jimwise

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by jimwise 13y ago
Hmm. My Mom was a trained engineer. She's no longer with us, but if she'd lived long enough to select a Bitcoin wallet, I have no reason to believe she'd have picked a poor one... (And yes, I get the irony that they probably
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by jimwise 13y ago
Without newsblur support, not really likely to rebuy. I respect the work involved in moving what had been a google reader client into a true multi-provider client, so would rebuy it it supported the provider I actually use. :-)
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by jimwise 13y ago
This doesn't seem to me to mean as much as the author thinks. By the same reasoning, after all, email as a communication mechanism is "dominated by" spam, much of it similarly shady in nature. There is an interesting differ
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by jimwise 13y ago
Yes. A central idea of the American experiment is that there are exchanges of liberty for security which it is not acceptable to make even if the people collectively decide to make them. That is why certain liberties are enshrined in the
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by jimwise 13y ago
Dumb question, but the author kept running a TOR node at a site he knew was under NSA surveillance? That doesn't strike me as very responsible...
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by jimwise 14y ago
Except that before "just supporting Linux (and maybe MacOS)" was the thing to do, it was "just support Sun (and maybe HP-UX)". And before that, it was "just support BSD/Vax (and maybe SVR2)". So, when you take a broader view than "just supp
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by jimwise 14y ago
Beyond the question of how meaningful these metrics are, wouldn't it be a more useful metric to look at how complex the code you write when you use each framework is, rather than the code that implements each framework? I suspect -- but
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by jimwise 14y ago
This will not only miss non-ascii printing characters, but it's not even much shorter than typing [[:print:]] to use the explicit character class.
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by jimwise 15y ago
This would seem a problem that could be solved by a cloudish sort of solution, though -- have an iPad app which hands actual typesetting of a document off to a server somewhere, sending TeX sources, and receiving a PDF in return. A simple s
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Don't Talk to the Police(whyhomeschool.blogspot.com)
2 points by jimwise 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
I think you're not considering enough ways in which one technology can be superior to another. Ruby wins for the web not because it is faster _at executing code_, but because the combination of Ruby and Rails is faster _at iterating new fea
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by jimwise 15y ago
No disagreement with the basic, point, but was a bit surprised by this quote: "So, here's our situation. We have a man (presumably; at any rate he appears to want to be identified as such) in the Australian Linux community, who targets wom
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The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher (John Taylor Gatto, 1992)(newciv.org)
2 points by jimwise 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
There's a Mr. Turing here to see you about whether this site is really connecting him to a lady, sir.
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by jimwise 15y ago
There are a couple of ways around this -- all of which fall under "be careful". :-)
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by jimwise 15y ago
though be careful how you do this -- it's easy to end up with a divergent program, as prolog tries to: * prove X(A,B) * realizes that it can prove this if it can prove transitive(X, A, B, C), and then prove X(B,A) * realizes that it can pro
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Self (language) handbook updated, now available in PDF(blog.selflanguage.org)
9 points by jimwise 15y ago|0 comments
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Racket 5.1.2 released(mail-archive.com)
2 points by jimwise 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
Wait, really? "Anger"? I mean, "disappointment" maybe. Or "annoyance". Or "wistful regret" -- all reasonable reactions to the real loss you suffer when someone else decides not to pay for your education. "Sadness", perhaps, if you believ
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by jimwise 15y ago
In fairness, this is stretching the meaning of `binary blobs' a little, right? I may be misreading, but the issue is that some of the elisp sources of CEDET were generated from bison input files automatically at some point -- but they're st
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by jimwise 15y ago
Yes -- one could argue this opens the door for other bad behavior at OSCon, since it's not on the (new) list of things not to do. That's the problem with putting these things in writing -- the more rules you write down, the stronger the imp
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by jimwise 15y ago
So, the complaints seem to break down into two types: a.) things which broke because they depended on Rosetta (PowerPC emulation), when Apple has been warning for at least three versions that PowerPC emulation will be going away any version
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by jimwise 15y ago
I recently read both volumes of "Artificial Intelligence -- An MIT Perspective", which is a great view of the high-water mark of the MIT AI Lab. This two-volume set, put together between 78-81 is a review and collection of papers showing o
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by jimwise 15y ago
Yeah -- there was a great example of this yesterday, too: http://nklein.com/2011/06/quicklisp-win-weblocks/
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by jimwise 15y ago
Pretty much exactly my experience, except that I'm running a lot more compiles and a lot less photoshop on this 13" MBA. In particular, if you're upgrading from a machine without SSD, the speed advantages you'll see for things like emacs or
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ambit-0.9.1 -- a Gem for choose/fail (amb) non-deterministic programming(github.com)
2 points by jimwise 15y ago|1 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
Decades in, I don't think we have a meaningful (or at least measurable) definition of what productivity actually means (the article touches on this). So it's hardly surprising that we don't pay in accordance with something we still don't
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by jimwise 15y ago
It's kind of obvious dropbox wasn't storing raw file blocks encrypted, or there wouldn't be much point in doing dedupe -- any reasonable crypto algorithm should be giving you output close enough to random that two users storing the same dat
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A Cautionary Incident: Gene Spafford on AWS(cerias.purdue.edu)
4 points by jimwise 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
Sure -- but they were beaten by ordinary machines because the combination of better ordinary machines and better techniques for running lisp on ordinary machines improved to the point where lisp machines weren't better at running lisp .

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