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by jng 11y ago
Touch screens are much more efficient that keyboard and mice for some types of input (not for others: e.g. typing). Not only that, the intuitiveness of an obvious "hands-on" touch-screen interface allows toddlers to learn to use i
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by jng 11y ago
I will look into porting ViEmu to this, will probably do so unless it's a huge amount of work.
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by jng 12y ago
What is shocking is that they still haven't found the way to properly fix it after 3 days. I updated some SSL certificates last week (which even required contortions such as moving to a new issuer since some legacy software requires ol
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by jng 12y ago
Unlike what the Wikipedia article says, the main advantage was not the square pixels. Although that was nice, the killer features were double buffering and hardware scrolling. Double buffering allowed you to draw to an off-screen buffer and
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by jng 12y ago
I also carry a ton of critical information in notes. I've tried extensively Apple's iCloud-synced notes, Evernote, and Microsoft's OneNote. Apple is poor at solving trivial conflicts. Evernote is even worse, and really unreli
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by jng 12y ago
Microsoft embracing open source and open culture without having a clear path forward ensuring business. This reminds me of Sun a lot. That didn't end up well.
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by jng 12y ago
> You obviously have no experience in construction or civil engineering, have never looked at a building code book, and generally have no idea what engineering is: I have very little experience in a architecture project decades ago, I ju
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by jng 12y ago
I quite agree with you, but not completely. It's true that Turing & Cburch fundamentals are complete, in that anything we describe in computation can be expressed in terms of those. But I think we are using a very small subset of a
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by jng 12y ago
No, this statement is based on years of learning, practice and reflection, all around the creation and release of many successful software products of many kinds on the cutting edge of software development. I don't know why you assume
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by jng 12y ago
"Sheer brute force" is probably a bit of an exaggeration. But just a bit. As you describe yourself, the kind of advance from C to more modern languages is a step away from "sheer brute force" and towards reasonable appro
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by jng 12y ago
In my view, Turing's results are equivalent in computer science (an important part of software creation) to Pythagoras' theorem in geometry (an important part of architecture): incredibly insightful, fundamental, everlasting and u
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by jng 12y ago
That's fine. I don't know the exact details of all those disciplines, I like history, but my knowledge of it is limited. I was within reasonable orders of magnitude of the real dates, or lower, which helps my argument that softwar
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by jng 12y ago
In my understanding, those projects are the modern pyramids of software. Built by sheer brute force at an unsustainable cost, only affordable by a select few. Large amounts of reliable, performant and scalable software will be built on time
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by jng 12y ago
I just threw an approximate guess of 2-3k years. If it's 6k, more to my reasoning: there's been so much time and effort to learn those that proper principles are now well known and can be taught and applied repeatedly, reliably, a
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by jng 12y ago
Of course that's your take, definitely not mine. Not easy to discuss though: the obtuseness in today's software building won't be obvious until we discover the principles that turn it into engineering. In ancient Egypt, pyram
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by jng 12y ago
Because one finds many self-taught developers out there who can outperform college-educated compsci majors day in and day out. Because one can read universally-acknowledged figures explaining how a large number of people with a software eng
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by jng 12y ago
I'm sure Mr. Moore feels vindicated that the fruits of his design work have powered humanity's first comet landing ever. Still, it's telling of the industry's regard for Forth that the manufacturer itself manages to miss
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by jng 12y ago
Lowest Reasonable Common Denominator
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by jng 12y ago
iCloud notes syncing between my iPhone and my Mac used to cause conflicts almost daily. And when conflicts arise, iCloud just creates duplicates. So I was left comparing notes manually to fix the mess. 20min lost every day to mind-numbing w
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by jng 12y ago
Clearly tongue-in-cheek, and informative. So nice somehow. But still: the fact that English phonology and orthography are only lightly related, and hardly anyone is willing to do the effort to fix this, should give the author second thought
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Defining Intelligence(jonbho.net)
1 points by jng 12y ago|0 comments
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by jng 12y ago
Congrats on the great job. Nobody would raise an eyebrow for this work if it were not browser-based. Does this say something about the state of web apps?
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by jng 12y ago
My apologies, I was only responding to the previous comment, forgot momentarily about others, sorry about that. Let me try to fix this. A computation engine based on rewrite rules, in general, performs computations by replacing instances of
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by jng 12y ago
">derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules." I said "full general computation, including recursion and iteration, derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules". You can&
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by jng 12y ago
Hey. You're completely missing it. The Y combinator shows that full general computation, including recursion and iteration, derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules. Obviously it is too raw to be used directly
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by jng 12y ago
You only cofound a project with someone you have worked a long time with and already know things will be balanced. There are many more details to this incredibly interesting question.
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by jng 12y ago
Is ~£1.4k/month before or after taxes? I would say it is very low in either case, even for the UK (I've heard about a lot stories of poor salaries in the UK, especially in games). Plus take into account most startups don't wo
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by jng 12y ago
http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
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by jng 12y ago
Just myself. EDIT: The answer to the rest is not generally interesting.
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by jng 12y ago
Books and Wikipedia articles are sources too. I didn't say anything about single newsfeed style sources. I find the linked-to article to be a gem of lucidity amidst a barrage of mostly noise, busywork, and lottery-playing. Not only tha

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