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by geophile 11y ago
I don't see why that would matter very much. The valuation so early is going to be highly subjective in any case. If you are willing to consider such an offer, then the two relevant things to consider are 1) what fraction of the compan
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by geophile 11y ago
I was thinking about why I liked SNOBOL4/SPITBOL so much. The bizarre syntax and control structures appealed to me for some reason. If you haven't used the language, each statement can succeed or fail. At the end of the statement,
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by geophile 11y ago
Forgot to mention it in my original comment, but in the grad-level compiler course, we actually wrote a compiler in SPITBOL. I don't remember if the language choice was optional or mandatory, but I did enjoy it.
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by geophile 11y ago
I sort of understand it, as he was a pretty major figure in the Ada world. But no mention of SPITBOL at all? :(
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by geophile 11y ago
I love SNOBOL4/SPITBOL. It was a completely bizarre and original language that was quite powerful. In the late 70s, I took two compiler courses with RBK Dewar, one of the creators of SPITBOL. Those courses were wonderful. He mentioned
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by geophile 11y ago
Yes. Switched to iPhone. I like the access to the filesystem, available on some Android phones, but the iPhone is a superior product in my opinion. The two main advantages are 1) not having to care about which kind of memory an app is sitti
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by geophile 11y ago
The first article says that you don't have to use EZPass if you are concerned about privacy, and the eventual automation of speeding tickets. That won't be true forever. I've run into some tolls that are EZPass ONLY. Some of
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by geophile 11y ago
There are two photo apps? Seriously, I'm not aware of this. I'm talking about "Photos" whose logo is eight ovals of color arranged in a circle. (The fact that this confusion is even possible is part of the problem.) My e
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by geophile 11y ago
Not a troll. I don't know what I'd use instead, I gave up Linux-only years ago, and now use a Linux VM for development, Mac for everything else. Also, networking through the Mac is still simpler, at least for now. I know that Linu
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by geophile 11y ago
Spotify is a possible replacement (even without their streaming and music finding services), but I find that application quite buggy.
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by geophile 11y ago
Major Apple applications have become inscrutable and frustrating. - iTunes, Music and the iTunes store are a mess. I understood the old iTunes organization. Navigation within my music collection has become highly non-intuitive. It seems tha
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by geophile 11y ago
The first decision is SQL or NoSQL. There is one right answer, almost regardless of requirements: SQL. (My personal choice would be Postgres over MySQL.) If you are lucky enough to get to the point of having scalability problems, and vertic
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by geophile 11y ago
This sounds like a trial balloon. With Holder saying it, they can proceed or not. If the current AG says it, they have taken an irrevocable step.
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by geophile 11y ago
> The eerie thing is that as far as we can tell, our brains are no more than models of consciousness, and yet they are conscious. Wow. That is an extremely good description of the problem of consciousness. Is this your own formulation? I
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by geophile 11y ago
Sure, it can go spectacularly wrong. It really depends on the manager. I don't know this story at all, but I can see two possibilities: 1) This is a know-nothing manager who doesn't really know much, but somehow correctly identifi
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by geophile 11y ago
I visited Container Park in April, after having read a few articles about the Downtown project. I really wanted to like this place, and architecturally I thought it was pretty interesting. But the place didn't make sense to me. Contain
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by geophile 11y ago
This is the best HN submission I've seen in a very long time. Really thought-provoking.
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by geophile 11y ago
It sounds like a VIEW would handle this restriction also. And then you should be able to use any ORM or lower level of abstraction.
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by geophile 11y ago
Right, so an ORM makes the easy things easier. The hard things are either harder or you need the escape hatch. I've both created an ORM (long ago, back in Java 1.0 days) and used a few. My conclusion is that the real pain in interactin
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by geophile 11y ago
I don't agree with this conclusion. I've worked with Postgres, MySQL and Oracle, and found that it is important to have a good understanding of the possible execution plans for a query. I will sometimes construct a query very care
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by geophile 11y ago
Talk to a lawyer. FWIW: While this clause may be oppressive, it is not uncommon. It has been in (almost?) every employee agreement I've signed. I always filled in the addendum to exclude ideas I had previous to the job, that I wanted t
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by geophile 11y ago
As a practical matter, he can't come home. Not even the president can promise his immunity from prosecution -- one day there will be another president. The DOJ could drop all charges. And then impose new ones once he returns. And tha
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by geophile 11y ago
It would be great to make the TPP documents public, but this isn't the way. The leaker can rightly claimed to be in it for the money, and this will taint any further anti-TPP action based on the content of the leaked documents. We need
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by geophile 11y ago
The intelligence wasn't faulty, it was cooked to reach the desired conclusion -- that Iraq needed to be invaded. Raw intelligence that supported this conclusion was cherry-picked. Other inconvenient facts were ignored.
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by geophile 11y ago
Pens can be used to write dull, cliched, uninspired novels. Many bad novels have been written using pens. Therefore pens should be banned. Disclaimer: I do, in fact, hate powerpoint.
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by geophile 11y ago
It is, but I can't look at that website for more than 30 seconds without my eyes burning out.
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by geophile 11y ago
This president, and the last one, have decided that any whistleblowing deserves vicious prosecution. They even think that some journalists deserve that treatment too.
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by geophile 12y ago
Why does it have to be the sun? Why not just perpendicular to the sun/earth plane?
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by geophile 12y ago
I attended a live performance of The Moth a few days ago. Of the five storytellers, four started their stories with "So, ...". It isn't just us geeks.
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by geophile 12y ago
> People making social networks so college freshman could date made tools to help those fighting authoritarian governments connect ... This is only half the story. Thanks to Snowden, we now know that these same databases are being used b

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