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by jsnx 19y ago
Your use of 'strawman' is incorrect.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Noticeably missing were numbers for <$language sucks> and <$language rules>. Job ads definitely count as endorsements, but somehow I don't think of Lambda The Ultimate as a bastion of Java love.
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English as Internationalization(simple.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jsnx 19y ago|0 comments
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by jsnx 19y ago
There are casual games -- but you're not going to be working on the cool 3D stuff unless you bow to the giant studios and work 80 hours a week.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Monotype fonts are tough to get right. The Latin alphabet evolved "off the grid", as did all of its prominent variations -- for example black letter (sometimes called "gothic"), humanist (the fore-runner of our "roman type"), and chancery c
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by jsnx 19y ago
This is cute, but it would be even cuter if the JDK worked on Leopard. Little snipes at Windows -- which has gotten more stable with time -- only draw attention to the fact that Apple's house is not in order.
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by jsnx 19y ago
seconded
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by jsnx 19y ago
I agree with (1), but most "functional" languages aren't just functional. As for (2) -- "A rising tide lifts all boats."
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by jsnx 19y ago
This is cute but first-class functions would be better. I've had to switch to Python to find them.
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by jsnx 19y ago
This approach should be sensitive to sample size, but I don't see any discussion of that. If he's tried it a lot, there should be some discussion of error on the first 10 hours, 100 hours, 1000 hours...
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by jsnx 19y ago
This is neat. We can hope for more entrants in the "CSS platform space" -- the base-line for web site usability will improve as a result, as most designers will be able to move up to a higher level of "typographical abstractions" without ge
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by jsnx 19y ago
Eat with them every day for a week. You will find out a lot about each other. > ...because I know emotions can fog up the intellect and really mess up your decisions. Is there a particular emotion that's giving you trouble? I wouldn't d
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by jsnx 19y ago
Spiritual truths can be so saccharin.
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by jsnx 19y ago
The MQ extension for Mercurial lets you manipulate and version control the _patches_ as well as the actual code. It's kinda weird -- "higher-order version control".
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by jsnx 19y ago
I'm working with a client whose chosen Mercurial. I like being able to group relevant changes into one commit, comment it and then move on to the next commit, without interfering with the trunk. Mercurial leaves much to be desired in the ef
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by jsnx 19y ago
Do you use either one?
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by jsnx 19y ago
Why was this post down-modded?
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by jsnx 19y ago
Do efforts to save Lisp just detract from the growth of functional programming in general?
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by jsnx 19y ago
This has a little of the flavor of "Valley Wag" -- subtly slamming innovators for failing to fix the internet/economy/government. Scribd allows people to share content and, lo and behold, people use it to share porn -- just like Facebook, y
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Functional Programming In The Enterprise(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2 points by jsnx 19y ago|0 comments
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by jsnx 19y ago
Industrialism was less of a jump for China and Japan (and maybe the other places you mention -- I am not too familiar with their history) because they already had regimented work, national markets, centralized governments, &c. > &#6
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by jsnx 19y ago
I know a few smart women. Even if there are important statistical differences between men and women in the way of analytical ability, we still have to take individual men and women on their own merits. It's too bad that colleges are unfairl
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by jsnx 19y ago
Why would a brilliant autocrat decide to trust the people's decisions? The political and economic freedom of Western Europe and its friends is substantially the result of historical accident -- as is the poor state of Africa. Many of the po
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by jsnx 19y ago
I'm 26. I was in college for two years, studying Physics and then CS. I left to study Zen, in California, and then went into contracting.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Good point, thanks for bringing that up.
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by jsnx 19y ago
What about a good shell environment, stability, package management? An OS is a lot of different things. It's too bad that the OS market is dominated by superficial concern with 'interoperability' (defined in the narrowest sense) and appeara
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by jsnx 19y ago
I followed that routine for three weeks with FreeBSD -- the first time I had ever worked with a UNIX family OS. After I finally figured out the basics of partitioning a drive, setting the locale and time, I didn't 'reinstall' again until, t
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by jsnx 19y ago
The author hints at a major issue with corporate deployments -- old machines. It's all fine, well and good that Vista runs on machines it shipped with; but many large shops have to turn down an upgrade to Vista just because the performance
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by jsnx 19y ago
You could just learn to compile a kernel. Not that tough, really -- and a valuable skill if you want to know about Xen and other things.
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by jsnx 19y ago
I think he's missing the point by focusing on the GUI -- it's a uniform userland, not a uniform appearance, that facilitates interoperability. User management, permissions and a model for resources go a long way toward making a platform. As

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