henning

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2431.
by henning 19y ago
With contrived benchmarks you can prove anything. Pick something with weird bit twiddling where C is better. I pick some business computing task involving lots of systems integration or some shit where Java is better. And on and on. Garbage
2432.
by henning 19y ago
This is much closer to the truth. AFAIK it uses some heavy-duty macrology and such-like to mechanically transform a subset of Lisp to continuation-passing style. It also has the obligatory HTML/Javascript generation stuff. It has been used
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Interesting new marketing technique from 37Signals: testimonial videos that don't sound phony/cheesy(basecamphq.com)
1 points by henning 19y ago|0 comments
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Video of Guy Kawasaki pitching and demoing products - when he's in his true element, he's so kickass!(video.google.com)
1 points by henning 19y ago|0 comments
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by henning 20y ago
THREAD DOES NOT DELIVER. :/
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The Entrepreneurial Engineer: Genetic algorithms pioneer David Golberg's blog on professional skills for engineers(entrepreneurialengineer.blogspot.com)
3 points by henning 20y ago|1 comments
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by henning 20y ago
Since you like to judge things without giving a fair chance, there's not much anyone can do for you. Have you ever used a language in the ML family or one influenced by ML? OCaml, Haskell, Scala, Standard ML, etc? Have you ever used a langu
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by henning 20y ago
I noticed that a lot of the most-viewed/discussed/whatever things uploaded to scribd were collections of humorous pictures, or widely-circulated jokes, or whatever. In other words, recycled humor content that's been on the Internet for quit
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A hypothetical: what would you do if users were mostly using your software in uninspiring ways you didn't intend?
1 points by henning 20y ago|4 comments
2440.
by henning 20y ago
Uncov is stupid, unfunny, and they have an ugly layout.
2441.
by henning 20y ago
I thought Steve Jobs's NeXT demo from 1992-1993 was pretty impressive. http://youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A It certainly would have seemed space-age in 1992.
2442.
by henning 20y ago
What a bunch of bullshit. Some people have to work in order to pay for college and can't risk not having the money to pay for tuition.
2443.
by henning 20y ago
I take it this place is basically startup/tech entrepreneurship-related stuff rather than being like programming.reddit. Great, another social news site I'll check compulsively.