jballanc

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by jballanc 18y ago
I find that very often the perfect cure for too much "thinking" work is an awful lot of physical work. I started feeling a lot better about working on my Ph.D. when I got a second job stocking shelves on the night shift.
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by jballanc 18y ago
Yeah, my example wasn't the greatest. I'd have said SUSv03, but I didn't think as many people would be familiar. Also, my desire for POSIX extends beyond command line to basic programming APIs. The deficiency of Windows just seems most read
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by jballanc 18y ago
Well, let's see here, I've been using Dvorak fooooorrrrrr... 12 years now. I think I've got everyone else beat! ;-) I even remember having to write my own custom key layout files for Unix and DOS...those were the days!
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Ask HN: How important is Posix?
19 points by jballanc 18y ago|40 comments
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by jballanc 18y ago
Soooooooo....basically just Tao-ism?
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by jballanc 18y ago
"Merge without merging" Isn't that the same thing they claimed they were doing (with Apple) when they introduced Google Maps and YouTube on the original iPhone? Mr. Schmidt appears to really like that concept...
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by jballanc 18y ago
Specs without corresponding test-suites are problematic at best. Joel Spolsky put it rather well: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
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by jballanc 18y ago
Or, more likely, if you are well versed in the vagaries of obscure vocabulary, chances are you'll be better at putting together the less complex words.
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by jballanc 18y ago
The reason is that the two children are different dimensions in the probability space. Both (one-kid, other-kid), and (first-born, second-born) yield the same space, and both will give a 1/3 answer.
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Probability as Space(thebitfarm.blogspot.com)
4 points by jballanc 18y ago|4 comments
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by jballanc 18y ago
W...T...Fuck?!? I'm sorry, but the way that I read SJ's letter was "Don't have to prepare...cool. Oh, BTW, minor health issues, thanks for prying assholes" Apparently Gizmodo's reading was "Oh, god! Too sick, must spend holidays with family
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by jballanc 18y ago
You'd be paying for the privilege of not getting spam. In my hypothetical scheme, you'd be paying Amazon for transfer of the key and whoever setup the system to generate the key. Also, I would expect most people would end up paying less tha
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by jballanc 18y ago
I wonder if the authors have tried programming with AppleScript? John Gruber has a good article exploring the problem with "English-like" programming ( http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/englishlikeness_monster ).
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by jballanc 18y ago
Here's a good primer (for those with access to _Nature_): http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080116/full/451240a.html Summary (for those without) - Shaw is the latest in a long history of individuals who thought the way to go in solving the
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by jballanc 18y ago
...and Detroit automakers are making more efficient cars today then they did a decade ago. What's your point?
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by jballanc 18y ago
While Turkish does have a form of "to be", it's not used the way you would expect. Many sentences that would otherwise use some conjugated form of "to be" in Turkish will simply do without a verb. For example, introducing yourself you'd say
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by jballanc 18y ago
How can the author claim Firefox is Google's ally? Does he not realize that Chrome is a WebKit browser? Is he completely unaware of the recent TraceMonkey vs. SquirelFish Extreme vs. V8 battle? All Google is doing is telling its users like
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by jballanc 18y ago
Cool, but if you really want to blow your mind, look at some of the tricks for diagonallizing Hessians!
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by jballanc 18y ago
I've said for a while now that spam would be a much smaller problem if every e-mail sent cost 1/100¢. Normal users wouldn't notice the charges (how many e-mails do you really send?), but massive spam-bot orgs couldn't hope to pay the fees.
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by jballanc 18y ago
Two words: POSIX COMPLIANCE Windows (out of the box, no additional installs) does not have this...just about every other operating system in common use does. Patching and tweaking anything (not just Ruby) to get around this can be a pain. I
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by jballanc 18y ago
My only problem with this article is that the author doesn't consider the possibility that private APIs aren't as robustly tested as public APIs. Having had to deal with the public API issue, I know that those things have to be bullet-proo
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To use private APIs or not to use private APIs?(mikeash.com)
1 points by jballanc 18y ago|1 comments
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by jballanc 18y ago
Having worked in both Cali and NYC, I totally get Zed but at the same time understand how nobody else seems to. Walk down the streets of Manhattan some time, and you'll realize that Zed's just speaking that particular dialect of the English
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by jballanc 18y ago
I played with Eiffel for a time, but found that Design By Contract was a bit overly restrictive for amateur programming. Now that I'm doing more professional stuff, I think it's worth looking at again. There's also a lot of Eiffel influence
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by jballanc 18y ago
Honestly is there a reason, besides nostalgia, that technology companies need to do trade shows any longer? It wasn't the internet that killed the trade show, it was Digg/Reddit/Slashdot/HN/Youtube/rumor sites...in other words, viral market