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by gord 17y ago
learn to program - a bit of lisp, a bit of C [not to do it but to appreciate the mindset] Mentioning VB, Microsoft or Clearcase are very uncool and will turn away any talented people you might want to learn from, hang out with, hire or beco
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by gord 17y ago
Actually I hope Apple take an enlightened approach to this, and see it as a valid migration/coexistence/hybrid strategy, rather than get heavy. Its the ultimate complement to them.
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by gord 17y ago
What just happened? beautiful, beautiful piece of art and engineering. Id seen some of the RaphaelJS demos, so I knew this was coming.. but honestly was expecting this stuff to become a product in about 2 to 3 years time... and this guys in
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by gord 17y ago
cool.. like a real hackers conference.. you have to engage in social engineering and pick a lock to gain access to the rooftop? oh, you mean the Rooftop on Swanston.. um, ok :]
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by gord 18y ago
Thats not a company you want to work for - they are looking for people who don't think.
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by gord 18y ago
Sure... they don't have to... but they often DO - which is why M$ focus marketing there. Just my personal opinion but I think schools, universities should be promoting open source, rather than backing commercial products.
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by gord 18y ago
All part of the lock in scheme - students have far more {interesting} opportunities to tinker with open source, imo.
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by gord 18y ago
A link to a PETITION where one can register support, might give this some political traction. I think pg+hn+/. etc could generate 50k signatures. ideas?
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by gord 18y ago
interesting point actually... Given the same textual semantic content 'information', a badly laid out and a well laid out site can be orders of magnitude easier/harder to read. One might draw from this that _layout_ has some semantic conte
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by gord 18y ago
thats kind of my point - its not trivially obvious that "absolute" is not absolute. I know ... RTFM.. but then theres what browsers actually do as a mixin. Hence good examples of motifs that are reasonably portable are all the more valuable
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by gord 18y ago
thanks halo for the overview. offtopic - you might be interested in dmitris Raphael Javascript lib to manipulate 2D graphics [uses SVG if its supported, or VML on M$ browsers] - http://raphaeljs.com
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by gord 18y ago
Has anyone digested this to summarize the significant changes/improvements?
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by gord 18y ago
yes, and I was quite amazed at how well marketed it is. The girl who is responsible for such viral ninjitsu memes as "I heard it on twitter first that a plane landed in the hudson.. safely" makes Seth Godin look like an agorophobic dislexik
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by gord 18y ago
He seems to be saying "PHP shouldn't be supported because its a bit of an ugly language and somewhat insecure" But then should they only support Scheme? :] The problem is theres so much useful {badly written} PHP code out there, its going t
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by gord 18y ago
I think its quite a good site for css layout examples... I remember discovering how position:absolute was in fact _relative_ to the enclosing div/element, ayaaay! another css layout approach given here - http://www.digital-web.com/article
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by gord 18y ago
oh yeah... regex to match all urls == ugly hack. Why didnt they just define urls by a simple FSM / regex in an RFP ? Hey, I complain about the internet..but I do appreciate RFCs... Sweet lord, have a look at the UML / MOF spec - its hilario
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by gord 18y ago
.."Different OS for every program" yeah it is kludgy, inefficient ... but you are pretty much guaranteed that the setup works, which I think is a lot of the value.
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by gord 18y ago
Scheme implemented in Javascript for both server and UI might be a sweet spot. This - "37signals DHH ports Rails to Scheme" would have been my april 1st HN headline sweetspot !
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by gord 18y ago
"...I feel retroactively angry at the linguistic kludges..." I can so relate to this - I was looking forward to hacking in Ruby after php / C++ / Java , but this enjoyment is muted as I've now had a taste of Scheme... Ill bite my lip and do
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by gord 18y ago
Mind you... it might be much better use of time than jobhunting. but then you'd have to seriously compare with Open Source contribution - a faster way to learn, smarter people to work with and more social benefit... OSS work likely has even
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by gord 18y ago
I guess there is a real market niche that ycombinator flushed out- namely, Impedance matching between - a) investors with too much cash and too little time for small startups b) startups who don't need or want large amounts of cash
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by gord 18y ago
disclaimer - Im a daily vim user. I think the {derivative of the} learning curve has a long tail.. I keep finding new cool things I can do with it, I guess emacs is the same, or even more so as you can start hacking lisp... I recommend pri
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by gord 18y ago
Highly addictive... Got to 1500 odd, had a sneak peak at level 30 then gracefully bowed out. Used a combination of heuristics - move a vertex to the centroid of its neighbors, and move randomly to reduce edge intersections. eyes burning.
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by gord 18y ago
I'll see your ouch and raise you one Gary Kildall.
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by gord 18y ago
Its always nice to read about how startups succeed, but maybe more can be learned from these postmortems. I was thinking you almost want a dedicated site for these... but could that be achieved by just having tags and filtering by tag on HN
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by gord 18y ago
The blog is incredibly open. seeing it all go up with the notes around the creative process is quite fascinating even if you cant follow all the math [and I guess only 50 people in the world can]. Having the math inline works really well [
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by gord 18y ago
Not a bad idea.. you could write in your lang of choice, presumably Ruby or Python, Scheme/lisp with a syntax / DSL you like.. then generate obfuscated/compressed PHP to run on the many cheap LAMP hosting platforms :]
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by gord 18y ago
Link to a link - http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/what-is-new-in-php-53-for... Now php 5.3 has lambdas, 'pharchives' :] and namespaces plus other goodness... I wonder why they used a slash as the namespace scope clarifier - why not '::'
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by gord 18y ago
Hmm.. in my case, part of the fun of learning Scheme was that it had an excellent article on how to generate html web pages... and the syntax was nice [like arc and ruby]. Same for arc, but its newer so lacks the many pre-configured librar
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by gord 18y ago
Maybe part of that is the pain of dealing with configure / autoconf / autotools? Ive seen a lot of C/C++ programmers write their own build utilities/scripts and lose proper deps in the process. I found cmake a reasonable alternative.. scons

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