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by gord 17y ago
I do find the article interesting. However I tend to agree with this comment - is this 'Hacker News'worthy? I especially object to the downvote on this post - I think downvoting shouldnt be used unless the post is clearly offensive. It thin
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by gord 17y ago
I was going to say cut-n-paste your blurb... [so you get keywords] But then it occurred to me that maybe doing cut and paste from webpage A to webpage B is a missing feature. I dont think microformats or frames answer this need well. It see
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by gord 17y ago
We can criticize the delivery.. but given the popularity of the thread, I think the OP is making a valid point. I have written location-aware iPhone native apps, and if I had an open-source alternative to Big5 then, I probably would have us
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by gord 17y ago
Wouldn't the popularity and success of flash games be a counter argument? Admittedly not for 3D intensive games. But maybe flash+browser will catch up with 3D. Only a year ago RaphealJS was magic.
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by gord 17y ago
The demos look good, although I think the 12.99 price is going to rule it out, because at least initially its too much to pay in order to use one app. For such a critical component, youd really want something open source [and free as in bee
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by gord 17y ago
It doesn't sound like your lost.. it sounds like you know you have to make a change. Its risky, but not doing it is ruining your life, so you know you have to do it. It really sounds like your strong on HN because you've known this for a wh
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by gord 17y ago
second that - current members have moral right to preserve the intent of the site. Id make upvote power logarithmic in Karma, vis - upvote = K log( karma ) dnvote = K/4 log( karma ) which would imply a certain Karma before you
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by gord 17y ago
big catchy arrogant title, no balls to back it up.
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by gord 17y ago
Whats a one liner to describe the Y-Combinator to someone new to FP? 'An generic implementation of a fixed point attractor' Hmm.. not quite it. um.. 'DSEL's ? no-one calls them that.. 'DSL' has taken hold, although overloaded somewhat [eg g
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by gord 17y ago
Scoopler.com seems very usable... live search is a feature google doesn't have, and would be slow to adapt to. Thinking about how I normally google.. I tend to browse clusters of linked information, in a sequence of relates searches/refinem
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by gord 17y ago
+ Herb Lubalin
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by gord 17y ago
Nice link. Frustrating to have to login to ACM to read McCarthys - 'A micro-manual for LISP - not the whole truth' Thankfully, found this hidden away at [pdf d/l link] : http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/pub/misc/micromanualLISP.pdf
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by gord 17y ago
I guess I kind of did because there's a lot of hyped titles, so I tend to filter them out. But you're right, we can take ourselves a bit seriously on HN.
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by gord 17y ago
The title puts me off reading it. Perhaps "Heroku in Ruby solves <problem X>" ?
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by gord 17y ago
This makes me vocalize something Ive wondered about... Whats the smallest subset of lisp which you need to implement in order to bootstrap the language? So, given this small subset, one can implement the rest of say scheme or common lisp o
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by gord 17y ago
'practical common lisp' was a lot of fun, introducing topics through a series of practical hacks.
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by gord 17y ago
Well your coming to that realization 15 years earlier than I did. I developed commercial apps in C/C++ and only recently have discovered lisp and other related languages, and just find them to be much more enjoyable to think and hack in. I
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by gord 17y ago
This reads like a badly organized blog post, without the personal touch. Given the event has resolved in some way, Id expect this article to summarize clearly the whole saga thus far with some perspective or insight. It points to earlier ar
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by gord 17y ago
Well 'should be in rapheal.js' comes across a bit strong... I meant : it seems a good kit, you've probably heard of it.
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by gord 17y ago
Thanks. disclaimer : I'm a radical graph data, noSQL proponent, so you had me at 'edge', however... The only thing that I care about on that page is the graph. Id like to see just that graph, but prefetched, fluid interactive javascript. N
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by gord 17y ago
Interesting read and nice success story... On DirectedEdge home, can I enter any search term, or does this need to be a well formatted Wikipedia entry url ?
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by gord 17y ago
It is a minor sadness that Bram didn't choose a lisp as the vim macro language. But I still love vim...although Ive forgotten more bindings than other editors have features.
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by gord 17y ago
The article starts with a description/definition of 'key-value stores' vs 'document stores'... but doesn't clarify the difference, if any. When people say 'NoSQL', that doesn't preclude another kind of query language... I assume NoSQL to me
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by gord 17y ago
Just the value in getting div positions / sizes would sell the product. I'd like to see some completed mockups as examples, to lead me gently into the try-it-out phase.
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by gord 17y ago
I'm of the firm opinion 'software' should never appear in the same sentence as 'manage' or 'engineer'. Any good survival books on 'Hacking your Manager' for those passing temporarily through the corporate underworld towards their first star
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by gord 17y ago
No, I didnt mean to imply that, not least because we have no good way of measuring intelligence. One reasonable way to get a ballpark is to look at brain fold anatomy - I assume that's what EQ quotient in the OP is roughly equivalent to. Ra
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by gord 17y ago
excellent potential as an educational tool.
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by gord 17y ago
and the r. for the love of Mike, down-modder, look at the text in a mirror.
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by gord 17y ago
the possibility exists that : 1) its impossible to annihilate everything without also recreating a universe in the process 2) that logic itself [as the refinement of inter-cusp physical experience] is not applicable to the start and end of
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by gord 17y ago
and the grave should be an acute.

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