discreteevent

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by discreteevent 16y ago
"Coderbots" - Why be so derogatory? There's no need to be. Who knows, maybe someday you will meet someone who only learned programming in school who is faster than you.
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Thats exactly what I got it for and it turns out that its a good little phone. The resistive touch works more accurately for me than other phones of the same size and the battery lasts me 3 days most of the time.
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Same here (on an android). It makes me less inclined to comment, which can be a real timewaster as then you are committed to the thread. Normally I touch type so I don't have the patience for the SW keyboard.
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by discreteevent 16y ago
I like the article's emphasis that it is the lack of shared state that is more important than the fact that the language is functional. Also it is the "mystical view" of objects that contains all the value. Unfortunately its also the baby t
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by discreteevent 16y ago
I know that the "news" in this announcement is about ARM. But Soc itself is also about making existing PC software run faster. At the moment there is little argument for purchasing new hardware because multiple cores are failing to signifi
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Like a lot of these studies they are only measuring one factor - fat gained/retained. So as usual its good to remind oneself to take it with a grain of salt and always keep a sharp eye on what works best for you overall. It beats waiting fo
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Maybe not evil but definitely closed . Watch out for that.
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Why is he limiting his scope to people with only three years experience? There can only be one reason.- cost. This kind of mistitled post has been around for years. "I can't get good developers" should read "I can't get good cheap develope
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by discreteevent 16y ago
This is true. But its still worth trying to write an interpreter for any language. I made up my own language which is a slimmed down and extremely consistent version of javascript. I was making the problem easy for myself but I still felt t
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Java is not ideal, we all know that, it just hasn't caught up (in fact that was true even when it first came out). But you can treat it as a target (like assembly) that is made for an IDE to read and write. Then just work with the IDE for a
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Ok but what if someone with talent and experience will deliver you value worth three times "startup pay" but only wants twice it. I'm sure you would have no argument about hiring them as the economics speak for themselves. So hiring people
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Fair enough but as you said the young person is "learning to build stuff". There is an advantage in this in that they have a beginners mind and may well come up with a new and better way of doing things. But that is probably one in a hundre
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by discreteevent 16y ago
I used to work with MS stuff all the time. Now its a mix of everything. If I had a choice I would probably go back for one reason only: Consistency - Getting more work done and spending less time choosing, configuring and keeping up with th
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Coincidentally I just came back from camping. No tv, no phone etc. No matter what else I have tried it just won't give me the perspective I have now. I'm outside looking in - Freedom but also total control actually.
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by discreteevent 16y ago
"A programmer with 10 years of experience can be 10x (or more) more productive than a graduate". I couldn't agree more and indeed sometimes it can be up to 100 times. Not necessarily because of their productivity but because of the absolute
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by discreteevent 16y ago
"We will be treating monads as a design pattern instead of monoids in the category of endofunctors. The latter perspective is interesting to the people who like to design languages; the former perspective is interesting to people who like t
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by discreteevent 16y ago
I think Bruce Eckel started a blog about these issues because he had seen them so many times. From what I have seen it seems true more or less everywhere. People are territorial and they see everything relatively. So in general its more imp
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by discreteevent 16y ago
Yeah, but unfortunately intelligence doesn't seem to correlate one way or another with happiness. Also conversely some 'religions' (zen buddhism) see logical thinking as a barrier to insight (leading to happiness). I remember reading before
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by discreteevent 17y ago
I think the Zen Buddhists have it. Most of the thoughts we have are centred around avoiding having to deal with what is right in front of us. In otherwords we are constantly shirking things. The good news is that everythig one is inclined t
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by discreteevent 17y ago
Yes but you are working with the assumption that you must be "on top of [your] game". i.e. that you must "win". Alan Kay said that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Let me give you an example: Suppose you decided to drop out for a year at
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Programming Paradigms for Dummies(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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