NickSmith

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by NickSmith 13y ago
One thing I have noticed is that the boldface on unread articles appears to be off. For example, one of my subscriptions is Hacker News ( http://news.ycombinator.com/rss ). If I 'mark all as read' then the unread c
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by NickSmith 13y ago
Considering that this is Digg Reader's first public outing, it is very, very good. This can only bode well. Well done guys!
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The way I'll remember Steve Jobs (plus.google.com)
1 points by NickSmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by NickSmith 16y ago
Losing faith is a form of procrastination, and procrastination is a way of not experiencing some feeling that for some reason we are unwilling to experience. As a general rule we procrastinate because we are scared of the results we would
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by NickSmith 17y ago
This is a great article. With regard to the 'call to action', I wouldn't under estimate the difficulty in changing the context (duration, specificity or 'me'-centricity) of our judgments because: a) our need to judge is not causeless. It ar
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Aha! moments in Lisp... What were your 'Aha moments' in your favorite language?(groups.google.com)
2 points by NickSmith 18y ago|3 comments
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The art of Flash (wait 4 seconds after page loads)(producten.hema.nl)
5 points by NickSmith 19y ago|1 comments
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by NickSmith 19y ago
I've found that when we are confident, relaxed and grounded in the present moment, prioritisation tends to take care of itself, in as much as 'what's next' becomes quite clear and obvious. So (at least to me) the problem of priorities is r
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by NickSmith 19y ago
Paul, in emphasising code brevity I think you are missing a greater good. I believe most of us subconsciously look for a language that is frictionless -- one that allows us to express our ideas without the language getting in the way. To
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by NickSmith 19y ago
That's really good elven.... and you get treble points for your openness and willingness to share. You'll go a long way my friend, I'm sure.
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by NickSmith 19y ago
In Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Two of us working on a web service that should make blogging more 'two-way' and social, as opposed to the rather one-way broadcast activity than it is at present. Hopefully it will help web-surfing be a far
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by NickSmith 19y ago
"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'
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by NickSmith 19y ago
Shiro, you are definitely one of the lucky ones. Very few know what it is to do something solely for the joy of doing the thing itself... and the great paradox is that when that is our only motivation, the 'success' that we would have want
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by NickSmith 19y ago
And if it's fun then where's the effort? I'm with you Shiro... I'll take fun any day.
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The future of programming languages in a massively concurrent world
31 points by NickSmith 19y ago|32 comments
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by NickSmith 19y ago
You are quite right Shiro.. it does take effort, but only as long as we believe that it takes effort ;-) The central thesis of 'The little book of Flow' I linked to above is that those sublime moments when we get in touch with our inner s
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by NickSmith 19y ago
You tend to find that 'hard work == discipline == genius' is the illusory conclusion made by those on the outside looking in. When we are truly inspired, in the 'flow' if you like, doesn't that feel like the easiest, most natural state you