andrewcooke

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by andrewcooke 17y ago
maybe learning isn't equivalent to getting rich, and maybe people are motivated by the latter.
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by andrewcooke 17y ago
just wanted to make a point that others seem to have missed. to the extent that this is avoiding taxes so that more money can be given to a particular charity, isn't it "robbing peter to pay paul"? this might not make much sense to the ame
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by andrewcooke 17y ago
but have you ever been on the other side? seems like people ask, you explain the right way, they look at you like you're speaking greek, and go back to copy + pasting... in other words, i think timing matters. once you're bored with the c
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by andrewcooke 18y ago
i read through some answers here and i nodded in agreement with raganwald saying that this only worked as a filter on failure. but then i read this and i thought "would i really want to give a job to someone who needs a pen and paper to sub
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by andrewcooke 18y ago
i'm not sure there's a good answer to this, apart from "keep trying and become a better programmer", but maybe if i explain why it is hard to read code it will help you see how to improve. the trouble with most programming languages is that
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by andrewcooke 19y ago
they're driven by "licensing considerations". big music won't let them play the track you ask for directly. nor can you, for example, skip tracks until you find it (there's a limit to how many tracks you can skip in a certain time interva
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by andrewcooke 19y ago
couldn't this be ameliorated by forcing dns responses with short ttls to be persistent for longer periods? how much of an impact would that have on load balancing strategies? would anything else be affected?
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by andrewcooke 19y ago
40 + phd (thank god for electric)
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by andrewcooke 19y ago
i suspect you feel more productive when you're happier. and you have a new toy so you are happy. personally, i program on a 12" screen and love being able to work anywhere - typically on a bean bag in the corner of my office, but sometimes
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Getting Started with Gambit and Snow (an alternative to R6RS?)(acooke.org)
2 points by andrewcooke 19y ago|0 comments
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by andrewcooke 20y ago
You're presenting a false dichotomy. You don't get smaller code by making it incomprehensible. It gets smaller because it's cleaner and clearer. Think of the problem in terms of compression. You can compress via syntax or by semantics.