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by jcl 17y ago
I can't help feeling that Common Lisp should be doing better, considering that it's a language where you can effectively tell the compiler "It's OK to store this variable in a register". It's currently doing about the same as Mono, which I
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by jcl 17y ago
Summary: Jeff read the Gamasutra article about bad coding practices. He then notes that "Apache" is a play on "a patchy", and that he recently refactored some StackOverflow code that had been patched in the past (code not provided). Also,
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by jcl 17y ago
His point isn't that Scheme's syntax is elegant, but that the syntax is simple . There's no need to worry about the precedence of operators, or indentation, or why you use one character to separate function parameters and variable declarat
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by jcl 17y ago
You can usually just search for it on Google (assuming the submitter doesn't change the headline...): http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22A+Pocket+Projector+to+...
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by jcl 17y ago
Of course, the second sentence of the article also answers that question.
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by jcl 17y ago
Both: He's not seriously proposing that TeX is a good choice for the task, but he was serious about accomplishing the task, and he managed to turn it into a paper for publication. In this case "controlling a rover" was the task of the 2008
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by jcl 17y ago
I don't understand the article's logic. It starts by describing App Store complaints, then it goes on to argue that Android will win over the iPhone because the future of phone applications is web apps... while ignoring that iPhone is no m
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by jcl 17y ago
Well, formerly open-source, at least. ( http://www.synthesiagame.com/faq.aspx#source )
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by jcl 17y ago
I think you may have misunderstood my point, which is that peak performance is attained when a few drivers drive altruistically (as the author does) and the rest drive "normally". If all drivers choose the same behavior (all altruistic or
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by jcl 17y ago
That would be an interesting meta-question... If you admit to studying interview questions, the interviewer could interpret it as being intellectually curious, practical, or honest. On the other hand, they could interpret it as being inse
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by jcl 17y ago
What value does an empty comment add to the conversation?
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by jcl 17y ago
However, if everyone carried 10-15 extra car-lengths ahead of them, the total capacity of the road would be greatly diminished; you would just be moving the jam to the on-ramp. The peak performance of the system is actually a mix of altru
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by jcl 17y ago
He suggests on one of the later pages that cities should have state troopers drive in a constant-speed band across the lanes. (He also points out that group of citizens doing this independently in Toronto was arrested for it.)
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by jcl 17y ago
It appears to be a capture of the articles on this page: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
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A scanner camera article previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=649150
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...or PyPy, for that matter.
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Corollary: To increase the integrity of your site, all you have to do is make some mistakes, then retract them a few days later. :)
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by jcl 17y ago
I expect the prominent inclusion of the hinomaru (the red disk in the center of the Japanese flag) probably will get a raised eyebrow or two... Heh... Check out the 1964 Tokyo Olympics logo: http://www.sportslogos.net/league.php?id=27
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by jcl 17y ago
...which is silly. There were maybe three _why-related articles left on the front page -- now half the articles are Erlang.
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by jcl 17y ago
...which is odd, since it was hardly the "second he's outed". The post was made over a month ago. We have no guarantee the post and his disappearance are actually related. Curiously, an old Wikipedia edit identifies the same place of empl
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Mirror of _why's projects(github.com)
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If you vote an article up, it appears in your profile under a "saved" heading.
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by jcl 17y ago
It looks like someone is in the process of mirroring what they can find: http://github.com/whymirror
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by jcl 17y ago
Not as exciting as my initial reading of the headline promised... "Apple Tries to Kill Steve Jobs, Story in Sunday Times"
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by jcl 17y ago
This article reminds me of another posted to HN about a basketball player with mediocre stats who greatly increased the effectiveness of his teammates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481392
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by jcl 17y ago
The "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" section is also great. A side-effect of Amazon's recommendation engine is that it groups all the unlikely products and humorous reviews together. Here's a gem of a review on the page for th
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by jcl 17y ago
Apparently they are in wide use in Chinese and Indian schools. http://pcworld.about.com/od/wirelessphonesvoip/Should-Cell-P...
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The indented text indicates that he was quoting the linked article -- the awkward phrasing is Wired's.
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One of the authors also whiles away his hours making infection models for HIV, malaria, and West Nile virus. http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/ Modeling a zombie outbreak is not a bad way to keep work fun, and it's a good way to intr
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by jcl 17y ago
Did you mean to say "Palm" instead of "Google"? Android has the Android Market, which is like the App Store.

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