bhiggins

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   by bhiggins 16y ago

   I don't know, but Vernor Vinge talks about such an interface in his book Rainbows End.
2. 152.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   I heard that a year ago.
3. 153.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   I figure closures would be hard to do in a programmer-friendly way without GC.
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   by bhiggins 16y ago

   "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn" That was last January. Didn't take long...
5. 155.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   Google has a forms tool that you may find handy. I think you could share the resulting spreadsheet it feeds into.
6. 156.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   An illegitimate process makes the treaty illegitimate as well.
7. 157.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   This is really cool. I'm looking forward to people getting other OSes up and running, too.
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   by bhiggins 16y ago

   This article is another classic case of confusing the logical schema with the physical implementation. The future of DBs is allowing more separation of the two, not less, and more end-user choice over a physical implementation that matches
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   by bhiggins 16y ago

   Relational algebra is agreed upon. SQL is loosely based on it. On the other hand, there's not even a single agreed upon notion for objects. There's a rigorous notion of a .NET object but it's not compatible with Java's, C++'s, Smalltalk's
10. 160.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    One problem is that the people in charge of PHP and their ongoing bad choices.
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    It's not plainly true at all. You write as if there's a rigorous, agreed-upon notion of "object". Not so. As such, it can be as vague as you need it to be.
12. 162.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    I am a fan of simple code-writing challenges after having seen the results: a lot of bad code...
13. 163.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Sounds like bunk to me.
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Even if it were true, last I checked a lot of industries receive "unfair" advantages in the form of government subsidies.
15. 165.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Ruby is an impractical language so, no.
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    The Jargon File is a relic. Not only that, it's in some cases overly influenced by ESR's views, see for example that hacker politics are "more recently moderate-to-neoconservative" (as well as the anti-idiotarianism entry). We should start
17. 167.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Seattle, WA: ExtraHop Networks. Actually, we just created this little jobs page, what do you guys think of it? http://www.extrahop.com/jobs/
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    I can understand not bringing up that Alan committed suicide but I don't see why Wolfram just passingly mentions that Alan was gay but doesn't mention at all the UK's treatment of him because he was gay. Maybe Alan would still be alive if
19. 169.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    I can't help but think of this article on Study Hacks. In particular, scroll down to the section called The Insider Advantage. http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/03/26/how-to-get-into-stanfo...
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    will next year's contest be predicting predictions? my prediction for future stock prediction algorithms is approximately this: http://www.ofb.net/~egnor/iocaine.html
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Communism!
22. 172.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Q&A sites are more a community-building problem instead of a technology problem. Quora's only chance at success will be with building a good community.
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Tell me about it! All those regulations over credit default swaps and... oh wait, there are none.
24. 174.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Remember some people relied on the gulf for their livelihoods.
25. 175.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Popular opinion played the biggest role. [edit: spelling]
26. 176.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    When is Salesforce going to release this as a standalone product?
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    I got a free 3 month certificate from Comodo and then I used a promotional offer from RapidSSL for Comodo customers to get a free 1 year cert (in addition to 3 months). Result: free 15 month certificate.
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Except to maintain popular support of keeping their own currency.
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    by bhiggins 16y ago

    How well do you get paid? I only ask because it seems like Ben Huh makes a big deal of not paying a lot of money to his employees.
30. 180.▲
    by bhiggins 16y ago

    Yes... exactly.