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by antiismist 18y ago
If you watched the video then you'd know that the designer did a great job of integrating the content into the design of the newspaper. It isn't a copy-paste job. There was design and layout and graphics that you just can't do on the web, a
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by antiismist 18y ago
That was my favorite part of the interview too. It sort of flips around the issue of something being "hard". I.E. how can a language be built to make hard problems easier, as opposed to how to use a language to solve a hard problem.
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Interview: Bruce Lewis on Web Develpment with Scheme(blog.lawnelephant.com)
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by antiismist 18y ago
Etherpad rocks. Just today I was thinking that it would be great to be able to use it as a platform - e.g. imagine a real time wiki.
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by antiismist 18y ago
The libraries aren't good for PLT scheme, at least for web development. For example, want to parse an RSS feed? Compare http://www.rubyrss.com/ to using HTML Prag ( http://www.neilvandyke.org/htmlprag/ ). Want to do billing? openid? you a
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by antiismist 18y ago
Agreed. And there is serious apples to oranges comparison here. For example, why is iTunes on the list? If one is including any business that transacts on the web, then Geico (over $1 billion last year) and many more should also be on the l
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by antiismist 18y ago
Instead of declaring a local function, you can use let ( http://docs.plt-scheme.org/reference/let.html ) e.g.: > (let fac ([n 10]) (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (fac (sub1 n))))) 3628800
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by antiismist 18y ago
I understand how the information is public and therefore free to use. All I'm saying is that it sounds great in theory, until someone goes ahead and makes your profile and gathers up your personal info and lets people rate you. I didn't ask
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by antiismist 18y ago
FWIW I find avvo to be pretty sleazy. I am a lawyer but haven't ever practiced law nor do I intend to. Nonetheless, avvo has created a profile for me that lists out my personal info (name, address, phone number, graduate school, undergrad),
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by antiismist 18y ago
That's cool. Could I interview you about developing web apps using Scheme? I'm working on a blog post / interview on the topic w/ all the people I know who do Scheme web development. Anyway if you are interested I'd love to hear from you, m
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by antiismist 18y ago
What is your scheme-based website? Is it ourdoings or something else? Just curious because there aren't a lot of them out there that I know of.
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by antiismist 18y ago
It depends on what they plan on doing - if they are running ads just on Stormpulse then there are lots of solutions available. If they are building a vertical ad network (i.e. connecting advertisers with multiple weather-related publishers)
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by antiismist 18y ago
Maybe http://news.ycombinator.com/active is what you are looking for?
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by antiismist 18y ago
Sort of a follow on ... right now the flow is: 1: click a button 2: select a user name 3: join a room You could eliminate step 2 (see, e.g. http://etherpad.com ) and defer the choosing of a username until later. That would make
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by antiismist 18y ago
Works as expected, good job. It took me a while to figure out what the right window does though. Once I figured it out I had some fun with a chatterbloc inside a chatterblock inside a chatterbloc.
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by antiismist 18y ago
Building the company long term does appear to be their strategy. But their ads are so low quality that they are, in fact, distracting. Surely running some nice creatives would be better?
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by antiismist 18y ago
There's a lot gamesmanship that goes on. For some sbir grants you can subcontract out 50% of the work. So you get a grant to work on some subcomponent of one of the major defense contractors (Raytheon, Lockheed, etc). Then you turn around a
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by antiismist 18y ago
Marc Andreesen said that Facebook doesn't run brand advertising by design. Anyone know why this is the case? Even though I don't like advertising generally, I'd much rather look at a well-crafted Nike / Apple creative than the weight loss /
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by antiismist 18y ago
It sounds like enough to win a lawsuit. The burden of proof is more likely than not. If they have software that tells them the names of the songs that were playing, then that is pretty damning evidence. Sure, you could have renamed your son
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by antiismist 18y ago
I used to be into Bill Simmons but lately not so much. I think once his wife (who knows nothing about football) beat him in NFL weekly predictions is when I made the switch from Simmons to Gregg Easterbrook.
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by antiismist 18y ago
Well someday Facebook might sell your info to credit agencies, which they can do at will. How will you feel when your credit rating gets lowered because of some off-hand comment you made on some blog?
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by antiismist 18y ago
True. I had something small deployed for a while but it ran into that same issue.
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by antiismist 18y ago
I feel the same way about ESPN. I like reading interesting articles about sports but it is actually not that easy to find good content - there is no hacker news for sports (yet!).
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by antiismist 18y ago
Justice is blind my friend. RIM decided not to settle, and it cost them ~ $612,500,000. http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_rim_settlement_few/
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by antiismist 18y ago
Put this in your .htaccess: Redirect 301 / http://www.gizmodo.com But seriously, when I look at the page: - it doesn't render properly in Firefox - it seems like a knockoff of gizmodo - it seems dead, e.g. everyone has 0 moojos.
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by antiismist 18y ago
I thought the term was vicariously lazy ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394 )
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by antiismist 18y ago
I know the feeling. I keep a running jargon.txt file that I use to capture marketing junk I hear at meetings, e.g. liase with leverage common voice knowledge base proliferate I was half thinking to make a website so other peo
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by antiismist 18y ago
You mean http://dotfiles.org (dotfiles.com hasn't been updated since 2006!)
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by antiismist 18y ago
A lot of people use google instead of typing in URLs. So to get to facebook, people go to google, then type in facebook or facebook.com, and then go from there.
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by antiismist 18y ago
Small world, my wife also shows youtube clips in her psych class, and has to download them b/c of lack of connectivity too.

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