alphazero

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by alphazero 17y ago
Agreed. (Prepare to be downvoted for making a rational statement contrary to the prevailing fads.)
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by alphazero 17y ago
"SQL Databases"? SQL is a language. "Queries [in a relational database] do not need to be particularly fast, they just need to return correct results eventually." I stopped reading at that point. The article is symptomatic of everything t
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by alphazero 17y ago
Nevertheless they seek techno-drones.
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by alphazero 17y ago
Given an unknown object, how would your program distinguish between meta-info and property?
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by alphazero 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_cavity Glad we've finally cleared up the function of that space filling matter. Aristotle asserted that the brain's function was to cool the blood. Later, it was asserted that it was responsible for c
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by alphazero 17y ago
I guess nature misunderstood the problem domain of organizing the body: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Modularity.pdf
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by alphazero 17y ago
"Sorry John, we can't promote you. You're just too good at what you do." It would have been far more interesting to investigate alternative structures for large organizations. And in terms of strict hierarchical systems, the omission of
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by alphazero 17y ago
Workers in any field that requires creativity, yet is subject to industrial production and economic realities, will likely air the same sentiments.
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by alphazero 17y ago
Its a tragedy that all geek theaters are ultimately reduced to a chorus ...
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by alphazero 17y ago
Look up "more" in the dictionary.
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by alphazero 17y ago
He seems to miss the point that TDD is more critical in a weakly typed/dynamically typed system. Yes, C, C++, and Java didn't have TDD when they started, but there was this thing called a compiler ...
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by alphazero 17y ago
"If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who’s in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners?" A somewhat disturbing equation. A political prisoner is precisely t
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by alphazero 17y ago
(Just read Jason's piece the other day, actually. You can't leave comments on a .plan ...) I agree that details matter a great deal. In any event, the comment specifically questioned the temporal aspects of the analogy. Wishing you succe
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Echelon to launch twitter killer Web N.0 app(environmentalgraffiti.com)
2 points by alphazero 17y ago|0 comments
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by alphazero 17y ago
Pray tell us why it "isn't working", Dave. (btw society != clique)
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by alphazero 17y ago
Come on Paul. IM is hardly ancient geek history.
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by alphazero 17y ago
And following the link trails we find: Paul Graham (Viaweb) On raising money: “The advice I would give is to avoid it. I would say spend as little as you can because every dollar of the investors’ money you get will be taken out of your ass
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by alphazero 17y ago
"Masterpiece" is pushing it. The section is entirely banal, with little imagination beyond plan extrusion. When you think of the possibilities of the site, the client, and the conceptual domain (math, music), it is more of a missed opport
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by alphazero 17y ago
The Swiss have been doing this for a while. Saw a herd back in 2000 in Thusis munching on the grass near the railway station.
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"Nanite : A self-assembling fabric of Ruby daemons"
9 points by alphazero 17y ago|0 comments
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by alphazero 17y ago
Agreed. Erlang is actually very friendly. (Much more so than Clojure, for that matter ..)
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by alphazero 17y ago
Now that's funny. "new concepts". "DOS". Its actually quite amusing for hackers in my age group to watch the kids "discover" ancient programming history (again (and again (...)))
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by alphazero 17y ago
Using same here. Main UI criticism of S4b is the placement of the tabs on top of the window, which has overloaded their usage semantics. In any event, I switched to safari when Firefox 3 something kept crashing on me. Switched to safari
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by alphazero 17y ago
I agree with you regarding the clumsy gui -- UML editors suffer from the same general problem. What I took away from his presentation were the 2 core points: 1) linear expression is intrinsic to text but not intrinsic to programs. 2) the m
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A dispatch from the "programmers liberation front"
5 points by alphazero 17y ago|5 comments
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by alphazero 17y ago
Rich Hickey discussed his using the trampoline pattern in the clojure implementation a while ago: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...
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by alphazero 17y ago
Its the tools, stupid. We're an arts and crafts "industry". Only a fraction of our time is spent thinking about the problem in the abstract. A great deal of it is spent wrestling with our primitive tool kit to realize the concept. When pr
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by alphazero 17y ago
+1. Twitter is definitely a useful communication channel, and it stands out from the rest of the fads: email, sms, tweeter. That pretty much covers all the modalities.