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by jgg 16y ago
Because the average business using Java is just so counter-culture.
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by jgg 16y ago
If a comment from Jobs about the latest release of Apple's product leads you to hate humanity… well let's just say you're going to have trouble with society in general. There is far worse. It wasn't that particular comment I was referring
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by jgg 16y ago
Aaaand we've come full circle again, where people start to realize that Apple is, like Microsoft, a gigantic company that doesn't care about anyone. Maybe we can all move to open-source platforms, so that we can fill the Blogosphere (tm) wi
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by jgg 16y ago
Do you wear a jacket to keep you warm or because it says Prada on it? Did you go to school to get a piece of paper, or to learn something? The analogy doesn't quite hold. You make it sound as if all educational quality is the same, and yo
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by jgg 16y ago
Now, I took a PL course before my working career, so I don't have a frame of reference, but does it really make a difference? Most people judge a language by a) what the syntax looks like and b) what other people say about the language. I
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by jgg 16y ago
Please explain why I should care about your wishlist.
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The Writer Who Couldn't Read(npr.org)
70 points by jgg 16y ago|9 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
Wow. How on earth do these people not sack up, tell their boss to diaf, and walk out the door? Because honestly, if you allow people to use you like a punk, stop whining when they do. At will employment works both ways. From the article:
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by jgg 16y ago
Yep, that's it.
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by jgg 16y ago
Doing my own thing in languages I like using was what made me enjoy it. What you're doing now sucks. HTML and CSS are boring to write and, IMO, are better suited to being generated by a program than being explicitly written by hand. Vanilla
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by jgg 16y ago
It's too late to start programming when you decide it's too late. Pick a language. Python is easy to learn and rewarding. Grab a book. Write some code!
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by jgg 16y ago
This book might be of interest to you: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Pr...
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by jgg 16y ago
Sounds like Wolfram speak to me. Did you ever get a chance to read any of his book, A New Kind of Science ? The basic idea was: - take a bunch of existing CS theory - spin it into elaborate framework, supported by what is basically just a
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by jgg 16y ago
Lisp is blub. Compared to some things, yes. For instance, I think the type system of Haskell (combined with its purely functional nature) is a powerful abstraction technique not present in most languages. I'd like to hear what you think i
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by jgg 16y ago
1) Specify which Lisp you're talking about. "Lisp" in and of itself most generally means a family of languages, making the submission title sorta worthless. 2) Assuming you mean Common Lisp, it isn't purely functional. You can do imperative
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by jgg 16y ago
You seem to be getting confused about the relationship here. No, I'm not. Getting a payment from someone is very different to trying to get something for free from a company, or trying to get acquired. You promise the company payment. T
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by jgg 16y ago
I personally use the two week rule. If someone says they'll get back to me in a few days I give them a couple weeks before I e-mail a reminder. Oh, right. I forgot that in the business world, words suddenly don't have any fucking meaning
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by jgg 16y ago
Further, does he think the software engineer has nothing to do but work on this project with him? No, but when he explicitly promises something, and then doesn't deliver, it's more than fair for him to e-mail until that demand is met.
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by jgg 16y ago
For those who haven't seen it: http://tlb.org/eunicycle.html
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by jgg 16y ago
In my mind, Apple has made a determination that such content may be sensitive to some parents. Right, so that way kids can be shoved off to another magical media device, and the parents can put the exposure of the child to "offensive cont
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by jgg 16y ago
Boy, I'm sure glad Apple is helping bigoted parents everywhere prevent their kids from being exposed to the idea of same-sex relationships. As Apple keeps getting more and more authoritarian, I find it hilarious that the hipster demograph
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OpenGL Tutorials for Common Lisp(nklein.com)
6 points by jgg 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
When YouTube tells me to install Flash, it isn't on a page with the words "HTML5 and web standards" as the header.
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by jgg 16y ago
You’ll need to download Safari to view this demo. Ahahahaha.
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by jgg 16y ago
I have never known a webpage to have a sexual preference.
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by jgg 16y ago
I feel vindicated in knowing that I either own or have already wishlisted a lot of these. (:
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by jgg 16y ago
From http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch04.html : To ease the transition, Stallman fell back on his strengths: math and science. Like most members of the Science Honors Program, Stallman breezed through the qualifying exam for Math 55
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by jgg 16y ago
>* A much larger pool of available developers I've never hired anyone, so I wouldn't know. Is the pool of MS devs really that much bigger than, say, your PHP users?
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by jgg 16y ago
Hmm, I hadn't thought about that. I didn't realize most of Microsoft's tools integrated so well.
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by jgg 16y ago
Right, hence why I referred to them as a pair.

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