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by jjs 17y ago
2 weeks, tops.
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by jjs 17y ago
Why can't scope be resolved at compile-time? I realize that things like window.x can be added at runtime, but local scopes ought to be simple to rule out.... as long as there are no calls to eval() ..... eval(), which can introduce local bi
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by jjs 17y ago
> The disposable income in Scandinavia doesn't need to cover any healthcare, education and other public services. If the study's honest, those should already be factored into "cost of living", not "disposable income".
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by jjs 17y ago
I believe it. Scientists at least have the advantage that, even if they can't see any practical application of their research, other people can (and do!).
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by jjs 17y ago
> Perhaps you don't believe that things like critical literary analysis are providing us any actual benefit, but I disagree and I'm sure that any humanities professor would disagree too. What they'll profess in public and what they'll
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by jjs 17y ago
Remember also that during the time that ITA would have made that decision, SBCL and SLIME were both evolving rapidly.
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by jjs 17y ago
Can you recursively mug a mug.gd link?
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by jjs 17y ago
> The Scheme code deals with position evaluation, alpha-beta pruning, transposition tables, move legality, different strategies and so on. For some reason, those sound like compiler optimizations instead of game calculations...
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by jjs 17y ago
Bookseller group should do its homework: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/business/worldbusiness/28i...
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by jjs 17y ago
> If you took the Lehman job, by now you'd have to accept the fact that you would probably never get the chance to start a business again. No, they probably still would have gone bankrupt, even despite swombat's valiant efforts.
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by jjs 17y ago
Careful, that's a load-bearing wall...
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by jjs 17y ago
The diminishing marginal utility of money leads me to prefer Forrest Gump's philosophy on the matter: "So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing."
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by jjs 17y ago
Preparing in what way? (Saving up seed capital? Cutting down expenditures? Courting co-founders? Market research? Product development?)
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by jjs 17y ago
> You can take part in this as well Except for the free money part.
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by jjs 17y ago
Intelligent behavior seems more likely to evolve if you provided a complex, usefully manipulable environment that could vary significantly and unpredictably during the lifetime of the individual.
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by jjs 17y ago
All right, I hereby declare it illegal. (Did it work?)
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by jjs 17y ago
A corollary: most ostensible rules aren't the real rules. Knowing the difference is a form of power.
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by jjs 17y ago
... and, technically, is . ;)
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by jjs 17y ago
That's the best idea in the history of conscious thought!
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by jjs 17y ago
The author appears to conflate feature-bloat with "rich" web UI platforms. This doesn't have to be the case. When I'm making something using Flash, AJAX, scripted SVG, or <canvas>, I like to think in terms of which UI elements can
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by jjs 17y ago
> PS: Ok, I did just start working on an iPhone app, but that's mostly because I stopped coding at work. Aha!
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by jjs 17y ago
It appears that they've disabled RSS feeds for custom searches (pretty much any search that sets url query keywords), but they used to accidentally have a pretty sweet REST api.
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by jjs 17y ago
I admire the amazing people I know, the ones who make me think, if I try just a little harder, I can be like them.
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by jjs 17y ago
Then their effective definition was "that which is measured by the thermometer".
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by jjs 17y ago
> You can't measure a person's intelligence using a test. Well, you could , but first you must define it! ;)
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by jjs 17y ago
> nginx relies heavily on system calls at the expense of portability. Nonsense; Unix is quite portable.
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by jjs 17y ago
These are some excellent ponies.
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> I might charge a reasonable amount to power users. Fixed your typo. ;)
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by jjs 17y ago
> That's why I have serious respect for anybody that makes it work more than once, those are the real entrepreneurs. For the rest it really is mostly luck. See the recent article on survivor bias: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76
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by jjs 17y ago
That article is practically unreadable without Adblock.

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