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by camccann 17y ago
Alas, it seems that the intersection of "brilliant coders", "criminals", and "philanthropists" is a vanishingly small set.
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by camccann 17y ago
On the other hand, there's usually a (small-ish, but relatively loyal) market for companies that promote and affirm the political and/or religious beliefs of their customers. The trick there is to present yourself as "on their side" without
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by camccann 17y ago
In particular, the "X-Windows Disaster" chapter of the Unix Hater's Handbook should be required reading for anyone considering GUI work on a UNIX-derived platform--and is also absolutely hilarious. An HTML version of the chapter is here: h
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by camccann 17y ago
Never underestimate people's ability to waste their own time. That would be the bureaucratopian scenario, where 29% of the people are managers, 70% are employed to handle the paperwork generated by the managers, and 1% of the people do al
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by camccann 17y ago
The other side of this, that I rarely hear discussed, is "What happens when automation renders some people permanently redundant?" It's an easy platitude to say that technology obviates some jobs whilst creating others, but the new jobs t
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by camccann 17y ago
That looks like it was a fun weekend hack. Kind of similar to oekaki applets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oekaki#Oekaki_internet_forum
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by camccann 17y ago
Wandering progressively off-topic... I wouldn't call it "copious", necessarily. It's easily reusable, at least. My aforementioned cooperative multitasking hackery involved inheriting from a base "coroutine-able" class that, among other thin
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by camccann 17y ago
Alas, he's also responsible for one of my worst time-wasting habits: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
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by camccann 17y ago
Vanilla Python has coroutines, as of version 2.5. See here: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/whatsnew/pep-342.html Basically it works by letting you send a value into a generator function, which then appears as the return value of the most
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by camccann 17y ago
Possibly related to what's mentioned here: http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/rwanda-... Keep in mind that the Shuttleworth Foundation is about improving education and technology in Africa, particularly Mark Shuttleworth
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by camccann 17y ago
C# and Ada are typically fast as well (as expected). Interestingly, Erlang and Lua seem to consistently come out a bit ahead of almost everything else that's not compiled to native code, running on a JITing VM, and/or Lisp.
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by camccann 17y ago
I think the point was something like "put up or shut up". If there's a lot of capable, motivated women out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve, then the best way to make the point is to go find them, hire or fund them, and