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by jfb 13y ago
I understand this sentiment, but what simple zero-context function would you choose in place of factorial? You'd want something that's trivially and naturally recursive that doesn't also act on non-primitive types (to avoid
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by jfb 13y ago
The Baffler can be uneven, but they get excellent contributors and have a gloriously jaundiced view of the world.
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by jfb 13y ago
Just put a four way Cartesian join in a subselect that gets discarded. All unit tests pass! Ship it!
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by jfb 13y ago
Exactly. A "startup CEO" for whom email is his most important tool and he's baffled by a change to his client? Switch clients .
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by jfb 13y ago
Lovely conceptual models always founder on the shoals of terrible implementation.
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by jfb 13y ago
I thought this was a very good article, unusually so for a blog post about databases. I do take issue, however, with the idea that there's a beauty to SQL. There's a beauty in the conceptual model, but you have to squint sideways
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by jfb 13y ago
It's not nearly as big as the pictures make it seem, although there's plenty of volume to them.
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by jfb 13y ago
I was under the impression that HN was completely invulnerable to SQL injection?
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, I've been using a Kinesis for more than a decade. I've never gotten around to doing the full remap, however.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think there should be a 100% remappable keyboard. I never use any of the legacy key functions, but the switches are precious on a fixed piece of hardware. It is maddening to me that there are dead keys on my keyboards; having a complete
851.
by jfb 13y ago
I recently just bailed on Linkedin. I was getting zero utility from it, and didn't see any possible future where I would. I ache to pull the trigger on Facebook as well, but the longer I wait the more entrenched it becomes for my famil
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm not sure I'd classify Forth as higher level than C; in many ways, it operates on abstractions more akin to assembler. In every way, it's really, really strange.
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by jfb 13y ago
At that data rate, you would be almost certainly better off encoding 1/4 the pixels and letting the recipient's machines upscale.
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by jfb 13y ago
There was a point in time when it took longer to load a fresh copy of the project I was working on in IntelliJ than it did to update, build from source, and launch Emacs. That said more about the project I was working on than IntelliJ, but
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by jfb 13y ago
No argument here, but I think the delta between a dog and a watchdog is much smaller than the delta between dog and no dog, if what you're worried about is preventing intruders. I believe that the overwhelming majority of burglaries ar
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by jfb 13y ago
A dog.
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by jfb 13y ago
I liked this piece, too, but I thought the comparisons to Steve Jobs were misplaced and detracted from the overall argument. I do think that there's a lot to the argument that the tone of much of the criticism about her is a function o
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm someone else for whom the the CODE keyboard doesn't approach anything like an improvement over the status quo ante. For me, start with a Kinesis -- the layout is what I'm used to after a decade, and the hand position is t
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by jfb 13y ago
Probably isn't, but then, there isn't the cultural deadweight of gigaloc of shell scripts making up an essential stratum on Windows, right?
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by jfb 13y ago
Or "three letter agency" when talking about IRS, NSA, &c.
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by jfb 13y ago
The problem with paths with spaces on Unix is not the API, it's the shell.
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by jfb 13y ago
I find Toronto a much easier city to cycle in than San Francisco, but the streetcar tracks are utter murder.
863.
by jfb 13y ago
The thing I like about standing desks is that they encourage better behavior than a sitting desk -- they're not by themselves anything like a panacea, but it's a lot harder to be completely sessile when you're standing up. Th
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by jfb 13y ago
Eggs don't take very long.
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by jfb 13y ago
What is user hostile is some application developer contravening the platform's UI conventions without a very, very good reason. "Because I want everything to work the same across platforms" is not nearly sufficient. I dislike
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by jfb 13y ago
"Going out of your way as a content author to correct for the user interface quirks of the reader's preferred reading environment seems extraordinary and unnecessary." I would actually say that it's outright user hostile
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TiVO Roamio Pro Review(theverge.com)
1 points by jfb 13y ago|0 comments
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Nexus Phones Are "Ringers"(ben-evans.com)
16 points by jfb 13y ago|13 comments
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, OK, but that's orthogonal to the question of: what is causing this bloat, and why is that considered sacrosanct, as opposed to the user's time and energy? Reasonable people can disagree as to where that line is drawn, of c
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by jfb 13y ago
It's like there's a Law of Conservation of Bloat: browsers are hugely fast; computers are hugely fast; even broadband is getting to the point of usability (in North America) -- how can software tumors metastasize? Where is there a

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