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by ljw1001 10y ago
Smalltalk is another language where the AST is fully accessible by application code.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Smalltalk was very consciously, and conscientiously, designed for humans.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
I think "for humans" is just intended to convey that the language and environment are based on research into human cognitive traits: how we think and learn.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
If there was a truly-good cloud IDE for Java I would buy a chrome book. When I think of the tens of thousands of dollars I've spent on compute hardware over the years I want to cry.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
from what i know about Japanese culture, they are not overwhelming their children with unnecessary praise. Korea also.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Yeah, my personal experience with teens is that they are anxious and full of self-doubt. I certainly don't see an excess of self-esteem. I wonder how much hard-science there is on the harmfulness of praise
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Foxpro was my first language and I loved it.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
> more concise than Python, but safer than Java really? or was that supposed to be the other way around? Personally, I can't help thinking of scala as a hipster beard on the face of java.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Yeah, it's the curse of Java that it takes longer to get something working, but it more than makes up the time in maintenance. No one can think far enough ahead to care about maintenance.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
The only thing you're doing wrong is pointing out that you mentioned it two months ago. That's the last thing an organization faced with a problem wants to hear. What they want is for everyone to act like the problem was entirely
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by ljw1001 10y ago
I think that over-simplifies a bit- a company's value is to make as much as possible for the corporate leadership. That's what the people who create the culture are most interested in.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
That doesn't make him an employee - so your talk of "firing" him is still misleading.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Is it me, or is making this about "firing" a bit of slight-of-hand. Thiel is a partner, not an employee. Choosing who to partner with isn't the same as firing an employee. If YC continues to partner with Thiel, everything the
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by ljw1001 10y ago
it wasn't illegal in the country where it took place
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by ljw1001 10y ago
it suggests that there is a place to focus with great leverage. For that alone it's a valuable contribution.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
FWIW, what may be the largest language program in Japan (called Hippo in Japan and Lex in the US) focuses to an enormous degree on spoken language and does no grammatical training at all. Instead, they try to emulate, as much as possible, l
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by ljw1001 10y ago
A great many "normal" airlines are slowly going broke, or trapped in an endless merger cycle. Not much joy there I think.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Having worked at Google, (and numerous other places), the environment varies a great deal from team to team, but overall they treat their people extremely well. At the other end of the spectrum, in my experience, are non-software companies
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by ljw1001 10y ago
As someone who has (comparatively) recently started an open-source java project https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw , I loved this post. I know the both the pleasure and desire to just quit. It's a bit frightening
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by ljw1001 10y ago
LGPL is not similar in one important way. Any reference to GPL in a license scares the shit out of corporate managers and lawyers when it's attached to something in their proprietary code. That discourages business use and adoption, sa
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by ljw1001 10y ago
The DoD has been "resorting to force" for 15 straight years. I think that definition leaves something to desired, reality-wise.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
A big part of the issue is just that UX and dev are two separate specialties, and while some people can do both, there's no clear place in most open source project for someone whose primary contribution is to provide designs for someon
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Spreadsheet-like UI from MIT makes db queries easy(youtube.com)
4 points by ljw1001 10y ago|1 comments
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Just, sad. There's nothing the pointy-haired boss could do to top Scott Adams in real life.
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Fortune and Failure in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
2 points by ljw1001 10y ago|1 comments
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Not yet. There is some documentation at jtablesaw.wordpress.com. I plan to publish a Beaker Notebook with an extended example pretty soon. If you're not familiar with Beaker it's like an Jupyter data-science notebook, but supports
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by ljw1001 10y ago
22 days ago, got just 6 points for a high performance java dataframe. Today had 30 unique visitors on github: https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw . Good thing i have a day job :)
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by ljw1001 10y ago
I've listened to both songs, and while there is a distinct similarity between Taurus and parts of Stairway to Heaven, they are not the parts that made the song memorable. Which is why one listen to Taurus is enough for a lifetime.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Thanks. I may end up doing that, but I code for work and I code for fun and I blog about coding so I would really like to have something that 'just works'. I should probably just upgrade to the pro version of Wordpress. It's
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by ljw1001 10y ago
For the record, i was pretty happy with Wordpress, but needed the ability to make the font for code smaller, and that requires a paid account.

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