justinhj

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by justinhj 14y ago
They are learning to follow instructions. Sure that's a useful skill, but 98% of school is teaching them that. What the more open ended lego kits teach is that you are free to create things constrained only by your imagination and the brick
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by justinhj 14y ago
Exactly. I started working in video games programming in '93 when C was considered high level, and most games were written in assembler. C has an elegant simplicity about it that both enables you to implement the high level features in the
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by justinhj 14y ago
A new car doesn't have the same learning curve as a new programming language. You can pretty much jump in any car and drive it.
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Ask HN: Anyone have information about elisp customer support app 'mailman'?
1 points by justinhj 14y ago|0 comments
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by justinhj 14y ago
Whilst you do need to learn the basic editing keys to get anything done in emacs, a lot of the time you just use M-x which opens an auto-completing input for you to type a command. Also the built in help features such as apropos make things
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by justinhj 14y ago
This is similar to Canada's provincial nominee program. Skilled workers, usually already working in Canada under a temporary visa, are put forward by companies for permanent residence and cut the line.
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by justinhj 14y ago
This is a nice tool but I don't get the obsession with github. Surely resumes should be about what you worked on and how it went rather than where you host it? People use other public repositories a lot, like Google Code. In addition many r
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by justinhj 14y ago
Perhaps the login requirement was needed to prevent, or atleast reduce, abuse.
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by justinhj 14y ago
A similar resume to the late Steve Jobs
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by justinhj 14y ago
Nice to see a project using http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/LispbuilderSDL which wraps the SDL library amongst others and works on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
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by justinhj 14y ago
This reminds me I bought a lifetime license for Visual Studio in the 90's. Less than a year later they revoked it ans esent q cheque for $50 and a copy of Visual Java
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by justinhj 14y ago
Hi. I answered this question, and was delighted to see it because it was the sort of question that is fun to answer. I was surprised about the "do your homework" rule as I've never heard of it before. So I read the FAQ and it's not there. Y
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by justinhj 14y ago
Update: Wow, that was easy! It's now available on Marmalade. (package-install 'eredis)
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by justinhj 14y ago
No but I'd be happy to set that up
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by justinhj 14y ago
If you build a web app in emacs you may be interested in a fully featured emacs lisp Redis client http://code.google.com/p/eredis/
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by justinhj 14y ago
Feel free to patch it, I'm sure the world of linux coders would be happy to have someone who finds this sort of matter trivial in their midst.
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by justinhj 14y ago
I expect an OS to mostly stay out of my way and let me do stuff. If an upgrade is going to damage my stuff in some way it's the most minimal of courtesy to warn me and give me options.
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by justinhj 14y ago
To be fair sometimes when you can't tweet you get the message "sorry we did something wrong. try again later"
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by justinhj 14y ago
Oops, you're right. I see the article talks about it briefly but I think it's a fundamental point. Also bringing in opposite sex friends is another huge issue, which is probably another article in itself.
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by justinhj 14y ago
I'm very surprised the article doesn't mention marriage as big difficulty in making new friendships. I find it easy to find people with the same interests as me that I get along with, but they also have to have partner that's compatible wit
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by justinhj 14y ago
I agree that hn fits the bill well. It is quite limited in the diversity of topics and type of people, by design. I've found I also get good mental stimulation by picking free online courses at random. For example Yale University has a bril
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by justinhj 14y ago
The thing is once you can code in emacs, and even when you can use the keyboard macro utility, you constantly find little time saving ways to use it. At first though they're not even time saving, they take longer. Anyhow some examples: I ha
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by justinhj 14y ago
Does this loyalty work both ways in Japan? Are you more likely to work your whole life at one company, or are layoffs as rife as they are in the US?
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by justinhj 14y ago
Many people are. I did a couple for my eredis project that let's you interact with Redis over an elisp repl or create/edit tables dynamically in a buffer from redis keys etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP0MOaRueHU http://code.google.c
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by justinhj 14y ago
A game that is fun and popular is by definition well designed I would say.
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by justinhj 14y ago
I'm a long time emacs user and I work in Visual Studio a lot. VS does have pretty good integration with Perforce and other commercial scs, which presumably is what most of it's target audience needs. Switching between files works best with
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by justinhj 14y ago
Once you are used to an environment where you can do everything with no mouse, it feels very clunky and inefficient when you are in an IDE and you need to constantly switch between typing and using the mouse. If you had to stand up and sit
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MongoDB on Windows Azure v0.5 is released(groups.google.com)
1 points by justinhj 14y ago|0 comments
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by justinhj 14y ago
The article showed the opposite. That there was no need to break existing code.
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by justinhj 14y ago
Due to this problem I think the site would be much more useful if the deleted posts just had a red warning at the top like wikipedia. "this question was flagged for being funny" "a little off topic" let the user decide if he wants to look o

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