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by lazylland 15y ago
Beautifully written intro that gave me a complete feel for the language. I think that it is a really difficult thing, to communicate that well. All the best ! I hope Nemerle becomes a fantastic option on the .NET platform. Though, with the
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by lazylland 16y ago
There are so many updates that I miss from people I care about, and chance upon them much later ! * There doesn't seem to be a way to explicity follow all the updates of a person * If I manage to get my friends into a group, their updates
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Robert Harper: The 'Holy' Trinity of Computation(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
7 points by lazylland 16y ago|0 comments
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by lazylland 16y ago
I wonder if the assumption "they need to make money" is necessary. If we agree that the actual value of a journal (or its 'profit') is the voluntary participation of renowned scholars, then the journal is at best an administrative function,
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by lazylland 16y ago
Simple and Amazing at the same time : Congratulations ! I have a feeling that there are going to be some copycat businesses soon, but still wish you all the best !
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by lazylland 16y ago
Now that I think of it .. just "effortless supercomputing" would suffice ! Maybe it's just me, but the "cloud" term is so overused now that it has become to mean everything and nothing. Kudos to you guys on a cool product .. wish you all su
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by lazylland 16y ago
* 'Spreadsheet' is a really bad summary of the product. My first impression was 'Great another Office wannabe, NEW with Python', but when I watched the video, I saw it as "effortless desktop supercomputing" .. cool ! * Another message t
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by lazylland 16y ago
No doubt, it works. Just that the resemblance with facebook is so strong, (right down to the grid placements), that it looks 'weak'.
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by lazylland 16y ago
I think they should have gone for an about.me/flavors.me presentation . If anything, just to pull away from the facebook look.
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by lazylland 16y ago
Yes, but using "Chromeless" after the fact that Chrome is now considered as a browser name is asking for trouble. It could have been a nice code name for the project, though :)
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by lazylland 16y ago
The neatest solution for handling forms I've seen was XForms ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/ ), originally part of the XHTML2 proposal. You had multiple, potentially schema-validated models per page, the ability to neatly segue in RESTful
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by lazylland 16y ago
I found it really great ! Captures the whacky, artistic vibe that I think they wanted to create really well. (I had no problems in Chrome 8)
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by lazylland 16y ago
I re-checked the URL two or three times to convince myself that this is not an amazingly done HTML5 troll-site ! I just don't associate such imagery with the W3C ...
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What Peers? (rant by a Prof)(blog.regehr.org)
4 points by lazylland 16y ago|0 comments
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by lazylland 16y ago
tl:dr; settle for "selective brilliance"
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by lazylland 16y ago
Funnily enough, there WAS a way to blacklist/remove sites in the SearchWiki feature ! Could you bring this back, Google ? Pretty pleeeeeeese :))
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by lazylland 16y ago
I don't get his arguments ... it just seemed like one big REGULATION IS EVIL rant/FUD. Did I miss anything ?
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by lazylland 16y ago
Can't believe those graphs are not Flash .. Wow !
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by lazylland 16y ago
The ASF has a process for managing open source projects, that starts with new projects entering the Incubator. The project is monitored by a committee for things like how well the project is able to attract developers, whether they are able
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by lazylland 16y ago
One of the cool things that Google provided during their SearchWiki experiment was the [x] button. An option to remove a site from further search results. This could easily give some power back to the users to not get hassled by such spammy
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by lazylland 16y ago
oops ! typo .. should have been 1954100 :D
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by lazylland 16y ago
Fact 1 : Nokia bashing is fashionable Implication : Posts bashing Nokia are bound to get lots of views Example : HN item id:195100