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by hvs 14y ago
I appreciate what you've done here, but when I hear the words "enterprise wiki" (as your URL implies) and you can't paste MS Word formatted text into it, I feel a disconnect. I'm not saying that is how it should work, or is a feature that I
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by hvs 14y ago
I believe you mean Hunter S. Thompson , which, ironically you linked to with the correct name.
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by hvs 14y ago
Actually, since they have more money and are more established, I would argue that they do have the luxury of throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks. The reason we have companies in this country that are over 100 years old is bec
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by hvs 14y ago
I really like using Linode. More than the size, space, and cost (which I do value), I appreciate their straightforward and detailed documentation library for administering. That, mixed with their tools, makes using Linode quite enjoyable.
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by hvs 14y ago
1. True. My concern after years of development both in and out of corporate environments is that any tool available will be misused if given the chance. The goal is to minimize the damage as much as possible. If I could be surrounded by the
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by hvs 14y ago
These are terrible answers to the question "Why Lisp?" (to which the most obvious answer would be "For what?"). 1) Good ideas? Yes, it did, but many modern languages implement them so it is no longer a reason to use Lisp. Macros? There are
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by hvs 14y ago
I don't disagree with you, but 70 is a pretty large study for something like this. Many drug studies use fewer people.
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by hvs 14y ago
Languages seem to find a "killer app" much like most technologies and then tend to be used primarily for that purpose. Could Go do all of those things? Sure, with enough time, resources, and libraries, it could. But Google has a problem now
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by hvs 14y ago
No, I meant Unity. I did try the GNOME 3 desktop on Fedora as well, and liked it less than Unity. I was a GNOME desktop user until I switched to Xubuntu.
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by hvs 14y ago
After many attempts to use the Unity desktop, I decided that I just didn't like it (some do, and I'm fine with that as well). What it has done is to make me aware of the fine work that the Xubuntu team has done. http://xubuntu.org/
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by hvs 14y ago
What do you mean by "Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a 'friendlier' language when the time comes"? Is there something I don't know about porting code from Erlang to other languages? (Not being snarky, genuinely curi
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by hvs 14y ago
Once you've worked in assembly language, you realize everything is just another form of jmp .
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by hvs 14y ago
I think I agree with you. Chomsky is astoundingly intelligent and (I think) I understand what he is getting at (i.e. develop a theory of how something happens and use it to find evidence that supports or refutes that theory, rather than u
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by hvs 14y ago
Doing something like this before tackling the Dragon book [1] is a great idea. Formal theory will make a lot more sense once you've run into some of the practical problems yourself. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,
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by hvs 14y ago
That's why you can't live life based on platitudes and have to think about what you are doing.
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'38 Studios Spouse' speaks out(gamasutra.com)
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm pretty sure he meant that all of these sites drawing attention to SOPA and PIPA are upsetting Congress. Not that they were trying to get to Reddit.
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm not familiar with Waterloo, but I think/feel/assume that companies take on the culture of their executives, not necessarily their locales. Every company that I've worked for over the past 15-20 years has largely had the "personality" of
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by hvs 15y ago
The thing is, when they can't squeeze any more out of HipHop, the last thing they are likely to do is use one of those [insert-favorite-language-here], because HipHop will be so much faster than any implementation of those other languages
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm not sure that I'd refer to PHP as a "historically technologically poor language". I'm not even quite sure what that means, exactly, but PHP has proven itself over and over again to be more than capable of working in environments with he
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by hvs 15y ago
He also stripped every tree out of his 7.5 acre yard and put up a stockade fence around it, much to his neighbors' chagrin. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/30/us/genteel-chicago-suburb-... http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-12-02/new
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Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years(arstechnica.com)
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by hvs 15y ago
Really? I found descriptions of Linear and Logistical Regression, as well as the descriptions of Support Vector Machines to both explain very well why they work. The Neural Networks description could have been a bit more thorough, but I sti
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by hvs 15y ago
What? How does SOPA have anything to do with an anti-abortion movement and constitutional amendments?
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Who would be paying for this DB to be hosted? It's always interesting to talk about making things "free", but in the end someone is paying for it.
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The first thing that happens (after the TOS) when you go to the App Store is it asks you if you want to download your free version of iBooks.
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by hvs 15y ago
I wouldn't say that it is required , simply that it is more likely to improve quality.
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by hvs 15y ago
I guess I was referring to a physical eject button (i.e. the kind you would find on a PC). The button on the keyboard just triggers the same call that dropping the CD into the trash does.
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by hvs 15y ago
When you begin dragging a mounted disk in OS X now, the trash can image on the dock turns into an eject image, although I'm pretty sure that it hasn't always done that. That said, I agree. I think the Apple designers could come up with a co
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by hvs 15y ago
"You can" implies that you have some sort of say in the matter. Why should everyone have to implement technologies that are "easy and free" just because you say so?

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