gills

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   by gills 19y ago

   Hmm, let's see...expert cited: Seattle Times tech reporter. Yep, definitely a computer security guru. Smells like FUD/anti-PR.
2. 452.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   BS CS Washington State Will finish this year: MS CS University of Washington programming for other people for 5 years
3. 453.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   What? Described as "for exploratory programming".
4. 454.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   Congratulations! I'm looking forward to 'exploring' it.
5. 455.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   If I don't have paper available (if I'm driving a car, for example) I will subdivide a problem like that. I'm a visual person and it's easier for me than visualizing long division. There are many schools here in the Seattle area that switc
6. 456.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   Let's take a poll. Which is easier to maintain? 1. Lisp. 2. "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
7. 457.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   Second the arm rest bit and stretching habits.
8. 458.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   I liked your post. It reminded me of "anyone can cook" in the movie Ratatouille.
9. 459.▲
   by gills 19y ago

   I get the feeling that by "in the enterprise" he means "in a cover-your-ass environment". Pointy-haired people and their followers seem to single out things they don't understand as the sources of problems. In that context, using Java or
10. 460.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    A mature version would be great for surgeons and pilots.
11. 461.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Meh...my MBP is only 1 year old, so it will be some time before I'm in the market for a new portable. I was hoping Apple would do something revolutionary, like a portable that's basically a 10-inch screen iPhone (all touch/styles gestures a
12. 462.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    There is a language spec, you can write your own VM (I wouldn't recommend it...).
13. 463.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    And as a tool, Facebook loves you :) Sorry about the sarcasm... Edit: not saying "you're a tool", saying that Facebook may think of your information as a means to an end.
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    by gills 19y ago

    On a societal scale, the size and "meaningful content density" of communication seems to be inversely proportional to the ease with which it is delivered to it's audience. Would you bother writing "Java Sucks" with a quill and paying a hors
15. 465.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Agreed. Maybe he's also confusing "elite" with "elitist"?
16. 466.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Cool...I was looking at the www.spread.org archives a couple days back and saw a post from the ThruDB guys about their release, using the messaging service for replication.
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    by gills 19y ago

    I don't know, toxic seems like the right word after reading the conclusion. The bulk of this piece is a build-up to his final warning that "advanced" cultures must be vigilant to avoid slipping [back] into warrior-esque social dogma. What t
18. 468.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    We're on the tail end of a debt bubble. The recent asset bubbles have been (potentially unexpected) side effects. It's almost like the banks are using a flawed implementation of lisp which executed for-each when asked for map! Sorry, I co
19. 469.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    This is a like a Great Hacker claiming that open source is killing the art of writing software. Anyway...artistic talent transcends the tools, and a sea of garbage photography should make the truly excellent art stand out even more.
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    by gills 19y ago

    How do I tell if it was modded down? Maybe I should explain my terse comment. But first, I agree that it's a submarine PR piece for Microsoft. How many software companies are cited in that article? How many technologies are mentioned and
21. 471.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    PR.
22. 472.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Congratulations! You're officially a geek :) I second the recommendations to just get out and do something active. For me it used to be swimming but more recently has been cycling and running. Just try concentrating on your idea at 80% o
23. 473.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Nice hack.
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    by gills 19y ago

    There are a lot of cool (though maybe smallish) apps that could be built with this. Good job on lowering the barrier to entry even further! I wonder if there are plans for an OpenSocial app builder?
25. 475.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Just Leave.
26. 476.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    Dear author, The Cake is a Lie. Portal is revolutionary but not for it's gender roles. It's revolutionary for turning FPS into a puzzle game on crack. Go back and play with the developer commentary. Look at me still talking when there's s
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    by gills 19y ago

    This writer ( http://www.oftwominds.com/asia-crises.html ) has some interesting perspectives on the challenges China will face such as availability of energy and water, and the impediments to advancement posed by corruption in the current i
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    by gills 19y ago

    The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) LOTR Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) The Odyssey (Homer) The Dilbert Principle (Scott Adams) -- Alright, not literature! But come on, it's Dilbert :)
29. 479.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    This was the second or third thing we learned in a basic data structures course; not so much for the utility of the list but to become familiar with the application of XOR to pointer arithmetic. That professor (his name was Jorge Orejel) wa
30. 480.▲
    by gills 19y ago

    I agree that simplicity and elegance are key, but in my experience the UI does not inevitably get messy. The same rules apply, but you have to work at different levels of abstraction. The central structure and algorithms of a UI are no