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by cturner 12y ago
I share your instincts, but need to defend the policies. It's important to have a bankruptcy mechanism. Otherwise it's a back-door mechanism to create slavery. By having a predictable bankruptcy regime, lenders can price in the pr
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by cturner 12y ago
I'd like to know: what is the most comfortable posture for coding once you no longer have to look at a screen? I've wondered whether a syntax-sparse language like iolanguage might allow you to code entirely by voice and ear, with
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by cturner 12y ago
It's a good point, but Chaucer's words. Also - don't call me surely.
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by cturner 12y ago
Nintendo has a young audience. I think of being at the mall with the kids, letting them loose on the coin machines for ten minutes, but not putting any money in.
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by cturner 12y ago
[Getting this in early - I'm not an American.] > healthcare .. which we mostly agree about Reading this brought to mind a Reagan speech. Found it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUKC9E04Sck ), complete with p
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by cturner 12y ago
Something waiting to be done: a /Handmade Hero/-style webcast by a vim fan who wants to create vim usage within emacs, from scratch. The warm-up week could be a guide to lisp.
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by cturner 12y ago
No. Python3 delivers concrete improvements on accepted problems with python2. Just the async io and encoding improvements with python 3 justify it. It continues the design spirit that drew devs to python. When a loved platform stops evolvin
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by cturner 12y ago
You might be right. But I have been reading forum posts to this effect for fifteen years, and eventually eveyone switches off. Even if you are right, would you trust your career focus to a software community who had got it this wrong for th
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by cturner 12y ago
Yeah, I tried the same and came to same conclusions. Someone who knew what they were doing could implement a new-k impl from the lang def on kparc. That is all you would need. Alas, I am not that guy.
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by cturner 12y ago
I checked wikipedia on what is a positive and negative rights. There's a major error through what I've written above here (At best, I've got negative/positive backwards). Treat as suspect. Will brush up some more and com
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by cturner 12y ago
If you accept the principle of live-and-let-live (raised above), there's a chasm between what constitutes a right and anti-right. If you don't accept live and let live, you've got some explaining to do. It goes back thousands
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by cturner 12y ago
There is a watertight rights basis for opposing copyright. Copyright is a major structural threat to our freedoms. Our governments are founded generally on rights, which extend from a general principle of live-and-let-live. Copyright is an
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by cturner 12y ago
Hieroglyphs are not necessarily less readable than words. It's good to be able to build mental state, and the more verbose a language is, the more you need to dance between parsing mode and building mental state. Context shifting is ex
554.
by cturner 12y ago
OK, given, that's pretty cool. Although Pascal/Ada would be nicer if they had shorter tokens.
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by cturner 12y ago
I'm setting up a DX4 for messaround with Norton books and asm at the moment, so quite interested in this. The general purpose environments I know of from then would have been C, Turbo Pascal, Basic, ASM, and then probably some database
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by cturner 12y ago
> There are serious logistic/economic barriers to enter > the search space. But there were before Google started as well. Google entered the search engine party after it seemed to be over. I remember reading about t
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by cturner 12y ago
You can change the shell for a user in /etc/passwd, or with the command chsh. It's funny how little things like this affect where you go with systems. On the uni systems, emacs was set up to reformat your code by default (as
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by cturner 12y ago
I've just been reading up on CTEs - thanks. That's the kind of thing I thought would be out there.
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by cturner 12y ago
It's impractical to write maintainable code in the forms of SQL I'm familiar with. But maybe someone here knows better. You should be able to abstract logic out to blocks for the duration of the query. Along these lines: cse
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by cturner 12y ago
Different problem, but someone who knows about unicode will probably know this - When I paste from microsoft documents into putty, characters will often be transformed to weird versions. Example - emdash is a different character to '-&
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by cturner 12y ago
Why is this? Computers get rapidly cheaper for example.
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by cturner 12y ago
Mid-twenties can be nasty. You lose all the external structure of youth, become more aware about how awesome you are not, and it can be a struggle to find meaning in things. My experience has been that things get better.
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by cturner 12y ago
> Received the calendar app this morning, it is a major step-backwards It's crushing when this happens. There's this thing that's part of your life, and then forces beyond your control sweep in and destroy it. I th
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by cturner 12y ago
It's interesting. The algorithm the author is trying is of a kind I have tried and, I believe, a mistake. If you are building a roguelike, just have a sentinel list of entities. That is, do not try to break the level up into a 2d array
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by cturner 12y ago
No, same problems. 32-bit, memory protection.
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by cturner 12y ago
Maybe from an old BSD but not from NetBSD. There's a fairly hard cut-off between the design of early OSs with no memory protection (e.g. legacy Mac OS, W95, Amiga, DOS, Locomotive basic), and operating systems which ration memory out t
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by cturner 12y ago
New thinkpads from the older lines are good. The original x1 carbon is glorious if you can find them still. But all the latest thinkpad models are junk - awful trackpad, bizarre keyboard design decisions. Yeah macs don't work too well
568.
by cturner 12y ago
In C, you need header files so that vars are declared before they're used. How does cython deal with this? I find headers painful, and would appreciate a memory foundry language more if it didn't suffer this.
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by cturner 12y ago
$a
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by cturner 12y ago
It would be interesting to know more about the logistics of running a mobile army in that era. I'd guess it would be hard work even to get hold of adequate maps for the regions you might decide to move into. Even with maps, you'd

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