chmelynski

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   by chmelynski 10y ago

   Among other things, spreadsheets allow you to see and fix one-off errors caused by bad data. A "real" programming language is great when you have clean data, but the real world is messy and businesses generally don't devote
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   by chmelynski 10y ago

   Thanks! Should be fixed now
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   Show HN: Hyperdeck – a new client-side programming notebook(hyperdeck.io)

   20 points by chmelynski 10y ago|2 comments
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   by chmelynski 13y ago

   I almost like it, but it just has... it has... too many notes. Yes, that's exactly it. Too many notes.
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   by chmelynski 14y ago

   What would be really great would be the ability to penetrate existing tissue with nanowire sensors.
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   by chmelynski 15y ago

   Let me try and cover most limitations by saying this: a spreadsheet should basically be an interface to a Lisp interpreter. The ability to define new functions (within the spreadsheet itself) is the biggest thing, I guess. But if the spre
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   by chmelynski 15y ago

   Might I note that spreadsheets have immediate feedback. They also enforce a pure functional style (which you can break out of by bolting on a script written in a completely different language. Makes it possible to mutate state, but you ha
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   by chmelynski 15y ago

   My favorite example of this is Kafka, who worked for an insurance company. Who else but someone working in a large, bureaucratic organization could have written the kind of stuff he wrote? And his work contains some of the best reflection