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by jackfoxy 14y ago
I was a member of TechShop in the Bay area for a while. Unfortunately all their locations are just too far from my home and they have no plans to open a shop in the East Bay, but if you are a member of one, you are a member of all the locat
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Resort to authority. One of her adversaries is a retired Stanford prof. I'm not taking one side or the other here.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
It took Joyce seven years to write Ulysses at a page per day. It's not an easy read. It is a great book. On the other hand Ken Kesey wrote Sometimes a Great Notion in three months, and to my mind it compares favorably to Ulysses in ma
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Pariah project ? People forget IE6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE6 was released in 2000 freaking one, for Christ's sake. It was state of the art for years. Sure it started becoming a pain in the ass to developers years later, but it's o
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Don't know if @wisty or @ktizo is right here, but she's been publishing since 1993 is not a logical argument.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Strangely, Google is killing off the one thing that keeps me going to their sorta homepage , iGoogle. When they finally do kill it about a year from now, I'll have to come up with some substitute which may not be so Google-centric.
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In Glittering return, Paglia lets loose(salon.com)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Can't say enough good things about Prof. Gilbert Strang http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/ He is one of my heros, and yeah, I have copied his Linear Algebra lectures to CD so I can speed them up, stop them, and in case they ever disappear from
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Atlas Shrugged Movie: Latest News(atlasshruggedmovie.com)
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CN tests natural gas/diesel fuel powered locomotives(heraldonline.com)
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Double-ended Queues for F#(jackfoxy.com)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Speaking as someone who has managed coders writing far more lines of javascript than I will ever write, this is a better articulation of my belief that javascript should be generated from another language (CoffeeScript being the leader) tha
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Full scale and weaknesses of the monitoring of illegal file sharers(birmingham.ac.uk)
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Ask HN: What is the distribution of startup success?
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Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist(thesmokinggun.com)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
At least one other commenter picked up on for health . It wasn't something people wrote down back in those days, (I don't have a citation) many people then considered complete sexual abstinence unhealthy. So Franklin is saying you should e
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
>...pesticides are found to have no health impact I assume you meant something more like ...the level of pesticide residue found on foodstuffs at the retail level in the United States (assuming no accidents, negligence, or sabotage) ar
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Purely Functional Stepchildren(jackfoxy.com)
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Kodak, Armstrong and the Moon(rochesterhomepage.net)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
IANAL, but isn't it perjury, or at least something subject to civil sanctions, to attest to facts in this manner without personally performing enough due diligence to ascertain the facts are at least probably correct? The Bar Associatio
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
I never got in the habit of using FSI much, mainly because of the lack of intellisense I think. I should get back in the habit of having an FSI window open.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
> Since F# is quite terse, I prefer to use a POTE (Plain Old Text Editor) to develop with it on OSX. I bow in your general direction. F# is terse, but most mortals rely on goodies like intellisense and red-squigglies in some IDE. Gettin
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
There is already a PPP GDP per Emissions column in the source data. I don't think further dividing that number by population makes any sense. At least not to my small brain.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Victor Davis Hanson, through hard work and luck, has parlayed his Stanford Classics PhD into a successful career as classicist, military historian, columnist, and conservative pundit. I just finished A War Like no Other http://www.amazon
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When Land Is History(pjmedia.com)
56 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|19 comments
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Didn't even make it through the fist paragraph before I hit this gem A small group of entrepreneurs within the government... IMO says a lot about the biases of the reporter and probably the site as well. Franklin may be frequently misquot
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Mauricio Scheffer has written several articles about applicative functors in F# http://bugsquash.blogspot.com/search/label/applicative%20fun... To tell the truth I don't really get it, but maybe you do.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
See my article http://jackfoxy.com/a-course-of-fsharp-study/ I've got a bunch of references to F# tutorials, articles, and references. IMO the best tutorial is http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
F# is practically OCaml, from my understanding. I don't know if it has all the same current .NET multithreading support under Mono. Worth looking into.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Bravo! The infinite reasons for not doing this: 1) PG has much more important things to do. 2) It would break every other hack ever done based on HN. 3) Recurs back to 1.

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