airhadoken

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by airhadoken 19y ago
The point being that grammatical incorrectness is less annoying if it creates a snowclone.
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by airhadoken 19y ago
They're lesser idiots than the people who bought it.
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by airhadoken 19y ago
Congratulations. This page is now the top Google result for "lazy co-founder." I have a theory: everyone who has lazy cofounders (considering how small the number of founders is overall) is too busy to blog about it.
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by airhadoken 19y ago
There is a lisp (Scheme) compiler for the JVM, http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/index.html I use it all the time; I think it's great. The hard questions about lisp and java interaction haven't necessarily been solved but earnest atte
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by airhadoken 19y ago
True that infix < doesn't appear right after parens, but in the minds of most people, there isn't really a notion of "infix" as an entity unto itself. The alligator just eats the bigger fish. Really, the problem is that a small amount
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by airhadoken 19y ago
You are the first person I've ever heard to pronounce < as "ascending". Really, gt/lt functions are my biggest tripover point when doing prefix-everything expressions, because they work in the opposite way of how we were taught as chil
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by airhadoken 19y ago
Curi is on to something here. For a period of a couple years I was TA for an intro to programming course using Scheme. One of the questions we always asked students was about the advantage of certain refactoring styles, to which half of t
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by airhadoken 19y ago
It's a good indication that the chicken-and-egg problem isn't such a problem in this case. I see a lot of potential for interesting things to do with this. There was always a lot of future-looking hot air when I was in school about how loc
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by airhadoken 19y ago
Seems like some languages are getting the point. While looking for a resource about Unicode support, I saw promising things as well as inauspicious. Seems like multibyte character support would be a good thing to catalog for programming l
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by airhadoken 19y ago
This is going to introduce a whole new generation of kids to the Space Invaders strategy. ...though "Shoot through your own fortresses" now becomes "Shoot through your own legs."
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by airhadoken 19y ago
This seems like a generalization of Warnock's Dilemma (paraphrased, "if a forum post has no replies, it cannot be determined whether it is because it is so smart and concise that it cannot be enhanced, or because it is too stupid to warrant