kinleyd

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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   Ruby and Lisp for me. A couple of years ago it would have been Python but not any more.
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   IMO, Google+ is a great hit. I'm personally very excited about it - and engaged on it. It has allowed me to better follow technologies and tech personalities than I ever have before, and opened me up to a whole range of things that I want t
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   There are torrents for NeXTstep 3.3 as well. I'm downloading it right now, let's see how they work. :) Any more suggestions for VMs of other classic systems worth pursuing (and available for download)?
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   Ha! It was great running the Unix 7 machine. Not sure what practical value it will turn out to be, but it sure gave me a little thrill. :)
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   Oops, "historic" isn't quite what my collection is yet - the hyperbole comes from enthusiasm, can't help myself. The majority are different Linux distros I'm trying, plus Windows XP and 7, and OS X. The history section currently includes on
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   Thanks for sharing. Adding another piece of history in my VM collection.
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   A very useful article. While the experience is drawn from the tech world, I think this is true for most professions. The bottom line is everyone starting out needs some guidance, and most of the time you are left to sink or swim. However, I
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   Thanks, that was an inspiring video. I've already come to appreciate the power of community (love, according to Clay :), in communities like dd-wrt and cyanogenmod where the quality of collectively contributed firmware beats by miles that p
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   by kinleyd 15y ago

   I'm a Ruby guy, with no experience with Perl - so no comments on that front. The part I really like about this story is David Filo's gesture of gratitude to Larry Wall. That's a great karma story that warms the heart.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Having experienced it myself, I tend to agree with the general point that getting started with Emacs is not helped by the online resources available. However, I don't think it is constructive to wish that EmacsWiki would die in order for so
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    The article reflects my experience with both Samsung and HTC. Ever since, I'd vowed to stick with stock Android, and when the Galaxy Nexus was released I was quick to grab one. Funnily, after a few days with stock Android, I reached out for
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Thanks. That's a decent explanation. :) I did read the Hacker News Guidelines but apparently not well enough. I definitely missed this: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Apolog
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Now THAT down vote reflects a really vicious temperament!
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    @apgwoz: Thanks for sharing. Going to take a crack at it, and also try to make a VirtualBox OpenGenera appliance. No eta though, but the aspiration exists.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    That is something which looks pretty doable. It would be worth taking a crack at it.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Heck, why would anyone down vote a comment which supported a nice comment by someone else? Go figure.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Many thanks from me too!
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    I echo that sentiment. :)
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Thanks, the link gives more balanced details on the interview itself, adding a better context to what rms said.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    "no compromises, at any cost" is black and white. The operative part is "at any cost". rms has been brilliant at what he has achieved, with the problem being that he believes he's right and brilliant at anything he does. That's a huge leap
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    I think we should start paying for Android updates, but only by donating to the after-market Android community like CyanogenMod. These are the folks who bring the latest Android goodness to devices long abandoned by their makers.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    For all the good work that rms has done for the FSF movement, and for all his brilliance compared to the rest of us average Joes, he stands out as an example of what happens when you have a binary, black and white view of the world. It's no
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Heh. The man says it like it is.
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Yes, you do have a similar writing style. From my list of Steve Yegge bookmarks, I was actually thinking of this one, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab... , where he says this: "Problem 1: Which Lisp? Sorry, folk
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    "But the JVM is just Clojure's underlying implementation. Or technically one of two." Yes, the CLR is the other half. Hmm, just trying to reassess this myself: While playing with Clojure, I found I had to use the Java libraries for basic st
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    The keynote has been published as an essay: Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas ( http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html )
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    pg on an Arc FAQ: Why not build Arc on top of Java/Parrot/.NET? We're trying to make something for the long term in Arc, something that will be useful to people in, say, 100 years. (If that sounds crazy, remember that we're already up to 50
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    Like Zach and you, pg's essays (plus Steve Yegge's rants), influenced me to learn Lisp. Great interview. I'm on Arc, but will add SBCL because of Zach. :) Also, I remember Steve Yegge writing about how he barked up the wrong tree with Schem
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    by kinleyd 15y ago

    A very cool history of Lisp: while we see the changes in formatting styles over the years, we also see the personalities behind the progress of Lisp. Really nice!