90hourweek

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   by 90hourweek 12y ago

   The original headline is this: "Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically object-orientied programming" He's sick of OOP in Ruby, not of OOP in general. Ruby's dynamic typing means you have one type, &quo
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   by 90hourweek 12y ago

   > Neat article, but I found it surprising that the author didn't go into a bit more detail about why RGB is used and where it's used. Saying that it's just how computers or televisions deal with it because of monitors only
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   by 90hourweek 12y ago

   Why is this on HN? It's garbage. The headline implies the brain has a global "framerate" implying it's synchronous. That's most definitely not the case. The strobe light and shutter examples are examples of the ligh
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   by 90hourweek 12y ago

   But neither this, nor what the author is talking about is "the curse of smart people". Conspiracy theorists, evolution deniers, religious fundamentalists, alien abductees and so on are examples of people getting together, and succ
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   by 90hourweek 12y ago

   > How is it childish? It's business. It's funny you say that. In many companies you can hear people saying "it's nothing personal, just business" (you also hear the same from movie villains, oh well). At Apple, f