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by Wilduck 15y ago
True. While I'm not experienced with Prolog my impression is that it's often embedded in other languages, which I see as a very positive thing. Beyond simply knowing a large amount of languages I think it's important for a programmer to be
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I think it's a pity that you focus on general purpose programming languages. In place of perl, I would put 11) A domain specific programming language. Perl could be an example (text manipulation) but could also include R (statistics), Frink
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by Wilduck 15y ago
>> Now explain to me how a drum machine illustrates these problems in a way everyone can immediately appreciate. A drum machine may not be the best example (as the author mentioned) but it is a concrete example. You argue that a
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by Wilduck 15y ago
As someone who is only a couple years past my first encounter with car/vehicle, duck/bird examples I can say that they did nothing useful for me. I think the reason they were so useless is not because they were trivially simple, but because
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Method (1) seems like it could provide some valid insight. To me, however, collecting information from a number of schools seems like the best approach. I'm not terribly familiar with how studies are done in schools. Is it incredibly diffic
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by Wilduck 15y ago
On a related note, I also keep an old pc around as a learning box. It's great to be able to easily wipe the hard drive, install a fresh *nix and have a development environment set up that keeps me fearless. Where I might be concerned with m
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It's not that these people would be "totally unaware" if suddenly their searches defaulted to Bing. I imagine it would be disconcerting in the same sort of way that having rusty water shoot out of your shower for a second or two every morni
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I think many programming languages fall into another category not mentioned in the article, a category where they serve both the beginner and the expert, but not the intermediate user. That is, they're fairly easy to pick up for a beginner,
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Yep, just "preponderance of evidence" [1]. Seems like this could fit. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof#Preponder...
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I have tons of tabs open mostly because I hate the back button. Every time I open any new page it goes in a new tab. Any time a page will be relevant for more than the next five minutes, it gets moved to the front or back of my list (depend
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Cool, but Emacs org-mode has really simple ASCII table creation that will auto re-size columns for you. http://orgmode.org/manual/Built_002din-table-editor.html#Bui...
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I noticed the use of the word "invent" as well. It kind of hurt to read the first time. I thought after her first Google search she might realize that there was a better word for it, and start searching for how to "create" or "write" or "co
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It was this line that got me: > Based on that technology, MIT researchers have made a button-sized power generator fueled by butane that can run three times longer than a lithium-ion battery of the same weight; the device can then be re
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by Wilduck 15y ago
> Let's also realize that his "over the top" reactions are due to his role in the FSF and the GNU project. I remember an interview with RMS where he basically said that, while this cause is very important to him, the amount of pressure
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by Wilduck 15y ago
The author isn't arguing that this is a bad idea per se, just that it doesn't actually work that easily. >> But what I do not believe in is that magical plug that is called “framework independent pluggable application”. I don't know
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by Wilduck 15y ago
With Gmail, my contacts change all the time. That is, every time a new person emails me, and I email them back.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Although the US does not officially recognize them as a separate country.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Price discrimination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
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by Wilduck 15y ago
On your webpage you said that you're affiliated with said.fm. Have you tried reaching out to those users? If you're looking to reach people who are genuinely interested in your product, starting with those who are interested in a related pr
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by Wilduck 15y ago
The difference is that in the #1 point he was talking about not simply implementing the features of a competitor. If you notice company B has feature X and therefore decide you must have it as well, you may be in trouble if it turns out fea
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I've never been involved in any philosophy department, but those I know who are talk a fair amount about the high level of ad hominem attacks that occur during debates. It seems like the superiority complex is fairly ingrained in their disc
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I have been in a similar situation, with my College and Hometown very far away. Now, with all my friends spread out from all over the world, Facebook makes seeing these people again a fun (and fairly easy) occurrence, rather than an onerous
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Except I use one monitor almost exclusively for reference. I want as much screen real estate there as possible. Since my mouse is already on the editing monitor, it would take _more_ effort to move it over there to switch windows.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Correction. Minnesota gets temperatures from -20 to 100. Tomorrow has a high of 97. Definitely not an odd place for AC.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Which fits in perfectly with his argument that "your brain doesn't buy your plan." Once you break it up, the plan is more concrete and workable. However, this only works if you aren't suffering from Deep Procrastination. Like you mentioned,
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Anyone who reads this without clicking the link should note that the game Mario64 was NOT programmed in lisp. Just one of the tools used to write Mario64 was written in lisp.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Isn't this somewhat like a consulting firm? Those didn't survive the busting of the tech bubble all that well.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
They don't claim it's anything more. From their website: """ 1. "Isn't this just a gimmick to promote a startup?" Yes, of course, FightAndroid.org is intended to help a startup (Paybuyer) – a startup that will indeed damage Google's AdWords
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Until just now, I always thought this was a silly practice. My line of reasoning was "What difference does a 30ms ping make?" I guess I hadn't thought about it too much though. Now, after reading a comment elsewhere in this thread, which ta
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Throw Away Your Python Templates(bitbucket.org)
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