busy_beaver

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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Ah, and I see my original post has been modded down to zero, in the classic Digg-style mob rule fashion. I'm outta here.
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
The gratuitous U.S. bashing in this thread looks exactly like something you'd see on Reddit (more likely, Digg). Not only is it ugly, it's utterly irrelevant to the nominal topic of discussion. Even if the U.S. were Nazi Germany, the Stalin
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
And yet here you are. I'm curious: what made you decide to move to a country with no freedom, bad education and no culture?
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
"Exactly who is in Guantanamo or the secret CIA prisons, and why?" Well, not you, and not anyone you know. The mere fact that you're comfortable posting this stuff on a public site, under your own name, demonstrates that you have ZERO fear
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Wow, for $1,000 per year you could just about buy a MacBook and a copy of Parallels, which would let you create a full library of VMs with all the different browsers and operating systems, then load any one you wanted. Plus -- you'd have a
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Err... what does doing math have to do with it? If I have a good (human) assistant, I can ask him or her to find me all the Y Combinator articles and it just works. I don't need to write some formal mathematical description of the task. It'
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
As a second source (it's sometimes helpful to hear material from more than one perspective), UC Berkeley has some podcasts from a Scheme course which uses SICP: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978270 I listened
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Tcl/Tk? For the 21st century? Ummm.. okay.
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Chicken Scheme compiles to C. It's also directly supported by SWIG, so it's (reasonably) easy to call functions in C DLLs and the like.
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Someone mentioned below that it's working on Reddit. I just looked at their feed, and it looks like they are indeed putting the comments link inside "description" rather than "comments".
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Feedvalidator finds a couple of problems, but I'm not sure that they're related. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss Maybe try generating an Atom feed? Atom seems to be much better defined than a
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
"I bet most people who use/used PHP got there because it was popular" This is fairly accurate, but not quite the whole story. Ascribing PHP's success to "popularity" makes it sound like a simple fashion statement. The reality is that, due t
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Thanks, but I'm looking for instructions for going the other way. The Wikipedia article (at least the one I found) has good information for sending email to cell phones, but that information is all over the place. What I need is a compre
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
MacBook (non-pro). I'm poor/cheap, plus I actually prefer a smaller form-factor for notebooks; I have full-sized external monitors at both home and work, so the smaller display is a non-issue where I spend most of my time, and a postive ad
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Does anyone know of a reference list for sending from SMS to email on various carriers/platforms? There are all kinds of resources for sending email to SMS (generally involving sending it to (phone number)@(carrier address.com)), but I
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
"This is a BUG, not a feature." That's the way BitTorrent is supposed to work, by definition. If it didn't, the client would soon be banned for leeching. If you don't want this to happen, don't run BitTorrent. Calling this a "bug" is like
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
MacOS is a nice Unix in its own right, and if you really need to have Linux, it runs fine under Parallels. I've got Windows XP, Ubuntu, and the One Laptop Per Child project images on my MacBook, and can boot any of them depending on what I
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
I've often wondered how much of the explosion in web creativity can be attributed to the transparency of HTML -- you can "view source" any page and find out exactly how the designer created that cool effect. By comparison, Flash is opaque.
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
While Textmate is indeed the shizzle, this app isn't really playing in the same space. Textmate is a code editor (and a very nice one). Coda is a web design tool, like Dreamweaver (integrated preview pane, built-in GUI support for CSS mangl
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Netscape, YouTube and PayPal (among others) came out of UIUC.
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
This guy wrote a basic continuation-based web server in Chicken Scheme (which compiles to C). Might be worth a look... http://www.double.co.nz/scheme/modal-web-server.html
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
"IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage" Stopped reading here. Sorry. :-)
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Hmm... if A players hire A players, B players hire C players, and C players hire losers, how could B players ever get hired? Do the people who think up these simplistic axioms ever bother to think them through? Far33d's comment about the "e
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
"Compare that to Ruby, where you can't even get a specification of the current state of the language for free." Err.... http://www.ruby-doc.org/ "What do you use for Ruby on Rails?" Textmate. :-) http://macromates.com/ BTW, you might wa
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
If Scheme will do, Chicken, Bigloo, and Gambit all compile to C code as an intermediate step (which you then run through gcc or whatever to generate the binary). Bigloo will also generate JVM and .NET output (.NET is still experimental). I
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
Bloglines shows the comments links fine, so not all feed readers ignore them. What I'd like to see in the feed is some indication that the link points to an external site. We get that locally, but not in the feed. Edit -- that looks unclear
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by busy_beaver 19y ago
In the comment section, Shefaly makes a good point about trying to observe the guy in social situations (i.e., not a formal interview or business meeting). I recommend visiting a restaurant and observing how he treats the waitstaff. If he's
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by busy_beaver 20y ago
"I work at a newspaper" Which is another dying industry, in case you hadn't noticed. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/business/media/26paper.html?ex=1176091200&en=870eff3de332e892&ei=5070 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8HFM6GO
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by busy_beaver 20y ago
In 1925, the British Empire controlled 25% of the earth's surface, but it was dead nonetheless.
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by busy_beaver 20y ago
That's a great looking font --- elegant, but still LEGIBLE. I found the download page here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

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