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by jgon 14y ago
Between this and the gmail release recently I think that some interesting times are ahead for apple. After I told my wife that Google Maps was available in the app store she sent me a text with a screenshot of her phone and the message "I'
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by jgon 14y ago
Narcissism doesn't seem to me to be a life sentence sort of thing, although it can be. I think that the general point being made is that narcissists tend to be younger, and then many of us grow out of it. Whether it's the realization of my
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by jgon 14y ago
Yeah, this looks to be the most probable course of action to me, and the doom and gloom that is raining down from the rafters seems a little premature. In the same way that Vista was a disaster due to its changes and incompatibilities, Wind
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by jgon 14y ago
I would search for "Squeak By Example" and read through the book. It is Smalltalk, aka the seminal OO language. It also provides all of the code use to create the system and the VM it runs on in a readable, editable, runnable format so you
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by jgon 14y ago
It also does something that always pisses me off when I see it in HTML5 boosterism, which is claim that HTML and Javascript are plenty performant, and hey look at this demo as proof! The problem is that the demo is always of a game that wou
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by jgon 14y ago
Ugh, there is a reason that you would be admonished for this argument and it's not because you are speaking some sort of uncomfortable truth. It's because this is sloppy, lazy thinking, and it has traditionally been used as a bludgeon to r
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by jgon 14y ago
It's true, and I wasn't expecting them to say anything like that. Of course they would trumpet it as a revolution, it would indeed be terrible marketing if they didn't. My post was muddled, so I guess what I was really trying to say is thi
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by jgon 14y ago
Disclosure: I own a kobo ereader. One thing that is really interesting to me is battle of spec marketing and how Amazon is really managing to outdo its competitors here. As far as I can tell the Kobo Glo and the Kindle Paperwhite use the s
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by jgon 14y ago
I am going to simply go by what ESR himself says, which is that his wife is a lawyer and so she goes and works every day which funds his ability to stay at home and write blog posts about the intellectual inferiority of black people and how
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by jgon 14y ago
OOP was able to become dominant because it came with some clearly defined "killer apps", the likes of which I have yet to see materialize from the FP world. I mean, Smalltalk shows up in Byte and says "look, here is an entire system for gr
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by jgon 15y ago
Parts of our bodies have excellent self-repairing facilities. Parts. Your liver won't repair itself if you damage it enough. You have one set of lungs, so if you smoke enough they most likely aren't growing back. And most critically for
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by jgon 15y ago
This is very much in line with what Alan Kay says about current chip architectures compared to what was available when he was coming up in the field. He often talks about the Burroughs machines and how much more advanced they were compared
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The upcoming death of computing(monogatari.doukut.su)
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by jgon 15y ago
Gah, stuff like this just tends to make me upset. SICP is probably still, bar none, the best text I have ever read. In any subject. Now, I'm biased towards computing and I'm sure that there are amazing texts in every field, but I would p
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by jgon 15y ago
I'm currently reading the Steve Jobs biography but I have not finished it, so this comment is based on incomplete knowledge and you should take what I say with a grain of salt. I will agree that the biography is far from perfect, and of cou
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by jgon 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. I can only speak of personal experience here as I don't have the time to do any sort of rigorous analysis of the data, but I feel like greenspun's analysis is becoming more relevant even at the lower levels of post-sec
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by jgon 15y ago
This article is trying to figure out the solution to a problem that was solved over a decade ago. See: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science Science majors change their minds once they find out that they will be required t
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STEPS 2011 Progress Report from VPRI, Reinventing Personal Computing in 20kloc(vpri.org)
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