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by gcv 17y ago
Low-tech? Maybe. One, it takes a long time to design and commission a new modern naval vessel, aircraft, or even a tank. A decade or more. So most on-board electronics, including CPUs and displays will be outdated at any given time — somewh
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by gcv 17y ago
Based on my observations of the behavior of the UFT (the New York chapter of the national teacher's union) when I was in high school in the late 1990s, the anti-union response is absolutely on-target. http://educationnext.org/files/ednext2
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by gcv 17y ago
Have you tried Ledger ( http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger/ )?
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by gcv 17y ago
Can someone with recent GAE experience comment on how well it works these days? Any glaring problems, particularly with the JVM implementation? I plan to launch a Clojure web app in the next few months, and I'd love to avoid maintaining ser
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by gcv 17y ago
You can also break down collagen (the tough protein) by braising, or a couple of other simple slow-cooking methods. The meat will have different taste and texture from grilled steak, but in no way inferior. Braising can easily turn a $5/pou
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Henry Petroski — Occasional Design (January 2010)(americanscientist.org)
6 points by gcv 17y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 17y ago
How about DrScheme? I can't imagine more direct, rewarding feedback than the built-in graphics libraries. It's totally usable for games. It comes with a solid development environment, with a good step-capable debugger.
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by gcv 17y ago
Plenty of apps don't need rapid refresh, or particularly fancy graphics. Weather apps, stock tickers, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, choose-your-own-adventure type games (even something like the old Adventure), a note taker, shopping list, fitn
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by gcv 17y ago
Yay, a knot geekery thread. :) The bowline rules for tying one-handed. Otherwise, I'm inclined to agree with you, but properly dressing the figure-eight can be bit of a chore. It's too easy to get the ropes crossed inside the knot. For non-
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by gcv 17y ago
1. As cemerick pointed out, let-kw operates inside the function definition. It does not change any semantics. 2. Most keyword arguments for Clojure's built-in functions follow the calling convention which let-kw makes easy, whereas the pass
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by gcv 17y ago
The article describes a reasonable approach, but requires passing keyword arguments into a function as a separate map. I wrote a macro, let-kw, which allows a more natural calling convention: (my-fun req1 req2 :kw1 kw1-val :kw2 kw2-val) I o
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by gcv 17y ago
nytimes.com sent out an email alert as soon as the story broke.
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by gcv 17y ago
Where did you see $0.02/GB/month? The post says $0.25/GB/month.
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by gcv 17y ago
I've dealt with deploying Java apps in-container, as .war files, and it has invariably been painful. Deployment to a new server requires installing the container first. Then configuring it, an excruciating process of editing many XML files.
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by gcv 17y ago
This is a little silly. I haven't played with Compojure, but Maven, and all this save-file-to-reload stuff is completely unnecessary with the Clojure and Jetty combination. Clojure is a Lisp, and like any decent Lisp, gives you full access
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by gcv 17y ago
A few years ago, someone made a funny picture in response to a "which operating system are you" quiz. The image showed Sir Alec Guinness as Ben Kenobi, holding a lightsaber, and the caption said something like "You are OpenGenera. Far less
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by gcv 17y ago
competing with people with PhDs Yes. This is the tragedy of programming and computer "science": you know everything about making tools and writing code to other people's specs — and nearly nothing about solving actual real-world problems.
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by gcv 17y ago
Anyone interested in doing a startup which could help push thorium energy forward? I know and understand nothing about physics, but maybe there's room for programmers to carve out their niche in something useful here. Energy is the biggest
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by gcv 17y ago
Meaningless \jibber{jabber} Nonsense. When you program, does your code look like meaningless.jibber(jabber)? I certainly hope not, and your TeX shouldn't look meaningless, either. TeX is a programming language, and you need to learn to us
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by gcv 17y ago
Nonsense. While buildings and bridges certainly do fail, and they require significant expertise to design and build correctly, they do not collapse because of one misplaced bolt. One misplaced *p++? Segmentation fault. http://groups.csail.
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by gcv 17y ago
James Joyce, an author that pretty much no one can read Nonsense. I read Ulysses cover to cover. I happily admit that I needed help to do it and understand what I was reading: I listened to the Ulysses series of lectures from The Teaching
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by gcv 17y ago
Fascinating. If the varnish crystallizes, though, how would playing the instrument again reverse the process?
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by gcv 17y ago
I stayed up way, way too late reading this. An astounding story, and very well told. Amazing and inspiring that someone could blend the arts, hacking, and business to such a degree.
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by gcv 17y ago
Why does everyone fetishize Moleskine notebooks? I went through a couple, and they all have terrible paper. I hate seeing ink bleed through to the next page. Clairefontaine and Rhodia notebooks have significantly higher quality paper.
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by gcv 17y ago
The extra abstraction layer Cappuccino provides seems worth it to me. Much as I like jQuery et al., an MVC-style framework for writing desktop-like web apps, along with an Interface Builder clone, blows manipulating the DOM out of the water
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by gcv 17y ago
While I don't speak Algol-68, I find the arguments interesting and enlightening... except for this bit: "state-of-the-art in programming languages hasn't moved much in those 41 years." While this is true to some extent, as mainstream dynami
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by gcv 17y ago
Two things: Emacs and pen-paper (yes, the old-fashioned paper notebook and a pen). Eulogy follows: Emacs has helped me eliminate software clutter. Seriously. Computer and software maintenance is a major productivity killer for me. Install t
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by gcv 17y ago
What a fantastic article. I wonder how more rules-oriented gamebook series [1] would fare in this type of analysis. They do tend to lead to an "ideal" ending, as the author noted, so perhaps they wouldn't be as interesting. The progression
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by gcv 17y ago
Very cool, but Base64 encoding produces results rather larger than the original image binaries, no? I guess the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
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Ask HN: Tools for web design?
6 points by gcv 17y ago|4 comments

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