gruseom

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   by gruseom 13y ago

   I liked debugging more once I realized that the answer always comes as a surprise. Something you believe about your system must not be true, or else the fix would be straightforward. So debugging is like a mystery novel: suddenly seeing wha
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   What, in your view, makes its engineering culture good?
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   Computers are fast: A moment of appreciation for LuaJIT(groups.google.com)

   7 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   Thanks for this excellent comment. I hope you stick around; we need more contributions from experience around here. Since you worked with APL so intensively for so long, would you care to describe what you think is good about it? And how it
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   This is a great question. Wish it had gotten more discussion. When I've been working on a hard programming or design problem for several days, I often get a sort of repetitive dream where I'm going over and over the pieces of the
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   I don't think it's BS at all. There's no objectively correct way to build software, or a team, or a company. Personal inclination and temperament play a large role; people can be more or less compatible in those respects, and
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   Thanks! I came back to add a belated comment and am very glad to see your answer. My belated comment is that I just upgraded that code to HTML5 and it works fine.
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   For crying out loud, why doesn't Trader Joe's just expand into Canada? http://www.piratejoes.ca/ is the biggest proxy for demand I've ever seen. People in the big Canadian cities would line up around the bloc
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   by gruseom 13y ago

   Parenscript. We wrote a REPL and debugger for it in order to be happy working in it all day, which I keep meaning to open-source. We have a longer-term idea to make a Parenscript-style Lisp that compiles to JS and Lua, for a bunch of differ
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    I work in a Lisp that compiles to JavaScript. The project is a web-based spreadsheet. If anyone would like to discuss working together, please email me (address in profile).
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    K (v5) is shaping up here http://kparc.com/ Holy cow! I am floored that they are doing that. That is a hugely ambitious departure from the high-end enterprise niche they've always been limited to. How exciting. Plea
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    I'd like to offer an observation about the copy at http://www.pigeonpic.com . The larger slogan, "Never lose touch with friends and family", is vague. The smaller one, "Send photographs through the mail with j
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    Probing the Unconscious Mind(scientificamerican.com)

    2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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    America’s Best Unknown Writer – The Letters of William Gaddis(nybooks.com)

    2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    Okay. Because you posted it and then deleted it when it got flagged, which is cheating.
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    Because you posted it once and then deleted it when it didn't get traction, which is cheating.
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/04/those-who-mind/
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    I've always assumed it was deliberately left porous to compensate for the luck of the draw. There's a lot of randomness in which articles get an initial boost on /newest. If the duplicate detector were airtight, a lot of good
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    George Orwell: Why I Write(orwell.ru)

    5 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    Oh God no.
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    The Quote Investigator is the best. The site is the avocation of someone pseudonymous who tracks these things down meticulously and has been building up a sizeable repertoire. The great thing is that since nearly all these quotations go bac
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    As someone who posts about quote orgins on HN often enough to wonder whether I should self-deport as a crank, I heartily endorse this article. It is by far the best description of the obsession. And no, Picasso didn't say "Great a
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    Who Really Said That?(chronicle.com)

    42 points by gruseom 13y ago|27 comments
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    Thanks! The fact that there's a path back to the original makes that one less spurious than it sounded. There was quite a good article recently about how quotes turn into misquotes and eventually proverbs: http://www.chronic
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    Use of Child Workers is Declining(online.wsj.com)

    2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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    Do you want a meaningful or a happy life?(aeonmagazine.com)

    6 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    I doubt that Plato said that.
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    Much as I like Peopleware , it isn't credible as research. The studies were never published, and the authors made stuff up, as one of them told me himself (I'll see if I can dig up the link where I wrote about it.) Edit: https:&
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    Ghanaian Poet Kofi Awoonor Among Those Slain In Nairobi Attack(npr.org)

    1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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    by gruseom 13y ago

    I just realized what was bugging me about this article. It points out that the empirical support for 10x claims is shoddy. That's fair enough. But then it switches to making a bunch of claims that have no empirical support: 10x is a