justinhj

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1051.
by justinhj 17y ago
The guy is eloquent and honest for a tech exec; I found myself upvoting most of his replies
1052.
by justinhj 17y ago
I thought it was going to be a cool story about how he showed the girl how to turn down her speakers or turn AOL sound effects off, and then they hooked up. Boy was I off the mark.
1053.
by justinhj 17y ago
Blog posts are not Advertisements (usually)
1054.
by justinhj 17y ago
If you want something a lot more lightweight and written in emacs-lisp I made this: http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/08/simple-budget-...
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by justinhj 17y ago
Not in the US it isn't.
1056.
by justinhj 17y ago
you should tell paypal about that
1057.
by justinhj 17y ago
Only if they act illegally or irresponsibly, right? Otherwise only assets of the corporation are at risk.
1058.
by justinhj 17y ago
Some key ones (setq transient-mark-mode t) ; visually show region (setq line-number-mode t) ; show line numbers (setq global-font-lock-mode 1) ; everything should use font (windmove-default-keybindings) ; shift-arrow key moves to window in
1059.
by justinhj 17y ago
You need sustainability first then worry about redundancy. One requires a complete revolution in human thought and behaviour. The other, expansion and technical problem solving, comes naturally.
1060.
by justinhj 17y ago
Another long term strategy would be to live in a sustainable way on this planet. Perhaps we could crack that first. The sun is good for another 5 billion years.
1061.
by justinhj 17y ago
It shows you can still make money on the internet even if your product is full of shit.
1062.
by justinhj 17y ago
You can use a text editor for your whole working life, so what doesn't matter is the learning curve. What matters is what you can do once you're an expert.
1063.
by justinhj 17y ago
lispbuilder-sdl is fairly mature to the point that it even has a user manual http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/UsingLispbuilderSD...
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by justinhj 17y ago
Except for the few specific things he cites as being particularly good that were unique to CL.
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by justinhj 17y ago
Why should you learn something of substance for it to be worthwhile? You dismiss the diverse life experiences you'll gain, even as a tourist. Not everything has to have an educational or financial pay off. Sometimes just being somewhere els
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by justinhj 17y ago
Hmmm, I guess I should learn how to format text on hn when I want to make a point about readability. ;-) Even so, with the caveat that you have to learn Common Lisp fist, I think the CL version is infinitely more clear and elegant. All that
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by justinhj 17y ago
Compare the C# version of memoize to this one (from On Lisp). The C# one looks very long and ugly in comparison, so I hope it isn't the new Common Lisp. (defun memoize (fn) (let ((cache (make-hash-table :test #'equal))) #'(lambda (&#3
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by justinhj 17y ago
If advertising is entertaining and interesting then more power to the promoter.
1069.
by justinhj 17y ago
Good points there. When I search in google I know I can be sloppy with my typing because 90% of the time it's quicker to get it wrong and click the "did you mean?" results, rather than edit my input. That feature's absence is very obvious w