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by gensym 18y ago
This isn't surprising at all - that it would be more likely to port code from the iPhone to the desktop OS than the other way around. There are more constraints on the iPhone - especially memory, so anything that runs on the iPhone should r
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by gensym 18y ago
This reminded me of an essay in last week's New Yorker about "The Permission Problem" ( http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_... ). In summary, when too many stakeholders are involved in a deal, the deal tends to fall
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by gensym 18y ago
One of my favorite books is To Mock a Mockingbird, by Raymond Smullyan ( http://www.amazon.com/Mock-Mockingbird-Raymond-M-Smullyan/dp... ). It presents itself as a puzzle book that teaches combinatory logic along the way. Not only is it lot
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by gensym 18y ago
Typically, I think of a framework as something that calls your code, where a library is code that you call. The line gets blurry, of course, because just about any framework is going to include some libraries, and you may use some libraries
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by gensym 19y ago
At least he's upfront about his age discrimination.
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by gensym 19y ago
I know the feeling - I get it sometimes as well. I don't think it's a "correct" feeling, though. Certainly fiction can be as intellectually stimulating as nonfiction, and the fiction/non-fiction line is an artificial construction anyway. On
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by gensym 19y ago
There's a form of disagreement that I don't think fits into the hierarchy - where, rather than arguing that the author is incorrect, you argue that the author should not be saying that at all. This relates to the ideas in http://www.paulgr
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by gensym 19y ago
If you're trying to decide whether to learn Rails, don't spend a lot of time debating - just do it. You won't regret it. If you're a novice at PHP, you'll probably learn a lot of stuff in Rails that will be applicable to any platform you wo
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An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader(slate.com)
78 points by gensym 19y ago|18 comments
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by gensym 19y ago
Darn it. I thought this was going to be about kestrels and starlings.
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by gensym 19y ago
In other words, debates about what makes one a good programmer are interesting and helpful. Questions about our responsibilities to the industry and society as a whole are worth discussing. Discussions of the meaning and value of a univers
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by gensym 19y ago
So, their methodology is to search Google, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. for "XXX programming". In case it's not obvious why this methodology is fatally flawed, here is some evidence: See that dip in Java in 2004? They claim that is because of a change
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by gensym 19y ago
The first question that comes to mind when I see the front page is, "Why would I use this instead of LinkedIn recommendations? Especially since I don't want to convince everyone I know to switch from LinkedIn, etc.". It seems like your answ
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No Disrespect(weblog.raganwald.com)
29 points by gensym 19y ago|9 comments
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by gensym 19y ago
The Economist, All Things Considered & Marketplace (National Public Radio programs in the US). I regularly read the NYTimes opinion pages and occasionally more of the NYTimes for background if I find I'm missing it. I listen to the Ne
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by gensym 19y ago
Here's the problem: Truth will always win out, but it won't always win out quickly. At some point, you need to cover your short positions and your put options will expire, and if truth hasn't won out yet, you can land yourself in a world of
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Flot: client-side plotting library for jQuery(code.google.com)
9 points by gensym 19y ago|3 comments
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by gensym 19y ago
The Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clark Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace The Informant - Kurt Eichenwald The Visual Display of Quantitative Informa
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Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1(joelonsoftware.com)
73 points by gensym 19y ago|36 comments
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by gensym 19y ago
I've got to second Boards of Canada. Also, Four Tet, Alan Sparhawk's solo guitar (his band, Low, is some of my favorite music for when I'm not hacking), Sigur Ros, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Mouse on Mars, Do Make Say Think, Squarepus
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by gensym 19y ago
Paul Graham can derive S from K