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by aufreak3 16y ago
Agree. In particular, with native client and webgl (and I hope some, at least, half decent thought given to audio), something the under the ground is moving.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
More than just MacRUby is to come I think. After Apple recently retracted their limitations on languages and runtimes, I'm actually drooling over the possibility of a slew of dev env apps for various languages including Squeak, SuperCollide
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I believe you can turn it off. Just do it. They're watching you anyways.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Wonder whether there is any code of the kind "if (platform1) doA() else if (platform2) doB() ..." in there.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I write a fair amount of Scheme code. I don't like the one closing paren per line thing for a reason similar to why python and haskell choose indentation for grouping (try adding braces to them). Code written like that looks bigger than it
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by aufreak3 16y ago
If you want good advice from the previous generation, get it for general direction as opposed to something specific like "I want to hold my wedding at the south pole". Good mentors and teachers know the inner scenery rather well and can h
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Debugging offers a most excellent opportunity to practice science - Observe, Hypothesize, Test, Repeat. And just like regular science, bugs span the entire range of trivial to the head-explodingly-elusive. Observation is in particular quite
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Looks like it is not yet available to "the rest of the world" - Asia :(
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I really recommend fossil. It integrates a wiki, scm and bug tracker in a single sleek package. Its a single stand-alone <1MB executable and the repo itself is a single sqlite file.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Backup, backup, backup. I keep critical stuff on 3 different physical media and in different locations. Hard disk + DVDs + online. I feel so sorry for this guy but would never put myself in that position. Now I need to plan for the foreto
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by aufreak3 16y ago
TDD folks will ask you to write tests first, then code. At least, for the example you used to make your question concrete, I'd first collect data I can use for testing before writing test code. You can even ask around for data. Doing this
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Interesting letter. Never seen before. Thanks for the links! .. btw my point was not so much about Einstein's religious beliefs, but just that even he found changing beliefs (scientific ones) hard.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Religion is not self-correcting Not all of them. There is at least 1500 years of recorded tradition (500BC to 1000AD) of it not being that way. In India, the tradition during that period held that if philosopher A lost in an argumentative
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I was :) ... but it is easy to see it that way considering all the jokes that the speaker throws to great response from the audience. Scientific process is often used to disqualify religious nonsense All I'm saying is that scientific proc
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by aufreak3 16y ago
And lets forget overwhelming majority of the religious reference that science obliterates. This is actually funny. Science works by obliterating ... itself. Newton's law of gravity is wrong. That certainly doesn't discredit Newton. Its ok
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I have something of an awe for atheists. They seem to have a clearer idea of "God" than the rest because they clearly don't believe it .. or He or She or I dunno .. but they seem to. I liked the ending note on humility where he presented a
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Beautiful quote from the talk. Nevertheless, this still shows attachment to the "matter" that he himself says seems irrelevant to the universe as we've now come to understand it. About 30% in dark matter, about 70% in Nothing. Matter is jus
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Frankly, this is just punditry. Nothing wrong with trying something and failing at it and moving on cutting your losses short. I give google the credit for choosing to fail this way instead of failing with, say, marketing efforts.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I think the task that the author is referring to is that of taking an imprecise specification of "what I want" and generating an implementation that automatically resolves all ambiguities and inconsistencies in the specification.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Nice one. Regarding point 7 ("what changes can be reversed"), tendencies are different for the younger cohort compared to those who grew up with DOS. Younger people actually try a lot without fear of serious damage, so if you're building fo
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Here is a summary of Inception that I read somewhere, but can't recall where right now. "If you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM, things get really slow."
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LM&F: The Great Delegator (or the great dictator?)(facebook.com)
1 points by aufreak3 16y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 16y ago
C++ and a Scheme dialect at work. Mathematica for research. SuperCollider for audio work. Played around with Haskell, Lua, Python, Oz and Erlang for fun.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Going by what the Gates family is doing these days, running for billionaire seems a heck of a fun roller coaster ride to raising funds for the kinds of betterment of the world that you care about. The other options being running for preside
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OpenGL 4.1 released(khronos.org)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Also check out - http://www.sonoport.com/ - using AS3. All of this begs for good audio support in HTML5. Really wish something like the SuperCollider runtime with a Javascript front end can be included in the HTML5 standard. Dreaming on .
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Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications meet the Web(project.liquidpub.org)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Very interesting topic. For preservation, encode the data in the DNA of a bacterium, replicate it massively and put them in some kind of suspended animation (hand waving wildly). Getting the meaning of the data is another matter. I wonder w
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I cracked up when I saw the "war" about the time signature of Pink Floyd's song "Money" - 7/8 or 7/4 or 21/8 :D
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by aufreak3 16y ago
From the title, I was expecting something interesting like "SubText", or at least some kind of talk about dispatch :) Using &&, || etc gets you terse code, but the branching that you mentally work out is exactly the same. .. unless

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