felideon

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by felideon 18y ago
It was the most thorny and un-inspiring community I've ever participated in, despite my extreme interest in the language. It's jaw dropping that a language with such promise has sat out the resurgence, and speaks to what an un-friendly and
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by felideon 18y ago
I think it would be nice to have a footer for consistency, too. Sometimes when I'm reading comments I try to scroll down to the bottom to click on one of the links, but realize I have to go back to another page for that.
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by felideon 18y ago
This is pretty cool (useful). Thanks.
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by felideon 18y ago
Muscle memory is always instinctive, it's hardwired in the human brain. Indeed. It's like walking. You don't think you are walking, you just walk. Everybody can teach his/her muscles to act "on their own" for a task as simple as this w
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by felideon 18y ago
I think you are right regarding muscle memory. I have terrible memory for everyday things yet I'm very good at "remembering" commands and keyboard shortcuts. For example, I recently started using Emacs. At first you do have to do a lot of
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by felideon 18y ago
By the way, I was recently told by a very strong programmer that of all things, he wanted to become a plumber as a kid Interesting analogy. Similarly, I wanted to become an inventor and invent (mechanical) gadgets. Surely enough I ended
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Emily: Photo-realistic CG facial animation by Image Metrics(technabob.com)
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by felideon 18y ago
The History of Programming Languages poster from O'Reilly. http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.ht...
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by felideon 18y ago
Agreed. Same thing with Russia being on the top three of most charts. Also, from the comments: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=haskell%20...
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by felideon 18y ago
That's interesting. If I ever met any kind of scientist I'd be like "Wow, that's so cool," and ask questions about what you're researching, etc. A part of me always wanted to be a scientist. Hopefully I'll start a (programming) project to
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by felideon 18y ago
My mistake. I don't know why I read over that part. I guess I was biased since I haven't had any problems with 3G reception on the iPhone. Edit: And I do acknowledge some of the flaws he mentions, but overall it just seems he exaggerated
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by felideon 18y ago
Pretty senseless post. It's not really Apple's fault that he happens to have bad 3G reception in his area. I'm not sure why I even finished reading this 2-page rant that was obviously not going to mention anything people don't already know
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by felideon 18y ago
#lisp, #emacs @ freenode
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by felideon 18y ago
I'm so tempted to go but that would be one hell of an expensive beer (airfare + stay). But... I could get a lot out of this since I want to start a startup. I definitely need to move to a startup hub. This type of meet up would never happ
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by felideon 18y ago
You're right on the fact it's a stupid question you have to look up, and brings barely any value to the interview (I think in a follow up version he removes the question). Regarding not recognizing your own ignorance, I think you definitely
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by felideon 18y ago
Forever? I would think start running around in circles until the blender turns over. Heh.
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by felideon 18y ago
Exactly. If you just stare and be like "I dunno" you may be a bad candidate. If you try to resolve it, even though you are way off with the answer, it means you may be a good candidate. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog000000007
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by felideon 18y ago
A lot of people don't make the leap because they're afraid of the risks associated with not having a stable income. A lot of developers working day jobs would at least like to match their current salary if not more to account for the risk.
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by felideon 18y ago
Good point. So what would an interesting MMO on the iPhone be like? And how would you account for lag, disconnects, etc.
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by felideon 18y ago
You mean Aurora Feint? http://www.aurorafeint.com/ http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/iphone_apps_we_like_aurora...
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by felideon 18y ago
I like Steve Yegge's take on the subject, too. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...
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by felideon 18y ago
Haha. Better yet, how about send an e-mail and have it transcribed to a real letter? (And of course a quick Google search reveals www.postful.com)
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by felideon 18y ago
Ah, well that does make it a bit more interesting. :)
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by felideon 18y ago
And for number #5 you don't even need to write a function. Why not just use reverse? And notice his indentation and closing of parens is all wrong (i.e. not Lisp style). He's writing Lisp code thinking in a another language[1]. It's stil
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by felideon 18y ago
Not really because usually that behavior is followed by "Clear History" in a browser your wife does not know is installed but may stumble upon some day. :) (Or you work at a corporate job.)
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by felideon 18y ago
Agreed. Very nice though. I heard (read) there might be an app to SSH from the iPhone, but that's about it. And I don't think it would be free.
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by felideon 18y ago
That's most probably because he didn't care about his History class. Not only that, in math (and programming, etc), you just "get it" and thereafter practice it to get the straight A's. In History, even if you understand everything, you'll
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by felideon 18y ago
Sorry, the emphasis was on the word "use", not "phone". I just want to _use_ my smart phone.
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by felideon 18y ago
Right. And unless my main reason for buying a mobile phone is "for hacking," I don't see why I should pay $400 for the alternative (i.e. the Neo FreeRunner) when the iPhone "just works"--and nicely at that. How sure are we that the Neo Fre
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by felideon 18y ago
That, or look for seed funding.

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