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by colomon 14y ago
I don't know what he's specifically referring to, but there was a lot of talk that open sourcing Textmate 2 was a sign the project was basically dead.
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by colomon 14y ago
Perl 6 is sweet, and will be sweeter when it has better performance. :)
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by colomon 14y ago
Verbosity. class Point { has Int $.x is rw; has Int $.y is rw; method clear() { $.x = 0; $.y = 0; } } :)
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by colomon 14y ago
Sounds like the mother of all selection bias, but still this makes me hopeful!
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by colomon 14y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while, in more general terms. Last year I had an issue with my eye. I bumped around from doctor to doctor (including one eye specialist) for nine months, for at least half of that period on two differen
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by colomon 14y ago
Errr... I write libraries solo. Professionally. More or less full time.
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by colomon 14y ago
Funny, as a Gen X-er I was reading this as a story about somebody else, but you're totally right. I'm 41 and I've only ever owned one new car. We bought it when my wife was pregnant, because I wanted to make sure she had a good reliable c
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by colomon 14y ago
Or worse yet, reviews bitching about the price. Edited to add: "If you're going to get any useful info, you have to read the reviews," is so incredibly true. I'm surprised it's not getting more mentions in these comments. The scatter plot
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by colomon 14y ago
But those are repetitive things specifically designed to hook adults. Very young kids are endlessly amused by simple things like escalators and empty cardboard boxes.
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by colomon 14y ago
Now that you mention it, escalators don't thrill me anymore, but walking quickly with those long moving sidewalks at the airport is still stupid fun at 41.
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by colomon 14y ago
While I fully agree that we underestimate kids, I've got to say that my three-year-old spent a gleeful half hour riding up and down escalators back in March, and was sad when we said he had to stop. Little kids can be surprisingly smart an
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by colomon 14y ago
Rakudo Perl 6 runs on Parrot, which is written in C. Niecza Perl 6 runs on .NET/mono, and its libraries are a mix of Perl 6 and C# code.
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by colomon 14y ago
My tiny company's been around for 13 years now, so it doesn't qualify as a startup. My Perl 5 scripts are very important to my business, and I've even got a couple of Perl 6 scripts helping out these days.
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by colomon 14y ago
Right, it makes it "simple to organize your life" or something. It still doesn't tell me what it does in a meaningful fashion.
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by colomon 14y ago
When people say they hate "parentheses" in Lisp, I'm pretty sure what they really mean is "I hate s-expressions." You may find them natural to work with, but it's pretty clear most programmers do not. Witness the crazy amount of work comp
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by colomon 14y ago
I don't believe I've ever bought a "just released" app/game -- certainly never one I discovered through the Android Marketplace. I don't think I ever went looking for one, either. Do people really shop for apps this way?
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by colomon 14y ago
I'd think a project like this is ideally suited to TDD: you know what the results should be for most operations, and they are easily testable. It's the same reason the Perl 6 test suite has been so valuable to the various Perl 6 compiler p
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by colomon 14y ago
I've had to optimize code because it ran too slowly on a Cray supercomputer. Mind you, I think my optimized version may have been a bit clearer than the original, though more mathy.
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by colomon 14y ago
Actually, it's not at all obvious what a + operator on a string does. Some languages think it means string concatenation. Others think it means convert the strings to numbers and add them.
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by colomon 14y ago
I'm a Textmate user who couldn't agree more about not liking with Sublime. I've got it as my main text editor for one of my Windows boxes, and I'm never happy or comfortable using it.
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by colomon 14y ago
Also body odor is going to be less noticeable if everyone around you is smoking up a storm...
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by colomon 14y ago
To be fair, I am very involved raising my three-year-old, but I am lucky if I can tell his pajamas from his proper clothes, and as often as not fail to dress him in an outfit his mother aproves of. :)
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by colomon 14y ago
Here's the thing. "You can do anything" is obviously bullshit if you take it too literally. It's trivial to spend your time thinking of loads of counterexamples, especially if you have that engineer knack of being painfully logical. I thi
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by colomon 14y ago
For what it's worth, I paid for TextMate, and I'm quite happily still using it. I've been very unimpressed by Sublime Text 2, and I'm not even 100% convinced I'd switch to TextMate 2 if it ever does come out.
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by colomon 14y ago
Yes! Many commenters here seem to assume he is being hyper-critical of minor details. But to me it reads like someone who legitimately thinks many of these recordings are really sad attempts at playing jazz. I'm not far enough immersed i
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by colomon 14y ago
I should have said, one of my summer jobs during college was "church organist" -- at a small church with a lovely old pipe organ that had exactly these issues.
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by colomon 14y ago
Unless I'm totally borking the math, most pipe organs where the pipes are on the other side of the room from the organ will have a greater delay than that just from the speed of sound. It just takes a little getting used to. Mind you, I wo
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by colomon 14y ago
I'm not sure I'd say this article is wrong, exactly, but it sure seems like all the arguments in it are very shallow. Yeah, I have my great-grandfather's pocketwatch, and it still runs. But it has required repairs that each cost significan
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by colomon 14y ago
Woah, for some reason I always thought Xevious was from 1986 or so. I'm kind of shocked how many great games came out from 1980-1982... To that list I'd add Spy Hunter (don't want to think how many quarters I sank into this without ever ge
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by colomon 14y ago
I think what you're describing here is more a problem with Gene Wolfe message boards than with Gene Wolfe's writing. They (or at least the ones I've run into) seem to delight in exploring the super-obscure details that show how clever they

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