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by 6ren 14y ago
That's a great talk (see also chris granger's "light table", inspired by it), but is an example of a key truth of tools: the right "tool for the job". Like products with usages, tools are more or less appropriate for specific usages. IDE's
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by 6ren 14y ago
A simpler explanation is that Microsoft's fortunes are tied to the PC. As that market matured, so did MS's profits. Now PC's are being disrupted by ARM/touch/mobile devices and their OS's, and MS is not dominating that area - just as Chri
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by 6ren 14y ago
The app is pretty cool: http://www.hooktheory.com/analysis/view/celine-dion/my-heart... It animates the score for both "instrumental" and "youtube" sound.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Question: why do desalination plants use a filtering system, instead of evaporation? (like that desert survival trick of spreading plastic over a hole) (guessing) Is it because (1) evaporation is actually very energy inefficient compared to
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by 6ren 14y ago
I wonder if it is possible in some way with gyroscopes. Not going all the time, but spun up quickly, to provide counter resistance for a specific direction of rotation. You could spin up two, in opposite directions, to counter the torque fr
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by 6ren 14y ago
The essence of trial-and-error, rather than going directly the outcome you want. It's interesting that even Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle only accelerates trial-and-error, but doesn't eliminate it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's an instance of market adoption of a product, being a solution to an urgent problem helps. Many programming languages are scripting languages of a platform, and it's the platform that solves the problem. In general it's subject to all
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by 6ren 14y ago
I like the concept. You can also just submit it to reddit/HN - if already submitted, it shows the thread. Get the standard submission bookmarklets from: http://www.reddit.com/bookmarklets http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
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by 6ren 14y ago
Does it make sense to you that if there is a breaking change between 1.9.1 and 1.9.2, then there is a breaking change between 1.9.1 and 1.9.3? I'm just stating my (local) experience; I don't have a global god's-eye view of ruby. I'm not an
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by 6ren 14y ago
I had difficulties getting heroku installed, even though I'm using ubuntu 10.04 LTS (as they are). It took many hours over several days, and several attempts. One problem is that their deb package doesn't specify ruby as a dependency. Anot
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by 6ren 14y ago
I used WorldPay: high annual fees and % fees. I can't believe the situation hasn't improved after 10 years. There's a startup opportunity here - it doesn't need to be Google Checkout or Stripe - and, because it would benefit Australian bus
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by 6ren 14y ago
Interesting point. "Education" can be propaganda. It can also focus on specific technical skills (e.g. the three R's). Does it necessarily lead to tolerance? I think education that enables people to create new skills - to explore, test,
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by 6ren 14y ago
Yes. Mastery is satisfying in itself. In a way that money (and facilitated experiences) can never be. Notice how extremely wealthy people often keep working? I tried retirement. It sucks. for PedantNews: mastery remains valuable only i
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by 6ren 14y ago
You need to specify a unique index for the attribute - you specified it as "tweet", but not how to scrape it. The error messages are not informative at this stage; it might be something else too. I tried to fix your e.g. but couldn't get i
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by 6ren 14y ago
Seems to be fried. (Popularity is a good sign.) So, it's basically a web-scraper, but with a JSON API. The API input is limited to a single parameter, that indexes the record to be scraped. The API output is taken from that indexed recor
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by 6ren 14y ago
Sounds good: Dual-Core Atom Processor D2700 (2.13 GHz, 2x 512KB L2 Cache) Do you know how this compares with the original eee PC 701? (Celeron M ULV 353 (512K L2 Cache, 900 MHz, 400 MHz FSB), underclocked to 600MHz http://ark.intel.com/p
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by 6ren 14y ago
cotton candy: $199, 1.2GHz dual A9, quad Mali400 GPU, 1GB (comparable to iPad 3, I think) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Candy_%28single-board_co... MK802: $74, 1.5GHz single A8, single Mali400, 512MB http://www.aliexpress.com/produ
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by 6ren 14y ago
Re. 3: the first iPod required a Mac, cutting the market down. This worked because it enabled a great experience (fast download with firewire). So the issue here is: "Are iPhones as controllers awesome?" IMHO, no (at least, not for gami
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by 6ren 14y ago
My guess: major third-party game franchises, for iPad and/or AppleTV. The next-generation GPU in the series Apple uses (PowerVR G6200) is equivalent in power to the Xbox360 GPU (Xenos). So, you could port Black Ops/MW3/BF3. The next expecte
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by 6ren 14y ago
ASIDE: I love the idea of combining this kind of approach with a random site generator. You can then totally automate the business, from inception onwards. If incorporated as a company, it's an artificially intelligent artificial person. A
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by 6ren 14y ago
IIRC Dijkstra advocated constructing a proof of your program first. This also involves debugging, mistakes and trial-and-error, just at a different level. Mathematical representations and proofs are powerful because general and certain; bu
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by 6ren 14y ago
It doesn't compare performance or battery life with an iPhone. But getting both 1.4GHz quad-core performance and long battery life in 135 grams (mainly due to process shrink) is very impressive and bodes well for the future.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> You want to look at as much code as possible I'm a big-screen skeptic. An art in programming is abstraction, enabling you to grasp complexity in small pieces. Seeing more doesn't enable me to grasp more. (There are non-cod
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by 6ren 14y ago
> The way to really understand the idea is to re-create what the author left out. If reading mathematics requires re-creating what the author left out, why not leave it in? Sure, it will be longer, but if the purpose is communic
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by 6ren 14y ago
The current directory was removed from the LOAD_PATH, so you have to change "require 'mycode'" to "require './mycode'", or use require-relative, or add "." to LOAD_PATH yourself. It was changed for security issues apparently. http://stacko
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by 6ren 14y ago
I think a "need to eat" would fix this, e.g. tail gets shorter by one every unit-time (e.g. 10s).
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by 6ren 14y ago
> Haskell is a language that rewards those who sit back and deeply analyse the > problem, and them produce a beautiful solution. Upfront design is the opposite of agile. As Douglas Adams said, knowing what the problem act
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by 6ren 14y ago
They're including iOS, not used much in the enterprise (so far), so that one isn't it. I think they're looking at overall programming, which is growing - an absolute increase in ruby/python would be a relative decline if the total is growin
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by 6ren 14y ago
> LOCs of Ruby changed or added in 2011 were [...] a fifth of what they were in 2008 I guess he means this peak in 2008 (though it's not 1/5 by averges) http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=... ruby-ran
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's pretty amazing that the (possibly) most accomplished human did a reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kpt9f/tesla_spacex_and... His answer on motivation was striking to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K8NkJpUei4#t=2

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