calibraxis

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1. 1021.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   I find it ambiguous, but on the whole probably a good sign. A negative part is that it appeals to the needy ego. A postive aspect is that it maybe signals a knowledge of the Spolsky school of management, which is a clear improvement over av
2. 1022.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   I also recall a talk about the diverse kinds of people in math. One (I hope I don't misremember) was Hilbert, held up as an example of someone who could seem frustratingly dense -- he'd ask many questions during a talk. But once he started
3. 1023.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   Emacs is important in expressing myself. I use it more than any programming language, and also outside the context of programming. It's a rich computer in its own right, in many ways better than the underlying one. Like Clojure, it's a frie
4. 1024.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   Evidence is always welcome by some people, even if you happen to get downvotes and indignant replies. A hacker would probably view sexism institutionally. Institutions generally have gatekeepers. When the gatekeepers believe that your race/
5. 1025.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   Technical hacking communities (like the Chaos Computer Club) seem to be full of people who enjoy aspects of computing in a pure sense. For example, they may hack long-obsolete game consoles, on both hardware and software levels; or sit arou
6. 1026.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   The author's work on fundamentally improving programming looks interesting: http://subtextual.org/
7. 1027.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   But Apple seems to limit the role of users. I'm a user -- a relatively skilled one, since I not only consume software, but create it too. As I understand, there are two Apple bureaucracies in the way: one which collects about a $100/year fe
8. 1028.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   I think it's worth reading further. He points out managers' preoccupation with morality, then says: "Measures own contribution to society by the extent to which he adds to rules and sees that people live by following rules. Tends to equate
9. 1029.▲
   by calibraxis 16y ago

   I don't understand the criticism that people have to markup all their data. As I understand the semantic web, only programmers and certain other skilled users were expected to knowingly do that. (Because the semantic web is more about provi
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    by calibraxis 16y ago

    Thanks for the peek behind the curtains. I just googled "thinking machines hiring" and came up with this article: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinking-Machines.aspx I agree, I've never even known a company to even verify anything on a
11. 1031.▲
    by calibraxis 16y ago

    I'd like to request details on Connection Machines' hiring practices. (Or do you prefer people to privately email?) I've read some things about them, but there's usually more lore than reality in post-mortems. I've worked mainly in startups
12. 1032.▲
    by calibraxis 17y ago

    Interesting, there's a researcher by the name of John Shutt who in said "I suspect them of offering fundamentally greater abstractive power than any other programming language feature yet devised" in 2009. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/no
13. 1033.▲
    by calibraxis 17y ago

    I would probably lean towards Clojure, because of your Java experience, its library advantages, active community and the usefulness of other JVM communities. However, a tradeoff to keep in mind is that currently it often has unhelpful excep
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    by calibraxis 17y ago

    It depends on the apps you want to write, as well as what you already know. (For example, if you know your way around Javadocs and Java classpaths, Clojure rises as a possibility.) I suggest skimming through a few pages of Planet Clojure an
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    by calibraxis 17y ago

    The interview questions link is the reason I upvoted this announcement; they interest me. And for what it's worth, I also find your reasoning for linking to them sensible.
16. 1036.▲
    by calibraxis 17y ago

    I should have used this link, for the impatient: http://artint.info/html/ArtInt.html Could an admin change this?
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    Blog about Common Lisp compiler internals(insidelisp.blogspot.com)

    52 points by calibraxis 17y ago|1 comments
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    _AI: Foundations of Computational Agents_ (Cambridge 2010) free online(artint.info)

    7 points by calibraxis 17y ago|1 comments
19. 1039.▲
    by calibraxis 17y ago

    I virtually always dev on a VM, for a number of years now: * Parallels and VMWare on Mac (best to have at least 2 GB), running Debian, Ubuntu and WinXP * Qemu+KVM on Ubuntu running Ubuntu * VirtualBox on Debian running Debian * SSH into Xen