j-g-faustus

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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
>One thing I have learned is that there is nothing that you can do in one language that you can't do in another While this is true, I have also learned that there are significant differences in convenience and ease of development, that
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
Google's Go (www.golang.org) I'm also considering the "seven languages in seven weeks" book ( http://www.pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-sev... ). I know some of those languages already, but I think it's worthwhile to spend a
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
I was thinking more of the (relatively few) cases where someone ends up on the Patrician's bad side: "The Patrician could not tolerate mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
I imagine Steve Jobs as The Patrician in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series: "Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
"The planned release of a blockbuster motion picture should be acknowledged as an event that attracts the focused efforts of copyright thieves... Enforcement agencies (notably within DOJ and DHS) should plan a similarly focused preventive a
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
Sure. But the gist of the rant is that he keeps doing the same repetitive, mundane tasks over and over again, merely to shuffle data from one part of the system to another and convert between representations on the way. Like when you have a
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
A company I worked for tried to remove a feature: One release added a "tagging" feature (similar to Gmail tags) while the next release had a "hierarchical folders" feature (similar to Outlook folders). The thinking was that tags and folders
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
Agreed. I was assuming that you have read your Tufte :) and can tell informative visuals from those that are primarily pretty or entertaining.
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
The Tufte books are brilliant. For dynamic charts, his first book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) is the most relevant, it covers the theory - how to tell a good representation from a bad one - and the basics. Readings in
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
I've been using Go for a few hobby projects, and I like it so far. It's considered beta, and parts of it has changed once or twice since I started using it late last year, but it's stable enough for hobby projects. I haven't had any issues
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
I think it would be much less anger if the collection was free. But why is that the real question? If your blog quotes from and links to my blog, that's an endorsement, and I would probably be happy about it. But if you print out my blog an
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
>Title is on the sexist side and exclusive of female programmers. I disagree, "when men were men" has been a mostly ironic expression at least since the 1980s, along the lines of "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" (a 1982 book which listed Mar
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
Thanks for a nice overview. I have by and large managed to bypass concurrency issues so far, but these days an i7 CPU runs 8 threads and a run-of-the-mill dual socket Xeon could have 24 threads, so I suppose I'll just have to bite the bulle
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
Other OS X alternatives (on OS X 10.5): Opera 10.10: 38/160 Firefox 3.6.3: 101/160 Chrome 5.0.342: 137/160
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
I remember we had problems with Norwegian fonts in the early 1990s - printing, copying between computers and email would invariably mess up the æ, ø and å. Even the computer science department of the university I attended in the mid-90s did
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
> I can understand why they want to do this I can't. Except as a land- and power grab in the "all your toil are belong to us" category. I can understand that Apple attempts a strategic move to avoid becoming just another platform for Fl
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by j-g-faustus 17y ago
> Economics is about incentives. The basic assumption he's making is that money (or lack thereof) is an incentive for producing open source software. Not at all. Economics is about "how to best allocate scarce resources". "Resources" fo