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by gord 17y ago
You mention RDF / SparQL ... any interesting progress on Graph Query languages? Im suspicious of RDF, it comes across as marketing.
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by gord 17y ago
I put my hand on my heart and tell you, after programming for 15 years in C and C++ on windows and linux, I am happy to throw it away after seeing how much better the same things can be done in 'lispy' languages [scheme, clojure, ruby] Have
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by gord 17y ago
Sure, it is a matter of degree - we could ask, how much extra crud is needed? I think lisp like languages have less crud, and so the idea is clearer. This is partly because lisps can act on their own expressions, transform them. This foll
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by gord 17y ago
Could you port it to Cappuccino / Atlas - then its online.
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by gord 17y ago
I love watching Feynman in action, but refuse to install evil MS plugins.
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by gord 17y ago
I was surprised in other parts of Asia, how common a practice it is to engage 'race girl' PR staff for the most civic of events. For an open source promotion we had in Thailand I interviewed several stunning PR girls [tough job but someone
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by gord 17y ago
SCO used to be a great company - I remember emailing YasminK about all sorts of Xenix and unix questions, and she always helped out. In the days before open source and Linux they offered a great system for the time and excellent customer se
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by gord 17y ago
The move from mainstream OO, cast in a mediocre language like C++ or Java, to having some way to talk about higher level combinations [which the language cannot express] is quite an improvement. After a positive experience with GoF patterns
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by gord 17y ago
With PHP / lamp stack utf8 is reasonably well supported. hmm maybe 'supported' is misleading - its a melange of hacks, but you can get it done, certainly.
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by gord 17y ago
what about prototyping smaller pieces? - its a good way to clarify your thinking, try out the tech, and come up with new ideas.
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by gord 17y ago
A Feynman quote comes to mind : 'what do you care what other people think?'
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by gord 17y ago
or for a mind expanding classic : videos of the 1986 SICP lectures by Sussman and Ebelson - http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... [torrents work ok] book - http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
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by gord 17y ago
any mix of : C, python, lua, scheme
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by gord 17y ago
that's strangely undemocratic
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Secure Web Mashups - wheres the API?(quantblog.wordpress.com)
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by gord 17y ago
Downmod? You resent the understated attempt at humour, or perhaps the deliberate Strunk and White non-compliance? I have read several of Vs books, each of them sublime, along with Stephen Kings 'On Writing'.. and I think my comments were on
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by gord 17y ago
Ive seen some heinous regexen floating around to recognize urls/uris. Be nice if this hadn't have happened - but he gave us the web, right, we can hardly complain.
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by gord 17y ago
My impression : 'Google Wave is nice to Kittens'. We all like kittens, right? I replaced 'Google Wave' by 'Plone' or 'Blog' and the meaning seemed to be preserved... are they the same thing?
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by gord 17y ago
HN/PG feature request - merge 'really the same' threads feature? I guess a link works well enough.
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by gord 17y ago
clearly Ubuntu think CouchDB will be useful in other areas... and this is a trial run. Id stick my neck out to say that something like CouchDB will become the de-facto standard for almost all data. Data that isn't {securely} on the web is
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by gord 17y ago
absolutely.. [Greets + Kudos, btw] But then so many 'web pages' now are really js apps, that google must effectively do screen scraping anyway... Perhaps we should just admit that we always need an alternate feed to provide semantic meanin
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by gord 17y ago
I'd really like to see some functional-style JS code. [ background : I've used OOP a lot, and thought it was the ultimate, until I discovered lisp... ]
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by gord 17y ago
Hmm.. How about the ADsafe code - http://www.adsafe.org/adsafe.js by Douglas Crockford, author of 'JavaScript : the good parts' - http://www.crockford.com/
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by gord 17y ago
Id like to see google give the book content away - including the ability to mash up. They have enough money to just do it for the greater good, and write it off as advertising / PR budget [while gaining revenue from the searches due to the
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by gord 17y ago
Thanks, which led me to this - http://www.cactusjs.com/browser/trunk/DOM/tag.js which is basically a js version of what Ive been doing in PHP with xilla tags. Given they've implemented both 280Atlas [Obj-J on js] and Suns Lively Kernel in
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by gord 17y ago
Are there any js frameworks/libs that do something like this on the client : render_as_dom(table(tr(td("one"), td("two")))); I'd prefer to write code like this rather than have a mix of JS and html, with html rendering on the serve
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by gord 17y ago
I think this is a hard problem - a good tool for beginners would need to be amazing to get any uptake. The visual programming idioms that Ive noticed having some impact are things like dragging connection points to wire up inputs/outputs or
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by gord 17y ago
I suspect the only one who ever could write like Kurt Vonnegut is in fact Rodney^B^B^B Kurt Vonnegut. The whole deal is that it cant be reduced to a formula - unless you have a lisp script for it, in which case Id accept that as proof I am
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by gord 17y ago
My usage of windows over last 5yrs has been as you describe 'a dumb terminal to access a Linux box'. [ A long time ago I was very much into the COM electric cool aid, so have used it as a dev platform commercially, but not recently. ] To be
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by gord 17y ago
What percentage of HN readers use windows? I'm assuming : 70% mac, 25% linux, 4% BSD derivative ...

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