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by dpkendal 15y ago
If kids' lemonade stands were made illegal, it could be the most devastating thing ever to hit that country's entrepreneurship, long-term, if we follow Jason Fried's getting-good-at-making-money theory. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1985-
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“… an unpaid blogger by the name of Michael Arrington reports.” Oh! the hilarity.
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Plus, I'm British, not American. ;-)
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Sorry to all who wanted to say Electronica. That option is now available. I knew I'd forget a genre.
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Electronic music (trance, electronica, etc.)
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Poll: Your preferred music for working?
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"Classical" (Medieval, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th/21st Century, etc.)
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Jazz (Ragtime, Early Jazz, Bebop, Swing, Cool, Modal, etc.)
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Rock-and-roll
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Classic Rock
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Country
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Hard Rock
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Metal
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Rap
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Pop
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Geek pop (Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, etc.)
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No music -- I work in silence
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"We want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology." Programming: it's not just a skill. I
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by dpkendal 15y ago
That is by far the clearest implementation of the Y-combinator I've ever seen. And I'm not even a JavaScript programmer.
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Not only this, but I've read stories that in the early days of his return, you could get into an elevator with him and not have a job any more when you got out. If he asked you what you did and you said marketing, you were out. If you were
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by dpkendal 15y ago
You tell your drinking pals that someone on the Internet told you that there is no shame in drinking Smirnoff Ice. Anyway, now it seems like I'm putting peer-pressure on you to start drinking again. That's even less cool than someone who
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I didn’t really mean in that sense, though that’s another possibility. What I meant was that, when Java somehow becomes ‘functional’ (like that transition can happen to an established language) it will be assumed that any program written
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Prediction: within 5 years, the term "functional programming" will be almost meaningless.
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Saying you "cannot stand the taste of alcohol" is like saying you "cannot stand the smell of air." Well, alcohol is flavourless on its own. Also, it will kill you if you drink it raw, so don't try that. Just like air, context is everything.
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The UK Riots API(davidkendal.net)
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You're suggesting that Apple would turn off the means to run apps developers depend on to work? The same developers who create apps for this 'locked-down' App Store? It may come to pass that a version of Mac OS X will ship with an option to
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What now, Apple is a for-profit company? How dare they use their available means to increase their revenue! Outrageous.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-kors/why-im-returning-m... The entire article can basically be summed up as, "The path is difficult for me because I have so many preferences which I refuse to accept that there is any alternative to."
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I think it's new in Xcode 4.
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Once you know two languages of fairly dissimilar syntax and philosophy, you can learn a new language pretty quickly because of the mind-expanding effect brought about by having multiple approaches to the same problem in mind. This applies d

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