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by flogic 17y ago
From a Perl point of view, I think it's the right way to go. There are a few "standard" tricks to simulate extending Perl5, but they often feel hackish. From my understanding this will be more flexible and explicit. I don't have the Lisp ex
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by flogic 17y ago
I think the point is "with rules you don't need everything to be and s-expression". I don't know how much to agree or not with that point. Currently I'm of the we'll see where is goes point of view.
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by flogic 17y ago
I believe that forcefully weeding out the crap is detrimental. It's hard to define crap. If a buggy app provides functionality users consider critical, is it crap? Wouldn't it be better to let it evolve into not crap?
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by flogic 17y ago
I think it'a more "Don't claim you're weeding the garden. We know you're not."
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by flogic 17y ago
I really hope the Adam succeeds. It really looks like a neat device.
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by flogic 17y ago
I disagree. I see no reason other than Apple's choice that the iPad shouldn't be on the same level as a laptop or desktop.
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by flogic 17y ago
I think you're right. I'm not impressed with the "competition". Most have crappy battery life and make the mistake of equating your finger to the mouse. It's really quite frustrating. I think the iPad's interface presents a lot of interesti
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by flogic 17y ago
They've had a few products that were the first to not completely suck UI wise. As a result, they raise the benchmark for all the players. No one wants to use a tablet if the UI requires mouse level accuracy and the ability to right click.
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by flogic 17y ago
I give "Joe Six-Pack" arguments some credence since sometimes I am Joe Six-Pack. In term of Open Office that's usually, I don't care why the formatting is bungled I just want to be able to read copy and paste my specs.
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by flogic 17y ago
Traditionally people have fewer children when they move into cities.
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by flogic 17y ago
That depends on a couple of things. First it assumes as fast as C is the goal, for my project the goal was faster startup than Perl and more safety. Also I remember hearing the requirements of the benchmarks had to be changed to prevent Has
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by flogic 17y ago
I think that's a bit unfair. Researchers work in teams and divide labor just like everyone else. The blunt truth of reality is there are more ways to be wrong than there are to be right in both science and business.
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by flogic 17y ago
My biggest concern here would be going for the "Edit" menu and hitting "Close" by accident. I know I miss the item I'm aiming for from time to time. Otherwise I could careless, people learned to use Hotmail, Facebook, and eBay just fine.
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by flogic 17y ago
That's fine unless you're billing yourself as a user friendly Linux. Personally I think the issue of mis-clicking while going for the file menu would be infuriating.
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by flogic 17y ago
Ah the fun of post engineering! Fact 1 your users are unreliable. Fact 2 whatever you made has bugs. Which one is this?
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by flogic 17y ago
Nice so no need to worry about a fork.
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by flogic 17y ago
I think it depends on what language you're using at the time. If I'm using a static language I'll give an IDE a try. Otherwise I use Emacs.
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by flogic 17y ago
There isn't a good idea that a standards body hasn't fucked up. Maybe it's because these problems are harder than they seem. Or maybe they're just plain screwed up. Or maybe it's Adobe.
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by flogic 17y ago
Given the current pace of technology, I don't think patents should exist period.
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by flogic 17y ago
Flash is ok so long as it's on a leash. Most of us are ok with video games and a few cute things here and there. What we're not ok with replacing the entire browsing experience with flash or flash ads, or anything that just chews the cpu or
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by flogic 17y ago
If they get it to the point where it prints it's own circuit boards, I would be inclined to let it slide. Basically if you can boil all the non self made parts down to off the self components.
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by flogic 17y ago
I think this is a clear indication that we need an IT code of ethics. Yeah it's cute that as a programmer or administrator you have all this power, but we don't have the right to invade people's privacy.
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by flogic 17y ago
Having done the DSL templatng route in Perl, it's not really that bad. Really there isn't much difference between having the templates in a template language or a first class programming language. I can see it getting bad if you're not disc
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by flogic 17y ago
Provided you don't go to a crap school. If you go to a crap school... well... you're on your own.
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by flogic 17y ago
However we also have home inspectors.
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by flogic 17y ago
I would say the problem is not understanding the concept of search results.
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by flogic 17y ago
I'm quite probably wrong and I'm also playing devils advocate poorly. What I'm trying to say is we already have almost everything we need. While I can point to many aspects of my life that could be improved upon, I can't point to many where
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by flogic 17y ago
Yes but during the industrial revolution we had a lot of unmet need. Now, we are much better off. I'm not convince there is enough need to justify keeping everyone employed.
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by flogic 17y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here. This is the inherent weakness of the capitalist system. Eventually productivity outstrips need. The process is kinda backwards but that seems to be the truth. In my world, a manager lays people off to sav
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by flogic 17y ago
As a completely uneducated layman, I'm skeptical of the link between murder and other crime. I thought murder more often than not is a crime of passion.

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