jhrobert

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by jhrobert 16y ago
I am in the process of implementing my proposal (JavaScript & nodejs). It will take a couple of days I guess. I'll keep the HN community posted. We'll see who's crazy!!! :)
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Given the lack of context, I amssume that, sure, you definitely should have answered "yes, your new haircut is nice"
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I assume you mean "unhappy to discover how dumb they are"
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by jhrobert 16y ago
There is a need for such a service. Anything that is done "in real life" has a purpose that applies equaly "online" There is not point is judging an action by itself, only the consequences matter, but some actions have fairly predictable co
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Am I missing something or is this code defining "global scope" functions whose names include things like a, b, i, p, command, etc...? What are the chances that such global names will collide with something else?
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by jhrobert 16y ago
The Rise of the Hacker News Eco System!
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Humm... is this the longer version of "Don't be evil"?
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by jhrobert 16y ago
"The whole concept behind this is to have a very painless way to parse command line arguments, possibly by losing some flexibility." Is "GNU getopt" painless? I suspect it depends on your definition of "pain", a pro/cons section would have
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Are you sure that "But" is the right word? Thanks for the compliment anyway. :)
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by jhrobert 16y ago
It's a lie. The true reason is purely historical. Editor where just TOO SLOW to handle big files (on DOS they often were limited to 64kb, if not less) Please note that I love "modular code", hence the notion of "sections" in my big file. To
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I am a wordstar guy, I started with CP/M... For years I enjoyed Borland products, they used Wordstar key bindings. And then one day it stopped working. I simply had to use the mouse. I was shocked. It took me years to recover. I hated it. C
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by jhrobert 16y ago
OMG! Is there a way to fake these?
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Please define "email" :) To me, an email is basically an email address.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Simplify further: Do you have 100k active users.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
To what extend does the "copyright" applies to "derivative work" in software? I am very interested in the answer because I am writing a derivative of the initial Ward Wiki and I'd rather know to what extend I should ask the permission to Wa
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by jhrobert 16y ago
"Worse is Better" says it much better than I can, the dynamics of success are not what we may first think they are. From one point of view, JavaScript is the "Worse is Better" version of Lisp. Guess who's winning? Ditto XML vs JSON
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by jhrobert 16y ago
If one can program a computer, chances are that it would be foolish not to try to sell the result, if only to augment one's "luck surface". A $30 a month EC2 instance can host thousands of users, depending on the service proposed. If a serv
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by jhrobert 16y ago
20 years later, it is definitely true that worse is better. But it will take another 20 years until this reach management.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
When you say "every programming language" I assume you mean "JavaScript"? I would not be surprised if embedding a javascript interpreter and running a validation script was probably already easier in most languages than embedding an XML par
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Impedance mismatch between XML and JavaScript is killing XML. What's next? HTML? {"head":{"title": "JOHN"},"body:"{"div": "Javascript Object Hypertext Notation"}}
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I love the "Particule" concept, a nice extension of atoms (and a much nicer name than "tuple"). Where is it coming from? Without going into Prolog, now that you have some pattern matching, maybe you could have some notion of success/failure
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Come on! by now everybody knows what you're working on! ;-)
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Isn't it the first time in history that a software author makes money like only athletes, writers and artists usually do? Are we going to see the emerge of "software agents", who will help programmers make money out of talent much like "Lit
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by jhrobert 16y ago
It would be cool to navigate by file type sometimes. ie: have some \sound\mp3\all "virtual directory" automatically populated will all the mp3 files of my system. Now that I think of it, it would be cool to be able to express such "virtual
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Sorry, I missed it at the time. BTW I wanted to avoid a double submit and I have been looking for some "search" box without success, it is probably obvious once you know where it is, where is it?
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Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh(code.google.com)
187 points by jhrobert 16y ago|93 comments
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I wish programming was an art and programmers considered artists.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I wish I were that disciplined... but I have weak will power and basically will keep coding for hours (once started...).
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by jhrobert 16y ago
If Twitter is smart they will provide the smart ultra cheap fast answer: mailto:username@twitter.com with automatic forwarding to your actual email (that they know of already). No brainer. I hope that facebook users will use their twitter
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Well... assuming "vanity" is often a safe bet! But not this time.

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