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by apl 16y ago
> I will continue to double-space until I'm dead. Do you have a reason for doing so?
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by apl 16y ago
All Harvard kids are rich rowers, all Oxbridge students are posh sons and daughters of politicians and aristocrats, and all these state-educated kids were rejected simply because they didn't wear the right clothes, amirite? Bla. I do around
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by apl 16y ago
Unfortunate, really unfortunate, because the software is good. Back to org-mode and Dropbox then.
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by apl 16y ago
One more thing to keep in mind: Cambridge and Oxford interviews are more about thought process than actual solutions. I've seen candidates with correct answers not get in while peers who never found an adequate solution make it. Interesting
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by apl 16y ago
This looks fine and all. But allow me to ask: Is it web scale?
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by apl 16y ago
Title is annoyingly misleading. Good article, though.
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by apl 16y ago
Well, to be fair, I'd be surprised if the number was any larger than that. Recording straight to CD in this day and age isn't what one usually calls a compelling proposition. Don't blame the store; don't generalize to others. (NB, I'm sure
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by apl 16y ago
Maybe you're just wrong about this? I know, crazy, but that kind of stuff does indeed happen. No one is out to get you. The authors refuse to give up a student because it contradicts their core values as exemplified by several academic
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by apl 16y ago
Very tasteful .
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by apl 16y ago
> Or consider using newLisp (newLisp.org) -- > easy to use and it has a very nice IDE. It's FREE too. You may add sucking as a Lisp to that list of virtues.
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by apl 16y ago
Seven lines, of course. It's obviously in the standard library.
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by apl 16y ago
Credibility, of course.
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by apl 16y ago
Have to agree with this assessment. First time I tried to decipher it, the domain appeared to be a mildly self-destructive command aimed at a fellow called Icu.
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by apl 16y ago
Given that the language itself is so very mundane, I'd recommend implementing a fun and challenging project of your own choice -- in Java, of course. Preferably one that won't consist of plugging framework A into framework B. Language-cen
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by apl 16y ago
Having interacted with both, I can definitely say yes. Post an obvious or basic question to comp.lang.lisp, and enjoy being ripped to shreds.
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by apl 16y ago
Why is this not widely known? Amazing stuff.
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Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm in JavaScript(bramstein.com)
138 points by apl 16y ago|42 comments
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by apl 16y ago
Sometimes, when the ol' fever comes back and nobody's there to remind me that we have come to accept HTML/CSS, I dream of a world wide web built on TeX and TeX alone. It's a place of wonder, and happiness, and river-less paragraphs. Then I
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by apl 16y ago
Why yes, it did. You seem a little prudish for someone who goes by the moniker of Mr Goatse.
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by apl 16y ago
I suspect it's the opposite. They built a solid , not spectacular business on clever marketing and craftsmanship. Then they extracted witty aphorisms from it, and became heroes. It's a bunch of platitudes. Nothing straightforwardly false,
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by apl 16y ago
Maybe it's a consequence of the language choice (typically C++)... Because it allows them to type as fast as they can, or because it forces them to do so?
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by apl 16y ago
Context? Besides, my argument doesn't really depend on whether you put "performance" or "popularity." Also, I was joking.
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by apl 16y ago
It'd be interesting to observe their workflow, from editor choice to debugging methodology. Sure, choosing and developing a sensible algorithm is the "meaty" part. I, for one, am fairly impressed by the stuff these kids do. But I'd be surpr
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by apl 16y ago
I'll try. At some point in the past, you predicted (possibly implicitly, given that we're dealing with "surprise") that JS wouldn't reach the performance it has today. But it evidently did. So you're not very good at predicting the developm
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by apl 16y ago
How up to date is this book?
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by apl 16y ago
But if you're filling a RoR web development position does it matter? Yes, it most certainly does. In the long run, the developer with the better grasp of fundamentals (e.g., discrete maths, data structures, algorithms and so on) will prod
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by apl 16y ago
There was a similar discussion elsewhere about this. Short version: what's the point in developing them? Despite what ardent proponents of either will tell you, they're essentially the same language. Porting code from one to the other is st
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by apl 16y ago
There are certain (secluded) populations that do not report certain illusions (e.g., Muller-Lyer effect) as strongly as Western subjects do. Standard explanation is that, living in architecturally under-developed environments, they lack
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by apl 16y ago
They work in 9-10 hour shifts, 24/7, with hundreds of people to check (often people who doesn’t know any English word) during peek times. Quite frankly, the expression "peek time" in this context is nothing short of hilarious. Well played
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by apl 16y ago
but I would like to stay away from relational databases What's the specific reason for that, if any? I'm not trying to criticize you, although people really do keep overestimating their need for non-relational storage solutions. Outlining

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