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by hernan7 19y ago
Exactly. Just don't enter a market where the competition offers their product for free. Or enter, but be prepared to work 10 times as hard. Another example: PC operating systems (where the cost of the OS license is subsumed into the price o
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by hernan7 19y ago
Well, we have 2 data points now. I guess we can agree that it's harder to learn than Python :-) For what it's worth, I think learning Lisp is useful for getting (re)acquainted with lambda calculus if nothing else.
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by hernan7 19y ago
I think parens would be less of a problem if the indentation conventions were easier on the eyes. Sometimes you need a ruler to figure out those 1-space indentations.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Or that there are less government-sponsored AI projects?
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by hernan7 19y ago
Make it: 3 months full time, plus whatever amount of time is needed to become deeply conversant with all the underlying lambda calculus concepts.
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by hernan7 19y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Severe-Tire-Damage-Might-Giants/dp/B00...
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by hernan7 19y ago
In my opinion, if you don't learn Lisp at school, picking it up later in your spare time is going to be quite a task. After reading and doing the exercises from the Touretzky book and The Little Schemer, plus some articles here and there on
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by hernan7 19y ago
If it means that TV gets a smaller share of the advertisement $$$, I would say it's not evil at all.
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by hernan7 19y ago
An oldie but a goodie. Back when I started working on Unix (early 90s), the only editor on the lab machines vi. The learning curve was horrible, but after that I never was able to use an editor for human beings again. Nowadays, when I'm tra
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by hernan7 19y ago
Wow talk about a blast from the past... I remember working on Xenix for a programming project back in my college days (early 90's). Back then my only work on Unix had been on AIX and Solaris, and PC's for me were equivalent to DOS. Seeing a
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Philippe Starck: design is dead(afp.google.com)
1 points by hernan7 19y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 19y ago
A "reset" button would be a good idea, for when you click the "<<" link too many times.
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by hernan7 19y ago
See also: this month's Wired cover.
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AJAX patented in 1999?(regdeveloper.co.uk)
4 points by hernan7 19y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 19y ago
Wasn't Oracle funded during a recession too?
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by hernan7 19y ago
Well, back in the days of the dot-com craze the biggest idiots were indeed successful. For a while, at least.
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by hernan7 19y ago
An open-source (hardware) synthesizer.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Great link, thanks.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Yes, but unless the burglar is also some kind of master spy, he will never know which house has a Canon 1Ds Mark III and which hasn't. Usually, I assume a burglar's goal will be much broader -- something like "score some stuff that can be p
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by hernan7 19y ago
Reading good prose helps. Also, rewriting.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Some kind of cute parlor game. Does the theory work for countries other than the USA?
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by hernan7 19y ago
Too good to be true? Anyway, if this comes to pass I can imagine playlists being a hot commodity. Kind of little out-of-band time-shifted radio stations. Downloading will stop being "try before you buy" and will become, well, "just try this
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by hernan7 19y ago
A volume control and/or some type of compression/limiting would be useful.
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by hernan7 19y ago
screen + vi here, more or less the same results
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by hernan7 19y ago
For some reason I misread "the most insipid". Oh well... Personally the one that inspired me the most was the Foundation trilogy, with its nerd-propelled universe.
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by hernan7 19y ago
A little bit too vitriolic for my taste, sorry. This appears to be the case with Mark Pilgrim's latest posts for some reason. See also: Pilgrim flipping the Bozo bit on Linus Torvalds: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/03/07/iphone-gpl
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by hernan7 19y ago
Bummer. I was expecting that he would indeed get to teenage centenarian. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffclark.html
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by hernan7 19y ago
In fairness, the standard Java library, the Unix /usr/bin and Common Lisp are not for the faint of heart either.
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Class name generator(classnamer.com)
2 points by hernan7 19y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 19y ago
Allow me to give my opinion as somebody who always buys the minimum hardware necessary to barely get by (that is: web browsing, MS Office, maybe running Cygwin and/or compiling a Java program now and then). I bought my Macbook last year whe

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