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by edw 16y ago
"A brilliant and insightful analysis." I asked one of my CL hacker friends about the L1/L2 question, and he waved has hands a lot and said that Richard Gabriel said that L2s were better. I read the essay that he alluded to (but didn't actua
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by edw 16y ago
Geesh, It's not like I mentioned Hitler. My point, which we are not talking about, because we're currently dealing with your commission of the spurious-fallacy fallacy, is that when one asks questions of someone whose identity depends on an
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by edw 16y ago
Asking a CL advocate whether Scheme is a Lisp is like asking a plantation owner whether his slaves are human beings. The page's second argument for why Scheme is not a Lisp ridiculous. Basically: CL is meant to be the Lisp, therefore Sche
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by edw 16y ago
Yeah, see how well the gamification of HN worked out? "Gamification" is the new "viral." It'll make a lot of people major consulting bank, but it's not going to create a lot of high quality content or revenue or whatever. I write this a cou
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by edw 16y ago
This article is ridiculous: it poh-pohs speculation as such and then combats the various speculative theories being tossed about with…speculation. Gruber (or some Gruber-like person) argued that we may be seeing a decrease in the tempo of h
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by edw 16y ago
All things considered, does RIM actually want people talking about the PlayBook? If it's positive, I'm sure they don't mind, but given that the thing doesn't actually exist yet (right?) I dont see them gaining much ground on the PlayBook PR
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by edw 16y ago
More importantly, RMS does not come across as a person with a sense of humor. (Has any Jacobin ever?) I would guess that the license is on the site because of RMS and not some lawyer.
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by edw 16y ago
Do you feel the same way about any profitable company that runs Apache or FreeBSD? I don't understand your sentiment, which seems quite common. These unpaid bloggers on HuffPo have in aggregate contributed almost nothing of durable value to
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by edw 16y ago
To call this lawsuit quixotic would be too generous. (And I forget, did Don Quixote ever come off as so whiny?)
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by edw 16y ago
Interesting piece of trivia: Tucows, parent company of Hover, went public by buying the remains of the first start-up I was involved with, Infonautics, and doing a reverse merger. We went public as part of the craziness of '95—we were on of
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by edw 16y ago
Thanks; I just checked it out and while it has some nice features, it doesn't do all that much to compact my already-dense JS. Additionally, the added complexity it introduces to the development process negates some of its charm, as does th
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by edw 16y ago
Yes! As I was looking at the cube, I wanted the viewer to reach out and manipulate it: spin, pinch, what-have-you. I think the worst thing that could happen is that this sort of experience get baked into the core of the iPad's UI (or the UI
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by edw 16y ago
Just the mention of Scheme, my favorite programming language, makes me get irritated when I think about the thousand or fifteen hundred lines of JavaScript I've written in the last couple weeks. I'm basically writing Scheme using C syntax,
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by edw 16y ago
Reading this, which I find clear and informative, makes me want to encourage programmers to team up with writers and editors (via Github?) who can clarify and polish the programmers' ideas. It would be a great way to 1) improve the quality
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by edw 16y ago
Good advice, but I'm still with the guy who thought giving Skype free advice was casting pearls before swine. If the Skype UI sucks and they're not willing to employ talented product designers, let some other company take advantage of that
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by edw 16y ago
Someone please explain to me how this article, which adds nothing to human knowledge, was posted with some intention other than to cull karma points from those of us with a weakness for anything Lisp-related. That article about the perverse
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by edw 16y ago
I wasn't thinking about Oracle-the-database but all the other stuff they sell that makes huge, faceless corporations go. No YC-style company is in a position to take on Oracle toe-to-toe, in the lapdance-and-BJ market. The only option is so
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by edw 16y ago
Nyppex, the company the provided the figures for this story, needs to avoid reporting such ridiculously precise numbers: "Zynga…rose 81 percent in value…" "Facebook…climbed 57 percent…" "LinkedIn Corp.…rose 43 percent…" "…Groupon Inc. incre
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by edw 16y ago
I'm going to quote a Paul Graham quote that I came across in another item ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423054 ) just a few minutes ago: > The "next Google" is unlikely to be a search engine, however, just as the "next Microsof
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by edw 16y ago
I suppose it's interesting to think about how Mr Wilson built his community, but more important is the sort of community he's managed to build and the question of whether it's a good or bad community. A community isn't an end in itself, a
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by edw 16y ago
Yes, logically, "Not sure it's a good thing," means "It is either a good thing or it is not a good thing." You know, X or not X, and so your ass-covering comment is logically defensible, but come on , you wrote it for a reason. Just say, "
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by edw 16y ago
I see an opportunity for a lifestyle business focused on providing start-ups with teaser sites like this that are tied in with social media bots and so-forth to efficiently exploit bleeding-edgers.
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by edw 16y ago
This reminds me of yesterday's item for Hired For. I went to http://newyork.hiredfor.com and entered my e-mail address, so that I could be put on their exclusive invite list. (Their italics.) After submitting the form, I got this: "Than
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by edw 16y ago
When did “learnings” become a word that non–MBAs started using? I don’t think there is another word that fills me with a greater desire to flip the conference room table over and leave the room.
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by edw 16y ago
I too apologize for being so thin skinned. I spend a lot of time trying to be understanding and open-minded, so I get pissed off when I feel like people assume that I'm "part of the problem" because I'm white and male and whatever. Not that
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by edw 16y ago
Yes, I am quite embarrassed by this error. Now, if I'd decided to register a Colombian domain name, maybe I would have done a little more research. Regarding your second paragraph, I think you may simply have a chip on your shoulder. My com
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by edw 16y ago
To this I feel the need to reply with a big "duh!" Whenever I see a see a product launch with an two-letter country code, I look it up if I don't already know it and ask myself: Would I be willing to trust my business to _this_ country's do
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by edw 16y ago
Quora is like TED in that it provides exhibitionists and flatterers of the powerful an opportunity to meet up with voyeurs and those who get a rush from being in the presence of quote-genius-unquote. You are what you like, and as soon as ev
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by edw 16y ago
The crux of what people mean when they refer to meritocratic systems or organizations has nothing to do with the people in the organization or is related only tangentially to people. What they really mean is that the best ideas win, that
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by edw 16y ago
A thought: Liking (or +1-ing) at the URL level seems useful but too coarse-grained as a general model. Maybe I've made too many Git checkins today, but I'd like to be able to select some text and +1 it. That's what I use Twitter or my blog

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