be coincidental. Or not.
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Wikimedia Foundation employee ousted over paid editing(arstechnica.com)
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
The real use cases for macros boil down to 3 main areas: 1. Changing order of evaluation. 2. Creating new binding forms. 3. Implementing a data sub-language a.k.a. DSL Although arguably #3 doesn't require macros, arguably it requires
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Well actually, in a modern lisp (like Racket), you use macros in a variety of ways. In addition to "deep" things, often you use them as practical, simple alternatives to using stuff like "snippets" or heavy IDEs. You can
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Racket shows how, with strong module support, a whole "tower of languages a.k.a. macros" can work reliably. Else not so much.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> "Probably because we restrict their crawlers. But this is an excellent side effect, because the last thing I want is traffic from Google searches." Am I the only one who finds that puzzling? This isn't Fight Club. It&#
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I'm old enough to remember what MB and GB meant before sleazy marketers started to redefine them. They should have been sued for deceptive advertising. Instead the computer press of the time was spineless, because guess who paid for th
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
It's wiser to adopt the view that it's not really about "entrepreneurs", "business models", and "venture capitalists". If it ever were that, it sure ain't anymore. Instead the dynamic is closer t
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Right, I realize it's not an inescapable straitjacket, and I'm definitely not putting down paredit; upvoted your comment. I mention it because it's an example of structured editing of an extremely simple AST. And even people
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
There's a structured editing mode for Emacs called Paredit, to use for s-expression languages like Lisp, Racket, Clojure. Since the AST for such languages is s-expressions, and some people struggle with parens, this is an interesting &
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> I wonder how many of those people ever had their own office. If you don't know any better, what you have may seem pretty good. Coach never felt cramped until I was back there after the first time flying business class. Spoiled for
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> *The ideal way to do this is to generate an SSL certificate for the CloudFront distribution, but Amazon charges you $7,200 per year for that privilege: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ Maybe using SS
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Well it's also a regexp: It's "del" followed by zero or more spaces followed by zero or more of any char. :) Although I feel competent with moderately complex regexps, I'm not sure I'd want to use them instea
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
He definitely got a lot right. To pick 3 of his "predictions": 1. "No online database will replace your daily newspaper" OK, he's wrong here. (Well, wrong, soon. Although clearly newspapers are struggling, they&#x27

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