dreish

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by dreish 17y ago
I would love to see a version with the motivational fortune cookies removed.
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by dreish 17y ago
According to a friend of mine who works at EW, this will only be available in NY and LA, and only to _some_ subscribers in those markets.
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by dreish 17y ago
The rebuttals to Nielsen's essay are also good: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981115_comments.html
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Github down (yet again) since about 22:00 UTC Sunday(search.twitter.com)
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by dreish 17y ago
I will surely be downvoted into oblivion for saying this, but just about any comment that starts out with the claim that it is being posted with the expectation that people will downvote it is instant karma gold, whether there's any genuine
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by dreish 17y ago
Organizations beyond a certain size are such that no single person can know everything that is going on. Where that threshold lies is a function of the general competence with which the organization is managed. To get a sense of the level
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by dreish 17y ago
It means it needs to use a JNI library, which operates outside the JVM sandbox, so it could theoretically do anything.
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by dreish 17y ago
First of all, I certainly wasn't claiming that you couldn't look up more than one hash key on one line of code, using a function. My point is that you might reasonably want to extend the concept of destructuring further to cover dictionari
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by dreish 17y ago
Sorry, I should have given an example. I don't see how the above is ever likely to be useful, since the keys can be in any arbitrary order, but the fact that you can get something sequential out of a dictionary and revert back to tuple ass
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by dreish 17y ago
I think the point was that author was able to create a syntax for summation that had approximately the same shape as the math notation. I don't think I would argue that this is a very good example of macros (and yes, I wrote that before rea
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by dreish 17y ago
Just out of curiosity, why aren't we using certificates for authentication instead of passwords by now? They can't possibly be worse overall, can they?
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by dreish 17y ago
I think that was all, but to those who fervently believe that there is no language superior to Common Lisp, he gave voice to the ... let's call it intense disappointment, of seeing the overwhelming majority of the rest of the world flock to
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by dreish 17y ago
That fact, however, doesn't mean there isn't room for future improvement in exception reporting at the REPL. Once the REPL catches an exception, it can do pretty much anything with it, since java.lang.Throwable objects provide convenient m
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by dreish 17y ago
It works without the "www.".
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by dreish 17y ago
No, it is exponential in the number of digits of accuracy as a function of the number of iterations performed.
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by dreish 17y ago
Of course, the opposite of the "aliens just stayed home" hypothesis is the hypothesis that we're the first species in the universe to acquire technology, and that we'll spread throughout it within a few more decades, eliminating any possibi
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by dreish 17y ago
Or a Clojure PersistentHashMap behind an Atom. That's the idiomatic way to do caching in Clojure. It would work just fine in regular Java, and you could wrap the Atom in a class that converts the usual java.util.Map methods to their equiv
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by dreish 17y ago
It's a pretty big job, trying to reimplement every last little one of Mac OS 9's features on top of Nextstep.
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by dreish 17y ago
You seem to be making the same effort to miss the point as the man that ran through a litany of objections starting at 45:18. I don't like the "there are no geniuses" phrase, especially since they then have to back down and say, "Well, it i
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by dreish 17y ago
That's not aif at all. In fact, you can't even do it for "most cases" in C because you don't know what type expr will evaluate to, but if we could cheat and assume it will be an int: #define aif(expr, code) \ {
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by dreish 17y ago
Am I missing something? They're asking for the keys to my bank account -- my username and password for online banking, something that should never be given out to anyone under any circumstances. That, to me, is an issue I just can't get p
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by dreish 17y ago
I believe the scenario is: Your username: you You are following: friend You are not following: stranger. stranger tweets: @friend #Scala works4me (using jcl.Conversions) where is your pain point? friend tweets: @stranger I wish t
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by dreish 17y ago
That's a good discussion to have, and I tend to agree with you, but my point remains: nobody is going to get locked up for checking the weather at work. There's nothing to justify the Redditesque hysteria being eagerly upvoted on this page
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by dreish 17y ago
Realistically, as mynameishere points out below, they were able to get a jury to convict him because he was doing some genuinely nasty things -- things no half-sane person would do at work, including soliciting prostitutes. It looks like a
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by dreish 17y ago
Learning a programming language is easy. Learning to program well in a language takes a long time, and includes becoming familiar with its idioms, available libraries, best practices, and appealing but potentially dangerous features. We
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by dreish 17y ago
Why, that sounds awfully ambitious!
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by dreish 17y ago
Sunday, the swine flu story breaks. On the radio the next morning, it's even bigger. I go in to work, and one person is home sick for the day -- someone I've never known to take a sick day. The next morning he still sounds awful over the
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by dreish 17y ago
This is a load of nonsense, of course. Wikipedia's guidelines for fair use within Wikipedia (which is what the above quotes, unattributed) are not based on any specific legal doctrine about what exactly is fair use. Suggesting that Lessi
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by dreish 17y ago
That's been my experience, and in hindsight I realize it's not because the little 20 minutes spurts add up to much, but because they tend to prevent the long, dark stretches of angst and doubt that come from not coding anything at all and h
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by dreish 17y ago
It might not go over well in a paid gig. Corporate tech managers do tend to freak out about Lisps and low-market-share languages in general. One strategy that might help is to be brutally honest about how long it might take in Java, and ho

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