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by cconroy 11y ago
Has anyone read the Art of Prolog -- i have it collecting dust but when I bought it I was intrigued?
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by cconroy 12y ago
I couldn't find the ingredients list -- but because it is not fully understood what food contains there may be missing nutrients in soylent that a well-balanced diet would have.
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by cconroy 12y ago
Has anybody had experience with both Racket and Squeak that can compare and contrast them for doing things like this article describes?
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by cconroy 12y ago
Whichever one is most parsimonious is what you should be.
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Interview with Alan Kay [video](youtube.com)
11 points by cconroy 12y ago|5 comments
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by cconroy 12y ago
Definitely not trolling. But I realize I am quite off topic. I am happy that Apple is starting to embrace it. I am thinking of something like the LivelyKernel[0] or better. [0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lively_Kern
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by cconroy 12y ago
I really hope WebGl+javascript kills CSS and html and all the other web stuff and we get back to desktop rich applications. And a URL can map to some state/object too. Google can then think about searching for things richer than just t
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by cconroy 13y ago
Worthless to you at this moment. Number 3 is differential calculus. That's a big one.
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by cconroy 13y ago
...feared or marginalized by the mainstream media should be reserved for the badge of honor. Noam Chomsky comes to mind.
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by cconroy 13y ago
This article made me feel better about choosing to be a computer scientist instead of some sort of scientist or mathematician.
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Computer Software, Alan Kay [pdf-8pp](vpri.org)
2 points by cconroy 13y ago|1 comments
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by cconroy 13y ago
Anyone else love Smalltalk's message syntax. Objective-C uses it too. It has got to be the best syntax invented for a programming language. To see what I mean compare the normal procedural code vs. the OO version: (a) drawRect(50, 50,
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by cconroy 13y ago
Does anyone know more about how the institutions which these men and women are perched at the top of, affect there attitudes about workers and their labor? I just can't understand what their motivations are, is it really just about max
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by cconroy 13y ago
Agree. It seems noteworthy to point out in the GP in how he expresses class warfare . When this is invoked (here and elsewhere) it's always the poor who are committing "class warfare" against the rich. When in reality, with
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by cconroy 13y ago
Almost finished Vol I of Feynman Lectures On Physics. So far, Im picking up on the same enthusiasm and joy. A real pleasure to read. Euclid's Elements too for geometry is fantastic. (I think reading "from the horses mouth" is
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by cconroy 13y ago
A "giant filter" over google news still does not cut at the root. I think the problem is the perverse use of this medium (i.e. computer-web system). It is a medium that is not sufficiently understood by most, or perhaps any pers
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by cconroy 13y ago
I wonder what he would think of the proliferation of cell phones (now) and how they distract immensely from life and thought.
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by cconroy 13y ago
Yep, this is at least what I thought the commenter was referring to. Thanks!
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by cconroy 13y ago
This is how i remembered it too. I thought he said something along the lines of lisp and smalltalk are the only two languages i am aware you can do OOP in. I tried to find this and couldn't. And OOP here means these two things from K
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by cconroy 13y ago
I think "Process Implementer" is best. I can see both a mathematics and engineering of processes. Processes instead of computer, because it is more general and applicable to fields like biology. Also computer science might be the
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Ask HN: Any one else think it's a strange time to be a computer scientist?
10 points by cconroy 13y ago|10 comments
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by cconroy 13y ago
Does anybody have an ETA on when Program Enrollment will be back up?
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by cconroy 13y ago
I wonder if there were people like this during the printing press days... ?
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by cconroy 13y ago
(This has nothing to do with Snowden but Chomsky's main point.) One thing I found troubling about all this is you can't expect the victims in other countries to decouple the intentions of the American gov't from American citi
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by cconroy 13y ago
...it is American!
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by cconroy 13y ago
Relative illegality with respect to GB. "Natural laws," self-evident truths transcend this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdo...
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by cconroy 13y ago
From PAIP Chapter 11 on -- funny enough, logic programming: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing." -Alan Perlis
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by cconroy 13y ago
Does it not have business appeal in that it allows transacting parties to pay direct -- without a middle man (banker) collecting fees? Also it being deflationary (to me) is as much as a problem as USD being inflationary. I don't spend all m
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by cconroy 14y ago
I agree. If jobs of the pass are supplanted by automation that'll just give the markets the energy to reflect on new opportunities with demand and then jobs. The jobs the OP is referring are not coming back and that is good, but new jobs wi
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by cconroy 14y ago
I think there is an exception to this for people that work on programming languages -- there the best programs written. In my spare time I have never had more fun programming then writing interpreters for scheme, prolog, and smalltalk. It w

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