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by amouat 13y ago
1) "In all fairness" was clearly a turn of phrase intended to indicate that whilst it was fair point, there was a bigger issue at play. I see nothing wrong with that. 2) Since when is the submitter not allowed to comment? 3) Simply googling
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by amouat 13y ago
Sure. "more popular = better" within certain contexts.
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by amouat 13y ago
And I've genuinely heard of none of those :) I was more thinking of music where few people would argue that the Top 40 or top YouTube hits represented the tracks with the most "quality".
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by amouat 13y ago
> they won because they were literally better than the rest of us at what they do Only if "more popular = better".
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by amouat 13y ago
To the best of my knowledge, CUDA is Nvidia only. You would need to look at OpenCL or something similar. I guess the techniques presented in the article could be ported to OpenCL.
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by amouat 13y ago
I quite commonly use it when I want to see an application behind the terminal e.g. I might be editing code in vim whilst the application or browser window is open in the background. Also, it just looks nice! By having an appropriate backgro
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by amouat 13y ago
The other thing is it's really handy to know vi/vim when you're logged into a remote server and want to quickly edit a file.
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by amouat 14y ago
Fri 12th April?
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by amouat 14y ago
Ah, very good! The other interesting point is they use a dictionary that includes number of syllable information that have augmented with words like "Rihanna". Part of me wishes this page had been submitted instead of the top level.
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by amouat 14y ago
Isn't it just automatically extracting sentences that can be broken into 5, 7, 5 groups of syllables? I don't think anyone has made any attempt to summarise the article. Very interesting though.
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by amouat 14y ago
> For + and * operators, someone already decided what the convention should be. If you just make them work like the built-in versions, the semantics are already intuitive to anyone who studied basic arithmetic at school. I think it's ex
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by amouat 14y ago
Yes, but I think it is far worse in the case of built-ins; it is explicitly obvious that "add" is not part of the language, which is not the case with "+". Admittedly this is much more of a problem for new programmers than experts. To be fa
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by amouat 14y ago
Considered by people who have used C++ and seen some awful problems creep in because of unnecessary operator overloading. Your last point actually highlights the problem - it is not more reliable because you are assuming what "+" and "*"
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by amouat 14y ago
A good carpenter knows how to use his tools and which ones to use for the appropriate task.
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by amouat 14y ago
Umm, why was the title renamed? There is now no indication it refers to Aaron Swartz at all - the main reason I submitted it.
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by amouat 14y ago
I agree. I hesitated on submitting the article as several statements seem a bit uninformed. But it is an interesting article from a notable person.
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Civil Disobedience(journal.davidbyrne.com)
167 points by amouat 14y ago|115 comments
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by amouat 14y ago
I remember that. There was an episode where they played a game where they typed in random domain names and bet on whether or not the site existed.
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by amouat 14y ago
I wouldn't use the word "accomplishment"; you're right - it's a side effect of JavaScript being the only option. But why complicate things with multiple languages if you can use one? Then all developers can understand and edit the codebase.
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by amouat 14y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but there is still a lot to be said for being able to use the same language on the server and client within a single application. I'm currently investigating ClojureScript for this very reason.
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by amouat 14y ago
Reminds me of the letter Babbage wrote to Tennyson, correcting his poem: "In your otherwise beautiful poem one verse reads, Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born If this were true the population of the world would be at a stands
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by amouat 14y ago
That's just the author's style and there's nothing wrong with it, except that you don't like it.
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by amouat 14y ago
I really wouldn't worry. The worst developers are the ones who simply have no interest in software and/or computing. The "smarter" developers can sometimes be a royal pita to work with. I worked at the University of Edinburgh for a while an
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by amouat 14y ago
I don't think this is what jgc was saying. The point is that it's foolish to assume you know better than someone, particularly when you are unaware of the background to their decisions. And doubly so when the someone in question is as smart
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by amouat 14y ago
HN just repeated slashdot? I don't remember that happening before...
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by amouat 14y ago
And noisily is also a typo?!
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by amouat 14y ago
Also available on Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vim-Vi-Tips-Essential-ebook/dp/B004J...
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Clojure and Google App Engine(adrianmouat.com)
2 points by amouat 14y ago|0 comments
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by amouat 14y ago
And simonh was pointing out that it's not really premature if it's already occurred :) Don't get me wrong, you have a point - there is certainly a balance to be struck.
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by amouat 14y ago
Actually, I think it's a bit more subtle than that. By using stack traces and debuggers etc, I can come up with a working and correct solution. But, by thinking through the problem at a deeper level I can come up with an improved design whi

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