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by gfour 5y ago
This isn't just skeuomorphism as found in e.g. a VST plugin with a sci-fi UI or a patching language with a UI resembling studio-like effect chains. This is a simulator of a real implementation of modular patching (Eurorack), for exampl
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by gfour 6y ago
> I'd love to hear more about how a culture that doesn't name children under 5, do their child rearing and generally go about their life. (Christian Orthodox, majority) Greeks don't name babies when born, only when baptize
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by gfour 12y ago
This confuses OOP/procedural semantics with low-level "CPU" work. The argument seems to be that the programming model of a language does not always expose the efficiency of the underlying implementation. And this is also true
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by gfour 12y ago
> The trick was that when Gtk/Gnome came out there was no existing solution. So, even a bad one was okay. There were existing solutions, e.g. Motif or Athena widgets if you wanted a GUI library, or FVWM if you wanted a desktop envir
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by gfour 12y ago
True. By "competitive" I didn't mean "same money", but "an equally good choice for enough people to fill the PhD ranks". Bad or non-existent wages are almost never an easy choice, no matter how much one wa
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by gfour 12y ago
Starting a PhD means someone has already mastered the basics of a profession, and is at an age that could work productively in the industry. At this point, doing a PhD is a choice between academia and industry for the next 4-5 years. If an
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by gfour 12y ago
When talking about programming languages, "isomorphism" also brings to mind the Curry-Howard isomorphism between programs and proofs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_isomorphis... )...
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by gfour 12y ago
You may be interested in this article: "Tagged architecture: How compelling are its advantages?", http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=327070.327153 (unfortunately behind a paywall).