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811.
by apgwoz 17y ago
Also interesting to note that there are 50 stories on the front page instead of 30. Was loading 20 more stories really that inefficient that this had to be dropped?
812.
by apgwoz 17y ago
couldn't agree more. But, that's what readability ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ) is for!
813.
8.75 Pieces of Highly Pragmatic Startup Start'n Gold(monkeytainment.com)
15 points by apgwoz 17y ago|4 comments
814.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I'm hard pressed to think of a 16 digit number that I'd want to search for, but I suppose there could be one. Barcodes, ISBNs, etc. But, for the summaries of search results, I see no reason why scrubbing the numbers would be a bad thing. I
815.
by apgwoz 17y ago
The more interesting part about this article is the conclusion at the end: You know, to some extent it almost doesn’t matter how well this pencil works or not, it’s the thought that counts. These sorts of ideas and innovation
816.
An Always Sharp Pencil: Uni Kuru Toga(davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com)
7 points by apgwoz 17y ago|2 comments
817.
Gradual Typing for Functional Languages(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
13 points by apgwoz 17y ago|0 comments
818.
Facebook nixing 'Facebook Connect' branding(news.cnet.com)
10 points by apgwoz 17y ago|1 comments
819.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I never understood how swearing could be offensive. Actually, I find people that find words offensive, offensive.
820.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I almost want to volunteer to do the one for Scheme, but I don't know if I can commit to it.
821.
by apgwoz 17y ago
Fair enough!
822.
Scheme Bricks(pawfal.org)
9 points by apgwoz 17y ago|3 comments
823.
by apgwoz 17y ago
The thing that sort of pisses me off about this too, is that Slava is a proponent of Common Lisp (weblocks, cl-cont, various essays). Plus, there's no reason that Common Lisp couldn't be used for a high end database product--AllegroGraph is
824.
by apgwoz 17y ago
You guys rock. This doesn't really impact me, but releasing this feature on a day like today--brilliant!
825.
Everyone's a Designer(surleevoyage.com)
2 points by apgwoz 17y ago|0 comments
826.
by apgwoz 17y ago
bc; dr (browser crashed; didn't read)
827.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I encourage you to take a step back then, and read The Little Schemer. It focuses not on the high level cool things in Scheme, but instead putting forms together to create things you find in every implementation out there.
828.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I disagree, an I think the PLT scheme people who are teaching programming via scheme to high schoolers and college freshmen would disagree as well. Scheme is fundamentally simple. There is virtually no syntax. Scoping is lexical, and makes
829.
by apgwoz 17y ago
And this is sad. I realize that there's a reluctance of programmers to learn scheme, but someone needs to step forward and help people see the light! What about defining a simple LL(1) grammar on top of tinyscheme and allowing both scheme a
830.
by apgwoz 17y ago
Most people wouldn't consider it, but what about TinyScheme? It's small, around the 5000 line mark, a single C file, and an init.scm file, and hackable.
831.
by apgwoz 17y ago
This is potentially really handy, but it failed my math test: ∃ x | x ∈ ℝ But, then again, it's Twitter, not Mather.
832.
by apgwoz 17y ago
If that was subtext, I'd hate to see what outright is.
833.
by apgwoz 17y ago
Books about Richard Feynman, or essays, etc. by him. "Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman!" in particular. I guess, this is unfair, as eventually he did get into software/hardware, but....
834.
by apgwoz 17y ago
racket n. an illegal or dishonest scheme Makes perfect sense.
835.
by apgwoz 17y ago
No. http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-dev/2010-February/002...
836.
by apgwoz 17y ago
X Forwarding. And for those of us that are emacs users, use emacsclient to connect to a remote server or use Tramp mode--this is a solved problem.
837.
by apgwoz 17y ago
Actually, though I'm using 2.X in everything I'm doing, I'd rather see it only appear in 3.X. There has to be something that drives people to port stuff to 3.X or it's not going to happen. Dramatic speed improvements such as what this po
838.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I started implementing this idea a couple months ago. Http://faveheart.appspot.com
839.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I've often wondered this. Last week rich hickey mentioned this at clojure NYC, and they only things he mentioned were the fully qualifying namespaces (which resolves to the original package it was defined in) and the auto gensyms. I assume
840.
by apgwoz 17y ago
I was thinking maybe something like HoloToy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lipIyMp6w8w

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