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by chops 17y ago
Power users are definitely useful, but I find that catering too much to the power users (who are more willing to try new things and have more specific feature requests) results in the end in a product that may be a little overwhelming to ne
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by chops 17y ago
Meta-comment: I think people are being excessively harsh in downvoting you. Your comments are contributing to the topic at hand. People shouldn't be downvoting you simply for disagreeing. Back on Topic: But as you said, I don't think
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by chops 17y ago
I will have to disagree. While I'm not a huge fan of The Simpsons, I can recognize that the comedic landscape is forever changed as a result of The Simpsons and Monty Python. In dismissing those that implemented the idea first, you're min
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by chops 17y ago
I had the same thought. It's a very impressive interface, but I couldn't find an "About" link that really says what it is, and it wasn't terribly obvious (at least to me). I see what looks like twitter stuff, I see comments, and I see lin
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by chops 17y ago
It doesn't have a native map command, but that's a rather trivial implemention. But I agree, it should be colored green in the "functional programming" section.
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by chops 17y ago
These stories make me ever more excited for the Pre. Palm's always been extremely open about third party apps. It's one thing to block an app from the "Official store." It's another thing altogether to prevent third party apps from being
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by chops 17y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, but I think it's a fascinating read. This is particularly powerful, I think: We shouldn't be scared of trying things that aren't best, and if something is genuinely good, it shouldn't fear critici
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by chops 17y ago
The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators I've never really designed a serious language before, aren't almost all languages done this way?
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by chops 17y ago
There's nothing ruinous about holding the entrepreneurial spirit on a pedestal. It's the entrepreneurial spirit that drives innovation, whether it's inside the R&D department of a massive corporation (one can still be entrepreneurial w
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by chops 17y ago
For a year and a half, I was sickly addicted to WoW. I ran a large raiding guild (for those not in the know, that meant running a rigid schedule, several times a week to kill the same bosses over and over, with 40 players, several hours a
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by chops 17y ago
It isn't being proposed as the standard way, it is merely a proposed alternative. Nothing wrong with other ways to do the same thing. Some prefer other forms of syntactic sugar.
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by chops 17y ago
Even though the author didn't like it, I quite liked the ultra-chaining approach presented. So what if the readability relies too much on indenting, practically every language relies on indenting for readability (or the indenting actually
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by chops 17y ago
I've venture a guess that "no, it's not publicly available", primarily since he mentioned that it's a very profitable part of his company.
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by chops 17y ago
Each one of those was quite amusing. 1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. 1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to
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by chops 17y ago
I've sported a Palm Treo for the past 3 years. First it was the Treo 700p, and now a Treo 755p. I used to develop palm-based apps about 6-7 years ago, and enjoyed it. I always liked the simplicity of the palm interface, and while it's fu
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by chops 17y ago
This findings build on the team's 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease regained long-term memories and the ability to learn. This is amazing news if it's really true. Like many here, my grandmother is suff
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by chops 17y ago
Right now I regularly use PHP, perl, and lua. I've been learning Common Lisp and Python for a while, though because my company uses those languages above, and because I haven't started any new projects yet for new languages, and because PHP
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by chops 17y ago
I'm completely clean. No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol. I never have, and I have no intentions or desire to start. It's a lifestyle choice, and not a religious thing or anything like that. Caffeine doesn't seem to have much if an effect
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by chops 17y ago
Sure, it sucks, but I wouldn't say it's as bad . Being required to work X hours per day with the option to start when you want is still an improvement over a completely regimented schedule.
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by chops 17y ago
As much as everyone trash talks big corporations, I work for one now and have this beautiful thing called flex hours. Those that have flex time are lucky, and I find that programmers are more likely to have this perk. When I was an emplo
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by chops 17y ago
The most amazing thing is that the prices are so low that I don't even bother to comparison-shop anymore. This is how I feel about Newegg.com. I used to be a daily visitor to pricewatch.com, which compares the prices of electronics, unti
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by chops 17y ago
Same. I'm profitable enough to pay my bills and maintain my lifestyle. I make more money doing this than I did as a programmer employee, and also more than when I was a consultant. "Very profitable" would be nice, but not quite there yet.
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by chops 17y ago
Is there somewhere that these T-shirts are available for the general public to buy? I would totally snap one of those up.
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by chops 17y ago
While that sounds perfectly reasonable to me, I wonder if it's that enforceable? That sounds like the public domain to me. Can a company declare "by doing X on our system, you hereby release your IP into the public domain?"
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Palm Eos: The Successor to Palm Pre?(wired.com)
2 points by chops 17y ago|2 comments
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by chops 17y ago
Thanks for the correction. I though it was Apogee, but like I said, the details were a bit hazy.
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by chops 17y ago
A very clever way to go out. It instantly reminded me of the story of when Carmack and Romero decided to go on their own after they were working together at Softdisk. At the time, there were no side-scroller games for PC for performance re
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by chops 17y ago
For as long as I've been using OpenBSD (3.6), they've provided bootable installer ISO images. Or are you talking about ISO images that contain all the packages?
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by chops 17y ago
And their ISO images are one of the least fussy of any distros (linux/freeBSD) I've used. I much prefer having a minimal iso image that installs everything from a network connection download, rather than downloading an entire ISO complete
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by chops 17y ago
Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike these

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