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541.
by jfb 12y ago
They doubtless predate my idea (~2009 in conversation with one of the Ron Conway boys), which is way too obvious not to have been done before.
542.
by jfb 12y ago
A secondary market in sports bets.
543.
by jfb 12y ago
It's less like he's saying they're wrong and more like he's saying they're rude .
544.
by jfb 12y ago
I have been made deeply uncomfortable by hagfish since reading Cruz Smith's Polar Star [1] in high school, where they feature in a minor but electrically memorable plot point. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po
545.
by jfb 12y ago
"Big company" and "startup" are not homogenous categories. I've worked for Big Companies that are slow and plodding and I've worked for startups that are as nimble and quick as lightning. But I've also wor
546.
by jfb 12y ago
It wouldn't be Hawai'i (as much as I'd love that). It'd almost certainly be LA or Vegas. Maybe Phoenix.
547.
by jfb 12y ago
It can't be "fixed", per se, but there is an argument that a market price for water would at least be a better system for allocation. Of course, this is easy to say from Toronto.
548.
by jfb 12y ago
We'd pay more. And? Out of season access to fresh fruits and veg is even more recent a development than dense human settlement in LA.
549.
The fundamental problem of programming language package management(blog.ezyang.com)
7 points by jfb 12y ago|1 comments
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George Orwell's six rules for Scala programmers(hilton.org.uk)
5 points by jfb 12y ago|0 comments
551.
by jfb 12y ago
Don't assume that everybody shares your opinions, even if those opinions are popular. The OP could be a fan of robust intellectual property regimes, including software.
552.
by jfb 12y ago
¼ "American neighborhoods"? That seems like a bit of a reach.
553.
by jfb 12y ago
"Journalism is not a technology." Depends; there's always the (no longer so quaint) Soviet usage of the term.
554.
by jfb 12y ago
Heh. Back to the future, indeed.
555.
by jfb 12y ago
I would like a language more like Tutorial D; strictly set based (none of SQL's bags); without SQL's terrible, awful, no-good very bad 4GL syntax (I'd like something terser and more mathematical). It would be closed over comp
556.
by jfb 12y ago
A better language than SQL in front of Postgres' careful and mature data storage engine?
557.
by jfb 12y ago
Any reticence to mention it is likely due to the fact that djb is a bit of a polarizing personality.
558.
by jfb 12y ago
That's a good question. It's one of those things that I remember being complicated, but when I look over my configuration, it seems pretty damn straightforward. I guess the fact that Channels and Groups share a namespace irritat
559.
by jfb 12y ago
I am interested, tangentially, in an AR display that would fit into my dive mask. I wonder how hard this would be?
560.
by jfb 12y ago
It has a peculiarly complicated configuration, but it has been 100% bulletproof for me.
561.
by jfb 12y ago
I don't think mh semantics could map to an IMAP server at all. I miss mh, but I switched to mu and isync, and it works OK.
562.
by jfb 12y ago
I was obsessed with the White Wings paper airplanes [1] as a kid; this was in the '80s when it was basically impossible to get high quality Japanese paper where I lived. Oh, the time spent tracing and cutting and screwing up and gluing
563.
by jfb 12y ago
Gibson has always been amazingly prescient; so much so that it seems almost churlish to dwell on what he missed, when the breadth of what he observed is so astonishing. It's like he pulled us into the future, like a strongman pulling
564.
by jfb 12y ago
It's called cursorial hunting; wolves do it as well.
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A few bold, complete projects(blog.fogus.me)
10 points by jfb 12y ago|0 comments
566.
by jfb 12y ago
I wasn't trying to bust your balls, really, just poking a little fun at the hyperbole. I enjoyed the article for what it was.
567.
by jfb 12y ago
I was sort of disappointed that this wasn't about actually impossible engineering problems [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
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Scala: Next Steps(scala-lang.org)
95 points by jfb 12y ago|112 comments
569.
by jfb 12y ago
Exactly.
570.
by jfb 12y ago
The most interesting thing about this to me is how similar it is to other long-term road test articles -- IOW, how well Tesla has built a car that conforms to people's conceptions about how cars should operate. That's extraordinar

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