fusiongyro

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by fusiongyro 15y ago
In a way, I think reducing cost is often (not always) a necessary first step to enabling the big-picture visions you're describing. For example, cheap desalination means water for drought-struck Saharan Africans; cheap food saves lives worl
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
When the average consumer has to choose between two goods they don't understand, they always base their decision on price. As they become more savvy, they begin to understand why the market has other, more complex or expensive, options. Saa
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
I didn't see that post, but every other post I've seen there has been a lot of hand wringing about being forced to use this language or be shut out of Firefox development, which is very clearly not currently even in the long-term plans. The
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Odd, because their FAQ is quite clear about this: > Are you going to use this to suddenly rewrite the browser and change everything? Is the Mozilla Corporation trying to force the community to use a new language? > No. The Mozilla C
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
He must have already filed at least as a sole proprietorship. The first benefits to becoming an LLC or an S-corp is the liability limitation: it lets you distinguish between your assets and the business's assets in a legal sense, so you don
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
It seems to be just really hard. I see a ton of duplicates in the MySQL and Java tags as well. New programmers who are also new users of S.O. vastly outnumber the experienced, and they're exactly the ones who are going to ask questions that
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
845 million users is a lot, but it's not the entire internet. I still manage to have friends despite not having digitized them with a Facebook account, and I could still use help keeping track of their birthdays and what to get them--if tha
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
It was meant ironically but offended anyway, and they didn't fix it when she complained. "We were being ironic!" is a lousy defense when all they had to do was turn it off when she asked.
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Another difference, of course, is that when you casually walk into a frat house, there is no contract between you and the frat. There is an appropriate time to discover a cultural mismatch: the job interview. Once there is an employment con
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
I was really responding to mgkimsal, who brought up elegance. I'm all for experimentation, I am not for technical debates short on technical content. Please continue.
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
"Elegance" is one of those empty words that's great for polarizing a debate without really adding any meaningful information. Neo4j is neat and underutilized. I think rglullis is just saying, if that's why espeed used it, he could have save
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
It's funny, because this is what Movable Type did, back in the day. James Hague echoed your sentiments in "Solving the Wrong Problem": http://prog21.dadgum.com/130.html
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Let's make some distinctions. I'm not saying this is the ideal way to hire. I also dislike recruiters, and Java for that matter. But I don't find this practice indefensible, because: 1. Whenever you open a position, you get a ton of applica
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
If their blog is to be believed, that bunch of brainless drones represents 0.5% of the applicants. I find it hard to imagine that the best talent in the market would get those questions wrong, though in spirit I agree with you.
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
One of the main purposes of patents is (ostensibly) to allow innovators a temporary monopoly to recoup their R&D investment. From that perspective, a UI patent that isn't specific to applications in your niche seems like a bad idea. If
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Seconded completely. I had an account for about a month, I think actually in mid 2011 (funny that). Very few people who were accomplished seemed to have time for it. Felt like nearly all of the posts were of a please-review-my-first-project
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Bless you! Standard ML is the closest thing we have to a perfect language, in my opinion. My only wish would be a solution to the non-extensible overloading issue, but to fix it without also fixing the formal semantics around it feels like
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Python seems to have higher penetration outside career programmers. When I learned Ruby about a decade ago, there was this "Ruby shouldn't be your first language" sentiment. I think there's been progress on that front, but Python had an ear
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
That's a good point. Ultimately it's going to come down to risk versus benefit.
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
They don't curate it at all, they just load snapshots. In practice, it's no shakier than before. Whenever you load a Wikipedia page, there is a certain probability it's vandalized. I'd be surprised if the probability were going down, since
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
Of course benchmarking is essential, but the Control.Parallel library can decouple expressions to run in parallel (called sparks) from threads, and manages the whole shebang for you. You more-or-less say x `pseq` y and it will try to evalua
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by fusiongyro 15y ago
It has been proven that you can express certain things with ML-style functors that are difficult or impossible to express with standard Haskell-style type classes. But almost everybody uses GHC and turns on lots of type system extensions in
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by fusiongyro 16y ago
I strongly prefer NetBeans to Eclipse. I haven't used IntelliJ, but would like to. The big feature of NetBeans is simply that it's fully-integrated. Out of the box, it works with Maven, Subversion, Mercurial, etc. Comes with Tomcat and HSQL
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by fusiongyro 18y ago
Take a look at Don's reimplementation of some classic Unix tools as Haskell oneliners: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/data/Basics.html . The mere fact that interact lets you make a pure function into a Unix-style string -> string uti