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by bryansum 15y ago
Simula67, the version most identify as Simula proper, actually evolved concurrently with Smalltalk. Rick DeNatale's memoir has a great article debunking some early OO myths -- http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2006/07/29/about-me
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by bryansum 15y ago
pe·nul·ti·mate/peˈnəltəmit/ Adjective: Last but one in a series of things; second last: "the penultimate chapter of the book".
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by bryansum 16y ago
This seems conceptually similar to http://www.cascading.org/ (at least looking the code examples: http://www.cascading.org/1.1/userguide/html/ch02.html ).
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by bryansum 16y ago
Could you provide some more context to your statements? What does Firefox have to do with Adobe?
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by bryansum 16y ago
It's funny you bring this up, because just yesterday I was using HTTParty and was getting strange errors when I was doing POSTs / PUT queries (basically the REST API I was using was giving me 500s and I didn't know why). After looking at yo
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by bryansum 16y ago
Having lived in Michigan for almost all my life, I find Mr. Byrne's conclusion and observations about Detroit to be pretty accurate. I want to point out that not all parts of Detroit are ruinous; mid-town with Wayne State University, the DI
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by bryansum 16y ago
I don't finding anything about Milgram demonstrating evil in man; it demonstrated the willingness to take orders from a perceived authority.
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by bryansum 16y ago
One of the points Larry Augustin makes is that languages become more complex as they adapt to a wider range of use cases. The fact that people end up using languages outside of their intended contexts strikes me as a case of not using the r
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by bryansum 16y ago
Isn't Scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu/ ) made exactly for this scenario? I used it with PicoCrickets ( http://www.picocricket.com/ ), which is tiny programmable brick like LEGO Mindstorms. I find GUI-based programming a lot easier to use w
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by bryansum 16y ago
Or, perhaps more likely is that the distinction between what's mobile and a desktop app begins to blur.
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by bryansum 17y ago
Looks like there's still a lot of work to be done: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
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by bryansum 17y ago
I think the real genius of Homebrew is in integrating it with git & Github and in turn making it something social. In my experience, sometimes a formula wasn't available in the main repository and I could easily merge in another Github
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by bryansum 17y ago
I find it highly ironic that their criticism implores that Google "stop launching surprise attacks against China." Also very interesting is how Google's recent actions are viewed as some sort of US government-sponsored attempt to export US
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by bryansum 17y ago
Agreed. I think Tufte would be proud of that diagram.
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by bryansum 17y ago
Reading this article reminds me of a small company in Ann Arbor, MI called Menlo Innovations ( http://www.menloinnovations.com/ ), which pair programs exclusively. Their founder has spoken at our university a number of times about the effec
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by bryansum 17y ago
A much more recent version of this is available @ http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/multipage/index.html
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by bryansum 17y ago
Tufte calls it the "Lie factor": size of graphic / size in data. For graph 2, the lie factor for each bar graph is: IE: .25 / .62 = .403 FF: .25 / .2383 = 1.04 Safari: .25 / .0417 = ~6 Chrome: .25 / .034 = 7.35
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by bryansum 17y ago
The video mentions the problem of always having one's hands in the way with a direct interface. This could also be alleviated by moving the hands underneath the display ala the capacitive mouse from Microsoft Research: http://arstechnica.c