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by cturner 15y ago
I was told I'd never be a programmer because I didn't get good marks in math and physics, that was sixteen years ago. Let's kill the myth. I can't see any reason why being genuinely good at math is more important to effective programming th
902.
by cturner 15y ago
sorry - I sometimes delete comments minutes after posting them if I subsequently decide they're low value. Your post came in as I deleted. Thanks for response, I'll pick it up. > what OS are you running and what don't you like
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by cturner 15y ago
There's a gap in his flow, at the beginning of the point where he goes off the rails. "To be clear: Net Neutrality was thrown out in the wireless space because Google sided with Verizon’s ridiculous and horribly conflicted stance on the mat
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by cturner 15y ago
webobjects was a rebranding of openstep + some new tools. The last version lived on java. Some people started with next, branched to wo, survived on it for six or seven years and then migrated back to cocoa/iphone. Similar API through Not d
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by cturner 15y ago
Curious quote, "When will Scott McNealy realise that OSF is the best thing that ever happened to him and cease offering it [sic] technology?" What was unique or interesting about OSF? There's quite limited resources online. Sun was an excit
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by cturner 15y ago
Unclear. "Aug 4, 1998: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept." However, it's probably not good to assume that anything goes through congress unanimously witho
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by cturner 15y ago
> For some reason, all of the ways to spawn a subprocess > in Python have tried to map almost directly to the > underlying C API I think both are good and necessary. One of the strengthes of python is that if y
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by cturner 15y ago
> If anyone remembers, Java had to do OO in a > big-style with OO everywhere -- there were no > alternatives. You can write Java that isn't heavily OO, but you have to implement alternatives to sections of the
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by cturner 15y ago
> GMO is like a magic word processor that outputs > instantly DRM'd books [..] It doesn't need to be like that though. GMO exists without IP law. The two concepts are not inherently tied.
910.
by cturner 15y ago
Intellectual property trumps civil liberties every year. There's a myth that limited intellecutal property rights are consistent with civil liberties. They're not. Patents cause one person's actions to limit the permitted actions of another
911.
by cturner 15y ago
Hey - I like doing this but find the power consumption of my laptop goes through the roof, and it gets uncomfortably warm. Does anyone have any tricks for beating this? I've just upgraded to latest vmware but haven't deliberately tested thi
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by cturner 15y ago
Thanks, I actually have a long history with roguelikes and tried to write a 7drl myself once (zengarden. you're a monk, and you tend a garden. occasionally you get stuff through the letter box, has a notion of crafting that I took from df.
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by cturner 15y ago
I was obsessed by games when I was kid. They've almost lost their grip on me. Even when I go actively looking for some distraction I can't find anything good. There has been one exception in the last couple of years, minecraft. There's virt
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by cturner 15y ago
Yup. That's why I thought the Sweden/Greece thing above was odd.
915.
by cturner 15y ago
> How is the state linking health care to employment? During the second world war US wages were frozen. But there was an exception where you could provide employees with differing levels of health care. So that became a mechan
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by cturner 15y ago
Greece has socialised healthcare, as do the rest of the European countries circling the drain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Greece It's worth noting that the US health model isn't a free-market system - the state links heal
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by cturner 15y ago
I spent a lot of time hanging around nursing homes when I was growing up, and decided a long time ago that I'd like to do fast and well before I get to that stage. The NO CODE tatoo is a great idea.
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by cturner 15y ago
If you get oone of these android tablets, how feasible is it to get a coommand line on which you can run dev tools like bash, vim/emacs, gcc, python, java?
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by cturner 15y ago
Somali pirates vs seasteaders has potential as as a Neal Stephenson plot.
920.
by cturner 15y ago
On this topic of stdin, stdout - wouldn't it be neat if - instead of signals - there was an input channel called stdctrl that you could send control messages in on. Glad to read about the scenario at your last place - I've never seen this i
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by cturner 15y ago
You can and should separate view and controller. Imagine if you could spawn windows at monitors, and then have things display on them via pipeline. You might type into a tiny window on one monitor that never loses focus, but sends graphs an
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by cturner 15y ago
In line with what inclinedplane said, I've always found it strange that costs are generally not awarded in US legal culture. Awarding costs takes a lot of the momentum out of strategic and extortive lawsuit practices, and gives people a lot
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HSBC's Ward speculates on roles for IMF/ECB in bond crisis(bloomberg.com)
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by cturner 15y ago
Interesting. This reminds me of a product I used to work on. It is a node design. Nodes can be plugged together to normalise and aggregate trade data. I'd be interested in contributing to your project, starting with working on the docs. If
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by cturner 15y ago
Exactly. How many Dell-like companies have we seen die off over the last fifteen years because they were stuck in their ways. The PC companies that have survived are those that made it in to services work - HP, IBM, Dell. Oracle has worked
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by cturner 15y ago
One feature of Emacs that I wish IDEs would or could adopt is macros I think you'll need to have a reflective language as your foundation to do this as well as emacs. It doesn't have to be a lisp - io language has this propert
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by cturner 15y ago
Please go on - what odd ideas came out wondering about this? I'm tinkering with emacs at the moment because I like the lisp-as-foundation idea. Thoughts I've had this morning: * Make emacs more useful as the driving-panel for a mult
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by cturner 15y ago
> but companies like Sony make good designs then abandon > them intentionally because they're blind to their own > good design choices. I see this pattern a lot. Situations where people trade away their streng
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by cturner 15y ago
Yeah I've got a notation that's kind of based on mind maps. I put 'standing stones' in the middle of a whiteboard to represent desired outcomes, and then try to create a path from the edge of the whiteboard into the stones. It's useful to t
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by cturner 15y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a long time - thanks. I'm also interesting in finding something that operates at a level removed from this - making diagrams of the creative process itself, as you go down routes and reach dead

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