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by futuremint 16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I think that blog will get added to my regular reading, I like to geek out on language (programming languages mostly, but English too).
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Wow, I was being a bit toungue-in-cheek about it as I don't read much Economist (when I do the author is rarely stating their opinion, I tend to prefer more factual/reporting pieces from them), but thats interesting. Learn something new ev
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Isn't this sort of the same philosophy as the way Lisps are built? It seems like having proper namespacing and a overall functional style lend themselves to smaller, more self-contained libraries. Similarly there isn't as much of a need to
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by futuremint 16y ago
This commenter gets annoyed by authors who write about themselves in the third person. This comment writer suspects the article's author thinks he makes himself sound less ignorant when he writes in the third person. Maybe the economist's
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I can't enlighten, but one of the first questions in my mind was, "Ok, it can run LINPACK, but can they program it?"
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Yeah, I just finished the Business Week article which also stated that the interconnects are currently a Chinese design.
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I think uses those Loongson MIPS processors. Edit: According to the PCMag article they're Xeon processors.
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"Car design"? So that means when they start selling Cherry Motors cars over here they might meet federal safety standards on the first try?
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by futuremint 16y ago
This is usually how I go about learning a new area of development. I think through the problem, get an idea of how it might work, maybe even write some code, then go spelunking on github & google to see how other people solved it. Some
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Single page link: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-ch...
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Upvoted, just to keep you refreshing, John ;)
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This is ultimately what led me to switch from OS X to Ubuntu. Been using Ubuntu full-time since May and its great! All those headaches are gone!
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I have a ZaReason Strata Pro 13" with an SSD. The processor is by no means fast, but its fast enough for coding & web design. Any heavier work (like high-res graphics, video editing, or intensive compiling) would probably be annoying.
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by futuremint 16y ago
This is true. We had a cash bar, and opted for the cheapest chairs and people had to use paper napkins and plastic utensils to eat their BBQ off of paper plates ( gasp !). But the part friends & family still talk about years later is,
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I think this article (and some of your points too) are conflating minimalism with simplicity. Minimalist is buying 1 Kindle and putting all of your books on it and then selling them. This is more expensive. Simple is keeping your books yo
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We don't spend too much time talking or thinking about it in my house, but we do periodically clean/throw out old junk that piles in closets & the garage. I agree with his point regarding being sanctimonious about it though. We don't b
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"Inverse nanobarns"? WTF? I've never heard of the unit "barn", but a nanobarn just sounds like its about to spew out nanounicorns followed by nanoblackholes. But its cool to see their progress and how they're slowly ramping up the power a
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King Java is dead, long live the kind(joachimtuchel.wordpress.com)
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The very first thing I tried to do was click on the words "comments" and "points" to sort the entries by that column. Placing those columns on the left-hand side gives them the highest importance. Is that the intention of this UI?
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Cool! I like that you have the source on github. It feels a little poky on my Droid (OC'd to 800'hz) but works great! I also realize I could just fork on github & make it faster, but I haven't much spare time at the moment.
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by futuremint 16y ago
This news reminded me that I still needed to stop paying my Xbox live account I never use. Went through their (not-so) funny game of "are you sure you want to quit? are you sure you want to quit?" ad-infinitum.
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by futuremint 16y ago
I always remap Caps Lock to be a Ctrl key. Using the lower-left Ctrl key would just be... weird :). With Caps Lock as control, and using the Alt key closest to the spacebar as Meta, the key-chords in Emacs are comfortable for me (I just sp
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by futuremint 16y ago
I don't spend a lot of time typing out my programs but I do spend a log of time thinking them through. I have slight pain in my right wrist that comes and goes. I narrowed it down to 2 causes: 1: My car has a manual transmission, and all t
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by futuremint 16y ago
Isn't that what Excel is for? Seriously... I worked for a company that was developing a web app for small businesses for their business processes, and its amazing (and appalling) how many small businesses use Excel spreadsheets for everyt
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I guess more specifically I meant control in that your emotions aren't making the decisions rather your "self" is in control. Its hard to explain with language... imagine if someone is completely consumed with rage... or lust... we don't u
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I find it fascinating that Zen/Tao "teachings" for thousands of years have focused on what seems to be one of the most difficult areas of human existence: "man vs. himself". Modern cognitive therapy seems to be an institutionalized version
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Either that our we're all inside of a bunch of nested lexical closures. Maybe time isn't inherited from an object hierarchy, but is a locally bound variable inside of a closure function? Meh... functional & OO start to look pretty muc
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ZaReason Strata Pro 13" w/Core 2 & SSD. Just fast enough for my needs, a ULV processor so I can feel good about not sucking too much energy (the SSD makes up for the lack of CPU power, it still feels 'fast'), and Ubuntu FTW. Eminently p
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The lens through which parenting is viewed here is too narrow. Parenting isn't about being happier. It is about being a bigger and better person. Children make your life BIGGER. You feel moments of happiness like you've never felt befor
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I would also like to point out that I feel pleasure after working through a day in a disciplined way that doesn't waste time. So "disciplining yourself not to waste time" isn't always to gain pleasure later, but can also generate direct pl

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