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by asolove 17y ago
If you know what the proposed design is for your system, can't you simply google search for the field names and tables there and see if you find something strangely similar?
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by asolove 17y ago
I think that's the point, not the irony: "we believe in an actual deity who does various things, whereas elite Westerners believe in a manufacturer of gadgets."
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by asolove 17y ago
This assumes that "design" should be narrowly construed as "decoration" that "solves a problem" (like: "what color should the header font be to make it stand out?") On the other hand, the whole UX movement and firms like Adaptive Path have
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by asolove 17y ago
Indeed. I keep thinking: if only there were some distributed way to determine which stories people thought should be voted up and which they thought should be voted down...
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by asolove 17y ago
It takes five seconds to upload the pdf to Lulu yourself and you can take advantage of their discount when buying a book that you yourself produced.
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by asolove 17y ago
Typography is a complicated field requiring some knowledge of technical, artistic, and psychological material. I wouldn't expect a typographer to be able to come to HN and understand the technical meaning of "functional" in "functional prog
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by asolove 17y ago
Obviously this can be expanded by adding colorized svn output and setting your svn status and ls formats as you would like.
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by asolove 17y ago
.bashrc: alias ls="my_ls" my_ls (chmod +x): if [ -d .svn ]; then svn status else ls fi
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by asolove 17y ago
Should have mentioned to jump to the bottom of the page. Many of the examples are ugly, but Minion and Utopia are, of course, pro Adobe fonts used in a large number of professionally-typeset books.
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by asolove 17y ago
So let's say I am totally convinced, not by the programmability, but by the combination of unicode support and microtypography. For LaTeX, everyone knows that to get professional output you just read through the two (!) manuals for the memo
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by asolove 17y ago
There are some surprising available math fonts, here is a page with sample output showing which available math fonts match which available text fonts: http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/s...
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by asolove 17y ago
No, would rather do things.
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by asolove 17y ago
Summary: "Because I'm used to something else." - executables: [1] - library: while there are certain libraries that are harder to set up in CL than Ruby/Python, the provided example of list and string functions is laughable. [2] [3] [1] ht
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by asolove 17y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by asolove 17y ago
Can you explain? I don't know anything about why the internal design won't work anymore.
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by asolove 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
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by asolove 17y ago
We should add this to our i18n software so that they are switched for languages that read right-to-left.
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by asolove 17y ago
The poster makes three claims: 1. The search was spelled wrong. True, although the Western media often spells Tiananmen, Tian'anmen is more correct in untoned official pinyin. 2. People in China would not link to "Tiananmen" in reference to
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by asolove 17y ago
Hot code loading in NodeJS has been implemented many times, see e.g.: http://romeda.org/blog/2010/01/hot-code-loading-in-nodejs.ht...
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by asolove 17y ago
Because society is basically one enormous, opaque device driver blob? It specifies an arbitrary input/output format so ugly that seeing the underlying reasoning would be an embarrassment.
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by asolove 17y ago
This is a very helpful post. How often do we run into people who are headstrong, and probably even right when we disagree with them, but who ultimately will benefit from a slightly more humble and careful way of working. Clean coding is as
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by asolove 17y ago
Does this really count as good news? The choice a user makes on the ballot screen is essentially random. That their downloads triple just says that they originally had very few downloads.
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by asolove 17y ago
Anyone taken it apart to see what hardware is on the inside? If anyone gets this running with Linux/BSD and a compiler, I'll get together a keyboard attachment along the lines of: http://adamsolove.com/index.php?id=3
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by asolove 17y ago
Summary: side-effect free programming allows compilers to transform high-level code into very efficient machine code. I've always wondered about the utility of this in exploratory programming. We always hear how great Lisp is because of dyn
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by asolove 17y ago
Researching the sam editor is strangely intriguing. See Rob Pike's description of the command language: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf
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by asolove 17y ago
Presumably you meant: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...
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by asolove 17y ago
But what is the meaning of "pure" here? Stretching back over the last forty years of Lisp, then Prolog, etc., it's a moving target. "Pure" once meant using routines instead of GOTO. Then it meant structured instead of GOTO. Then recursion r
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by asolove 17y ago
Because once a technique becomes widely used, we stop calling it "functional." (Loosely borrowed from the same explanation for the lack of success in AI) Map/reduce comes from functional languages, but now we're used to it. Write-once var
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by asolove 17y ago
Build it and see if anyone pays you for it.
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by asolove 17y ago
My father always told me (and it's worked for me): - The cover letter gets you an interview. From a huge pile of applications, it makes you somehow memorable to a hiring manager who would just like to make the right decision quickly. So don

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