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by goldfeld 13y ago
Criticizes word processors as being from another era with old concepts. Then goes on to show a skeuomorphic interface based on even more elderly analogies, such as "desktop" and "folders." Minor nit aside, the diffs do s
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Definitely a beginner's thing. The hardest part when coming upon a subject is learning enough so you can get around and pick and choose what to study next. I think this niche is still starved for good starting material, so if you got t
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Hey, that's a great idea! Now excuse me while I come up with it independently.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, you seem to be expected to know a deal of music theory for this book. Are you considering a similar approach? If you explained music theory from the ground up using Clojure with Overtone, that'd b
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Hey now, why isn't there a platform where people can get in-kind crowdfunding for campaigns? Just like open source projects get a lot more help in terms of man-hours than money, so could people from the tech community running for offic
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Though I haven't read it (I'm a programmer myself), I've always liked the idea of this book: https://leanpub.com/scrapingforjournalists
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think 3D printing will really take off when startups develop ways to make them useful, not faster. People just don't have a good use case for them today, if they had, they'd simply wait for the machines to slowly churn out what
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Are there technologies aimed at quantum programming available and accessible today, even in a completely experimental status?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Maybe it's just your Chrome isn't Blink enough.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
How about, "Turtles all the way down just like Emacs?" I think you don't really have to come up with something revolutionary on top of the Emacs philosophy for it to be a very worthwhile pursuit. The things you mention plus t
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Will JavaScript be able to script plugins or will it be limited to Clojure?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I wonder, where does Scheme fall in on this whole, uhm, scheme? Especially w.r.t. this part: "[Clojure] doesn't have facilities to control the reader in the same way CL does: actually, in this regard Clojure is very different from
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by goldfeld 13y ago
This looks like CoffeeScript had a baby with Rust, and I'm seriously tempted to switch from the former for my latest project. It has all features for which I am still considering adding specialist libraries to CS (promises, macros, and
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Well, it just so happens we are on the domain of YCombinator and Sillicon Valley. If Paul Graham were to rally his immense network of founder alumni to do this, we could get some big fish that could make waves, as in new stories. It might e
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by goldfeld 13y ago
It does sound representative of the bulk of the daily work.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Would you prefer distribution of violence?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think we agree it's highly improbable, but then all major leaps of life and evolution have been. From that ground, I don't see why you seem to be angry at the guy for making a (minimally plausible, not because of the obstacles,
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by goldfeld 13y ago
The scientist behind this hypothesis makes no such claim: "For my own part, curiosity has carried me away from my old idea of reality. I no longer know what to believe. Is it possible that so many biologists might be wrong about the na
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by goldfeld 13y ago
It would be nice to know if it's limited to iOS development or would also work for webdev, I can't that mentioned anywhere (though it might be obvious to those familiar with Codea.)
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Umm, no. From the perspective of the neighbor and the whole community, and from the perspective of an educated person who knows the limits of his rights, the greater outrage is that it bit the neighbor. It could have bitten the owner for a
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I don't drink soft beverages whenever I can buy/order beer. And whenever I can order several types of beer, I think "what would I like to drink today?", so I don't see the problem. It's actually a pretty fun de
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think what crowdfunding has been showing us is that we have gone through a dark ages of internet business models (ads), in that the ease of marketing through ads blindsided people to pursuing more creative (and yes, often more laborious)
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I haven't read newspapers or magazines in a long, long time, and TV shows I could easily live without (don't watch any in close to a year), especially if we had indie shows with interesting business models to replace them. I'
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Taking the internet as a whole, I think what ads contribute negatively more than offsets what small businesses and independent publishers gain from, well, existing and surviving because of ads. If that wasn't an option, we'd be fo
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Regardless, I don't side with advertising models, they're what got us into this whole collecting data as a business hole, so if these scumbags can prevent companies from getting revenue from ads and thus encourage them to seek act
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think the holy grail of P2P networks will be when we have something like Bluetooth that has a significantly better range. So we can really exempt ourselves from private infrastructure.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
People are lazy, as you must know, and if WikiLeaks wants to maximize their donations the link above is more straightforward than through a German bank or BitCoins, which takes some learning and setup for those who don't have it (yet)
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by goldfeld 13y ago
To the moderation: that's a really innacurate change of the title. People only have 8 more days to donate, the sense of urgency is a tad bit higher in that context. Given stories rarely stay on the frontpage across days, changing it to
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Are you joking? The death of a man who has contributed as much or more negatively to our industry as he did positively (on different spheres), and who gets the full frontpage only because he attracted a legion of irreparably clueless people
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I mostly agree and I think your last paragraph is the best thermometer: the "political" discussions involving the NSA scandals mostly have not sparked enmity, and since most people agree on the political stance towards these, the

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