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by anonjon 17y ago
Really? My flat screen has a PC port (I can use it as a 42" monitor...) It is new and big but otherwise no-frills. Computer monitors and LCD TVs use essentially the same technology...
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by anonjon 17y ago
Ok, I don't actually see any example of people being arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks in this article. I see a lot of relatively minor risk-taking behavior. Saying 'my drafting is fine' when it really isnt, is a risk, because you could fail
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by anonjon 17y ago
Why do you assume people don't release software in Common Lisp? When you buy a piece of no one writes on the packaging "we did this in C++!" or "We did this in Java!" Why would you expect a big "Common Lisp!" sticker on the packaging? The d
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by anonjon 17y ago
All things being equal, lisp was in use much more back in the 70s and 80s than it was in the 90s or 00s. It makes sense for the majority of people who would think to use lisp to be a bit grayer.
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by anonjon 17y ago
"A male sex robot named Rocky is in development." So can you buy one of each and mate them and produce the second generation? Genetic programming ftw.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think of the non-hardware parts of computer science as applied philosophy. Art seems wrong to me as a descriptor because it would imply that I'm writing code for a sort of aesthetic beauty. The aesthetic beauty should be in the end result
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by anonjon 17y ago
You need some guidelines so that you know how to vote/when to flag. It is very possible that I like an article and hate the misleading headline.
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by anonjon 17y ago
When I first used facebook I seem to remember that there were no privacy settings whatsoever, but people who could see you were restricted to your college. When Facebook was first opened to people outside of your college, there was a lot of
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by anonjon 17y ago
lisp is written in lisp. (and sometimes C)
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by anonjon 17y ago
Right, that is the reason that there is such a huge difference between the runtime for eval between the languages. Macros do slow down eval if you are doing macro-expansion. They are complicated enough that normally you do not write (or exp
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by anonjon 17y ago
I'm not saying that newlisp is to be avoided, but: Lisp's power is not in its lack of 'syntax', but in the specific way that the code is structured. You can write code that writes code. The regular structure of the code helps this, not the
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by anonjon 17y ago
Right, I think the point is that quality and freedom are not correlated. Regardless of the code quality, the user needs to have the ability to fix bugs, write extensions, and distribute them whether or not the original author is around or
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by anonjon 17y ago
Why can't it be weighted so that if one person up votes the same person all of the time, the up votes start to count for less. Or if one person up votes more in general his up votes count for less. Could be the same with down votes as well.
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by anonjon 17y ago
The problem in humanities is that the market is saturated, also, the majority of undergraduate classes are taught by graduate students (they're cheap!), further reducing the number of potential hiring positions. So you have to actually be e
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by anonjon 17y ago
It is an exaggeration; but only a wild one if you are doing very simple examples. Imagine you have a 'mutable' program and I have a line that says something like this. (defun frob (a b) (+ (foo a) (bar b))) Not only is frob dependent on t
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All my methods take 316 arguments, and I like it that way(muckandbrass.com)
97 points by anonjon 17y ago|86 comments
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by anonjon 17y ago
I always take it to mean that a down vote is supposed to represent that the content of the post was off-topic, misinformed, or otherwise not useful or inappropriate. I often up-vote people that I disagree with (or who are disagreeing with m
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by anonjon 17y ago
I'm thinking 100% likelihood if I expressed a genuine interest.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think that is an over-generalization. There is no point in gaining a whole bunch of knowledge if you are not going to pass it on somehow. You are not going to use it as you decompose. I think that the cleverest people I have met were also
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by anonjon 17y ago
I bet I could save many times more than 10,000 a year by eliminating a CFO.
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by anonjon 17y ago
The way I read the article was that we would cut NASA up into a number of rapidly iterating teams, each analogous to a small company. If you take this model and comparison to heart, and realize that there are actually /two/ levels of 'loopi
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by anonjon 17y ago
This is an awful analogy because silicon valley has a huge failure rate for companies. Even an established company can fail quite rapidly. Imagine launching the shuttle and 90% of the time it blows up spectacularly. That would not do anythi
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by anonjon 17y ago
No. There is a correlation between tea and coffee and reduced prevalence of type 2 diabetes. This is much different from 'cutting' type 2 diabetes risk. It is more likely that not drinking sugar water (i.e. coke, mountain dew) that cuts typ
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by anonjon 17y ago
I have a BA in philosophy and do software stuff. I always found school pretty easy and went to a 'name brand' type of school, where the philosophy department was one of the hardest departments there. Some who graduate with philosophy degree
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by anonjon 17y ago
But it is weird to just stare at people, you have to also smile and say 'hi' or 'hello'. then again, that might vie into the range of basic human hospitability.
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by anonjon 17y ago
An interesting experiment to try is to spend one day walking around making eye contact with everyone who passes by, and another walking around not making eye contact with people. In my experience, my day always ends up being better when I'm
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by anonjon 17y ago
I was using ignorance not in the pejorative sense of intelligence, but in the sense of lack of knowledge about a subject. Someone who would say that geeks don't shower is misinformed (or under-informed). The point is that non-geeks don't wa
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by anonjon 17y ago
There is more than one potential conclusion to draw from this. The conclusion drawn here seems to be that geeks somehow exclude non-geeks from certain fields. Another conclusion would be that non-geeks self-select themselves out of certain
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by anonjon 17y ago
Whether or not you are serious, indeed they should have something in the works for a standard whose draft specification is dated today. I think the bigger issue is that Microsoft doesn't bother adhering to standards; Or they make up their o
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by anonjon 17y ago
I agree with you, but why can't this be used as an excuse to kill internet explorer? It seems that IE has been a consistent impediment to web based technologies for upwards of 10 years now. There have been so many other things that have bee

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