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901.
by cpr 15y ago
I think this is actually about 3000 years old--it's called the Socratic method of teaching. Yes, there were no textbooks to "read ahead" back then, but Socrates drew on the "textbook" of lived experience.
902.
by cpr 15y ago
Wow, brings back old, old memories of seeing the C/Unix source listings lying on my office mate's desk (Geoff Steckel) at the old Harvard CRCT (graduate Center for Research in Computing Technology). I'm pretty sure Harvard had the first sou
903.
by cpr 16y ago
Same person. He changed his name a while back.
904.
by cpr 16y ago
I think you've just restated his "Blub" position exactly.
905.
by cpr 16y ago
Others (e.g., PG) have written more elegantly about this topic, but I really do think the key is the complete malleability that Lisp gives you: you're free to recast the problem in your own terms, using whatever DSL makes the most sense, an
906.
by cpr 16y ago
If you really want Linux with all the bells and whistles when developing, but also enjoy using a computer for other things like Music and web browsing, boot up a Fusion image and you're off.
907.
by cpr 16y ago
Presumably because it's not going to make a full 16/32/64GB backup first.
908.
by cpr 16y ago
Fascinating. If you read the stipulation, you find out that these legal notices can now be served (itself a legal concept) via email to the principal parties.
909.
SketchChair: Furniture Designed by You (with a HN connection)(kickstarter.com)
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910.
by cpr 16y ago
I only knew Eric as a TA/grad student at Harvard (I was undergrad--this is back in the Stone Age--mid-70's), but he was already then a fantastic, enthusiastic teacher. I imagine he's only gotten better.
911.
by cpr 16y ago
Since you send them a copy of your iPhone simulator code, they must be running this on some kind of Mac OS X system, and giving you VNC-style access to the app. Kinda dodgy.
912.
by cpr 16y ago
Google higher-ups strike me as not so dumb that they'd misunderstand the crucial nature of that code...
913.
by cpr 16y ago
Their discussion of how Apple is trying to cripple HTML5 is rather laughable. Apple's the main driver, along with Google now, behind WebKit, the main mobile HTML5 browser technology.
914.
by cpr 16y ago
The problem is that the original Knight keyboards and first coupla generations of LispM keyboards were made with full mechanical Hall-effect switches by Microswitch, a Honeywell subsidiary. There were never more wonderful keys crafted by th
915.
by cpr 16y ago
As someone else explained, that's per-region. So if you have a lot of servers in a region, that cost is amortized over all of them.
916.
by cpr 16y ago
Excellent, meaty article with a lot of practical examples and hard-won knowledge.
917.
by cpr 16y ago
No, now you're equivocating the rather trivial matter (in the big picture of real life) of protection from sketchy apps with stifling freedom of speech in real life. You can always access the sketchy stuff on your Android or general web bro
918.
by cpr 16y ago
Tim is an absolute straight-shooter. He's not pandering and he's not playing games. That's the way they think. (An old co-worker of mine is his right-hand man, running the book publishing business.)
919.
by cpr 16y ago
Little-known fact that shows just how enlightened ORA is: you can go to https://members.oreilly.com/account/benefits , and buy any ebook upgrade from a physical book for $4.99. They don't even check--they just take your word for it. I just
920.
by cpr 16y ago
My pre-release copy of Javascript: The Definitive Reference (perhaps because it's pre-release) does have personalization on every page. The other (regular, relased) books from ORA don't.
921.
by cpr 16y ago
Of course, they put your name & other info on every page of the PDF generated for you. That probably works as a general "shaming" mechanism, such that most folks won't share indiscriminately.
922.
by cpr 16y ago
Yes, he's equivocating "open" with "more freedom to explore without fear", which is understandable for an enthusiastic 14-year-old. ;-) But he's making the same point that others have made, that freedom from worry about virii/spam/etc is a
923.
by cpr 16y ago
I'm sure there are many brains behind Cocoa, but Ali Ozer has to be the most unsung hero at Apple. Seems like it's been his core vision for all these years that has kept things coherent.
924.
by cpr 16y ago
The fertility rate in France (as in other parts of Europe) is highly skewed (up) by the immigrant Muslim population.
925.
by cpr 16y ago
Interesting. It looks like it depends on Flash to take that screenshot.
926.
by cpr 16y ago
With a fast parsing algorithm, you could parse as a programmer types, unlike the current syntax highlighting editors which use only rough pattern matching instead of having a real parse tree. Imagine seeing syntax errors the moment you typ
927.
by cpr 16y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/14/fukushiima_analysis/... has a fairly sober analysis that shows just the safeguards are generally working even in a scenario not even imagined. (Yes, yes, one has to imagine all possibilities, but al
928.
by cpr 16y ago
That's great--how do you do the snapshotting in pure Javascript? (If that's your secret sauce, fair 'nuff, but any hints would be appreciated.) Edit: Oh, wait, it's just HTML you're sending--I see. You're not capturing a screenshot.
929.
by cpr 16y ago
You're missing the point: no code is being generated. Objects are being generated. The real objects you'll have at runtime are being generated. The real objects that will be freeze-dried to a file and reconstituted at runtime. You're saving
930.
by cpr 16y ago
It's exactly the opposite of magical: you're simply building objects in IB that are "live" while you're building them and that then are freeze-dried when you save the file, and reconstituted at runtime. It's certainly magical in the sense t

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