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Machinery of Life [book](springer.com)
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A Conversation with Alan Kay (2004)(queue.acm.org)
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by cconroy 14y ago
...and presumptuous too.
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Ask HN: Would graying out a tree be helpful.
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by cconroy 14y ago
Try not worry about how you stack up in absolute terms, and think more in terms of relative accomplishments. It helps me when I have these thoughts too.
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by cconroy 14y ago
The analogy is ... The grocery store will not sell half a loaf because they cannot figure out how to keep them fresh enough to sell them. They don't try hard to sell half a loaf and they basically tell the public to accept whole loaves as a
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by cconroy 14y ago
I argue that if he didn't do it -- it would be a dis -service to the community. I look at it like if it were simple assault involving you and an assailant. Since you were not really injured you decide not to press charges against them. Let
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by cconroy 14y ago
It seems strange (to me)--maybe in a good way, but would it be preferable to use the JSON literal over the if statement (for the sake of the argument assume in javascript if returns a value)? val = if (person === "Homer") { return expr }
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by cconroy 15y ago
I like his teaching style. To get a sense for yourself check out http://nathansjslessons.appspot.com where he covers functions as values, closures, and CSP in javascript. I dunno about you guys but I seem to spend almost all my profession
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by cconroy 15y ago
This seems to be a cultural problem with the US. I agree with everything the author has said, but let me play devil's advocate: What is stopping a employee -- in a free market with specialized skills -- from adding a provision in his/her em
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by cconroy 15y ago
I'd rather die at 75 with a healthy body rather than dying at 75 with 10 years of senescence behind me. The first part of this sentence seems strange. If you assume your healthy 75yr young body doesn't die of external forces (drowning, fa
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by cconroy 15y ago
It would be great if the government's budget included a computer and basic internet access in its assistance programs. I can't imagine this would be too expensive. Also people would benefit from the increasingly free education provided by S
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by cconroy 15y ago
I am really wondering whether physical proximity of the employees, empirically, has a reasonable relationship to early success? A pure guess (based on personal preference) is a mix of remote and local working, favoring remote -- would sti
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by cconroy 15y ago
((not (parody?)) 'homage)
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by cconroy 15y ago
Wait doesn't the Roadrunner just go "Meep, Meep" ... and the Coyote come up with elaborate traps that fail with tragic irony. The Coyote seems more like in state of creative flow, right?
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by cconroy 15y ago
Why functional programming? Functional programming maybe hard in the beginning but it's much simpler to program in once you wrap your head around it. Backend web dev? There are lots of nice simple frameworks or you could build your own. Do
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by cconroy 15y ago
Good examples of closures / first order functions in java is through a visitor; example below is like the ones in A Little Java, A Few Patterns new Top(new Anchovy(), new Top(new Tuna(), new Top(new Lettuce(), new Bot()))) .accept( new R
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by cconroy 15y ago
What does Kay mean by late-binding? ... not the dynamic binding of overriding methods in a subclass or virtual functions (C++)? The last paragraphs compared smalltalk with lisp in this respect.
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by cconroy 15y ago
It is interesting to think of a language specifically designed for web apps as different from a general-purpose language. This would of never occurred to me unless I only knew PHP. I suspect if you tried to make a good web app language it