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by colomon 17y ago
Wouldn't it be both simpler and more accurate to simply have the control group of played and unplayed violins, and then hand them to a number of highly skilled violin players (who haven't been playing these instruments) and see if they can
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by colomon 17y ago
Seriously, I've never gotten much of a chance to play Settlers because most of my friends were bored with it by 2001 or so. And my not-particularly-geeky 60+ year old parents were taught to play it by their friends about five years ago...
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by colomon 17y ago
The second one is easily translated into Perl 6: sub fib() { my $fn2 = 1; my $fn1 = 1; gather loop { my $oldfn2; ($fn1, $fn2, $oldfn2) = ($fn1 + $fn2, $fn1, $fn2); take $oldf
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by colomon 17y ago
I haven't tried play-by-Wave yet, but was involved in a number of play-by-e-mail games back in the day. I'd say PBeM can be just as fun as face-to-face, it's just a slightly different kind of fun. It's less of a social event, and there's
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by colomon 17y ago
I suspect it's pretty easy to get job offers when you are demonstratively better than 99% of your peers, degree or no. That doesn't mean your average programmer can find a job without a CS degree...
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by colomon 17y ago
Ummm... you do realize that the slides point out scientific studies of programming with interesting, practical results, yes? And that the author of the slides is a professor of computer science doing more such studies? One of his points i
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by colomon 17y ago
It was a brilliant talk, easily worth the cost of driving out from Michigan for DevDays.
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by colomon 17y ago
My main (headless) Linux boxes are Centos, I've been pretty happy with it.
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by colomon 17y ago
As an example, here's my quick implementation of the original code in Perl 6. (Note that this is the entire implementation, no helper functions needed.) sub GetSlots($slots, $max) { my @a = (1..($max-1)).pick($slots-1, :
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by colomon 17y ago
Having never tried it, I can't really say. I'm willing to at least seriously consider that the right dynamic language might be an excellent choice for certain big projects. For instance, I've been doing a good bit of playing around with Pe
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by colomon 17y ago
This article embodies what I hate about the Agile / TDD crowd. They have a bunch of good ideas that appear to be helpful in their problem domain(s). But then they make these grand pronouncements as if their problem domain represented all
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by colomon 17y ago
My quick take, from playing around with it a bit a few months ago: you can put much, much cooler stuff on the stack. Closures, for instance. (Or at least the Factor equivalent of closures.)
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by colomon 17y ago
By that standard, probably half of the over-30s out there are not fully mature....
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by colomon 17y ago
I should point out that I drastically simplified what was involved, attempting to give an idea of the scope rather than the nitty gritty details. In fact they helpfully provide a set of schema files defining exactly the class layout for ea
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by colomon 17y ago
You know, I'm very happy for you that your work lets you show real results to customers every week of development and get meaningful feedback. That's awesome. But before lecturing the rest of us, you might want to consider that not everyon
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by colomon 17y ago
The thing that really rings true in this story for me is the difficulty that management sometimes has understanding how hard the things we do are. It particularly shows up in cases that might sound like this one, where the solution is simp
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by colomon 17y ago
I dunno, that rang true for me. I have two degrees in math and found most of what I studied easy, but algebraic topology utterly humiliated me -- it was just too abstract for me to feel like I had any grasp on what it was talking about.
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by colomon 17y ago
More precisely, everyone at every stage of the thing engages in planning. And those plans are coordinated almost entirely by the market. That's the point of the original article.
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by colomon 17y ago
Good lord, I have twenty years of C++ experience. Where did the time go?
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by colomon 17y ago
valgrind is available for the Mac?! Oh happy day! I was seriously considering installing a Linux VM on my MacBook Plus just to get valgrind....
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by colomon 17y ago
I play bassoon in orchestra and piano on my own (though I'm very rusty at the latter). My main musical outlet these days is traditional dance music, primarily from Ireland (with a strong focus on South Sligo) and Newfoundland. I play whist
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by colomon 17y ago
Just learned about Factor from the HN story a couple of days ago, I've enjoyed playing with it quite a bit. But then, Forth was my main programming language for a few years back in the 80s.
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by colomon 17y ago
I've heard more than one person say no one from North America can play proper Irish music. Always struck me as completely insane -- if nothing else, there were enough emigrant Irish musicians in NYC and Chicago to form their own styles of
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by colomon 18y ago
I'm with you -- I'm a developer who switched from Windows to OS X last fall, and Macports has worked wonderfully well for me. As to the overall article, I don't know, maybe I'm just never given Linux a proper chance as my main development m
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by colomon 18y ago
Particularly dissing all of digital recording based on comparing a Bowie LP (engineered to be an LP) with a compressed version of the same music, presumably ripped from a CD pressing. I don't know anything about that particular album, but