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by lrc 9y ago
> If you use ATMs... Guilty as charged. Before my bank had an ATM, I organized my time differently, but I survived. As for dignity, it's not versus "a job that can be more efficiently done by automation", it's versus
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by lrc 9y ago
There is a difference between digging a ditch and working on a rockpile. One has dignity--it is useful work one is paid for; the other is a punishment. I don't, in fact, think it's wise to automate the people behind sandwich count
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by lrc 9y ago
The teenager has a job, which is a small but positive increment in the health of your community. For that, I would be willing to endure the (real) risks you mention.
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by lrc 10y ago
In a weird coincidence, I watched the movie "Network" (1976) with my wife & kids last night, none of whom had ever seen it. They liked it. It didn't even feel very dated, despite the fact that the televisions all looked l
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by lrc 10y ago
+1. Writing this on a trashcan 'pro. I love it; I'm happy with it, 32G and a little La Cie RAID, but I know I paid too much for it. Last year's MS rollout opened my eyes. I ordered a Surface Pro 4 the next day. Was skeptical
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by lrc 10y ago
Reminds me of the Andromeda Strain (except that didn't have any amino acids) http://mymeaningfulmovies.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-andromeda...
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by lrc 10y ago
I like it. There's definitely an opportunity here. `iostreams` is stateful and using it for formatted I/O has a faint masochistic flavor. `printf()` is fine, but recall that the compiler writers had to learn to critique the compar
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by lrc 11y ago
This made a big impression on me when I read it. I think it helped me. When I find myself yielding to a certain kind of programmer's temptation, I will mutter, "four-bit microcontroller..."
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by lrc 11y ago
Only for a moment. An extensible claw would fly out, grab the untoasted bread from your hand and fling it into the garbage can, after a brief but unpredicatable interval.
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by lrc 11y ago
True (oddly, the article uses the word "regurgitate" twice and left me wondering "whose nipples?")
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by lrc 11y ago
This is the whole point of the movie the Great Escape. The allied prisoners know they won't be tortured since they're in a Luftwaffe camp and not a Gestapo one. After the escape, the ones who are recaptured are handed over to the
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by lrc 11y ago
And now it hits me, for the first time, shamefully: the sense that Urbit is Pynchonesque... it's often said of Pynchon that nostalgia for the 60s is the animating theme of most of his later work, and here it is made explicit: the chain
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by lrc 11y ago
I've spent a lot of time with SICP and with Clojure. The book changed my life, and I too considered working on "porting" the book, but there would be a considerable amount of friction. Clojure can do everything necesssary, bu
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by lrc 11y ago
+1 for reminding me of Carlos: I love spy fiction
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by lrc 11y ago
It is absolutely unimaginable that Chomsky might be uninvited from any conference for anything he has ever said (one piquant example: defense of the Khmer Rouge). Let's face it: the window of conference political acceptability covers t
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by lrc 11y ago
I would say that if being part of a bombing campaign isn't an impediment to becoming a Distinguished Professor at UIC, then being part of a bombing campaign isn't enough to get him disinvited from StrangeLoop either, however many
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by lrc 11y ago
I thought of eco-terrorism too. But then I thought of William Ayers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
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by lrc 11y ago
Thought experiment: is there any extremity of leftist (or progressive if you prefer) thinking (say, on a personal blog) that could conceivably get one disinvited to speak on a technical topic at a conference of this sort?
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by lrc 11y ago
"Emerging languages, alternative databases...code-heavy." That's from StrangeLoop's 'About' page. The fact is, the talk would have worked, not the least because it's consistent with the conference's o
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by lrc 11y ago
Clojure is underway: http://github.com/littlredcomputer/math
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by lrc 12y ago
Thanks! I grew up with Scheme, but set lisp aside for years until Clojure came along to reboot my interest.
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by lrc 12y ago
I love FP, but in order to learn to love it you have to get used to the idea that the language is going to be doing a few things that you might not like (collecting garbage, silently boxing things, not knowing how to convince the system to
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by lrc 12y ago
I'm working on a port to Clojure: https://github.com/littleredcomputer/math . (The name is a little vague, I haven't decided what to call it; "scmutils" doesn't convey much). Having it in Cloju