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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Don't worry, you'll eventually grow out of this attitude. Your confidence will increase. You won't have to say stuff like this in an effort to feel better about yourself. Hang in there and good luck.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Top managers are traditionally drawn from the ranks of 50-somethings. Sure, that's partly due to a retirement age of 65, and partly a function of institutional ladder-climbing. But not just that. Someone in their 50s has a few decades
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
It's possible that, as enlightened as you may justifiably feel you are, your grandchildren will find you embarrassingly ignorant and closed-minded about something, too.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I said lisp not Lisp. I think it's meaningful to refer to things like Scheme, Racket, Arc, Clojure, Dylan, Honu et al as lowercase lisps. For example I believe those tick off all 9 items on pg's list: http://www.paulgra
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> Is it just me, or is this article filled with a lot of complicated buzz words and hyperbole? A helpful site for biz tech writers on a tight deadline is http://bullshitipsum.com/
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although removing s-expressions isn't necessarily critical -- see Dylan, Honu, sweet expressions, etc. -- I think removing macros means you no longer have a lisp.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> Arguments raged internally: should it use control codes, or hierarchical style sheets? In the end, the decree went out: Word should implement both formatting paradigms. Even though they're fundamentally incompatible and you can ge
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Anyone compiling a list of talking points for why s-expressions aren't so crazy after all, should add this to the list. (Just append it to the list, no comma required; i.e. pun sorta intended.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Also you can quickly wipe the thing before entering a situation where it might get lost/stolen/confiscated [1]. Then take 5 minutes to set it up again on the other end. [1]: Such as: - A sketchy neighborhood - Leaving it at home w
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I probably didn't explain it well. My impression is that refactoring with an IDE is mainly an artifact of Java, not Clojure. Also: Lisp macros are a unique kettle of fish. They support Don't Repeat Yourself in ways that plain func
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> Even as someone trained in many of these techniques, you know they're being used, but if done properly it just makes for a pleasant experience and you don't even care Someone once told me that other salespeople are the easies
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> Reminds me of Apple and its revolutions Reminds me of Bose convincing people to pay $300 for a clock radio. Lest that seem mean-spirited, I was one of the people who bought a Bose Wave radio, and yeah the bass response was excellent f
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although you've probably thought about this more than I have, it seems like there's a fundamental tension here. On the one hand there are Java IDEs and code-generation in the sense of (re)writing physical source code files. On the
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I think they meant C not F.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Another fan of that blog. I imagine you could re-caption the "Simon Peyton-Jones adding the IO Monad to Haskell" GIF [1] to serve this topic, too. [1]: http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/post/44462204757/sim
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Because it seems similar to claiming prostitutes make money by greeting people and chatting. Although they do greet and chat for free, what they actually do for money is different. Note: I believe prostitution is a morally acceptable profes
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> If you can afford to replace everything you own out of savings, good for you, but most people can't. Not that it's relevant, but I can't. Anyway, I didn't say anyone should plan to replace everything from savings. M
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
GEB high on my list of books that I own on dead trees, but also want on Kindle. Even if it didn't qualify for Amazon's deal to get it cheaper if you already bought it from them -- even if I had to pay a lot for it. Yeah, I know it
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
To stay in business, casinos need to be a bad deal for customers _as a group_. Did I say casinos? I meant insurance companies. Seriously, insurance is a bet on something bad happening. Usually it only makes sense to buy insurance for the eq
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> These days I would not bother with it, given that we have Clojure And Racket. And a variety of Scheme implementations. The spirit/sentiment of ISLisp seems similar to traditional, pre RSR6 Scheme. But I guess ISLisp would appeal i
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I imagine the point is to overcome inertia --- to get people to take a first step. Often that's the hardest part when someone is facing something they expect to be painful, dreary, and complicated. It's sort of like "the firs
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
"Why I'm not writing OS X apps", by Hipster Programmer: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107370779337689020644/posts/8SWf...
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I think the point was, why hasn't the report been released yet, 2 years later? Could be they're lazy. Could be they're embarrassed. Could be they're legally prohibited from reporting it -- which in turn could be due to a
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I get the instructional intent -- give a person a fishing net, not fish. But it's a huge amount of real estate. Even Clippy didn't demand this much space.
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"Commenter Picks 'Sticks Nix Hick Pix' Citation for Upvote But Denies Variety Job History."
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
To be fair, maybe this blog post is getting more attention than the author expected. Regardless, I don't think it makes a great case for "Why __? Use Racket!". The case I'd make: The shiny new feature X in today's f
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although maybe this blog post was already in the pipeline, unfortunate juxtaposition with yesterday's GitHub outage. Although I truly do love GitHub, it's not unconditional love. My love's uptime closely tracks GitHub's.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> It would've been easy for them to say no and "well, sue us if you dare!" But the headlines. "Sweet Suite Deal Means Suits Dealt Suit" "President in Suit Sued over Presidential Suite" &c
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I once had a question moved from StackOverflow to Programmers. I agreed with the rationale: The question fit Programmers. But then it got closed on Programmers. O_o Fortunately that's been the exception not the rule, for me.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Glass half full: There might be another 5-7 good years, if it's similar to Google (2004 IPO).

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