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by hassy 18y ago
you're right in that my argument can be generalized to most (new) programming languages: unless your programming language requires a new VM for some good reason, build it on top of an existing one. when would a new VM be required? well, E
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by hassy 18y ago
you answered your own question there. the community isn't bothered about the popular image of PLT Scheme as merely a Lisp for teaching. (whether they should be bothered or not is a whole different question, but choosing not to care ensures
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by hassy 18y ago
age per se is not a problem – just look at Erlang, which is one of the "cool" languages at the moment. the issue is, in addition to the 3 i mentioned in my post, that there isn't a problem that you think of and then you think that CL is the
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by hassy 18y ago
my point is you are , but few people are aware of it.
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The future of Lisp...(12monkeys.co.uk)
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by hassy 18y ago
http-twiddle mode for Emacs is handy for tinkering with web-based XML stuff: http://github.com/hassy/http-twiddle/
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by hassy 18y ago
You know what, it sounds like the author just read Fooled By Randomness and watched DHH's talk at Startup School 07, and then did a Jeff Atwood. This would've been interesting a year ago, somewhere closer to the height of excitement about w
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by hassy 18y ago
You see, Jeff Atwood prefers talking about software to actually making software, by a long, long shot. Most of his writings are nothing more than summaries of other people's work, sometimes padded with some theorizing and sweeping generaliz
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by hassy 18y ago
well said. from TFA: > All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us? he seems to have forgotten about hundreds of millions of Chinese living in poverty. how disgusting.
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by hassy 18y ago
How about this? myList collect(description) select(!="") join("\n") http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoGuide.h...
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by hassy 18y ago
i think this is a case of reading too much into something in search for "lessons". investors are right to be looking for the things they look for, because HP is an exceptional exception. tens of thousands of smart guys that "just wanted to
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by hassy 18y ago
would the atoms get concerned if they were conscious?
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My notes from Doug Richard's (Dragon's Den) School for Startups(12monkeys.co.uk)
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by hassy 18y ago
> People LOVE their apple products, they have an odd attachment to them. (Rarely do you hear people telling you they love their computer...well they do when their computer is a mac). As Mitch Kapor once said, IBM PC is a computer you ca
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by hassy 18y ago
One of our projects in the algorithms class back at uni was to implement a skiplist and assess its performance. While skiplists are indeed simple to implement and do have log(n) average time for most operations, they're an example of theory
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by hassy 18y ago
Check this out too: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/taskwatch/
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by hassy 18y ago
I don't think so, but there were a few people from Glasgow at the last meetup.
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by hassy 18y ago
> The objects are an interesting touch. Not sure how they'll work out in the grand scheme of things, but it's an interesting idea. Erlang already has objects. They are just called processes. Trying to bolt on a class system on top is ju
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by hassy 18y ago
Reia is interesting, but ultimately misguided. Erlang's syntax is not a problem. It can actually help editors like Emacs to indent the code more intelligently. Eg if you're in a clause of a case expression and you pressed Return without pre
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by hassy 18y ago
"Ready for prime time"? Erlang has been used by Ericsson in one of their flagship products for years, as well as by Motorola and T-Mobile. More recent examples are Amazon and Facebook. There are lots of people out there getting real work do
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by hassy 18y ago
It's true, but it's far less of a problem than it may seem. When your functions are short it's easy to find out where the error was from the error message. When you think of all the great stuff Erlang gives you, small issues like these don'
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by hassy 18y ago
What I meant is that it's possible that Erlang will become a popular choice for startups in the next two years.
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by hassy 18y ago
No it won't (this coming from someone who loves Erlang and has worked full-time with it for a year). There has been way too much invested in both Java and conventional OOP for them to be displaced that fast. 2 years may be a long time in
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by hassy 18y ago
> for concurrent applications, Erlang is a clear choice. No it's not. Not necessarily. Concurrency is a means to an end, not a goal. Erlang is great for problems which lend themselves well to modeling with a large number of communicatin
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by hassy 18y ago
Well, CPU-intensive code is likely to do some sort of number crunching. Erlang was not designed with such tasks in mind and it has no supporting libraries. C++ or Fortran would be a better fit, or even Python with Numpy. Erlang (and by this
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by hassy 18y ago
> So, usually without changing any of your code, as 4, 8, 16 core CPUs come out, your Erlang script should theoretically run 4x, 8x, and 16x faster, respectively. You might want to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
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by hassy 18y ago
> This time it was all a bit too easy, even wireless and 3D were no-configuration installs. One opportunity to learn new things gone I for one have plenty of other opportunities to learn new things, all a lot more appealing than an "opp
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by hassy 18y ago
> And if you actually feel that what you consume does not define what you are, you shouldn't either. But it does, whether you want it to or not. Everything you do shows glimpses of your personality, and your choice not to care about the
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by hassy 18y ago
> If a programmer is pretty good at what she does, then odds are she's already got a secure, comfortable, well-paid job. Especially so if the programmer in question is a Mac/Cocoa programmer. There are few of them around, and chances ar
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by hassy 18y ago
Here's an excerpt from the book: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1084093.ece?pri... Felix Dennis is one of those rare racehorses that not only can run fast, but can also tell you exactly how to run fast. One of the best books

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