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781.
by emmett 18y ago
We didn't win the Y50K either, and I think we were the only team from our year to actually go on and found anything at all. To be fair, the idea we applied with was kind of stupid.
782.
by emmett 18y ago
Additionally, off the top of my head, Joel Spolsky and Olin Shivers. Boolah boolah.
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Map: Mentions per capita in the NYT(verysmallarray.com)
3 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
784.
by emmett 18y ago
Hey, Kiko was awesome! Google Calendar still doesn't have a fully featured quick add, and you still can't preview events with mouseover.
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by emmett 18y ago
Yes, that's exactly so. Remember when there was a whole day of downtime for everyone in the colo in downtown SF? Running things yourself is no guarantee of uptime. The only real fix is to maintain fully redundant systems, which is extremely
786.
by emmett 18y ago
Google's products succeed because they're technically brilliant and well executed, not because their design is massively better (see: iPod, iPhone). Google avoids bad design by the simple expedient of making everything sparse and function
787.
by emmett 18y ago
I don't understand; are you implying that there will simply be too many stories for editors to kill them all? The particular defense HN has against people voting up mind-candy is that editors can (and do) kill those stories. What makes you
788.
by emmett 18y ago
This is why hacker news has a collection of editors with the power to kill cat pictures with a click.
789.
by emmett 18y ago
There's little evidence their patents are meaningful at all. Almost always, the best course is to ignore patents entirely and forge ahead. Most software patents are unenforceable.
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by emmett 18y ago
"Almost all" might have been hyperbole, but "many" is certainly true. On the other hand, HTTP is clearly far superior to FTP, especially if you include extensions like WebDAV and the power of custom headers. I was just pointing out, insecur
791.
by emmett 18y ago
I completely agree that's a huge problem. I just don't think things were any better in the past in composition or comprehension.
792.
by emmett 18y ago
The data seem to suggest that, while those students were certainly deplorable, average literacy is actually at an all time high: http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp
793.
by emmett 18y ago
I really enjoyed Handmaid's Tale when I read it. Of course, I didn't read it for school, which might make all the difference.
794.
by emmett 18y ago
QuantCast is horribly unreliable, far worse than even their competitors who are themselves terribly unreliable.
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by emmett 18y ago
Almost all his arguments apply equally to HTTP.
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by emmett 18y ago
My mother (who thankfully is not so old) uses the Justin.tv officecam for exactly this.
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by emmett 18y ago
I agree. It would be easy enough to write autoquoting versions as macros, but since the names are taken your new let/lambda would have to be named something else.
798.
by emmett 18y ago
A huge number of interesting ideas. High points for me: An elegant system for metadata which can be used to implement documentation, pretty printing, types, debugging, logging, and other such meta things. Keyword arguments are baked in for
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MISC: A homoiconic language based on maps(will.thimbleby.net)
31 points by emmett 18y ago|10 comments
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Sounding black hurts your income; so does sounding southern(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
12 points by emmett 18y ago|17 comments
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Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions(money.cnn.com)
46 points by emmett 18y ago|24 comments
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Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in northwestern Europe? (voxeu.org)
1 points by emmett 18y ago|1 comments
803.
by emmett 18y ago
The article is about advice you'd give to a 13 year old who wanted to learn to program, not about how to become a professional software developer. Unit tests are not necessary to learn to program, and thus should be left for later.
804.
by emmett 18y ago
TechCrunch really just doesn't send that much traffic. If you can do 50 reqs/second you will be absolutely fine; it doesn't take any kind of special server.
805.
by emmett 18y ago
Raganwald is one of the most prominent Ruby programmers I know of, so I would say it's unlikely he hates Ruby. And he has a point. While Ruby is certainly more coherent than Java, it's clearly less coherent than io or Lisp or smalltalk.
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by emmett 18y ago
I agree that it's no longer english as she's spoke, but it is ultimately comprehensible with difficulty. It's harder to unpack deeply nested clauses; human beings have trouble thinking on more than one levelf of the stack at the same time.
807.
by emmett 18y ago
Google might still have a chance to do interesting things. Somehow they're managing to avoid adding huge amounts of "process" to building projects? They ship code fast? Sounds like everything is going fine...
808.
by emmett 18y ago
I wouldn't go to a non-parent for advice on how to quiet a toddler or get your kids to help clean the house. On the other hand, parents can be somewhat irrational when it comes to societal issues. Risk tolerance goes way down, particularly
809.
by emmett 18y ago
Just extend it. (Fish [that] (fish [that] fish [habitually] eat) [habitually] eat) [habitually] eat [food]. Fish fish fish fish fish eat eat eat eat eat!
810.
by emmett 18y ago
Fish [that] fish eat [habitually] eat [food].

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