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by astrec 18y ago
Talk about porting: The Little Schemer was The Little Lisper when I was in school.
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by astrec 18y ago
Ah memories! I consider myself very fortunate to have been one of Damian's students. The container box store mnemonic took me way back. He's not overstating the diversity thing either. In those days the CS program was C, Lisp, Prolog, C++,
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by astrec 18y ago
I just spent a better part of an hour typing out a response only to lose it. To summarize: Search is key. CL are a non-player in our market, but the CL equivalent cannot compete with us in automotive. Why? High quality reference data, the k
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by astrec 18y ago
Install GreaseKit for Safari and run the Greasemonkey script.
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Why people pirate software(sitepoint.com)
1 points by astrec 18y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 18y ago
They took a small, useful and elegant language, in part crippled by horrible, horrible, ugliness (e.g. for inner functions this points to the global object), and in preference to just fixing it, Javafied it. This is not to say that ES4 sh
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Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo) banned from talking about his hobbies(business.timesonline.co.uk)
2 points by astrec 18y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 18y ago
It's astonishing how many people you meet that have worked with Pick, and perhaps less so the percentage of those who love it. I know a whole stack of people using UniVerse and UniData. As for me, I worked with AP on SVR4 (NCR)and D3 on Uni
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by astrec 18y ago
COBOL programmer for cash? Been there, done that. I hated it so much I left to work on a Pick/BASIC system.
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by astrec 18y ago
I automatically hit the print link on most news sites these days: Clean layout, single page, readable font.
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by astrec 18y ago
He's merely critiquing the aesthetics. The whole 'unreadable' jazz is histrionics. Now for a pukka critique of Jakob's site take a look at DESIGN EYE for the Usability Guy http://www.designbyfire.com/000094.html
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by astrec 18y ago
Nokia addressed most of the N95 issues you describe with the N95-3, also called the N95 8Gb. 'Tethering' (bluetooth) is trivial so long as you know the APN. Works great on the train for me. Browser is webkit based and works very nicely, exc
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by astrec 18y ago
So then wouldn't his argument be true by definition? He's not simply saying strategy takes longer than tactics, but that tactics accelerated by virtue of being online do not infer strategy accelerated likewise.
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by astrec 18y ago
His point seems to be that on the web tactics work (or don't) really quickly but it's a trap to assume the same of strategy.
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by astrec 18y ago
The only problem is that people pay less attention because you don't sound as impressive... But as the brothers Heath show us in "Made to Stick", nobody will recall what you actually said.
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by astrec 18y ago
My pleasure. I had reservations about submitting it to a hacker forum, but a second reading left no doubt.
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by astrec 18y ago
Looking at my inbox this rings true: The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.
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Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language(ourcivilisation.com)
31 points by astrec 18y ago|11 comments
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Malice in Wonderland: Privacy on the Net.(theage.com.au)
3 points by astrec 18y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 18y ago
#django, #startups, #twitter @ freenode
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by astrec 18y ago
The Austin Wiltshire quote was interesting - I don't imagine YC is doing much better than break even at this point.
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by astrec 18y ago
Bravo! ;)
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by astrec 18y ago
Agreed. I'm also quite firm that you can maintain an obsession for your vision of "perfection" without being a prick about it.
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by astrec 18y ago
Qantas has been doing more that its share of trial and error of late - but the 60+ year lucky streak still holds. I wonder if outsourcing maintenance to Asia might not be one of Dixon's smarter schemes.
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by astrec 18y ago
And whilst I agree a merely competent employee is unlikely to create great software, I hope you're not saying only abrasive, obsessive perfectionists can create great software. As for the example, def f(x,y): return x > y n
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by astrec 18y ago
Yet, if you follow the responses both positive and negative, also not so great. Let's imagine I'm to python hacking as Giles is to restaurant criticism. I punch out such a cracking piece of code that Guido himself wept on his first reading.
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by astrec 18y ago
I reckon this is more comparable to the Ruby version: from random import Random from threading import Thread rand = Random().random THREADS, SIZE = 20, 100000 threads = [] class Test(Thread): def __init__ (self):
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by astrec 18y ago
Further, his code contains at least one example of each and every pattern described by the GoF.
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by astrec 18y ago
Wow. In a world where philosophy was reserved for 'philosophers', art for 'artists', hacking for 'programmers' and business for 'businessmen' the hapless inhabitants would be sleeping the open and picking berries. Thankfully this ain't 'tha
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by astrec 18y ago
Don't drop out of high school: Hack nights. Hack early mornings. Hack at lunchtime. Allot some time to party/chase girls/work out. Most of all make sure you're having fun. Before long you'll find you've built something of substance. It migh

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