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by alanthonyc 18y ago
I gotcha. Well, I picked up PG's book and was starting on the language, when I came up with a project I wanted to get up and running quickly. So, I figured Django would help me get something going (it was either that or Ruby/Rails). What I
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
Yes, I did read his post about his basing Python more on C and Algol than functional languages. But then he goes on to explain how and why Python got more functional programming features. Also, I based my assumption that Python is "lisp-lik
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
I concur. The big advantage to picking up one of these Lisp-like languages (rather than Lisp itself) is that with their corresponding web-frameworks (Rails and Django), you will be able to put up some pretty cool apps pretty quickly. This
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
My initial read was a quick one on my phone, so I went back to make sure I wasn't wrong.... "This could make us the most noisily opinionated nation on earth." - Just a noisy opinion, in my opinion. "All this fits with the trend toward Opini
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
The dismissive tone of the article makes me think that the writer is just another member of an anointed establishment (newspapermen in this case) that feels threatened by a new paradim made possible by new technology. "Journalist" and "blog
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
php is a movement?
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
I bought this book, skimmed through it, then returned it. I found the fluff to info ratio a little too high for my personal needs.
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
omg, i'm not reading that article. I only come here to comment on articles i've found for myself independently. I don't subjugate my will to that of some random internet authority figure.
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
I agree completely with the quote. I may have been reading too much techdirt lately, but I believe that's pretty obviously the case with the RIAA and the rest of the entertainment industry trying to clamp down on file-sharing. Taken to it'
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
"pertinent information needs to travel both ways" I agree with your statement to a certain extent. It's the "travel" part that I think is not necessarily true. Everyone (pertinent) must know everything (pertinent). And once information is
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
I have slowly been coming to the realization that just as the internet is doing its creative destruction thing on many obvious institutions (book distribution, music distribution, etc.) there are a lot more areas where it applies equally, a
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
He didn't necessarily say he was mad. He did say it wasn't cool - which is a fact. What xach did wasn't cool, although perhaps inevitable on a public site.
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
depending on which country you're coming from and your personal financial resources (i.e. bank account), it could be easy for you to get a quick tourist visa or almost impossible
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
Linguists study the mechanics of creating sounds that we interpret as words, writing systems that represent language, semantic analyses of languages and the language acquisition process in humans, among other things that are not the study o
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
you need to separate the principle from the dogma... apparently, you released too early, too often
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by alanthonyc 18y ago
Greetings, I am so glad I found this site. My two other favorite sites are valleywag and peoplemagazine.com. The only thing I really needed was a site devoted to Erlang. I'm glad I found it. I'm adding it to my Internet Explorer favorit