jjs

18 ms·

121.
by jjs 16y ago
Less wishful thinking. Actually, no wishful thinking at all. Recursive irony?
122.
by jjs 16y ago
The end of software patents in the US.
123.
by jjs 16y ago
The risk will only get worse the more he delays. If attempting coitus would pose a health risk at 68, then he certainly shouldn't make an attempt at 69.
124.
by jjs 16y ago
They were a warrior race that fed on beasts the likes of which we have never seen. That makes for good movie trailer voiceover, but Neanderthals were "our" contemporaries.
125.
by jjs 16y ago
I'm sure he operates strictly on Cupertino time. ;)
126.
by jjs 16y ago
You don't think Apple "drove hype" for the iPad? Seriously? Your point may be correct, but that's more of a taunt than an argument.
127.
by jjs 16y ago
This is well and good for those zany jokesters at Microsoft, but what are we to do?
128.
by jjs 16y ago
Honestly, the most surefire litmus test I've found is ex-employees who still speak positively about the employer. Conversely, a very vague non-answer, like "I couldn't really say" may hint at a non-disparagement clause in exchange for a s
129.
by jjs 16y ago
If you're just doing it to keep your head down and live a comfortable existence, then yes, a little bit. But if you're doing something that you find satisfying, challenging, fascinating, or worthwhile, then I would never dare to look down o
130.
by jjs 16y ago
Lawyers. What will we do without them? http://images.google.com/images?q=champagne+popping http://images.google.com/images?q=fireworks http://images.google.com/images?q=parade
131.
by jjs 16y ago
I knew, because of that, that if I was called out to a fight, I could show up at the designated time and place and give what I could. Whenever someone would try to designate a time and place, my response was invariably, "No. Right now."
132.
by jjs 16y ago
Yes, I understand what ' does. You are manually controlling evaluation. The same way, once upon a time, people manually controlled garbage collection. Having a+a explode by default means that the whole time you have to be juggling what i
133.
by jjs 16y ago
it's a shortcut to quote Yep. My comment was about implementing one's own Lisp reader. (define *reader-macros* `( (#\' ,(lambda () (list 'quote (read)))))) instead of (case dispatch-char ((#\') (list 'quote (rea
134.
by jjs 16y ago
Blubness of a language comes from its practitioners not knowing about useful features from a higher-level language (or not grasping the utility of such a feature). If your favorite Lisp lacks a certain feature you want, it's easy to add, ma
135.
by jjs 16y ago
What is ' other than a special mode? I usually implement it as a reader macro. :)
136.
by jjs 16y ago
Now that you've uncovered these irregularities, we can blow this Wikipedia scandal wide open!
137.
by jjs 16y ago
A "professor" that teaches writing skills that uses "gonna" and "gotta" in print. If it's any consolation, prescriptive grammarians have always been wrong. :)
138.
by jjs 16y ago
no, seriously,whats wrong with gpl? Don't ask me; ask the guy who came up with the "FPLL" dual-licensing. LGPL single-licensing would probably be better.
139.
by jjs 16y ago
Nice-looking language, but not-so-nice looking license proliferation: http://www.falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=license_1_1
140.
by jjs 16y ago
Or just see if your favorite editor has a folding mode.
141.
by jjs 16y ago
Maybe you can set Tomato to vary the router radio's power output :)
142.
by jjs 16y ago
When you mail a letter, do you lick the envelope?
143.
by jjs 16y ago
But can you give me an example that actually can't official API wise? Google Sky Map can be implemented on the iPhone with official APIs. Other than apps that edit system settings (like Locale) what can't you really do? Well, the very fir
144.
by jjs 16y ago
"In the remotest regions, beyond the Functional Kingdoms, lies a fabled realm called Lambda the Ultimate. In this place it is said that there are no nouns at all, only verbs!" I already live in that Kingdom, so when I say "members", I mea
145.
by jjs 16y ago
It's already in the web browser.
146.
by jjs 16y ago
I've been thinking of posting an online commonplace book of ideas that I want to see implemented but don't have the time or inclination or domain-knowledge to implement myself.
147.
by jjs 16y ago
Is Steve the only person in his life who truly understands him, the only one who can surprise him with a wonderful present he's sure to like? All the shiny toys in Cupertino won't help you, Mr. Blogger. You need a girlfriend.
148.
by jjs 16y ago
The italicized portion at the top of my comment was a quote from the parent comment.
149.
by jjs 16y ago
The contract is functions not members, and Clojure has a way to declare public and private fns, so what's your argument? When I release a new major version of Foo Lib, and your program refers to private members, your program will break w
150.
by jjs 16y ago
by allowing subclassing you have a larger contract you have to maintain when you want to make changes to the underlying class: rather than just the public interface, you also need to worry about the protected interface. In other words, if

More ›