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by edw 16y ago
That was what I was thinking: just as nine women can't have a baby in one month, you cannot create a seething furnace of urban synergy by just throwing a bunch of infrastructure together. It's like giving a kid a cupcake liner filled with r
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by edw 16y ago
What occurred to me while reading the article was this: There is a value in cities, and much of that value is density i.e. concentration. Not just of people but of industries: NYC and fashion, publishing, finance—everything, really. Silicon
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by edw 16y ago
The article is based on an entirely false assumption about the nature of lisp culture: “So, I can’t find any self-poking jokes about lisp. Self-deprecating Unix jokes, no problem. Jokes about frigging text editors, hilarious. But lisp has n
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by edw 16y ago
How exactly does this cover outsmart Apple's? I can't fold it in half. I can't fold the whole thing over save one quarter, so that the rear camera lens is exposed. It's nifty, it's another option, but is it better ? Better for what? I'd as
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by edw 16y ago
Okay, it took me a few minutes to figure this out, not being a gamer: "PC" means "player character" and "NPC" means "non-player character." So the title, roughly translated, means "Act more like an actual person, less like a character in a
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by edw 16y ago
From the perspective of a programmer-slash-reader back in '05, I think the progression was that you discovered Digg and used it until you heard about Reddit, which had much fewer stupid stories that were much more tech focused than Digg's,
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by edw 16y ago
Thank you for calling a spade a spade! The author talks about REST being object -oriented when it is actually resource -oriented. I know I'm flirting with pedantry for getting worked up about this, but anyone who knows what "object-orient
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by edw 16y ago
Ah, is this the "monkey patching" I've heard (so many bad things) about? Or something closer to Objective C's protocols and Java's interfaces?
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by edw 16y ago
Eval?! In all my years of writing Scheme, Javascript, and Clojure, I don't think I've ever written "eval" without later regretting it.
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by edw 16y ago
It seems like Ryan Sarver, along with the senior and/or PR people who most likely collaborated with him, is trying to channel the tone of Steve Jobs’s “we don't need any more fart apps” speech. If nothing else, I think it’s advice developer
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by edw 16y ago
I hope for Google’s sake that the name they're contemplating for this isn't “Google Me.” Have they thought about how people write and speak about media and products that become media for communication? “Did you see that tweet?” “Did you r
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by edw 16y ago
I don't know how to say I don't agree with your first sentence, because I think that the reasonable thing to expect when dealing with issues like this is that unfortunate things are going to happen quite often. Twitter has how many tens of
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by edw 16y ago
It seems to be a manifestation of the press’s—and humanity’s, I suppose—catty rage to see a conflict wherever there is a difference of opinion. I’ve never heard anyone compare Node to RoR except in terms of their communities, or the buzz su
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by edw 16y ago
Exactly! How is this supposed to jump-start the market for TouchPad apps when a desktop and a tablet involve completely different interaction models? I remember Tog or another early Mac team member reminiscing about the lack of arrow keys o
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by edw 18y ago
Back when I liked A4 more than US Letter, it was pretty much because I had a deep need to appear sophisticated by making conscious decisions to adopt exotic, European things. See also self-hating Americans who are against GMO and anything t
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by edw 18y ago
He sees a pattern _here_, not in the article. He's talking about the people _here_: "It's too bad that the US didn't..." "...its[sic] pretty asinine, ... and USA is stuck using obsolete..." This has nothing to do with the metric system: You
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by edw 19y ago
"But Joel's assertion that Google doesn't understand the big problems and isn't working on general solutions to those problems is patently false, as is his suggestion that all work on optimizing AJAX apps will be wasted in 6 months." Peter
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by edw 19y ago
Yes, SYNTAX-CASE has been around for quite a while, and there is a portable implementation that has just a few prerequisites beyond what R5RS provides. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/
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by edw 19y ago
Because EVAL is an atomic bomb, and there's no need to use it when a garrote would more elegantly perform the task at hand.
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by edw 19y ago
My point was more than one isn't usually missing much by being limited to writing hygienic macros. I don't think anyone is disputing the power of macros; it's the power/cost of hygiene violation that people are discussing. Someone could giv
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by edw 19y ago
I thought a lot of Scheme implementations define IF in terms of COND. Is there some reason you're pointing this out? I should have been more detailed and noted that on the "by all means use it" vs. "if you think you need it, think again" co
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by edw 19y ago
In Scheme, the cases where one would use anaphoric IF can be handled using a COND clause with a "=>": (cond ((assoc 'key collection) => (lambda (it) (do-something-with it))) (else (alternativ
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by edw 19y ago
User('ben') -- what does that even mean? Find 'ben' in a database? Create 'ben'? Get the 'ben' singleton? Maybe I've spent too much time in the land of lisp, but I'd like the code I read to actually tell me what it's trying to do. I'm a fan