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by gcv 16y ago
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. In my anecdotal experience, the (wonderfully expressive!) word "hacker" has lost some of its stigma. Three years ago, if I casually said "I've been hacking all day" while speaking to norma
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by gcv 16y ago
For people who do something like this: how do you manage logistically? Do you set an alarm? Do you just know when your 30 minutes (or 42, or 50) are up? Do you always keep an eye on the time? I'm curious because the concept seems like it co
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by gcv 16y ago
clojure.contrib.dataflow uses refs and works with side-effects on node cells. dgraph is (mostly) purely functional and its dependency graphs are persistent data structures, just like Clojure maps and vectors. I wrote dgraph specifically bec
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by gcv 16y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote something similar for Clojure. https://github.com/gcv/dgraph
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by gcv 16y ago
I thought the same thing, but then realized that, by 1987, retconning the early days of Bolshevism was a low priority.
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by gcv 16y ago
1. I hope I can still build my own custom Emacs.app from source and install it. 2. I hope App Store apps will be sandboxed and prevented from polluting the system. 3. I hope Adobe switches to the App Store model, and that it will mean that
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by gcv 16y ago
I'd like to take the opportunity to plug my own appengine-magic library: http://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic It abstracts away almost all the boilerplate App Engine for Java requires, and makes Lispy, interactive, REPL-based development
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by gcv 16y ago
From xterm's main.c: /* * W A R N I N G * * If you think you know what all of this code is doing, you are * probably very mistaken. There be serious and nasty dragons here. */
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by gcv 16y ago
It's written in C. Of course it's going to be bad. You are being unfair. I did a little Samba hacking in recent memory, and found it quite easy to understand and follow. (Granted, I didn't delve into the low-level implementation of Micros
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by gcv 16y ago
Yes, in peer-reviews journals. As for independent duplication, I gather that it's been painful to convince anyone to even try.
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by gcv 16y ago
Making the product definitely requires investment. Manufacturing equipment, salaries for a couple of people who will do the actual work, etc. It doesn't need a huge sum, but it isn't bootstrappable.
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Ask HN: Selling disruptive technology
16 points by gcv 16y ago|15 comments
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by gcv 16y ago
It is a little cargo cultish. The architecture looks good, though, and that's what counts, and why it continues to be influential. I'm rather more annoyed with idiotic signs on buildings which say "PVBLIC BVILDING" or "COVRT HOVSE". Just
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by gcv 16y ago
Curious: how many of those thousands of messages are actually personal and worth reading? How many are notifications from stores, social sites, and so on? (Programmers only:) How many are notifications from your apps, giving you updates abo
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by gcv 16y ago
While this is a decent article in its core argument, it's a bit misleading in some of the details. Methods are not true closures, and can't be passed directly to higher-order functions. You can trivially wrap a Java method in a fn, and Cl
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by gcv 16y ago
Wrong: Arguing from one example. You said engineers were not prisoners. This was not the case, and I provided a counterexample. That's all. I have no idea where you found anything in my post about American moral superiority. As for Soviet
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by gcv 16y ago
That is true, but not because engineers are working in a Gulag. Wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka
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by gcv 16y ago
Spend time at a coworking location instead of a coffee shop, and don't worry about it.
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by gcv 16y ago
Speaking as a New Yorker contemplating a move to California, I'd say the article is somewhat accurate about the prestige of working in finance, but staggeringly wrong on a few other points. First of all, cafes are plentiful. All he could co
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by gcv 16y ago
Just make sure you use org-mode to take your notes: it's both more powerful than your current note-taking app, and it stores files as readable plain text. No proprietary lock-in, and no fear of data corruption in case of bugs. :)
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by gcv 16y ago
CR has published it share of canards. Most famously, it helped fan the flames of the false Audi 5000 "unintended acceleration" story in the 1980s — and there was nothing wrong with the cars, as a subsequent NHTSA report demonstrated.
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by gcv 16y ago
I like two things about Leiningen. One, it provides a spectacularly simple hook into SLIME. Before "lein swank", the Clojure+Emacs+SLIME experience left much to be desired. Two, Leiningen handles dependency management, including transitive
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by gcv 16y ago
That's exactly what I did. The question is, how do I prevent people who have no more valid tasks available from seeing or accepting HITs? I can lock them out in my own logic, but their Amazon records will show that they abandoned a task — a
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by gcv 16y ago
Thanks, that promising and helpful. How do I restrict worker access by HIT type? I don't see anything in the documentation that lets me do this — negative qualifications would work, but the MTurk system does not support them. In your blocki
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by gcv 16y ago
Thank you! I am already using ExternalQuestion forms and generating the exact questions at view time. In your experience (or opinion), workers do not object if a task just says "sorry, please return this HIT and try again later"?
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Ask HN: Does anyone use the Amazon Mechanical Turk API?
31 points by gcv 16y ago|11 comments
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by gcv 16y ago
Well, you did say that your barber's straight razor shave was the best you ever had, and you did say that Mach3 doesn't work for you, regardless of what he said... Maybe look for some encouragement on the ol' Internet? http://www.straightr
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by gcv 16y ago
Different things work for different people, I guess. I can't imagine what could possibly prepare my face for what the guy in the video did. If I went through it so rapidly, ignoring the grain, for 5+ passes, any razor would turn my face int
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by gcv 16y ago
What, a whole article on traditional shaving methods and no mention of straight razors? A straight razor does take time, care, and practice, but it produces excellent results without too much irritation. (I admit that, when I'm in a hurry,
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Why Parents Hate Parenting(nymag.com)
117 points by gcv 16y ago|115 comments

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