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by jksmith 17y ago
They trend downwards because Lexx went off the air around that time, then everybody realized how crappy SF/F was without Lexx around to give it all some levity.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Any of the ones read by Tim Curry are excellent. His voice characterizations are very good.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Ah, but if one aspires to an ego the size of Howard Roark's, he wouldn't be offended by anything whatsoever.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Best advice: "If it floats, flies or fornicates, better to rent it than own it." I wonder how Dennis would feel about the fractional ownership model for each of those items.
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by jksmith 17y ago
"Dreaming in Code" was ultimately so depressing I couldn't finish it.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Reading "Q for Mortals." Highly recommend it for ideas for your next Antlr project. Whitney is a sharp character. Also trying my best to read some fiction - it's gotten progressively more difficult to do over the years (the programmer has b
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by jksmith 17y ago
Even then, I'd rather see: DEBUG = socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp' if DEBUG then...
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by jksmith 17y ago
Please, for the love of conciseness, never assign a boolean based on an if statement.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Yeah, but there's a companion angle to this. Carr explains well in "The Big Switch" about why centrally generated power made economic sense. But it only made sense just because the technology catered to that solution. It may be the case tha
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by jksmith 17y ago
That's my issue with Clojure as well. A language that provides and encourages use of a foundational feature X doesn't seem ideally coherent if it depends on usability provided from (Java) libraries which are unable to make use of that featu
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by jksmith 17y ago
+1 I don't mind it at all.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Why do you think that MSFT's current behavior toward mono will continue in perpetuity? If mono ends up negatively affecting profit motive, then MSFT will attack with full force, as it should. If mono doesn't have some security in writing, t
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by jksmith 17y ago
There are plenty of posts on HN that directly "contribute to the discussion," but still get voted down. I think it's more accurate to say a post is down or upvoted on the basis of whether or not the post contributes to the discussion the vo
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by jksmith 17y ago
There's something that bothers me about Clojure, and anything else that runs on top of the jvm and encourages heavy use of java libraries. It's similar to the thoughtful post in the "It's about the Libraries" thread regarding Clojure not be
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by jksmith 18y ago
This is one of the issues I was thinking about when I was looking at that Hunch site. The purest decisions that I make are the ones that have the additional attribute that I think I know why I'm making them. This seems to provide the most f
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by jksmith 18y ago
Ok, I'll sign up when I have time, but I doubt this will change my mind. There's maybe a fine line between decision tools and banal self-indulgence, and my guess is this app will encourage the latter. The issue is that somebody has to ultim
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by jksmith 18y ago
Geez. My brain is just not wired to have any passion for creating silly crap, even if it made me lots of money. Some of these ideas for web apps represent the watered-down domain that has been distilled on the iPhone. Look for a native iPho
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by jksmith 18y ago
For an aside, I like the comment about the developer being unapologetic about using Delphi for development. The unfortunate thing about the argument for what makes a programming language productive (dense language or the libraries available
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by jksmith 18y ago
Regarding issues of conspiracy, we tend to want to use labels which make things easy to consume, imo. Either you can take the article for face value, or I think there's a conspiracy going on. That's just not the case, IMO. We tend to see th
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by jksmith 18y ago
Lots of drugs which are scheduled in this country are over the counter in other countries. Notices that they are all generally very cheap - to make and manufacture. Sched II and III can oftentimes benefit the large US drug manfacturers, bec
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by jksmith 18y ago
HAH. Well said. Plus, if any aliens get out of hand he can kick ass with the tonfa training he got on TJ Hooker.
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by jksmith 18y ago
The problem with these kinds of articles is that they make the assumption that governmental drug fighting efforts are sincere. They probably aren't that sincere to their original intent now. Like most other government agencies, they start o
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by jksmith 18y ago
Which makes for another interesting issue. Some Packlid may be reading this and thinking, "What do you mean "we" human?" Kurzweil may still (already) be proven right, whether we make it happen or not. Just some whimsy for thought.
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by jksmith 18y ago
"God is who he is, and our challenge should be to know Him, not try to create Him." That's the tough thing. Maybe the only way to know God is to become God, at which point we just take it all for granted, like any other technology we integr
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by jksmith 18y ago
Maybe the universe is a closed system, but reaching the "Singularity" before we reach maximum entropy is probably more likely.
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by jksmith 18y ago
"The TV networks already seem, grudgingly, to see where things are going, and have responded by putting their stuff, grudgingly, online. But they're still dragging their heels." The TV industry is a complicated business, with a lot of buyin
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by jksmith 18y ago
I admit I didn't thoroughly read the whole paper, but this stuff strikes me as something to help the bulk of average programmers (or with average experience) get through a project. I didn't see anything in the paper addressing ability and e
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by jksmith 18y ago
Huh? How so? I think the poker analogy is healthy because it's a refreshing way for angels to look at deals. An angel telling you that 25k or whatever is risky, but then turns around and drops that much on a Vegas weekend is bullshit and re
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by jksmith 18y ago
From an article about Shotput some time ago: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/01/05/daily9... "If we don’t understand the idea or the space, Cummings said, we’re not going to [invest in it.]" Look forward to a lot of medioc
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by jksmith 18y ago
More popular schlock that's easiest to remember by movie consumers. "Real Genius" should have been on the list; the computers in the movie were supplied by none other than Symbolics, as mentioned in the credits.

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