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by jarcane 12y ago
In fairness, while I think the previous comment is a bit clueless myself, I'm inclined to ask how many of those servers would be necessary if FB wasn't logging so very much data on everyone. If FB's job was once again just to
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Snapchat’s first original series is here and it’s awful(thenextweb.com)
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by jarcane 12y ago
I've not had any issues with SBCL on Windows except with the thread support.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Since you're already familiar with C# you may look into ASP.NET, or even look into Websharper/F#. Otherwise, I second the recommendation for Codecademy, for the JS/HTML/CSS or Ruby approaches. Alternately, I quite like R
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One year later: the woman who quit her job on a live Super Bowl ad(fastcompany.com)
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by jarcane 12y ago
Actually, what I mean by that is rather the difference in power between the guys doing the coding, and the guys making the business decisions. Both tend to enforce that divide, but for very different reasons; the coders for cliquish reasons
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by jarcane 12y ago
My apologies, that portion of my point was meant to be independent of the FP comparison. It is absolutely true that, save for the occasional grudging exception, the 'easy languages' have largely been scorned and shunned throughout
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by jarcane 12y ago
The prejudice of programmers is one of the biggest hindrances of technological advancement in computing AFAIC. Think about it: currently, functional programming is, finally, getting some well deserved recognition in the wider programming wo
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by jarcane 12y ago
Ironically, one of the projects I created with what would seem like the least amount of practical use also got the most positive feedback. Sometimes when you just do what you want for fun and self-edification, it results in a project that s
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by jarcane 12y ago
I live in Tampere, and I honestly can't tell yet whether I picked the best or the worst time to decide to retrain as a programmer.
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by jarcane 12y ago
I tinkered with HackerRank just for the coding exercises, and was initially impressed by the sheer volume of languages the site supports, but quickly grew frustrated with it. The use of stdio instead of a test suite like Codewars uses made
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by jarcane 12y ago
Ultimately, I decided this is what I want to do. I wanted to learn more about the Windows ecosystem anyway, so why not learn the missing bits from C# and .NET (which I came to F# without), and then be able to continue working in a language
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by jarcane 12y ago
Looks like it supplies an MBOX file, which should I guess be sufficient, save that my mailbox at this point is 12GB.
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by jarcane 12y ago
This is something that does rub my the wrong way a bit as well. F# is a fantastic language, easily my favorite non-Lisp FP language, and possibly period, but it was very clearly second-class in the field of actually building full apps with
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by jarcane 12y ago
Yes, let us all cheer for the latest means by which a corporation has managed to avoid their tax obligations and continue to be a drain on society. Whee.
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by jarcane 12y ago
A new interface which offers less functionality than either Chrome or Opera 12 (it can't even export your bloody bookmarks FFS), constantly locks up and becomes unresponsive for half-minutes or more at a time after simple actions, and
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by jarcane 12y ago
Well, I was also referring to the browser itself, which is now a useless shadow of its former self.
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by jarcane 12y ago
This is one of my all time favorite games, and it tickles me to my core that 1) the programming is apparently as brilliant as the visual storytelling, and 2) I had an idea like this some time ago and now I'm wondering if I shouldn&#x27
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by jarcane 12y ago
"A new browser for our friends", as in the developer community? The "Opera community" is, or was, a thing. Opera spent years cultivating an actual community around their users, with forums and chat and social networkin
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by jarcane 12y ago
Are there any services that allow for inbox and settings import from Gmail? I have a good ten years invested in mine, so far it's the only Google product I've not been able to fully cut the cord from.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Color me interested. I'm currently fed up with more or less the entire current crop of browsers, so it would be nice to see a new serious player with some experience enter the field. Old Opera was a fantastic suite in its day, but new
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by jarcane 12y ago
In C# main() is a method attached to the main Program class.
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by jarcane 12y ago
A product which provided actual value and novel functionality to end users has been swallowed up by a larger corporation with maybe a 25% chance of actually getting any kind of continued life, if this plays out as these things usually do. A
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by jarcane 12y ago
It supports TCP/IP as well, and with OS-9 I think at least it's possible to connect to that directly using a serial-to-LAN bridge. It also supports local IP connections as well, which makes it useful for emulators, as DriveWire is
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by jarcane 12y ago
It's DriveWire4: https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
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by jarcane 12y ago
The thing is, events like this have a chilling effect on anyone who could possibly attempt to do that. As he highlights, Wikipedia is not a democracy, it's a bureaucracy, and it responds to attempts to change its culture exactly the wa
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by jarcane 12y ago
The problem, as detailed quite extensively in the other articles in the series, is that this isn't simply vandalism. It's calculated and organized action, explicitly aimed at manipulating Wiki's hopelessly bureaucratic and cl
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“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but I might be wrong.”(markbernstein.org)
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by jarcane 12y ago
Frankly I think the last thing the world needs is another one of these, which is why I never hosted the one I wrote. Increasingly I think the real need is in self-curated media.
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by jarcane 12y ago
I wonder how much language popularity is affected by this effect. We Lisp/FP fans crow about how easy and quick dev in more expressive languages is, but to a clueless manager that's potentially exactly the problem. If it doesn&#x2

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