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by arohner 17y ago
I'm confused. When he starts out, he seems to be saying the problem is that the news is printed, regardless of whether it's news or not. Yet at the end, his solution to 'web overload' is the daily news.
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by arohner 17y ago
In that case, C has highly restricted first class functions. "restricted first class" is a contradiction, IMO. First class with restrictions is not first class.
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by arohner 17y ago
and first-class anonymous functions
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by arohner 17y ago
Let's say person A claims we are all living in a perfect computer simulation, and person B instead claims the world was created by a pink unicorn. How do you construct a rational argument about which one to believe?
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by arohner 17y ago
Why do you have to? A perfect simulation of the real world is not a falsifiable hypothesis, therefore rational argument doesn't apply.
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by arohner 17y ago
> You can't write a 3d engine in excel You can, a guy has done it. I'm only being pedantic because this is cool if you haven't seen it: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_r...
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by arohner 17y ago
> Both are out of the scope of the abstraction; inside the scope of the abstraction, TCP ensures that packets arrive in the correct order, and C ensures that your program can work on a variety of CPUs. But that's exactly Joel's point.
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by arohner 17y ago
Excellent advice. In a related note, why do all those Enterprise Software Startups appear to have the same website? The one that has different links about how FooSoft can help for each different industry, and you have to go to wikipedia to
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by arohner 17y ago
That's a scoping problem, not a closure problem. The issue in this example is that python doesn't have true lexical scope. It has three scopes: function level, class level, file level. If you wrote "global blah", it would look at file level
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by arohner 17y ago
I've found similar systems to be very useful in certain situations, including: refactoring, rapidly changing code bases, and code that doesn't have enough unit tests. Yes, all of these situations could be improved by having more unit tests,
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by arohner 17y ago
The problem is that ruby implicitly casts in a way that loses precision, exactly the opposite of what the author (may) desire. Call it whatever you want. 2**100 => 1267650600228229401496703205376 > (2**100).class =
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by arohner 17y ago
There are a lot of good ideas here for any large scale creative outfit, not just games.
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by arohner 17y ago
This was a more useful article than the actual post
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by arohner 17y ago
>As I see it, the Perl attitude is that these constructs should be forbidden by social contract rather than by the language itself. In most other languages with "dangerous" constructs, having the dangerous construct usually allows power
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by arohner 17y ago
This is exactly what I'm working on. I already linked it once today, see my user page if you're interested.
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by arohner 17y ago
Founder at http://reasonr.com It's an improvement on forums/Yahoo Answers for troubleshooting technical problems. Similar technology to hunch.com but applied to a practical use. Warning: Still young, obviously needs a lot more polish befo
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by arohner 17y ago
A previous day job of mine was at a company that does DICOM viewing and transmission. They did/do it pre- and post- HIPAA. HIPAA isn't too bad for software vendors. Just keep your records in order, and follow basic software engineering &#38
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by arohner 17y ago
The problem is that I assume there are ruby users out there who think this is a good idea, even though I support that claim with the evidence of "disable whiny nils" in Rails? I'm not "randomly" bashing the ruby community. This is a clever
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by arohner 17y ago
Yeah, it's only a little memory corruption, no big deal. I can tell the author is aware of the risks, but I'm sure there are ruby users out there that think this is a good idea. This is exactly what is wrong with the Ruby community. Rails h
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by arohner 17y ago
Interesting article, with some useful insight, but I don't agree. I had talked about creating a startup for a while, but it was hating my job that pushed me over the edge. Yes, starting a company is hard. Yes, it can be boring and frustrati
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by arohner 17y ago
The other half of this article, that Clojure code requires less testing, is also interesting. I've noticed the same thing myself. Once the author had specified the problem, I thought of the solution in my head "he's going to map over the ep
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by arohner 17y ago
Joda time has this concept, it calls it a partial http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/key_partial.html . A partial is a datetime without a time zone, so it only partially specifies a time. You can combine a partial with a timezone to get a
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by arohner 17y ago
> most applications and most people do not have to deal with that and it's a pure waste of time to add timezone handling. If your application deals with times at hour resolution or finer, you need to handle timezones, or you will have
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Amazon in Love: The Four-Year-Long Courtship of Zappos(pehub.com)
2 points by arohner 17y ago|0 comments
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by arohner 17y ago
More information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee334183.aspx and http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/6/9560741A-EEFC-4... [PDF] MSFT's STM strengthens my belief that STM cannot be done correctly without modifying the l
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by arohner 17y ago
Needing to soak the beans is an artifact of cooking on wood burning stoves. The water breaks down the beans before you cook, which is advantageous if your stove isn't that hot, or you're burning something expensive, like wood. If you have a
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by arohner 17y ago
Fine, IANAL. Maybe we can't have a contract that says Amazon can literally break down doors but you can sign contracts that have physical analogs that require you returning the book to Amazon. The core of my point still stands though. Amazo
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by arohner 17y ago
>But it's copyright laws that allowed this to happen legally. How should Amazon decide which legal rights publishers get to keep and which rights they don't? Legally, you can write a contract that says Amazon has the right to break into
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by arohner 17y ago
> Surely, it isn’t Amazon’s responsibility to judge which laws are moral and which aren’t - that’s what we pay all those people in Washington for. No. We pay people in congress to decide what is legal , not what is moral .
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by arohner 17y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Both of your replies have been more productive than your original comment.

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