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by gruseom 14y ago
This has Alan Kay and Steve Russell, and uses 'hacker' right, and predicts that the ARPAnet will kill both newspapers and the music industry. Talk about a lost classic!
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by gruseom 14y ago
The "if this conspiracy were real, somebody would have leaked it by now" argument gets repeated all the time, but it's bogus. If correct, it would mean there were no covert ops. And we know that's not so. The reason why "conspiracy theories
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by gruseom 14y ago
Although the wording is different, that line comes from the 1920s writer Coleman Cox, who specialized in producing pithy quotes like it: http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlnyqNjN7AC&lpg=PA63&#... http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07
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by gruseom 14y ago
You're treating these "recollections" as equivalent in weight, but they're not. The earliest email announcing the name of the server in a way that made clear the name depended on the sound ("say it ten times fast"), combined with a confirma
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John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
"Moot" is one of those words whose meaning has evolved to contradict itself [1]. Certainly its primary dictionary definition is "open to debate" [2,3]. Plus the word derives from Old English for "meeting" and is cognate with modern English
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by gruseom 14y ago
Someone ought to point out that this response is definitive.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Wow, this is a tour de force of detective work. If you're going to read it, make sure you get past the point where the author says, "Having read my share of crime fiction..." That's where things really get going. It is also cleverly written
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by gruseom 14y ago
A genuine crash in which everyone was trying to sell at once might look like a DDoS. How do you know this is not that? (No opinion, just curious.)
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by gruseom 14y ago
That number seems low enough that they should do it for the good will it would generate and as part of their "do whatever spreads the web" strategy.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Our society is deviant if not sick in the way that we push old people to the side and avoid them instead of honoring them. It seems related to our worship of youth and fear of death. I remember hearing an interview with a Canadian researche
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by gruseom 14y ago
With respect to anigbrowl and [deleted], who probably know more than I do, I think "paleoconservative" might not be the best label for TAC , even though some of their authors might use it. They're ideologically pretty loosely formed, and a
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by gruseom 14y ago
I'm prepared to believe that this writer is smart and serious and just makes consistently unfortunate style choices. But at some point, if you insist on walking like a troll and quacking like a troll, what does that matter? This stuff makes
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by gruseom 14y ago
Most startups that I respect side with Meyer on this issue of colocated teams. There's much room for disagreement or, to put it positively, experimentation here. But there's no basis at all for acting like this is settled and anyone who dis
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Was Chilean poet Pablo Neruda poisoned?(thestar.com)
19 points by gruseom 14y ago|1 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Unz's archive of periodicals ( http://www.unz.org ) is really something. Its UI looks archaic, but the technology works surprisingly well and a tremendous wealth of content is hosted there. The whole thing is a significant public service. O
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by gruseom 14y ago
That's a subtle comment and a much deeper one than it might appear to be.
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by gruseom 14y ago
In Russia they have a saying "beat a rabbit long enough and it will eventually learn to take derivatives, but integrals are another matter". Something about that is quintessentially Russian.
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by gruseom 14y ago
This struck me as extraordinary: “My strongest early memory is of my dad dragging me through very deep snow on a sled,” he said. “I looked up at him and he seemed annoyed at me. Perhaps it was tough work, dragging me, or perhaps I had been
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by gruseom 14y ago
Whoa there. You are being way too rude and aggressive about this. Please help keep HN civil; that's much more important than any argument. Peopleware is a classic, or at least many software professionals regard it that way, but it is a cl
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by gruseom 14y ago
Ah, gotcha. I agree with you that spreadsheet formulas are a limited form of first-order functional programming. But the memory model with which they are coupled is just as important (I have in mind the grid addressing system and dataflow s
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by gruseom 14y ago
What's Kay's argument, then? And how does it relate to FP? I'm curious. I was making a textual point about the Wikipedia article. Its use of the phrase "first-order functional programming" is hyperlinked to http://journals.cambridge.org/ac
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by gruseom 14y ago
I was wondering if someone would point that out! That's why I hedged with "arguably". :) You're right, of course. But it depends on how you draw the boundaries of the system. If you think of the numbers in your example as code, then the pro
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by gruseom 14y ago
Do psychiatrists' diagnoses of depression even agree with that level of accuracy amongst themselves?
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Mining Books To Map Emotions Through A Century(npr.org)
5 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
This wasn't Hemingway. It's been traced back to several newspapers from the early 1900s. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/28/baby-shoes/
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by gruseom 14y ago
A cell formula defines a computation, but not a function. For it to be a function you have to be able to reuse it (call it as a function) in multiple places. For example, you can't define the abstraction "square" in Excel. You can compute 2
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by gruseom 14y ago
Even "no variables" and "no state" are arguably untrue. The state of a spreadsheet consists of the values sitting in its cells. You mutate them by editing them. One FP attribute that spreadsheets do have is referential transparency: the sam
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by gruseom 14y ago
I'm afraid you've misunderstood that Wikipedia page. It attributes the phrase "first-order functional programming" to authors other than Kay. All it attributes to Kay is the phrase "value rule". Kay's interest in spreadsheets wasn't about f
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by gruseom 14y ago
But Excel doesn't have first order functions. You can't even define a function in spreadsheet cells, let alone pass one around as a value.

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