innguest

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   by innguest 13y ago

   Paraphrase of the "Challenge" paragraph: "We only solve very very hard problems, we turn away the easy problems, and we all agree that's the way to go" Does anyone really think that way or fall for that? This is inc
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   by innguest 13y ago

   Much obliged!
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   by innguest 13y ago

   This is one of the most interesting posts here, but some of those are hard to search for. Care to link?
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   by innguest 13y ago

   I'm pretty sure the OP also disagrees with the monopolies telecoms, cable TV, healthcare etc have, so that's in line with his thinking already.
5. 755.▲
   by innguest 13y ago

   Security through Obscurity? I thought we disliked that.
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   by innguest 13y ago

   Would you recommend any books? That would help me a lot at this point. :)
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   by innguest 13y ago

   I wouldn't recommend Project Euler - it's math-based and that would be a roundabout way of learning anything else but math. Here's my recommendation: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell...
8. 758.▲
   by innguest 13y ago

   I don't understand how your reply addresses anything kenko said. I agree with kenko and I wish people would stop bringing turing completeness/equivalence into discussions about what languages can do what. Turing completeness is inconsequent
9. 759.▲
   by innguest 13y ago

   Obviously he meant [.|.], which is redundant on so many levels.
10. 760.▲
    by innguest 13y ago

    "What if programming notation were more like music notation?" -> if you look at the denotational semantics listings on the latest Scheme Reports you will see something that could be equated to music notation (i.e. they're both instructi
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    by innguest 13y ago

    What's your native language?
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    by innguest 13y ago

    I am as well. They were so close to propelling Ruby as the desktop language of choice. I remember how easy it was to program GUI in IronRuby...: button = Button.new button.text = 'Foo' button.location = Point.new(0,0) button.click
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    by innguest 13y ago

    If no one will ask it, I will. Who's Tim Cook?
14. 764.▲
    by innguest 13y ago

    I'm using Firefox and Fn + F5 works every time. Strange!
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    by innguest 13y ago

    "It really isn't." "Not really." "Linux sound hasn't been a problem for some of us for, oh, I don't know, well over 10 years" "Sound on Linux wasn't a problem 5 years ago. In fact, it wasn't a problem even earlier." "Sound setup bad? Not co
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    by innguest 14y ago

    I just pressed it and it worked. Remember you need to press the Fn key first (at least on mine).
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    by innguest 14y ago

    It's very different. The difference is OSX is only trying to target one hardware platform (and succeeding) while Linux is trying to target the whole range of IBM PCs (and failing). Before the era of the Linux on the desktop comes, we need a
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    by innguest 14y ago

    REE's installer is interactive; if all installers were interactive (with a fallback flags system for non-interactive execution) then you would be able to customize them without needing a third-party program (homebrew). Thew fewer third-part
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    by innguest 14y ago

    Hey sergio - I missed the memo saying that's an outdated way of installing stuff. Must be because I keep coming across instructions that have me doing that. :) Anyway, my point is that the very existence of a package manager is already misg
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    by innguest 14y ago

    To me the main advantage of standalone packages (thanks for reminding me of what they're called) is that they just work (to borrow a phrase from Apple's fan club). Having to solve installation/compilation/dependency issues is just a waste
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    by innguest 14y ago

    Here are the reasons I switched to OSX: - Image installers (.dmg files) and complete installers (.pkg files, that bring dependencies with them). I have never seen either of those fail, ever. I have seen installations from .tar.gz -> ./c
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    by innguest 14y ago

    Probably ASP.Net MVC -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410169
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    by innguest 14y ago

    Scheme is pretty simple.
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    by innguest 14y ago

    > taking 195 micromoles of ATP (Adenosine Triphosphase) to move the index finger muscles per click. Except fingers don't have muscles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger#Muscles
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    by innguest 14y ago

    > Apparently the word irony, pre-14th century had more to do with an author writing an opinion he or she did not hold, as if he or she did hold it. It still means that; people just misuse it when they actually mean "coincidence".
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    by innguest 14y ago

    Thank you for this, you are absolutely right. I've had to watch a coworker (who's new to Rails) struggle through this same bullshit. After the 5 days it took him to set it up and run our Rails app locally, I showed him Smalltalk's Seaside a
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    by innguest 14y ago

    But if you have to explain your "art" like that then it's probably not very good to begin with.
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    by innguest 14y ago

    I agree with you. I'm surprised that you replied to my comment with this comment, as I fail to see the thread that links the two. I was saying that the value of the steak comes from people, and not from the steak.
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    by innguest 14y ago

    I would also argue against the idea that a steak (or anything else) has intrinsic value. I think all of it's value is extrinsic - it comes from people wanting it and being willing to pay a certain amount for it.
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    by innguest 14y ago

    I don't think "closer to the money" means "closer to the user", otherwise cashiers would be paid handsomely. I'm sure I don't know this well enough to try to explain it, but as a throw-away attempt at it, I'd say it means "having more decis