GeoffWozniak

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by GeoffWozniak 12y ago
I have tried. And I can't. It's just too slow when working with tons of output (which is common in my work). (term-mode is no better.) Emacs is one of my favourite tools on a computer. I love Lisp (even Elisp, which is getting
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by GeoffWozniak 12y ago
What I didn't mention in my post was that I did use SQLAlchemy Core to write some pretty complicated queries. It's actually quite good. I like it. There were some spots that things got hairy though, and the code was pretty hard
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A fundamental duality of software engineering(bertrandmeyer.com)
7 points by GeoffWozniak 14y ago|0 comments
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by GeoffWozniak 14y ago
> What if someone went around the entire country and put every book into a huge safe. Assuming "every book" includes books I own, then that constitutes theft.
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
Saying the PDF reader on Playbook works is like saying a bucket of cold water works for having a shower. I actually enjoy reading on a Playbook more than an iPad or a Kindle. But the PDF reader is abysmal software.
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
> Where RIM went wrong was underestimating the importance of software and the surrounding ecosystem. RIM is quickly discovering that it is not a software company -- and never has been. They are also discovering that software is hard and
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
Taking into account the snark, it doesn't change the fact that you're presenting a false dichotomy. Ungar isn't saying that we have to give up determinism. What he's saying is that to take advantage of massively parallel systems, determinis
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
Or the SVN repositories of binaries that are 4G just on the trunk branch. The HDD basically never stops.
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
"It's not the language, honey, it's the runtime." (apologies to Indiana Jones)
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
> "A big corporation ripping off small businesses and independent artists is wrong." That's pretty specific. Why not "Ripping off is wrong"? I wonder the same thing when I hear "Violence against women is wrong". I tend to think "Violenc
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by GeoffWozniak 15y ago
The first step in saving my coder eyes is to not use light text with a dark background.
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
This sounds analagous to governing by polls.
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
I think of it as GNU/Xanadu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
No one I've ever met who has used Blackboard has ever expressed anything nice about it. Professor friends of mine actively avoid it; they use Wordpress instead. Others use Moodle. In fact, it's so bad that my alma mater has put out a call f
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"I would rather cry in the back of a BMW than laugh on the back of a bicycle."(bigthink.com)
9 points by GeoffWozniak 16y ago|0 comments
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Are gadgets ruining our kids' brains?(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by GeoffWozniak 16y ago|0 comments
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
If I sign in with my Twitter/Facebook account, what do you do with it? Will things I say on WatchThis site show up on Twitter/Facebook? (I say this as someone looking to sign in and even clicking the Sign In button -- there's no indication
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
_"Pick one task around your house that needs doing that is small and can be done in short order and go take care of it."_ Doing the dishes is a good one. It doesn't take all that long, it gives you time to reflect as it rarely requires grea
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
It seems nice, but it's more of the same: programming by specification. There's a place for that, but the future of programming languages, in my mind, lies in changing the metaphor of the process from specification to experimentation. After
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
> "I honestly don't know what a lot of academics do a lot of the time," says Taylor. Perhaps he should talk to few. From my experience, it involves writing grants.
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The end of online privacy(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by GeoffWozniak 16y ago|0 comments
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
I hate to be a picky grammarian, but I would really appreciate it if this person would learn the difference between countable and uncountable nouns. http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/countable... I beg (plead!) of the sub
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
I floated the idea of essay questions by the students for a 3rd year programming languages course I taught at university (in North America). I was just about run out of the classroom. Since I was bring paid about $1250 CDN a month and was t
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
I did a thesis that explored aspects of generating code that passed tests, but it was limited to deriving adequate structural representations based on behavioural specifications. Two approaches were shown: changing data structure representa
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
Same here. It has consistently gotten slower since the 0.9+ days. My simple test involves loading up Slime, opening a Lisp source file of moderate size and holding down C-n. The recent releases of Aquamacs consistently spikes at 25-50% CPU
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
That kind of flippant response is part of the reason depression and other mental health problems are still widely misunderstood.
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by GeoffWozniak 16y ago
I guess I'm worth about 60 pounds more. Protip: look for heavy, entrepeneurial employees.
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by GeoffWozniak 17y ago
Second for Meditations. I'm slowly reading it, reflecting on the passages. Seems like the way to read it. It's a bit like an ancient Roman Twitter account.
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by GeoffWozniak 17y ago
I tried this when I taught a programming languages course a couple years ago. I thought it went well enough, but to prevent wasting too much time in class, you should rehearse. During office hours and personal consultation I would also do l
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by GeoffWozniak 17y ago
The article says that this was a talk so perhaps it should be considered as a mild form of entertainment. I've read "On Writing Well" and (as I recall) it's considerably less abrasive than this article. This talk was, to me, an entertaining

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