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by lincolnq 16y ago
American here. To claim that something takes me half a day, I would usually interpret that as half a working day, so 4-5 hours. I brew beer, and I tell people that "beer brewing takes a full day" -- if I start brewing at 8:30 then I get don
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Haskell is a research language - it was built by programming languages researchers, and lots of researchers now work with it, extend it and so on. As such, it is not "nice" in the sense that it is easy to learn how to use. In fact, there ar
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Oh really? I do. I ride a bike 3 miles to work every day through Cambridge MA. This Shweeb idea would solve the weather problem, as well as the unshakable "oh god I'm going to die" feeling (since cycling with cars around is pretty damn dang
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I don't see the point of learning Coffeescript (compiles in an obvious manner to js). Fantom and HaXe have the somewhat interesting problem of an API that is compatible with many backend VMs. neko is the opposite and also possibly interesti
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Wow. I tried to build a voting-based news-to-your-personal-taste site, but never did I think of this "groups" idea. I'm intrigued. Idea: do it to HN as an A/B experiment: see how the content of the sites diverges. Actually the "/classic" ur
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Huh? I don't see how this person is a "blackhat". Just because they are playing with your server and trying to find holes doesn't mean they are intending to maliciously exploit them. I also don't see how it is social engineering. What did t
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Thanks for this. I have definitely frustrated friends who come to me complaining, in exactly the way you describe, because I offered only problem solving when they wanted commiseration. I think I can identify commiseration (they come compla
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by lincolnq 16y ago
It's not that crazy. Python is designed for embedding. The interpreter is small. Commercial software that depends on Python (almost) always embeds it.
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relevant: hats made of money, from Penny Arcade (2000): http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/10/23/
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Perhaps, other things equal, it's better to have a big-name company on your resume. However, consider that you'll probably make more contacts doing a startup which may be useful when you need to find a job later on -- you'll never be sendin
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Furthermore they're trying to use the "measuring tape" metaphor, but it doesn't apply (the tape is not actually measuring the belt pictured, making the graph hard to understand). The belt pictures are not useful in this case (since it's not
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by lincolnq 16y ago
1. some bad thing recently happened due to the use of technology 2. this is symptomatic of a more general trend; obviously the technology is useful, but we're overusing it 3. back in my day nobody had this technology, and we got along just
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Wait, so if you have two identical wheels on one axis, spinning in opposite directions, and you rotate the axis, are you saying you'll experience precession or you won't? My intuition (and physics understanding) says you won't. But the top-
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Odd. Around 2004, I switched from Perl to Python for all the same tasks, and I barely noticed: it was a matter of weeks before I was just as fluent in Python as I had been in Perl. What's your experience been like?
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Really? I'm quickly learning to expect it'll be an interesting blog post instead of a boring recycled-joke office comic.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Wow! I had a really strange experience there. I read the first post, thought to myself "Wow, this is a terrible troll, the rest of the comments can't be worthwhile", and hit Back. ("make use of open source projects, which is immoral" was th
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by lincolnq 16y ago
...oh, that's lame. Hmm. Is there a startup opportunity here? I feel like this is an instance where Google took on a project which was too big for them. But the idea is so good that with a little bit more push, I would expect to see better
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Why has it become such a popular meme to hate on Wave? It's only been a year and the technology is still very immature, there are few plugins and nobody has really found a really killer app for it yet. I actually use it though. I brew beer,
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Well, I would rather live in a world that is making technological progress than a world where everyone was happy all the time. I think people need to be at least a little unhappy to drive progress.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I know very little about cryptography, but it seems like it would be possible to construct a system where you authorize the bank to learn only those details of your credit history which are relevant to its decision.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
If I wasted 1-3 hours each day I would be okay. Some days I waste far less than this and feel good. But some days, I have lots of stuff to do, and I accidentally spend like 5 or 6 hours on HN and then I feel really shitty afterwards. _That_
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Oh. Yeah. The names are poorly chosen, but we're stuck with them. :(
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I wrote some stuff about monads on HN a while ago that some people found helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247446
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Apparently they use Tarsnap at PA, which is awesome.
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Q&A with IT at Penny Arcade(reddit.com)
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I would love to see a blog post on this.
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Wow, I love this. Time to look into beta glucans! :)
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Yes.
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Agreed. If you give me a survey and mark all the questions "required", if I find anything I don't want to answer, you're out of luck on the whole survey because I will just click back.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Is it better to be right more often, or to assume the best of anyone you meet?

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