Periodic

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by Periodic 17y ago
I'm glad to see such a rational argument about why Haskell matters. After reading this I wonder why more people aren't using Haskell. Why are the reasons to stick with Java over Haskell in the long run ?
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think it's a case of picking your battles most of the time. I certainly don't care to change my own oil, but I'll gladly spend a half-hour on my weekend tuning and oiling my bike, which I use for commuting. I also can't tell you how much
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by Periodic 17y ago
The interface and outward appearance is simple, but the internals most certainly are not. There are still hundreds of components from dozens of manufacturers combined to make a physical product. In the case of the iPhone there's one of th
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think it's a problem when you may have beliefs that some others don't agree with but which you don't think they they have a right to know. Here's a simple case: What if your employer was very stuck-up and controlling and the CEO is a craz
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by Periodic 17y ago
I use four different computers in a day, I'm often taking breaks to read HN or Reddit, visited styling isn't helping me much there. The place I use it most is for Google search results, particularly when I refine my search and I want to kno
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by Periodic 17y ago
This seems mostly like a way to avoid creating evidence more than a way to avoid the legal problems of working on a side project at your employer. Is the law simply that you cannot use your employers resources such as computer and internet
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by Periodic 17y ago
> Just a 1-px red border! You don't use xmonad, perchance? It's the only one I know of that uses the one red pixel in the default scheme. I guess Awesome or the like might too, but I haven't used them in a long time. Tiling window ma
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by Periodic 17y ago
My wife bought me a Firefox laptop bag a few years ago. I've had some people mistake me for a Firefox developer and thank me for my work, so I have to correct their mistake and explain it's just my way of supporting their favorite browser
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by Periodic 17y ago
Be careful. Once the dog grows up and calms down it will spend large portions of time sleeping. The solution then is to get another puppy, and next thing you know you're addicted and running a kennel, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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by Periodic 17y ago
High contrast should be reserved for important items. That way they can have higher contrast than the surrounding text and stand out more. I've seen a few people who program with just flat green on black. No syntax highlighting. I cry a
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by Periodic 17y ago
I found it amusing that the <title> of the page is: Profits = Freedom - (37signals) Which is the same as saying: Profits + 37signals = Freedom Doesn't sound very helpful to us who don't have 37signals.
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by Periodic 17y ago
We tend to have quite a problem with survivorship bias[1] on HN. We like to look at the cases where things went well and we assume that is because they did something right that the others did not, and since the founder believe this, he wil
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by Periodic 17y ago
I remember being surprised when I first figured out that Apple didn't really bother with license keys for upgrades to OS X, and academic upgrades are free or have hardly any license fees. I was also surprised when the Intel version wouldn'
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by Periodic 17y ago
If you cache on the level of SQL-statement strings you can skip the transformation into the AST. It's very cheap to quickly hash the string and look it up. If you have a site that is going to use the same queries over and over (e.g. for f
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by Periodic 17y ago
I was a bit confused about this as well. The DB builds a query plan from the SQL. Linq builds an SQL query, so they're two parts in a chain, not interchangeable. The confusion seems to come from "preprocessing" the query twice. LINQ adds
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by Periodic 17y ago
I was just wondering if we can extend this to any field. Is it true that every field will have its standouts and then a lot of mediocre members that dilute the image for everyone else? I think the problem is that the barrier to entry is so
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by Periodic 17y ago
I'm waiting for a good portable tablet that someone has verifiable root access to. As long as I can get root (and preferably compile a kernel), then everything else should fall into place as root access is the ultimate in customizability.
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by Periodic 17y ago
I would be happy to seem him move to a more personal blog. Something that is a little more about his personal experiences with technology. It sounded like he didn't like the regularly-published business-oriented posts. I wouldn't mind a p
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think what this case highlights best is the power of a little bit for free. Viacom knew that user uploaded clips on YouTube was a valuable marketing strategy, despite being at odds with current copyright law and potentially hurting the s
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by Periodic 17y ago
When it comes to recognizing current infections we're always going to have to deal with signatures, though we have the ability to match on behavior as well as code. We might look for things that are run out of the users directories that mo
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by Periodic 17y ago
I love being reminded occasionally about the lower levels of computer operation. It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to gloss over the details of computers with an abstraction. We create layer upon layer of abstraction and can quic
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by Periodic 17y ago
A funny thing is that I don't actually look at Karma almost at all. It's sort of a game to me to see when I break certain milestones, but I have no idea how much karma other posters have. I like to read the posts, figure out if they contri
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by Periodic 17y ago
I also work largely as a sys-admin, but I do some desktop support as well. I get a lot of vague emails. "My internet is down," is a favorite of mine, as it could be a network outage, a local computer misconfiguration, a page being inaccess
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by Periodic 17y ago
Reads like a concept for a Cory Doctorow novel to me. I dislike that the author is simply stating all these amazing and utopian things that are going to happen without much in the way of facts to back it up. It sounds like his dream more t
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by Periodic 17y ago
I don't like pet-peeve rants because they rarely tell you how to find something original that works. They're very quick to tell you what doesn't work, and perhaps a little bit of why, but they don't really give much insight into how to fin
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by Periodic 17y ago
When I first started having to support Matlab for a group I was surprised to see how well supported it was on Windows, Linux, and OS X. All of them are able to install using a total of two DVDs and they all can connect to the common licens
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by Periodic 17y ago
For me, I find that busy happens most when I link my activities to external schedules. When those external schedules force a few things to come together at once, I get busy because I definitely want to do them all, but I may not have eno
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by Periodic 17y ago
I didn't realize that was a dedicated calculator application for a few paragraphs. I thought it was just an interactive interpreter for some languages. These days I use irb (Ruby) or ghci (Haskell) for all my calculating needs. For me, de
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by Periodic 17y ago
I'm often told that people are resistant to change, but I think this isn't entirely true. People are resistant to sudden and dramatic change. Small changes over time often go unnoticed, like the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water.
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by Periodic 17y ago
I'm sure it's more of an attempt to be sure you're going to be fine with leaving. If you sound like someone who is confident and will get this all done in a reasonable time frame, I doubt you'd get much push. The important part is making s

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