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by lincolnq 16y ago
A very interesting and useful post. It sounds like this guy wanted to keep some sort of reputation since he was so famous. But it was confusing to read because it took me a long time and a lot of puzzling to figure out all the antecedents.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Please consider the possibility that you haven't learned to post your negative reactions in a thoughtful way, rather than that the community is simply downvoting opinions they don't like.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
And so it seems that trolls get their just deserts.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Hmm, interesting. I have been doored once on my daily bike commute in Cambridge, MA. I've slipped and fallen once. A few times a month I have to swerve or brake hard because someone didn't see me. And I'm fairly experienced at this point (a
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Fair enough. I really like this sort of post. It's intriguing to see people's interpretations of what a Lisp is, and what a compiler does, and 89 lines is short enough to digest the essence in a blog post. I guess I should probably come up
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Currently + is implemented as a special form. You could translate + to operator.add, treat it like a function, and obtain better generality. Also, lambda is not implemented. (The only functions are global ones using 'set'). Lambda is, in so
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Very much so. I'm a bit of a client-fetishist, and so I'd rather see Wave be broken down into a protocol and server, allowing for client applications to access the wave, rather than deal with a web app, which still tend to lag behind a nic
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I don't know. My first memory of it is from Dilbert (and I can find a comic from 1997 with a synergy joke) but I would be surprised if that were the origin of the meme. It's hard to track down even when it started showing up.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
The incentives never line up perfectly.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Yes, it's true that it's utterly ridiculous that JS doesn't have integers. That's a definite lack of foresight on the part of the ECMAScript authors.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Then why don't you treat your JavaScript as object code, and compile a language you like better to it? It does not lack types (it just lacks static type checking); it is not significantly slower (JavaScript JIT is very advanced, and you're
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Firefox 4 beta supports the transitions beautifully, and very performant too (noticeably smoother than Chrome).
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I assume because these plugins use unshifted letter keys to control browsing, but pong wants to see these keys.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Huh. So a clip is a bunch of cartridges with something connecting them, whereas a magazine is an enclosed box of cartridges. Or at least, that's what I got out of the link. That one is (still) legitimately confusing to me. It didn't directl
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Educate me - what's the difference between a cartridge and a bullet? What's the difference between a clip and a magazine? Edit: found answer to my first question below. The bullet is the inert mass. The cartridge is a bullet plus casing plu
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Funny! I've come to associate slug-type URLs (like the former, that have no numbers or anything in the URL) with content-free websites that have been SEO'd. The latter is also scary though, because it's too MANY random-ass numbers. I have s
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Somewhat off topic (though slightly relevant): do you read Magic articles? That exact drill/hole metaphor was used in Mike Flores' yesterday article (which is a good piece of writing, and HN people might be interested even if they don't pla
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by lincolnq 16y ago
But as a founder, what are your priorities? Strengthening the local economy, or making your business work? I don't think most founders have the luxury to insist that they get funded in their hometown.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
No. You have one of the workarounds the author suggests, which is only allowing users to write to nosuid mounts.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
To save some clicks, it's from 2004.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
cool! I don't understand how the site works from merely visiting it; it does differentiate itself by listing what look like actual GOOD jobs. What is triage and how does it work? It looks like I need an account to participate.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Nope, I have no idea beyond that. It wants to be social, I think, and integrate with social platforms, but beyond that I don't know.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Oh, awesome. So my idea does exist. Excellent.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
mtbr.com seems to link to roadbikereview.com. From a consumer's point of view, they are both effectively spam. It's organized terribly, there's no content (photos, specs or reviews) for most of what is listed. And it looks like crap. I gues
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by lincolnq 16y ago
OK, thanks! I'll share some ideas of mine too: distributed ISP using long-range wifi and mesh networking -- technology should be just about there, and there are plenty of papers on "incentive compatible routing" so you can automatically pay
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Well, they settled. I think they were arguing that they had an implied contract with Zuck, not (primarily) that he stole their idea.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Hey, thanks for making viemu. I make games and I use viemu for visual studio about 6 hours a day. :)
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by lincolnq 16y ago
no, quoting from grandparent: "a specific offset for each attribute with a certain name" -- e.g., for all <image> element, 'width' is always at attributes[0] and 'height' is at attributes[1], presumably regardless of whether that pa
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by lincolnq 16y ago
We'll have computers which will increasingly replace humans in risk estimation. People will just do what the computer tells them to do.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I'm excited for the possibility that wifi will be able to serve a much larger area, perhaps 100-1000 times the area of current wifi points. I've been trying to figure out how to make micro-ISP businesses super convenient (just buy a router,

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