jaggederest

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by jaggederest 19y ago
How so?
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by jaggederest 19y ago
Tempted, but I have no desire to move to SF.
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by jaggederest 19y ago
Why are people so concerned about buzz? Buzz is for people who cannot build a useful product. Once you have a useful product, it's not 'buzz', it's marketing. Hire a suit for that.
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by jaggederest 19y ago
Why do you care about buzz? If you build it, they will come. Once it's built, it's not 'buzz', it's marketing. Hire suits for that.
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by jaggederest 19y ago
I was quite surprised when I started learning emacs, and accidentally used commands on the command line, and they worked.
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by jaggederest 19y ago
oh, I get it now, Guy Kawasaki, Garage Tech investments. Took me a while for that to sink in.
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by jaggederest 19y ago
Right, I'm saying, code reuse via no side effects is a nice part of the package deal
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by jaggederest 19y ago
I have just started poking with forth, after seeing some network card firmware source written in it. One of the most interesting things, to me, was the built-in disassembler: if you ask 'how is this word defined', and it's not defined in th
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by jaggederest 19y ago
Ruby is so perlesque if you use all the $ variables, it's almost a push.
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by jaggederest 19y ago
I may have misinterpreted what he wanted, but if you're asking 'how do I learn to hack', it's a whole different question than 'how do I learn to write mediocre web applications' If your goal is to learn to build rails sites, start with rail
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by jaggederest 19y ago
Well, if you avoid side effects assiduously enough, other languages can certainly have that sort of purity. However, you have to remember, avoiding side effects is what enables lazy evaluation, which is a huge gain in terms of performance.
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by jaggederest 20y ago
lisp, haskell, prolog, forth, erlang, smalltalk, python, ruby, c, java I think lisp will be adequately enunciated, so I'll move on to the others Haskell is a lazy, strongly-typed functional language. It's syntax is very close to mathematica
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by jaggederest 20y ago
The whole map looks like an oddly distorted eastern hemisphere: The 'Myspace Bands' occupy approximately the position of Korea, and Hainan is represented by 'interactive myspace memes' (I think that's what it says) the 'angsty blog sites'
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by jaggederest 20y ago
Arg, my roommate shows up yet again on news.YC yet again :P
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by jaggederest 20y ago
Well, it's very simple: digg has two options, either fight, or shut down. They've empowered their users, and their users have informed them in no uncertain terms that they will not accept censorship. That doesn't mean that they have to fig
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by jaggederest 20y ago
It's a number. You can't copyright a number. It's also censorship. Censorship is bad. People shouldn't need these things explained to them.
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by jaggederest 20y ago
That sound you hear? That is the sound of google swatting small businesses. (with a huge wad of cash)
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by jaggederest 20y ago
Yes, but why?
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by jaggederest 20y ago
well, to be honest, you get a shell account. I'm hosting stuff on dreamhost, and it's entirely possible to killall my-errant-script when you need to. Just realize that you're a pretty low-priveledge user. It's a great deal for static file h
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by jaggederest 20y ago
Kinda sad we need this...
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by jaggederest 20y ago
I'm not citing Penn, per se. He interviewed several doctors and nutritionists, they were the ones who stated that additional water in the diet is largely unneeded, and that rumors of chronic dehydration in the general populace are wrong. Al
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by jaggederest 20y ago
There's already a site like this, check out indeed.com I'm trying to think more about what I would want in terms of relationships, e.g. what kind of company is it, what kind of person am I hiring. Search is pretty well dead, I mean, even go
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by jaggederest 20y ago
It's actually not too expensive, and pretty easy to find online from overseas (which is legal, I understand, so long as you're importing personal-use quantities i.e. 3 mo supply or less) Doesn't really make you smarter, that's pretty hyperb
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by jaggederest 20y ago
| Often when your body feels "hungry," it is actually thirsty for water. Complete bullshit. Penn and Teller killed this one pretty convincingly. Basically, if you eat a 'normal' diet (which most people don't, ironically) including enough ve
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by jaggederest 20y ago
try python. well supported windowing toolkits. and it doesn't suck.
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by jaggederest 20y ago
Some of my best work has been done with clients that I never met. As always, ymmv, but if you can find a good person online, someone who you can trust and be friends with, there's no reason it won't work.
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by jaggederest 20y ago
I'm going through this over the weekend. The really trippy part, to me, is where he switches from using haskell to define the scheme parser, to using scheme to define the standard library (of course, run through the parser that was just wri
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Scheme in Haskell: write a parser, learn two fascinating languages(halogen.note.amherst.edu)
8 points by jaggederest 20y ago|2 comments
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by jaggederest 20y ago
heh, that's what you think. Try building anything substantial in one of the languages I named and then going back to java. Ruby programs are maybe a tenth the size, give or take, Python similarly small. Haskell will blow your mind because
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by jaggederest 20y ago
Precisely. I can't imagine getting a dell when, for approximately the same money, you can get a machine that can run OSX, windows, and ubuntu, with better display quality and support. (well, applecare some people hate and some people love..

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