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by euske 10y ago
"I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist." - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EW...
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by euske 10y ago
I found a paragraph in this article http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/ very apt at describing what Unix signals are like: In *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*, Douglas Adams mentions an
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by euske 10y ago
So, these companies are basically the Tor router of money. Recently NPR Planet Money also covered a related topic which was very entertaining. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/05/27/479717380&#
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The Wit.nes (demo)(dustmop.itch.io)
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by euske 10y ago
(shameless plug) Some folks in the Ludum Dare community are hosting One Hour Game Jam, which is a weekly game jam to create a game within one (or possibly a few more) hours. A different theme is chosen for each week by voting. I would say m
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by euske 10y ago
This. I would be very much curious too, whether if this can have a cultural impact. If not, I'd say it's largely uninteresting. Sure they'll make a couple of successful developers, but I'd rather want to live in a societ
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by euske 10y ago
Late edit: Sorry, I meant that CL doesn't have a well defined scope , not a namespace.
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by euske 10y ago
Common Lisp doesn't have type checking and well defined namespace. And it has eval. That's certainly a no go for people like me. Most programmers in the world don't have to invent/implement a radical new idea in five min
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by euske 10y ago
Being in a dictionary didn't mean people used it. In my view, a word doesn't really exist until it reaches a certain widespread use.
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by euske 10y ago
There's a difference between the word has a historical record and it was commonly used. These words did exist. I was saying they are simply not in widespread use like the ones in English.
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by euske 10y ago
English words that don't exist in Japanese: * identity (the notion simply does not exist here) * fairness (we don't care this either) * racist (but it doesn't mean we don't have it, we're simply unaware of it) And y
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by euske 10y ago
The crontab command has one of the worst UI problems: 1. "crontab -e" lets you edit your crontab file, and "crontab -r" deletes it (without asking). The two keys are next to each other. 2. "crontab" (no arg) re
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by euske 11y ago
I don't think "programmer" and "non-programmer" is a binary distinction. Most programmers don't think when iterating an array, but even experienced programmers sometimes take a non-programmer like approach when
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by euske 11y ago
I was about to type the same thing. cf. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-needs-handwriting/
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by euske 11y ago
As a teacher, a bigger problem that I have is not that people don't understand it, but that people don't care when they don't understand it. Many students seem to be just attending to a class because of peer pressure or som
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by euske 11y ago
This. I tend to think ads only work when people don't care or even notice them. If an ad annoys its viewers, it's already a failure of the ad and they don't deserve money, whether or not it's blocked. Many obscene ads fa
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by euske 11y ago
If I was to describe the essence of clean code in one word, I would say "balance". Yes, yes, readability and problem separation and stuff is important, but so is efficiency and usability and security and deadline and everything. B
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by euske 11y ago
I don't think it's the amount of code that is a problem here (we all depend on million lines of codes for a simple hello world program in C). The problem is the number of sources that one should trust to run it, which should b
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by euske 11y ago
This is like saying "I don't want to file a tax because my handwriting is bad". Well, if you're embarrassed by your terrible handwriting, maybe it's a time to put some effort to improve it.
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by euske 11y ago
"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." -- Vladimir Nabokov
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by euske 11y ago
There are many independent laptop PC manufacturers in Japan. Panasonic Let's Note (cf. http://panasonic.jp/pc/ ) is known to have excellent battery life while being decent. Laptops from Mouse Computer (cf. http:&
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by euske 11y ago
I think people are overestimating the word "language barrier". People often forget that the language barrier is not a one-sided problem. Communication is a collaborative effort (unless we're just spying them). I bet that some
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by euske 11y ago
I sometimes wonder why tech people like space-related stuff so much. It is a major news indeed and a feat of science and technology, but why is space so popular? Because it's otherworldly, large-scale and kind of making you feel empowe
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by euske 11y ago
I wish someone made a better (non-SMTP) messaging standard which is secure, efficient, easier to understand/implement and without a clutter of all legacy stuff (and hopefully with a decent reference implementation!). Spams would still
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by euske 11y ago
API naming is hard because of the conflicting goals: 1. You want to make it easy to type/read. 2. You want to make it descriptive. (conflicting with #1) 3. You want to make it consistent and unique. 4. You want to make it compatible
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by euske 11y ago
Just want to speak up and say that your comment is actually very sensible, and it's terrifying to see it's downvoted.
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by euske 11y ago
I wish they could upgrade Minecraft Pi Edition, which hasn't been updated for more than three years. http://pi.minecraft.net/
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by euske 11y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like an AI problem.
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by euske 11y ago
I find these companies deeply deceptive and disingenuous which advertise IoT things (or anything that contains more than 100k lines of code) so reliable as not to warn possible consequences or offer solid fallback mechanisms.
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by euske 11y ago
Not only security products, but all the core parts of our daily software stack. I can imagine, in future, that an OS becomes like a nation. There's a core, transparent "government" component of the system which takes care of

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