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by jjames 17y ago
Here is the boing boing post referenced in the original farewell message: http://boingboing.net/2009/08/22/fundable-rips-off-hu.html Comments #5, #13, #23, #25, #30 and #31 between Mr. Pratt and Cory Doctorow are the relevant bits. I'm s
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by jjames 17y ago
"IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones" - worst fortune ever.
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On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces(benfry.com)
4 points by jjames 17y ago|0 comments
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by jjames 17y ago
I'm curious what courses any of you have audited (is that the right word for this?) through OCW or the other recent online offerings. I was taking a course on regex compiler design at Stanford long ago before they locked down their student
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by jjames 17y ago
Might as well call it an "Internetism". With Steve, though, you at least get style, articulation, a sliver of grace and as much verbosity as you can stand.
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by jjames 17y ago
I thought this was meant to disagree with my statement. This status message doesn't say Programmers = Big Boys, Designers = (What would you call it? little boys, girls, hobos?). There is power in a template paradigm. Much like MVC is for
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by jjames 17y ago
The implication that designers are not "big boys" is offensive. I will parry with: "big boys" often wield power they don't understand to theirs and everyone else's detriment. More importantly, if all the big boys get hit by a machismo bus
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by jjames 17y ago
"Funes the Memorious" is allegory
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by jjames 17y ago
Why doesn't anyone ever want to hire a coding pirate?
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by jjames 17y ago
I brought up some concerns about full content scraping last time this was discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542552 I used the feed for a few months but found the feed-readerized articles lifeless, frozen in time and free of d
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by jjames 17y ago
"It was about grinding it out. It was a story of will. It was a story of perseverance. It was a story of doing tasks that, from the outside looking in, would seem boring, dry, and monotonous." Sounds sexy to me.
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Clojure's Agents: Scientists, Monkeys, and MD5(travis-whitton.blogspot.com)
5 points by jjames 17y ago|0 comments
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by jjames 17y ago
The theory surrounding homeopathy would suggest that would only be useful for curing extreme and persistent drunkenness.
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by jjames 17y ago
I resent the suggestion that python has weaseled its way into anything. It rather slithers, wouldn't you say?
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by jjames 17y ago
Just to be more more pedantic (and silly), urban dictionary has this to say: Used to describe two things that are independent of each other. One does not imply the other. "Common sense and intelligence are orthogonal. I've seen plenty of sm
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by jjames 17y ago
This is exactly why people who learn multiple programming languages/paradigms are so valuable to these types of conversations. The problem is that reasoned and experienced thought gets thrown out with the speculative garbage.
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by jjames 17y ago
Explicit function calling via () is one of my favorite things in the language. To each their own. "exit" merely references a function. It doesn't call by name alone. It can thus be passed to a function (a callback for example), saved to
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by jjames 17y ago
Serious tease. I expected either the text available online, lecture videos or at the very least a courseware podcast from Berkeley. I guess I'll go back to staring at it at the bookstore...
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PERL is dead. Long live Perl.(catalyzed.org)
12 points by jjames 17y ago|2 comments
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Open mic for entrepreneurs(smdp.com)
1 points by jjames 17y ago|1 comments
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Lead Acid Batteries: How Cheap Beat Cool at Google(seekingalpha.com)
4 points by jjames 18y ago|2 comments
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by jjames 18y ago
I'm getting a 404 message that is trying to sell me novelty gifts.
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by jjames 18y ago
Good point. There could be a language that made 0 trade-offs "that matter" vs all other languages. The problem remains that there will likely still exist at least one person for whom some trade-off of little or no substance is important (
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by jjames 18y ago
The "()" thing is something that personally clicks with me in python. I absolutely love methodname as reference always, methodname() as function call always. I'm fetishistic about predictability though. To your main point, all general pur
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by jjames 18y ago
I'm not super familiar with pg's RSS feed but doesn't it just provide a link to the article? That doesn't bypass the click-through to the content provider. It encourages it, just like the HN homepage.
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by jjames 18y ago
Is there any concern here for the missed click-throughs for content creators for purposes of metrics and/or advertising revenue? I've not been in a situation to have to worry about either but I know that site owners make a conscious decisio
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Starting... (Bill Clementson on iPhone Development)(bc.tech.coop)
3 points by jjames 18y ago|0 comments
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by jjames 18y ago
Article is from 04/07. Is there any followup? It's not clear from all the commentary whether the author learned something from the anonymous solicitation of advice or if it served primarily as catharsis. For anyone else living like this i
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by jjames 18y ago
"I've always had this image of MIT students that doesn't quite mesh with them needing a gentle introduction to programming, but maybe that's not really the case?" 6.001 from my experience does not in any way imply a student's focus on compu
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by jjames 18y ago
Wish there was a way to read this online but The Little Schemer http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/ made the first couple chapters of SICP a little easier for self study.

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