calinet6

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by calinet6 14y ago
Well Smalltalk might not be the best language for a Conversation implementation. You might try a more modern interpreter like Ruby or Python if you want a more universally understandable connection.
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by calinet6 14y ago
I think this is a more astute observation than people are giving you credit for. UNIX grew to the complexity it has because it was meant to be used. Plan 9 is not used because it was not allowed to acquire useful constructs. This parting wa
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by calinet6 14y ago
This would be wonderfully true if only their search results were anywhere near as good.
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by calinet6 14y ago
Yep. It's a reverse-engineered protocol using a leaked encryption key. The developers had to know this wouldn't last forever.
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by calinet6 14y ago
Trader Joe's does this too. They test your products in-store, then clone them and sell their own if they're successful.
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by calinet6 14y ago
> Error: Cannot establish a database connection. Aaaaand I think we're done here.
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by calinet6 14y ago
As with most things, there's a balance to it. Should you spend 40 hours customizing your e-mail solution? Probably not. Should you spend 1 hour and get it to an efficient state? Why the hell not. It'll save you some time later on. This arti
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by calinet6 14y ago
Arguably, that's the whole point in owning stock in the company you own, control, and oversee. You can help make it go up and it's in your complete interest to help it become successful. You have no such control or incentive with other comp
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by calinet6 14y ago
Or this gist I made while I had the page up: https://gist.github.com/2766143
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by calinet6 14y ago
This was always awesome to me. I knew it perfectly from the moment I saw the ashtrays that it was a conscious and genius decision for the human-centered system of an airplane. This has business implications more than UI implications, I thin
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by calinet6 14y ago
Or, have a gist. With images. https://gist.github.com/2766143
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by calinet6 14y ago
Prescription: 2 doses of zen, stop thinking so much about it, just be and do.
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by calinet6 14y ago
What is a "JVM-based language"? The JVM is simply a virtual machine. One could theoretically compile any language to run on this virtual machine. The popularity is a testament to the maturity and reliability and ease-of-use of the VM, but t
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by calinet6 15y ago
> Almost by definition, we're talking about sums of money with very little marginal impact on the company; those same sums often have unpredictably huge impacts on employees. This should be the way every employer sees bonuses. The have
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by calinet6 15y ago
Bingo. When I read this: "C++ exceptions just didn't fill the bill. They are great for guaranteeing that program doesn't fail — just wrap the main function in try/catch block and you can handle all the errors in a single place." That's not
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by calinet6 15y ago
> permitting the Sun to destroy the solar system, etc. Ha, as if it needs our permission.
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by calinet6 15y ago
This is very good news indeed. I'm okay that they don't backport bugfixes as long as ML comes out in a reasonable timeframe.
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by calinet6 15y ago
This appears to be a perspective issue. The writer took it as rude without mentioning the most important part: Was Katz right? We need more context, and we need less emotional argument. If the original presenter could effectively support hi
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by calinet6 15y ago
"Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." - John von Neumann
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by calinet6 15y ago
Even so, when I saw the event and its pathetic attempt to appeal to get some free work done for sponsors, it set off more than one red flag. It wasn't so much the PC-ness as the poor marketing that turned me off.
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by calinet6 15y ago
> I have been reading blog posts and emails I wrote 6 years ago. "What a retard I was!" I think you should consider your life in many ways successful if you say that every year.