cmiles74

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by cmiles74 15y ago
It took me months to feel like I wasn't doing something dumb every time I coded in Clojure. There are exceptions to every rule!
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by cmiles74 15y ago
There's definitely some truth to this and I've seen it myself. Nonetheless, there is a point where these languages begin to have more similarities then differences. By the time I felt comfortable with C, Java, PHP and Ruby it only took me a
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by cmiles74 15y ago
I run a Hadoop cluster on Ubunutu and use Sun's JVM. Hadoop doesn't function properly on OpenJDK[1]. "OpenJDK cannot be used to compile hadoop mapreduce code in branch-0.23 and beyond, please use other JDKs." 1: http://wiki.apache.org
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by cmiles74 15y ago
The debate over where to place a particular widget or what bits of the user interface are customizable seems off-target to me. What struck me most was the fact that we had a polite community member doing his best to describe a problem that
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by cmiles74 15y ago
Once or twice it's tried to mount an image that didn't completely download.
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by cmiles74 15y ago
I had never thought about categorizing movies in this way, now that I am it seems very clear. Some comedies revolve around the characters, their interaction and their situation in a funny, yet vaguely realistic way ("The Hangover"). Other c
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by cmiles74 15y ago
If Gnome transforms their product into it's own operating system, not only will the Gnome environment itself become more monolithic and less modular but the distribution they produce will suffer that same fate. It's not a given, but it's ea
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by cmiles74 16y ago
It's funny, I was looking to attribute the quote... "Man is mortal. Socrates is a man, therefor Socrates is mortal." Most of the Google results credit Woody Allen! :P I believe the correct author is Aristotle.
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by cmiles74 16y ago
In this case I believe that crediting Apple for setting the bar on what a graphical user interface for a personal computer should look like is accurate. While they did borrow heavily from Xerox PARC and certainly didn't invent the dekstop,
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by cmiles74 16y ago
I was working at an Apple reseller when the iMac came out. Part of our sales pitch was to try to convince everyone who bought an iMac that they needed a USB floppy drive to go with it. Everyone was convinced that people needed that floppy d
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by cmiles74 16y ago
I took this as meaning that the people who are really interested in reading and writing Lisp code eventually get over or even grow to appreciate s-expressions. Given that's the case, who are these people that would like to read and write Li
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by cmiles74 16y ago
J. Gosling's point isn't entirely clear to me, either. I came away with the impression that Oracle is a difficult company to deal with. Perhaps he's trying to draw a line between Oracle being difficult and Apple deciding they no longer want
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by cmiles74 16y ago
I believe the author of this list is, in fact, trans-gendered. This is mentioned way down at the bottom.
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by cmiles74 16y ago
The bit about using a gender as an example of an attribute that never changes doesn't seem like a specifically male error. I'm sure there are any number of women who would also make the same mistake and I don't think it's about gender, it's
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by cmiles74 17y ago
I'm starting to wonder if this is a just a problem with the writing skills of the people involved. Maybe this guy simply does not know what an apology looks like or who to go about writing an effective one. Reading this blog post, it seems