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by jqgatsby 12y ago
Your response and the thinking it indicates gave me a chill. You are justifying executing someone based on whether or not they broke a state law, not on whether or not they broke a moral law. Either you think firearm possession is inherentl
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
If you are already using emacs, I recommend setting regular expression find/replace as your default search mode. Ctrl-s, etc, so it becomes second nature.
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
At the risk of perpetuating the meme that hacker news is overly enamored of Golang, I'd like to say that providing "data structure streams" is exactly Go's sweet spot, and it's about as awesome as you would hope it
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
I still remember the riddle on the cliff in Beyond Zork: My tines be long, My tines be short, My tines end ere my first report. What am I? I got stuck on the game because I couldn't answer it. Spent months and then years thinking about
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
On a kinesis keyboard all the emacs modifier keys are by your thumbs. It makes emacs so much more awesome
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
I strongly agree. Search works when you have some specific intent, and can articulate that intent to some degree. A directory helps you discover knowledge you didn't even know to ask about. @highlander, ping me at john a fries at gmail
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
that's such a nice term, "strongly timed". It seems like the correct term to use for programming languages in which time is reified and in which one can make declarative statements about time and events.
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
I've often been tripped up by the semantics of the word "meet" in email introductions, as in "Nice to meet you". Everyone seems to want to reserve the word "meet" for actual in-person meeting, and I'v
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
"Everything about it screams unix" Strong agree. I've often described Go to people as "if unix were a programming language"
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
no true scotsman...
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
There are 11 types of people in the world, those who understand unary and those who don't.
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
that's really beautiful, and pretty useful as well
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
This is really awesome. I've been using this for a few days now and really like it. I've been programming in Go alot these days, so the fact that it's in Go is a big plus for me.
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
This vote is happening today , wednesday July 24th, so if you believe that this is an important issue, please upvote this thread so people will be aware and actually make the calls. Congress is surprisingly responsive to such calls, so the
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by jqgatsby 13y ago
http://thornydev.blogspot.com/2013/01/go-concurrency-constru... Michael Peterson has also done some good work implementing go-style concurrency in clojure
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by jqgatsby 14y ago
@qznc that's an intriguing formulation. Could you elaborate a bit? 1) What do you mean by "image approach"? 2) What example are you thinking of for the "link lots of libraries via function calls" approach? The trichotomy I am familiar with
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by jqgatsby 14y ago
interesting to see the tie in between good proofs and good programs. I've never done much with perl, but I've heard that one can achieve a very high degree of concision.
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by jqgatsby 14y ago
I really like the idea of throwing some research dollars at developing imitation rhino horn. The kinds of people who are willing to traffic in endangered species wouldn't blush at passing along counterfeit product, as long as it was hard fo
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by jqgatsby 14y ago
fascinating but bleak picture he's painting, despite his efforts to be optimistic. It does seem like the production of internet tech is going through a restructuring, and his interpretation rings some bells for me. Being over 30, perhaps I'
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by jqgatsby 16y ago
actually, twitter is already cracking down on this practice. too many automated spammers trying to shill lame products.