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   by bhiggins 17y ago

   also check out Jinja2 ( http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/ )
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   Ask HN: What would YOU do with a massive amount of computing power?

   4 points by bhiggins 17y ago|2 comments
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   by bhiggins 17y ago

   you have to be good at those things to count
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   by bhiggins 17y ago

   some people seem to have a problem with the idea that two different looking representations of something can represent the same thing.
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   by bhiggins 17y ago

   not as hilarious as shutting down GeoCities - $100m vs. $4bn
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   by bhiggins 17y ago

   who?
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   by bhiggins 17y ago

   How convenient, since Mr. Vinge, at 85 years old, will hopefully still be alive! BTW Vernor Vinge is a great author. I heard he's working on a third book in the Fire Upon the Deep & A Deepness in the Sky series. Looking forward to it!
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   by bhiggins 18y ago

   what's the deal with questioning people's "agenda" when you could just stick with a technical argument? unless you don't have one.
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   by bhiggins 18y ago

   I don't see how you're scapegoating Ruby when you say that you have bugs that could have been prevented entirely by having a type system that lets you check types at compile time.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    "Mr. Kritzman devised an elaborate method to take such contingencies into account." -- Markov chain Monte Carlo maybe?
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    Who can name the bigger number?(scottaaronson.com)

    3 points by bhiggins 18y ago|0 comments
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    but then mr. myhrvold couldn't horde a bunch of patents and collect protection money that is then reinvested in the hording operation, and then he wouldn't be able to bake the world's biggest chocolate chip cookie that he was so eagerly pla
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    yikes, missing two languages. everyone knows number of lines should equal number of languages.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    php doesn't have a seperate list vs. hash type. that's what i'm getting at. maybe if you knew something about the language you wouldn't have just thought this was a random insult.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    list and dict are used for completely different reasons and have difference performance. are you perhaps a php programmer?
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    php's popular because it's easy to get started. name a file .php and put it on your shared host and your code runs. unfortunately php doesn't get anything else right. i say this having used php for years. eventually you find that it was
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    RM does not address inheritance but it doesn't preclude it. see the third manifesto.
18. 228.▲
    by bhiggins 18y ago

    wrong. this isn't a problem of distribution, or readership. the problem is that there's more advertising options with the internet. e-book readers won't bring that back.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    It seems that App Engine will remain just a fun toy until more of its limitations are removed.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    vs not using ruby and instead using something mature
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    Code generation is bad if you ever have to edit the code generated, under any circumstances (the qualification excludes (good) compilers). I like features like IntelliSense (when they work properly). I mean really, if you don't like featur
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    Guy got robbed
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    I completely disagree. People should strive to smooth the universe out.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    I'm glad Malcolm wrote this because I was starting to think that I was the only person who thought that the term MVC was not well understood and differed from the original meaning. When it comes to most people's use of the term, MVC means l
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    "I've never liked the approach of multiple applications tightly coupled through a common database - you can't get bigger breach of encapsulation than that." So true. We have some apps here that people didn't make good interfaces for, so wh
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    I like things like this because if I come across anyone who thinks it's cool I can make sure to avoid them.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    Just came across this too, and found Teeworlds, which looks promising and has clients for Linux, Mac and Windows!
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    you can model type inheritance relationally. it's completely orthogonal.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    seriously, almost anything else. try python or perl.
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    by bhiggins 18y ago

    you're right, I shouldn't have said foolish. more like vague. it's the implementations that have been foolish.