devinj

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by devinj 16y ago
Wait. You mean people thought they didn't ? I'm not at all experienced in the realm of animal activism as it relates to lobsters and crabs, but did people really think that animals didn't feel something akin to pain if you ripped their l
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by devinj 16y ago
So let me get this straight, you're saying he should get over the fact that Apple is acting against his interests, because Apple doesn't care about his interests? How does that make sense? It sounds to me like the sensible choice is not t
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by devinj 16y ago
Well, there are languages I learn to improve my mind, and to improve my craft. As far as the mind goes, perl is nothing new (on the mind to-learn list: Haskell, OCaml, Eiffel, Erlang). Craftwise, it looks very useful.
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by devinj 16y ago
Yeah, I'd read about them sometime in the past, but to see it so visually is jarring.
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by devinj 16y ago
I think this article has convinced me that I should learn Perl. Looks bloody useful for shell scripts, indeed ("a better awk" is the phrasing I've heard).
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by devinj 16y ago
Whose fault is it then if a lawyer impedes progress on an important deal? In my opinion, the fault lies with the business side. Lawyers provide a service - just like consultants. You wouldn't let a consultant run your business, so what's u
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by devinj 16y ago
Seeing how the wearer reads is really-- staccato. It also makes me want to see what people look at when they play video games. Do game designers use eye tracking software? I can't really tell what my eyes focus on versus my brain.
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by devinj 16y ago
> The existence of a parser does not imply its availability. As you said "Some of them don't have the parsers available at all (e.g. C)," No, but it guarantees that, at least in theory, such a parser could be made available. In practice
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by devinj 16y ago
No, that's probably so that they can pay below minimum wage (or, indeed, have the strippers pay the club ).
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by devinj 16y ago
> Actually, no. They're a way of unambiguously representing said AST. I'm not sure how that's a contradiction. "unambiguously representing" is still representing. > Why do I say that? Because very few people know the full precedence
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by devinj 16y ago
I see what you mean. But I don't think that's what he meant by Lisp. After all, if you believe that, then Python is a Lisp too[1]. And when people say "Lisp", they don't mean "Scheme and CL and [...] and Python". Sure, like any class of lan
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by devinj 16y ago
> Come up with a better way of representing an Abstract Syntax Tree in text, please. If in programming what we're really doing is telling the compiler stuff, and the compiler only sees an abstract syntax tree, traditional syntaxes are a
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by devinj 16y ago
"there'll probably be a successor soon"? I don't know about you, but I've been using alternative services for years. The time for successors has already passed.
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by devinj 16y ago
Or lack thereof. The article posits that the lack of government interference has caused the duopolies: the cost of entering a market is so high that only two bother, after that it's not worth it. The alternative is a system where the govern
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by devinj 16y ago
Only old IE is forever. Chrome autoupdates very fast, Firefox a bit less so. I don't remember about Safari but I think they upgrade fast too.
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by devinj 16y ago
People still die, from accidents and what have you. In terms of multiples of the average death rate, generational change will be exactly the same. But generations are 10+ times as long in this view.
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by devinj 16y ago
Not any-- only whitelisted codecs work with the <video> element from what I understand. Sure, QuickTime (or whatever) can play it, but that's a different story.
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by devinj 16y ago
It emphasized that the creators were "kids" who had "high school English". If he didn't state it outright, he implied it.
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by devinj 16y ago
Drugs don't kill the analytical mind, they just make socializing easier. "Drugs" are not ipso facto bad.
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by devinj 16y ago
It scares me. It reminds me very strongly of the way things worked back in the 50s and 60s. I thought we were past forced institutionalization for disorders that didn't cause serious danger.
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by devinj 16y ago
Worst named debugger of all time. I love how everyone always has to clarify with "Not windows only" :)
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by devinj 16y ago
Er, you pay fees as a student? My bank (RBC) is run by old men in suits, plus I pay no mandatory fees. Optional fees are another thing. If I want the convenience of using an ATM not run by the bank, I pay a surcharge. But, it's a big bank,
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by devinj 16y ago
In "Python", period. Implementation details don't affect statements about the language!
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by devinj 16y ago
I love that added incentive on top towards small banks: this only applies to the biggest banks. It's a small, but clever, change.
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by devinj 16y ago
The value can be a reference to an object sometimes - that's pretty much it. No, it's always a reference to an object. It's just that some objects are immutable and so the distinction is not so clear. Otherwise, all-around agreement. +1
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by devinj 16y ago
It mentions game development. Game development has extremely low pay for the amount of stress it causes. I mean, everybody wants to be a game developer. Any prospective developer is screwed by supply and demand and a broken development mode
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by devinj 16y ago
Wait, he missed a step. Since when was MS Office the same as OOXML?
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by devinj 16y ago
"for students who have a .edu email address", no? My university doesn't hand those out. :(
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by devinj 16y ago
ad hominem much?
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by devinj 16y ago
lynx/w3m/etc. support. I'm told it used to work, but when faced with a situation where I needed to check my mail and only had a terminal, I couldn't get it to. Which is a shame, I had to run across the block to a library.

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