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by forkandwait 17y ago
The next step beyond refutation is synthesis; often intractable arguments are sustained because both sides have a good point that should be acknowledged but is all mixed up with not so valid assumptions. I also think that "neutrality" or "o
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Twitter feed for Craigslist vs EBay court battle(twitter.com)
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by forkandwait 17y ago
This seems really similar to the recent posting about Craigslist shutting off someones yahoo pipes based proto-business. CL and Google seem to be trying to prevent what I would call parasitical bottom feeding businesses from leveraging the
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by forkandwait 17y ago
"For the life of me, I can't understand why craigslist has had this mentality." You mean the mentality that has created one of the top five websites ever? I mean EVER? ... Oh, that poor Craig, silly idealistic fellow...
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by forkandwait 17y ago
It seems to me that Craig is trying to balance making CL wide-openly available to individual people while preventing a business ecology from growing on top of it. He is all for the latter, and really hates the former. In contrast EBay thri
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by forkandwait 17y ago
Nobody is twisting your arm....
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by forkandwait 17y ago
While I grant that the ML family of languages implements some truly brilliant ideas, ... ... blog posts like this remind me why I love Tcl/Tk and shell scripting. It is embarrassing, but I always prefer the raccoon to the panda bear.
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by forkandwait 17y ago
I wish J were used as an embedded language for solving mathematical problems within a larger, simpler to read language for input/output etc. Like the way we embed SQL within Python, or whatever.