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by djacobs 16y ago
Really? 1. Chinese people do not have diverse opinions? 2. Every civilization that has people with differing opinions has been innovative?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I repeat: not relevant to Ruby. Re: your question about women and computer science, who knows? These kinds of questions are for psychologists and sociologists. I know that many many feminists like to claim that they are not "logical" or "li
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by djacobs 16y ago
That list of privileges isn't particularly relevant to Ruby. Again, the evidence here is scant, anecdotal, and misdirected. And I support feminist ideals.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not sure I want iTunes any bigger. iTunes already wants to be too much. It has a store (with credit card management), your local music library, a social network, movies that you are supposed to watch via Apple TV, podcast management, th
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by djacobs 16y ago
How do you envision FaceTime being integrated into iTunes? (I think the iChat suggestion seems more plausible.)
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by djacobs 16y ago
I like the idea of Finder handling multiple types of filesystems. Seems like an elegant solution to this problem to me -- move device management out of applications and into the operating system, where that should be. The elegance of that s
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by djacobs 16y ago
> Having a filesystem arrangement under my control is useful for this purpose: > $ cp /misc/music/Johnny_Cash/American / /media/generic_non_ipod_music_player/ Why can't you do this with iTunes' automatic arrangement? What am I miss
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by djacobs 16y ago
I only briefly looked through the README, but why is this necessary? Does The Real RVM (tm) not work (well) on Windows?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Is this what's keeping all the e-learning UIs so crappy and 1990s-looking? That's sad.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Really the only thing I don't like about HN's UI is how the comment lines aren't formatted to a readable width -- they run about twice as wide as a standard book line and maybe 4/3 as long as a normal online article. What's more, comments a
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by djacobs 16y ago
Isn't that what he was implying?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Mind posting your solution as a Gist? I want to see how to do level 1 without explicit loops or variables.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Ruby has Array#sort, no command line required.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I used Ruby, too. Nothing else required. I think Clojure might've made things a tad easier (given all its sequence functions), but I'm just learning it, so Ruby all the way. That said, finding the palindromes in Ruby took me about 12 lines
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by djacobs 16y ago
I kindof get that. But SaaS != WWW. What's more, some SaaS supports data portability--as of yesterday, even Facebook does this! So I can't really understand the concern, at least framed this way. The web as a timesuck is I guess a good argu
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by djacobs 16y ago
Privacy and data portability are two separate concerns. For those of us who don't post unwanted information online, we are only really concerned with the latter. For us, this is a big win.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Interesting, I'd never come across that quote before today. Anyone have any idea why he doesn't like the WWW? Is he still on Gopher?
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by djacobs 16y ago
He doesn't have web access? Really? I don't think I understand.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I want to up-vote your comment more than once. Just this week, my boss told me to aggregate and then analyze 90 spreadsheets worth of data along with associated metadata scattered around in various (structured) files. The task is one I'm go
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by djacobs 16y ago
... Where is the pun?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I did this 6 months ago. I'm still alive and social. This is the five-step program, folks.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Self-correction: the "IE8 with a new GUI" comment wasn't made by the engineer. Here's the discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...
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by djacobs 16y ago
I don't think it is wrong. The engineers have even been clearer and more useful when they're talking about policy. Case in point: The question comes up: "Why aren't you bringing IE9 to Windows XP?" Answer from marketing guys: "XP isn't comp
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by djacobs 16y ago
I agree, I think the marketers failed at their own game (understanding their audience and selling themselves) today/yesterday. They sidestepped questions like politicians. If they had understood their audience, they'd have known this would
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by djacobs 16y ago
You're right, it's what they advertise officially, but now that we're talking to engineers, we get the gritty details, a story I accept: D2D is a layer that doesn't exist in Windows XP. Where it does exist (Vista and 7), you can use it to s
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by djacobs 16y ago
I agree, the MSFT engineers ( not the marketers) seem likeable enough. I think they're handling criticism reasonably enough and I think the Reddit crowd should understand exactly how little input these engineers get inside of Microsoft's d
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by djacobs 16y ago
I did not get the tatoo reference, haha. As far as I understand, though, there is TCO in Clojure, right? You just have to be explicit and use (recur).
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by djacobs 16y ago
He doesn't even mark up the press release with semantics. Not even header tags for subheadings. What is this?
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by djacobs 16y ago
My point was not to translate the method name, it was to point out that (++) is anti-Clojure. I wanted to refactor the title to avoid mutability. I.e., "return the increment of clojure", not "change the value of clojure".
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by djacobs 16y ago
Well, I agree with you that isn't fantastic marketing. But neither is using a mutator function name to describe a talk on a functional language. Rich Hickey loves to rail against nonsensical constructs/concepts like @date.day = 3, and I'm

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