anatoly

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by anatoly 17y ago
Please don't start your shell scripts with #!/bin/sh. If a script foobar needs to be interpreted with sh, just run it with '/bin/sh foobar', instead of ./foobar. Please don't put #include <stdlib.h> in your C source files. By doing
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by anatoly 17y ago
I completely agree that it's reasonable to get mad at someone who's willfully violating the license to your code. But there's getting mad, and there's consistently behaving like a trollish asshole. If you think diego's behavior at the link
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't understand the "within his right" response that was made in a few comments here. Everyone is within his right to behave like an asshole; it isn't against the law. You see people like diego behaving the way they do, and other devs su
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by anatoly 17y ago
It would surprise me if there was any scientific evidence of this kind. This would be incredibly difficult to measure, control for other variables, arrange for a sizable sample, etc.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Sorry; when I see those {% %} {{ }} I feel nauseated. Also, it's bizarre to use a language (Python) that uses indentation instead of endif's, closing braces, etc., and then turn around and require endif's and endfor's in your templat
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by anatoly 17y ago
I like web.py's approach to templates. A few simple uses of $, if I remember correctly. A minimalist aesthetic. A typical Python framework's templating system is contrived and looks ugly by comparison.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Before my mouseclick, This post had forty-two comments. ...I'm sorry.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I think it can be both; see http://genealogy.about.com/cs/surname/a/italian_surname.htm . Take heart in the fact that Joan of Arc's last name, which was probably Darc, was reinterpteted as d'Arc and transmogrified in English into "of Arc".
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by anatoly 17y ago
No, it comes from a common Slavic root of unclear origin chet- or shet- with meanings, in various languages, of "comb", "picket fence", "bristle", "fir needles", etc.
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by anatoly 17y ago
This is a good example of monolingual ignorance. Who is this "we" that don't use Galileo's last name? From reading the article, you could only draw the conclusion that it's everybody. The word "English" is nowhere to be found; all the reaso
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by anatoly 17y ago
Shorter Zed Shaw: "It annoys me that you're all talking about _why instead of talking about me, what I believe, what I did for the Ruby community, and how I left it. I'm going to try and change that."
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by anatoly 17y ago
Thank you for tracking down the papers.
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by anatoly 17y ago
What a disappointing article. Maybe there's more meat to the studies cited in it, but the way they're presented here makes them seem borderline trivial, and certainly much less interesting than claimed. 1. A baby sees a box with a lot of wh
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by anatoly 17y ago
I completely disagree. Do not rely on ancient texts to give you understanding of what mathematics is about. They're very difficult to read, they do not teach well, and you'll know next to nothing about even basic notions of mathematics, as
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by anatoly 17y ago
Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Clever, yet informative and to the point. I can't upvote you enough.
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by anatoly 17y ago
There's IE languages and IE languages. I think that, for example, a highly inflected free-word-order Slavic language may be more difficult to learn for an English speaker, and more revealing in the sense that you're referring to, than many
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by anatoly 17y ago
Wow, a boston.com story about git? Sounds unlikely on the face of it. Oh, wait.
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by anatoly 17y ago
You're right, and thanks for checking my ire. I probably exaggerated the merits of the tirade because I was so annoyed by all the smug comments that so clearly missed the not-so-sophisticated point about the cost of work. I still think it's
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm not confusing anything, I'm explaining to you what the original author meant by software not ever been free. Someone always bears the cost; if the user pays nothing whatsoever, the developer pays with his/her time, which they could have
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by anatoly 17y ago
What about the opportunity cost? You paid for this code with your time, which otherwise, if you felt like it, you presumably could have used to earn money. If your time is worthless, then indeed the code costs nothing; is it? That's the poi
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by anatoly 17y ago
According to your logic, we should put exactly the same trust in an article in NYTimes vs an article in the National Enquirer, only "flagging individual articles", that is, ignoring the well-deserved reputation of either source. That's not
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by anatoly 17y ago
Wow. Thanks!
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by anatoly 17y ago
The "fuck you, customer" is often a different way to raise esteem. The feeling is that if others read about how badass you are at not caring what others think of your projects, they will think you're badass and ask you to do contract work f
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by anatoly 17y ago
Functional programming DOES NOT PERMIT mutability or side-effects. I think the word you don't realize is missing there is "Pure". Pure functional programming, and pure functional style, is everything you think functional programming and f
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by anatoly 17y ago
Feel free to reply as many times as you'd like; however, you're a bit confused. You haven't read my comment attentively - Lisp is not my ad hoc definition of functional programming, and nothing in my words indicates that. I just used Lisp
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by anatoly 17y ago
I found this post to be a poor attempt at shoehorning the notional of functional languages into lambda calculus. Sure, functional programming is inspired by lambda calculus, but it doesn't reduce to it, and, what's important, never has - fr
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by anatoly 17y ago
avva.livejournal.com
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by anatoly 17y ago
I write a blog that's precisely of the sort that you think can't be interesting to others. Random thoughts about anything that interests me; rants, arguments, (rarely) mini-essays on anything in a long list of my interests. Very eclectic. I
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by anatoly 17y ago
That's kind of like saying that gravity is a universal excuse for rocks falling on your head. No, that's almost entirely unlike that. Gravity is well-understood and can be calculated and predicted. Predicting how a public company will beh

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