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by jurjenh 17y ago
I suspect the confusion will only affect people that don't need the specific implementations... People that want Closure for their JS goodness will know which it is, similarly for Clojure and Clozure lisps. And I generally search out new to
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by jurjenh 17y ago
Just signed in with my google apps account - a very nice touch. Then I tried Writer, and got the following message at the top of the page in a nice red message box: Zoho Writer is not supported yet in Chrome Please switch to IE 6.0+ o
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by jurjenh 17y ago
Taking this idea further, one could add multiple orthogonal axes (eg sweetness, bitterness, after-taste etc). Then you could rate each tea against others on each axis - either in a star-slider, scatter plot or on several individual sliders.
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by jurjenh 17y ago
I believe the trampoline function / special form can do the mutual tail-call in clojure ( http://clojure.org/api#toc569 ) : trampoline can be used to convert algorithms requiring mutual recursion without stack consumption. but I
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by jurjenh 17y ago
[offtopic-ish] This is the first decent short summary of twitter that I fully get. I haven't "bought in to it" yet, due to my free time being fairly limited, and to me it doesn't seem to add much value compared to the time I think i need
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I was under the impression that the main reason to choose GPL was that you (the developer) believed in having your code under that licence. If you choose to change that position, that should be entirely up to you. The reason that this is
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by jurjenh 17y ago
Yes, been installed on my laptop for a good coupla months now... Now I only have to http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ for great good!
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by jurjenh 17y ago
A while ago there was some discussion about some custom OS designs, I remember one with a relatively modern looking gui that fitted on a 1.44MB disk - http://www.menuetos.net/ Wonder if that could be fitted with a scheme version to get so
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the + key seems to work for me...
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Clojure is a LISP-1
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Another thing that (IMO) is a main cause of the slowdown is the sheer scope of possibilities available on general low-cost hardware these days. In earlier times you had to work hard to make your code do all the work in a given space. This m
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However, this is prone to being truncated by sites / software that only allows or uses the first 8 characters... Another method that I have used in the past is leet-speak ( oh look at me, aren't I cool - cough, cough), so I just used my na
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by jurjenh 17y ago
To clarify my "how hard" sentiment - I had in mind that the normal sort function becomes a "function selector" that grabs the user's chosen sort function from their profile, then applies that to the comments. The difficulty in all this woul
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by jurjenh 17y ago
Seems like a lot of people have their own specific ideas to how they may want comments sorted / listed. How hard would it be to allow people to implement their own version of the ranking function and then have the comments passed through th
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by jurjenh 17y ago
Just as an alternative idea - why not colour the score to the background colour - that way it is effectively invisible, yet can still be seen by highlighting the heading. Although that being said, I tend to gloss over the scores anyway for
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by jurjenh 17y ago
It seems google translate was right on with the translation. Doesn't make much sense in dutch either... He seems a fairly dedicated god-botherer / evangelist, with a few TV programmes, so maybe a semi-celebrity (?) (disclaimer: I was 11 whe
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by jurjenh 17y ago
Excellent! Very succinct summary of my typical thought processes when helping others. Wide adoption of this chart may decimate many IT departments.... Although it may need an extra point right at the "START" - if no "start" then check power
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Of course the counter-argument to this is that it can teach students more real-world methodology - ie don't re-invent the wheel - instead try to find alternative sources where the same problem has already been solved. I n practice (my exper
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Then again, people of a like mind tend to be found near each other, so the minority squared is likely to be an underestimation. It could also be that women tend to procrastinate less due to better multi-tasking skills, but that's just wild
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by jurjenh 18y ago
I guess you missed the general trend of most items on this site... However - to redefine your job offer : how do you get good hackers? Mostly I'd guess its a process of coming across the right person at the right time and helping them grow
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by jurjenh 18y ago
Worst thing for me (and I think quite a few people) is the misplaced apostrophe. We have a big sign just outside the town here that has "Special's" in big bold writing - now I can't even take the store seriously....
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by jurjenh 18y ago
One of the issues that has always bugged me about this is the issue of context - medicine has a great track record in treating emergencies, but fares quite poorly with preventative care and chronic illness. The issue arises when people asso
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by jurjenh 18y ago
This seems like a very good idea in terms of controlling spikes in comments - but you have to question whether this is the (main) cause of the degradation. If limiting new accounts seems like the best solution, it should be done clearly and