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by lg 16y ago
Programmers are the managers and computers are the factors of production.
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by lg 16y ago
Although he's probably right that Rumsfeld should've mentioned it, because there's something like unknown knowns for groups with a coordination problem (like the 17-branched US intelligence community), where some people know something but t
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by lg 16y ago
This is something that surprised me when I went to Spain and ate almost every meal in tiny family-owned restaurants. Rather than appreciate the closeness between owner and customer, I ended up just feeling awkward a lot (the owner/host wou
154.
by lg 16y ago
no real negatives there... I'll fix that. Immutable-by-default and lazy-by-default made simple tasks awkward, its macro system is like CL's but gets in your way a little more, and because it's java it takes forever to start.
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by lg 16y ago
I wish that instead of 2gb/month I could do 12 gb/6 months. My data usage spikes a little on weekends and a lot when I travel, but during the workweek it's pretty flat, so I'd want to save it up for those long trips.
156.
by lg 16y ago
speaking of which. I'm testing a big multithreaded jruby app I wrote as I type this, and it's running very solidly. anytime I need parallel I'm going straight to jruby.
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by lg 17y ago
Come on, it's easy to make a mess in any language except the straitjacket ones nobody uses. Smalltalk is not as well-integrated with Unix as other languages, and also the syntax and libraries are kind of anal, I think that's what killed it
158.
by lg 17y ago
Nah, that's bullshit. Applications written in a higher-level language and compiled down to Obj-C could be a lot better than apps written in straight Obj-C, for the same reason that applications written in Obj-C are better than applications
159.
by lg 17y ago
I've seen ruby objects with #source_location before, but, agreed, should be default.
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by lg 17y ago
CL-USER> (progn (defmacro foo () `(let ((bar 1)) bar)) (foo)) 1 user=> (do (defmacro foo [] `(let [bar 1] bar)) (foo)) java.lang.Exception: Can't let qualified name: clojure.core/bar EDIT: sorry if that was cryptic, s
161.
by lg 17y ago
I tried Sinatra after I read RailsSpace and thought, man, I will probably never need most of this, though I'm glad it's around in case I do. I think of Sinatra as a layer on Rack that can do views and things, and that plus plain ruby gets
162.
by lg 17y ago
up to the team, if you email me I'll forward it to them. Or just use the contact email on the needlebase site, that goes right to them.
163.
by lg 17y ago
I watched an internal demo :) Where they scraped a table off an MLB site, live, using their GUI and prettified the data a bit. If you check the blog there's some demonstrations, and the Village Voice gave it a test drive: http://blogs.vil
164.
by lg 17y ago
Hey, it sounds like these guys would be a perfect customer for ITA's Needle. Needle provides a GUI-based way for nonprogrammers to scrape data, clean it up, and get it into a structured database where they can create views on it and all th
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by lg 17y ago
Why did you put protect in scare quotes? Miep Gies protected the Franks by lying to the Gestapo. OK, they were the government, but you could protect someone by telling the killer that he's not home. Or do you disagree? So yes, an inabil
166.
by lg 17y ago
Right, the keys/values need to have supporting logic. And yeah if you're sticking procs in a hash, just use an object; but if your object is just a bunch of fields, use a hash. And often that's all you need. I just want to override the m
167.
by lg 17y ago
Would you prefer a *rest argument? An options hash is the best way to make your ruby API flexible.
168.
by lg 17y ago
The article suggests that they postponed their release because the performance feels sluggish compared to what we've seen of the iPad.
169.
by lg 17y ago
Because those things require some kind of metadata added by the author while line numbers don't, and line numbers work for any type of text i.e. code. Not that those things aren't also really convenient for navigation, but I'd still want t
170.
by lg 17y ago
I think line numbers are better than page numbers for navigating an electronic document.
171.
by lg 17y ago
I think I get it. In lieu of thinking, people use qualifiers as metadata for their belief filter that says how much belief they should assign to the proposition. So if you qualify a proposition with "it turns out", that tells the filter th
172.
by lg 17y ago
I've tried just persisting through them but never lasted more than 2 weeks. Though every few months, they'll stop for maybe a week, and then come back. Caffeine makes them less bad, which is annoying because I don't like the energy swings
173.
by lg 17y ago
Maybe that explains it. What I mean is things like Lua doesn't have a popen in its standard library that lets you both read and write to the subprocess, because there's a case where this can break (if what you're sending over the pipe is bi
174.
by lg 17y ago
I take ibuprofen every day, because I get a headache every day. 2 GP's and a psychiatrist have told me this is no big deal, but stories like this always bother me.
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by lg 17y ago
Lua seemed very 'correctness over convenience' to me, similar to the mzscheme or haskell mindset, and I just can't get enthusiastic about language/communities like that.
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by lg 17y ago
I usually start picking up new languages by taking something I've written and translating it into the new language.
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by lg 17y ago
Well, it's inconceivable to Searle. Searle's problem is that, much as we can't imagine how silicon can be conscious, we can't imagine how squishy physical brains are capable of conscious experiences either, even though we know they are, bec
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by lg 17y ago
Thinking out loud here I guess, but I'd like to hear Eliezer's opinion on the interpretations of QM that do reconcile conscious experience with these probabilities in a way that doesn't require splitting worlds, like these: http://arxiv.or
179.
by lg 17y ago
should maybe note that this was written 10 years ago.
180.
by lg 17y ago
could be a GNU vs. BSD thing.

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