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by jgg 16y ago
Yes it was a real question, and I note that you've failed to answer it. >I think you're underestimating the number of existing businesses who have .NET at their core, in which case the question is what justifies moving off of .NET? In m
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by jgg 16y ago
Can anyone give me a technical reason to deploy on a IIS and ASP platform instead of Apache/Nginx and one of the dozens of open source solutions for deploying a web application? From where I'm sitting, it seems to me the reasoning is "I dra
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by jgg 16y ago
Why was this submitted again? I responded when it was submitted 2 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396763 ), and jrockway already did an excellent point-by-point rebuttal ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396823 ). I
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by jgg 16y ago
This is a post by Jon Harrop, who is a known troll in the functional language community. He used to (maybe he still does? I haven't checked) troll comp.lang.lisp in order to advertise his books on F# and OCaml. He saw Lisp as a competitor,
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by jgg 16y ago
Don't forget "Atlas Shrugged". I hear that one mentioned at least twice a day by patrons of my local Starbuck's, so I know it must be deep . (-:
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by jgg 16y ago
This is getting stupid. People program real, working things in Lisp. People program real, working things in languages that aren't Lisp. Grow up .
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by jgg 16y ago
A nice start would be actually teaching Computer Science . Computer Science is a branch of mathematics, with both theoretical and applied aspects. This does not mean that learning Java syntax constitutes as "applied". I think it should b
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by jgg 16y ago
>It's not just Lisp. Language advocates are the snake oil salesmen among computer scientists. It's true. (-: I submitted the paper mostly because it's a condensed "how-to" for optimizing Common Lisp code. I think the name of the paper i
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by jgg 16y ago
Ah, you're right, that is bad. I had only looked at the raw PDF.
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by jgg 16y ago
What do you mean? Is it the layout, the content or something else? I was able to read it just fine.
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How to make Lisp go faster than C [pdf](iaeng.org)
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by jgg 16y ago
Snap has me very excited! My installation of cabal is rather messed up on my machine, so I haven't been able to install it yet.
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by jgg 16y ago
Not trying to start a language war, but I'm so torn. I'm debating on a language to start a big project in, and although Common Lisp is probably my first choice, Haskell seems like it's gaining a lot of momentum (which means awesome librarie
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by jgg 16y ago
Mostly stuff for my own personal use inside Emacs; i.e., nothing important. I'm sure that disqualifies me from ever speaking of it again, but there are objective reasons I dislike it (the dead horse of "lack of lexical scoping" comes to min
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by jgg 16y ago
Hell, even Scheme would be a lot nicer than Emacs Lisp. Actually, if I could even get Yi ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi ) to work, I'd use that. Elisp sucks.
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by jgg 16y ago
>...but that seems rather irresponsible. Imagine that.
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by jgg 16y ago
The photo with the kids at the beach having to use a plastic pool was particularly striking.
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by jgg 16y ago
Aphex Twin does a lot of interesting stuff. I recall watching an interview with him where he claimed that not only does he make all his music using software, but he actually has written some programs which compose the music for him. Can't r
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by jgg 16y ago
I know the term "hacker" has been brutally misused for years, but damn .
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by jgg 16y ago
When you think about a lot of what's considered to be "cool" math, logic or CS stuff, there's a good chance that Martin Gardner helped introduce it to people. He's up there with Douglas Hofstadter on my list of people who taught me that tho
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by jgg 16y ago
I just brought out the quote because I thought it was relevant. I never said I agreed with it 100%.
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by jgg 16y ago
I know everyone's read it 100 times already, but: Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, Java's designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them. Historically, languages designed for other
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by jgg 16y ago
>I'm a bit upset with this because I doubt that they could remember anything from those tests but I felt I could remember them for months. On one Calculus test I had, I didn't study or do any of the homework and pulled a ~90% score. Whe
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by jgg 16y ago
From his writing, I never got the feeling that Dijkstra himself hated programming, just that he hated most of the languages and ideas people used. Can you point to a particular essay that echoes this attitude, or is that just based on the (
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by jgg 16y ago
This is just ridiculous. I have already seen enough Apple fanboy bullshit on Hacker News to last a lifetime, but this crosses the threshold from "obsessive" into "seriously fucking irritating".
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by jgg 16y ago
:) Was it Dijkstra that advocated writing everything in assembly, or am I thinking of someone else? I know he was big on formally verifying the correctness of programs, but I thought I remember him saying that for implementation purposes, h
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by jgg 16y ago
Of course no one is "forcing" you (at least in the general sense) to use Facebook. My point was that if you want a social networking site, switching to some fair, free and open alternative doesn't go as smoothly as switchin.g something like
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by jgg 16y ago
I never knew that I had to have a bachelors to be an "intellectual". I refused to join Mensa even after I could have, does that make me "not gifted"? I think the truth of the matter lies somewhere in the uninteresting middle, and depends a
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by jgg 16y ago
If I were lucky enough to be on the West coast, I'd be there. )-:
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by jgg 16y ago
>Regardless of if the software if free, you do have the choice to use it. The problem with something like Facebook, though, is that choosing to use a platform other than Facebook for Facebook's purposes is useless, because the entire pu

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