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by gruseom 13y ago
I was kind of hoping you'd solve those problems so I could just use gifs. :) It occurred to me once that some kind of JS animation might do, as well. But you'd need a "player" that would allow rewind. It would be too muc
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by gruseom 13y ago
The benefits you list are nice, but a video screencast has a couple of big advantages: (1) it sits still until you decide you want to play it. Animated gifs are distracting when you're trying to read the surrounding post, and the more
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by gruseom 13y ago
"He says it's not worth doing in general." He did not. It's you who read that in and became indignant at it. "There's no qualifier." Certainly there is—the title of the post. Plus its whole context, which
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by gruseom 13y ago
I see nothing condescending there. "Augment the human condition" means making someone's life better. "Huge number of people" means going after big markets. "Not worth doing" means not worth doing as a sta
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by gruseom 13y ago
I like how this article moves the discussion on what "readability" means (or ought to mean) in code. Its point is that what matters is the intelligibility of programs , not individual lines or names. Most "readability"
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The Trouble With ‘Readability’(akkartik.name)
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by gruseom 13y ago
What kinds of things are they trying to do that you end up implementing in VBA for them? Do you ever have the feeling that some of these things ought to be doable in Excel without having to resort to VBA? (I ask because I'm working on
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by gruseom 13y ago
If you want to write code to manipulate numeric arrays, why not use an existing high-level language that is good for this? In other words, why are you using Excel? Not suggesting that you shouldn't; just curious to hear what benefits E
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by gruseom 13y ago
If you like the Iverson, don't miss the famous piece of Whitehead's where he talks about notation too: http://introtologic.info/AboutLogicsite/whitehead%20Good%20N... Iverson took one of his epigraphs from th
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by gruseom 13y ago
That was intentional. Calling a language unreadable is a kind of tautology, because it contains no information about the language, only the reader. Is Sanksrit readable? Saying "that's not readable" about APL is about as fool
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is a really interesting comment. It would be worth turning into a longer post with examples.
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APL isn't obtuse—just unfamiliar to people who aren't familiar with it. By the dictionary meaning of 'obtuse', in fact, APL is the opposite: a sharp tool and a masterpiece of design.
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by gruseom 13y ago
The things that make a language good for embedding are the opposite of what you want in a general purpose scripting language I'm not sure I agree. What you want for embedding is something small, fast, and easily interoperable. What y
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by gruseom 13y ago
Can you please not be so abrasive on HN? Your points may be correct, but your tone is exactly what we're trying hard to avoid here.
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by gruseom 13y ago
it silently returns nil when accessing non-existent elements Is that similar to what JS does with undefined , or am I missing something?
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by gruseom 13y ago
I think the assumption has been that their cups were much smaller or weaker than ours.
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by gruseom 13y ago
If you follow Wikipedia's source for that, here is what it actually says: In France, meanwhile, Voltaire was reputedly downing between 50 and 72 cups of coffee a day Encyclopedia authors shouldn't cut numbers in half. In any cas
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by gruseom 13y ago
Voltaire famously drank something like 50 cups of coffee a day. When someone told him it was a slow poison, he replied, "It must be very slow." That's the story at least. Don't know if it's true.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've quit on two or three occasions for a year at a time. What worked was to gradually lower the dose until you're close enough to zero that zero isn't hard. I did that over a couple weeks, and it was so much easier than cold
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by gruseom 13y ago
Hmm, that at least sounds plausible. Usually when institutions appear to behave stupidly, the reasons are not so much stupid as non-obvious.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Because it's much shorter than "standard diagnostic manual" and means about the same thing. To say "the media ran a bunch of slam articles" gives the wrong impression, in my view. There is a wide and serious critiqu
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's hard to believe, but caffeine withdrawal is classified as a mental illness in the recently updated DSM, the bible of psychiatry. http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/daily-dose/2013...
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by gruseom 13y ago
Not only did Jefferson not say that, it wasn't even attributed to him until 1994. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fea...
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by gruseom 13y ago
I used a web app called SnapTax one year in Canada to do my taxes. It was easy and fast, ahead of its time for web UIs, and showed what much better technology can do in the space. Intuit bought them and killed the product. Their own product
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by gruseom 13y ago
The article implies that it's more than 5x as expensive to house the mentally ill in jail than elsewhere. Such a huge difference suggests that providing them with housing and care would more than pay for itself, so cost ought not to be
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by gruseom 13y ago
Well, I wish you would add more. You'd surely have more of value and experience to say than almost anybody here. But I hope that doesn't sound demanding--I really appreciate your comment.
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by gruseom 13y ago
A couple questions (I have no knowledge on this): 1. Wouldn't your hunch have been equally applicable to Oasis? Yet we now know that IV was behind them. 2. If your hunch were correct, wouldn't it be in both Lodsys' and IV&#x2
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by gruseom 13y ago
I believe you're wrong here. HN is not just about tech. It has always had room for substantive articles about anything interesting. Is this article substantive? I'd say it's surprisingly so, for such a short piece. It contain
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by gruseom 13y ago
the poisonous behaviours of individuals and the wide-spread arrogance typical in most Lisp communities Is that really true of most Lisp communities, or just Common Lisp's?
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by gruseom 13y ago
I listened to it and don't recall Lodsys coming up. The shell company in the story was called Oasis. In court filings they were forced to disclose that Intellectual Ventures was getting 90% of their proceeds (which were considerable—hu

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