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by jxcole 15y ago
I love these articles. As much as I respect people who quit their jobs and start wonderful and vast new companies, I don't feel this path is for everyone. It's nice to hear about a success story from someone who has a side project; somethin
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by jxcole 16y ago
I agree that map reduce does not solve parallel computing. However, that is just one example of how closures/lambdas can help you design software. It helps in almost any system in which you have two different functions that do almost the sa
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by jxcole 16y ago
A related article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181243 Openstache and closestache are two very good names for { and }, primarily because they are shorter.
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by jxcole 16y ago
Sorry, but even though my passing knowledge of linguists may be far outstripped by yours, I still think you may be mistaken. The statements made by the article are related to something called Universal Grammar, it is not related to syntax t
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by jxcole 16y ago
No, he played portal.
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by jxcole 16y ago
I could easily write a captcha breaker for this...It's much simpler to do than one with fuzzy characters.
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by jxcole 16y ago
Sorry for not being clear. Blender is by no means an example of a superb UI. The learning curve is exceedingly high and even after hundreds of hours behind the controls there are many things I do not understand. Much of this is because the
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by jxcole 16y ago
I know it's easy to be negative about kittens because of the whole lol cats thing, but a service which provides free, sizable, placeholder images that are more than just gray boxes is actually pretty useful. Remember the days when people us
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by jxcole 16y ago
On that note: I thought that Inkscape was really cool until I tried Blender. The UI experience for Blender is hundreds of times easier because many of the things that you have to do regularly (like scrolling back and forth) are shortcuts. N
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by jxcole 16y ago
This is an example of bad poor graphical representation. The proper way to do this would be to take the swear words per word for each language and then map this to a bar graph, then you could easily see which has the highest vs the lowest.
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by jxcole 16y ago
I would like to point out that the failing of wave was primarily that nobody found it to be useful, not that it was over-hyped. I can't imagine NaCl having that problem.
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by jxcole 16y ago
I thought this article would be about internet explorer 6.
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by jxcole 16y ago
Reading about that guy who left Mahalo last week made me think that Calcanis was a bit of a jerk. After reading this I have decided that he must just be really intense all the time.
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by jxcole 16y ago
I won't be impressed until it can dodge holes.
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by jxcole 16y ago
"Palm’s unparalleled webOS platform" Question: is Palm's web os platform really unparalleled? Or is it quickly falling behind the race that is now dominated by iPhone and android?
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by jxcole 16y ago
I had a one hour disagreement with someone at my college who was a creationist. Not only did he believe the world was only a few thousand years old, but he also believed that at some point there were floating layers of ice in orbit around t
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by jxcole 17y ago
What on earth does this have to do with hacker news? EDIT: what I meant is: The title says hacker news on the economist, yet the page has no mention of hacker news anywhere. A better title might be: it is smart to invest in good stock.
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by jxcole 17y ago
In general, having the wrong CVV code will decrease the chance of the purchase going through, not stop the transaction completely. If you have, for example, the wrong CVV but the correct address and name, there is a good change the transact
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by jxcole 17y ago
I tried to find a way to pass the test and couldn't. Could someone explain to me how to pass?
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by jxcole 17y ago
For that matter, why didn't they test this on at least one machine before releasing it? Is it not standard to have a release process that includes testing?
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by jxcole 17y ago
I will be watching throughout the day to see what happens: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:MFE
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by jxcole 17y ago
And in other news, Steve Jobs ate breakfast. Or was that Paul Graham?
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by jxcole 17y ago
I disagree. This article isn't really about the IPad, more about how desktop computers have been pretty much the same for a while. The IPad only comes up as a counter-example, though he doesn't spend much time talking about it.
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by jxcole 17y ago
1) "they are rather expensive" - They are getting cheaper 2) "for tasks that don't require any human brain activity" - Does taking a rubber gel cap from one place and sticking into the bottom of a mouse assembly really require brain activit
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by jxcole 17y ago
s/Exicting/Exciting?
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by jxcole 17y ago
Could they at least acknowledge the fact that they intentionally destroyed an adobe product for no real reason? I would be much more interested in hearing why they thought Flash CS5's export to IPhone capability shouldn't go to market rathe
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by jxcole 17y ago
I have used Go for some minor project work. I used it for a while to generate images of ring patterns that were meant to be like wood (it never went any where). I also made a simple web page using their template language and http server. Th
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by jxcole 17y ago
Is anyone besides me worried that Steve Jobs is going to say "they tried to kill the iphone, so we will never adopt their evil standards!"? Is the animosity between google and apple enough to stifle development?
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by jxcole 17y ago
I am a decent coder and I've always been interested in developing games. I am a big fan of your web-site and I think you really know what your doing. I would be really interested in the specifics of what types of development tools you use.
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by jxcole 17y ago
I have a lap top from them. It works well.

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