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by anonjon 17y ago
I think that this is an unfair criticism; you don't really supply any evidence. (Other than that Lispers are completely oblivious to anything but lisp). ML and Haskell have certainly surpassed common lisp in some respects, but to say that t
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by anonjon 17y ago
Right now I have a laptop hooked up to a 24" monitor. It is sweet. The nice thing about having it as a laptop is if you have to go collaborate you can go to a meeting room and both sit down with your laptops. As opposed to, i don't know, re
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by anonjon 17y ago
You shouldn't fabricate a screwdriver building factory! you should fabricate a tool fabrication factory factory!
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think you are missing my main point. If the java code is faster, and you really need speed, just call the optimized java code. If you take seriously the rule that most programs spend 90% of their cycles in a limited number of subroutines
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think that it is difficult to know what constitutes a 'fair benchmark' for Clojure. Are we talking unadorned Clojure, Clojure with type annotations, Clojure using Java structures, or Clojure calling Java code? Clojure calling Java is as f
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by anonjon 17y ago
It is hard to describe in a HN post why Clojure is a good idea. Easy concurrency is a reason, certainly. You can build applications without having to worry too much about locks and such. You can utilize in language data structures for concu
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by anonjon 17y ago
Sure, of course. I guess my point is: Think of the patent debate as a continuum where at one end you have 'strong patents' and at the other end you have 'weak patents'. At the strong patents end you have a prevalence of IP trolling. At the
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by anonjon 17y ago
This whole debate kind of seems like a livelock with no obvious solution. If you make patents too powerful, you get people 'patent trolling' and producing a lot of vague patents with no intentions of implementing/putting to use/selling the
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by anonjon 17y ago
When I absolutely need to get a piece of code or documentation done right now, I disconnect my computer from the Internet. It is a lot easier to activate hack-mode if you aren't updating your IM status, checking twitter, checking proggit, c
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by anonjon 17y ago
I am surprised this isn't mentioned yet, but Prolog makes a very acceptable query language. Although I think in that version it is called 'Datalog'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog It is obviously much different than SQL. There are a
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by anonjon 17y ago
From the article: "However, I cringe when I hear the title “CEO” used lightly. To me, it conveys a lack of humility and a desperate call for attention." Lacking humility and making desperate calls for attention? High school is all about lac
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by anonjon 17y ago
I am not sure if you are cheap-shotting Dennet and Wittgenstein or philosophy as a whole. I think if you were to genuinely throw away the last 100 years of philosophy, you would not find yourself in an intellectually better place.
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by anonjon 17y ago
This seems like a hugely un-necessary thing to do; I imagine the next headline on the news will be "NSA rescued from 2 square mile apartment filled with 8000 cats and pizza boxes to the ceiling". I honestly can't think of any technology tha
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by anonjon 17y ago
Whether or not I'm wrong, where are the analogies? Taxes are indeed forced upon us, but you benefit directly from the system that taxes support. If you do not want to pay taxes, you always have the option to leave the safety of the system (
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by anonjon 17y ago
that's hardly an obscure reference.* *or is it
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by anonjon 17y ago
Perhaps I can explain the disturbtion? My taxes to the government are more of an exchange of services. My government gives me roads to drive on, schools to send my kids to, police, fire department, parks, regulation of various industries, l
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by anonjon 17y ago
In my defense, it was a pun too obvious to resist. And honestly, I think of a hack as a quick and/or dirty technique to get the job done (even if its ugly or imperfect, or falls apart under scrutiny). A hack is a shortcut of some sort. Hiri
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by anonjon 17y ago
Don't hire hacks, hire people who are talented.
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by anonjon 17y ago
is hilarious?
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by anonjon 17y ago
I'm writing a blog post. I'm going to entitle it "Set Yourself On Fire". It's gonna be all about how warm it is when you set yourself on fire. Seriously though, isn't there a difference between taking a risk and taking a risk that might pay
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by anonjon 17y ago
Eh, these all seem to violate the rules. They have time to make money from 2 hours after they open the envelope. If you make your money outside of that time, how is it supposed to count towards the money that you made for the project? Why c
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by anonjon 17y ago
Creepy, but I think we can make it more creepy: If you do this investment and the person takes out a life insurance policy on themselves, and they die, do you get 3% of the life insurance policy? Although, I dunno, isn't this what having
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by anonjon 17y ago
yeah and 'underling' or 'sidekick'? Can we make different semantic maps to match up with different (possibly distorted) perceptions of reality? If 'to be is to be perceived', it seems that a single semantic web will be flawed as it canonica
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by anonjon 17y ago
I disagree, any type of programming is magic. I'm tired of these software 'engineering' types who insist that computers are run by using 'maths' and 'numbers' (whatever those are). Clearly, computers are run by aphasic tonally-separated spi
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by anonjon 17y ago
This would be more fun if there were animation and special effects and stuff. I opened this expecting to have a really fun time creating a detailed account of a made up accident (as I haven't been in an accident yet), but instead it was kin
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by anonjon 17y ago
In fact, the paper proves itself recursively. People who have achieved a high level in academia putting a lot of effort into a study that proves that people who achieve highly in academia have a lot of self discipline (i.e. put in a lot of