krmboya

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   Diligence, Patience, and Humility - Larry Wall (1999)(oreilly.com)

   2 points by krmboya 13y ago|0 comments
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   Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

   67 points by krmboya 13y ago|47 comments
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   by krmboya 13y ago

   This particular version doesn't seem to be from 1991 as the current title suggests since it speaks of 1994 in the past tense.
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   Exploding college tuitions might be a terrifying sign(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

   1 points by krmboya 13y ago|0 comments
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   by krmboya 13y ago

   Very insightful comment, thank you. An uncluttered mind is, I guess, necessary for creativity.
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   How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates(philip.greenspun.com)

   90 points by krmboya 13y ago|88 comments
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   Doing programming(codequarterly.com)

   1 points by krmboya 13y ago|0 comments
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   by krmboya 13y ago

   Exactly.. I was thinking of Rust as a compromise between performance and safety/productivity.
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   by krmboya 13y ago

   Thanks for hinting at the technical reasons for LLVM vs GCC
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    Fair point. I also remembered Robe Pike's paper: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    I'd guess terminal users consume more cognitive resources than GUI users. Are they on average fatter than the latter? Just a speculation.
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    I believe it was their plan to create both an Android and a web version. Just can't find the link to the video..
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    I'm a recent university graduate in a so-called 'third world country'. You have no idea how much I'd give just to 'hang out' in the classes of someone the caliber of Dijkstra.
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    I hypothetically wonder what will come after services. Perhaps some parts of stack will be replaced by an AI of sorts.
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    I'd say MPESA met a great need, and maintained it's lead ahead of competitors because of network externalities. Speaking from first-hand experience.
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    Steve Yegge calls it "The Awful Place Where People Make Money With Software" http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...
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    by krmboya 13y ago

    Thanks! I'll try it out once I can understand Haskell syntax..
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    Ask HN: Practical CS papers you've read and would recommend?

    12 points by krmboya 13y ago|4 comments
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    I don't have a chromebook, but I suppose one can develop browser apps/games running on the canvas? Recently I started re-doing in HTML5 a game I initially was doing with C/SDL, and I am much more productive now. You only need an editor and
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    > Emacs bash and make for all programming It seems if you pick your tools well you can accomplish a lot with a little
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    Slightly off-topic, but I wonder what Dijkstra would feel about the state of CS research if he came to the present time. Hot topics now seem to be statistical ML stuff, and not the deterministic mathematical proofs that he was an advocate o
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    How To Become A Hacker(catb.org)

    48 points by krmboya 14y ago|45 comments
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    Lab Chimps Respond to Anti-depressants(bbc.co.uk)

    3 points by krmboya 14y ago|0 comments
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    WebFWD, Mozilla's Startup Accelerator for Open Innovation. Applications open.(webfwd.org)

    1 points by krmboya 14y ago|0 comments
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    Your list of 'serious problems' mostly seem to be social issues, i.e. 1) It has no current users. 2) Developer preference for what you call 'power languages' as opposed to HTML5/Javascript. My retort: 1) Google launched behind a hord of oth
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    Correction. The "cat-v considered harmful" mentality.
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    "we have to pick a battle that worth fighting for and be prepared for the hard, long, lonely journey" I think that's an important takeaway from this most unfortunate incident.
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    This is sad both for me as a person, and for the internet community as a whole. Aaron Swartz was the sort of person I wanted to be, his works, his personality, and what he stood for. Since nothing can ever be done to reverse this, may this
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    Thanks! Especially for the part of finding an excuse for doing this stuff. Many times I start learning something, only to find I have zero motivation to continue.
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    by krmboya 14y ago

    Can distributed systems be ever be fully transparent? It seems they are susceptible to subtle bugs that make it hard for them to be so. That said, with my undergraduate CS studies drawing to a close, I doubt I can do such thorough debugging