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1. 181.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   I wish I could give up web surfing for a year.
2. 182.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   It is to me. I've gotten so used to all the iphone gestures that when I have to go back to pushing buttons I get really frustrated. I can't even use a Kindle now.
3. 183.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   ITA software is hiring an implementation engineer in Cambridge, MA: http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/jlisting.html?uid=718870 ITA's the place to be if you're into the air travel industry. The job is to be a technical go-to guy for airl
4. 184.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   Are you saying 65-75k is 'poor' in SF? Or are you excluding the best bartenders from that category?
5. 185.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   i wondered about that. i suspect that SD actively tries to get rid of them. the cops there seemed pretty aggressive.
6. 186.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   Not true. There are bloggers out there trying to dig stuff up, and if Cuil suddenly became good, you can bet they'd love to report that story and you would've heard about it. You might've even heard about it from me, because for many mont
7. 187.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   you'll get both if you take the cod liver oil that this article mentions.
8. 188.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   Yeah, Slime does this and without ctags, I believe most lisps keep track of the location of definitions in source. But what's a definition? Slime does this for defun/defvar etc, but not for things defined with, say, hunchentoot's define-ea
9. 189.▲
   by lg 17y ago

   i think it's because editing doesn't apply the mysterious scrubrules, might be intentional.
10. 190.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    I don't know about HTDP, it was keen to impose 'good practices' on me and I got bored. Your first book on science didn't talk about lab safety, it talked about fun stuff to get you excited. A first book on programming should be the same,
11. 191.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    he's talking about selling information that people need to solve some problem, and pg said in footnote 1 that he's not talking about such information, so this whole objection is irrelevant.
12. 192.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    I think the actual argument is bad anyway. Open-sourcing their product is a bad idea because malicious people will read the code and exploit its flaws? This is security by obscurity and it will not promote the open internet. I don't thin
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    by lg 17y ago

    I thought the point of the arc challenge was to say to ruby/rails, smalltalk/seaside, python/django, etc., "hey, look what my language/libraries can do, can yours do this? or better than this?" If the answer is "no, I need to write a new li
14. 194.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose#Examples
15. 195.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    yeah, M-. is broken, but at least C-M-x works. And ok, forget about calls-who, but that's pretty broken for me in CL anyway.
16. 196.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    and it shares safari's inability to view XML documents. What's with that...
17. 197.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    a, b = b, a :)
18. 198.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    i see what's stealing their thunder... http://www.google.com/trends?q=perl+programming%2Cpython+pro...
19. 199.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    I'm a big fan of dejavu sans mono. I often use it for demos in Terminal.app at huge sizes and it looks great. http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download
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    by lg 17y ago

    i hear you about the ram. i routinely get Jruby to crash with 'out of memory' errors even with min and max heap set to huge sizes, when YARV doesn't break a sweat. Edit: I'll add that I'm not talking about rails, I use ruby for heavy data
21. 201.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    I've got a macbook on my desk, and a massive linux box under it, which I shell into to do all my work. So the mac is essentially a (very smart) dumb terminal. Best of both worlds, I'd say. Plus the desktop makes for a great ottoman.
22. 202.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    Sounds commonsensical since my mom always said things like "you're depressed because you're just sitting there, go outside more!" And she was usually right. But..I know a bunch of busy workaholics who are pretty depressed, if you go by al
23. 203.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    Ah, fond memories of my computer security class, where this was assigned reading. We also studied format string vulnerabilities: http://julianor.tripod.com/bc/formatstring-1.2.pdf
24. 204.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    I particularly like arch carrier, by autechre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYikLIMPHSs
25. 205.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    Eating every couple hours is not historically impossible. The gatherer end of the hunter-gatherer duo usually do not have to search far for food. You don't need to guess at this, we have records of how the !kung san lived and continue to
26. 206.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    Well, this could be a good strategy for patent trolls.
27. 207.▲
    by lg 17y ago

    don't need the & before :+
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    by lg 17y ago

    This must be common; in Israel they've got somebody or other who comes up with Hebrew words to replace the imported ones, and they even teach them to hapless students like me, who go and use them and get laughed at.
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    by lg 17y ago

    I always hear this and even emacs people reinforce it. Maybe I'm abnormal but I don't do much configuration. My .emacs loads up a few modes specific to certain programming languages I use, that do syntax highlighting and such. There's
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    by lg 17y ago

    First, recur is annoying because functions can have multiple arities, but you can only recur to the same arity. So (defn foo ([bar baz] ...) ([bar] ... (recur x y))) would fail because you're in foo/1 when you call it which s