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871.
by lsb 18y ago
Alan Kay, in his Turing award lecture: A couple of years ago we started this project called Squeak, which is simply not an attempt to give the world a free Smalltalk, but an attempt to give the world a bootstrapping mechanism for something
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by lsb 18y ago
This is predicated on the assumption that Ruby matters, present & future. While I love Ruby, and use it for most code I don't write in Javascript, I can't help but wonder if in 10 years' time Ruby will look as big and bloated and arcane
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by lsb 18y ago
Not necessarily. Just start conversations with a low impedance to join. That's why a common greeting is "Nice day, isn't it", instead of, "I was debugging some comonads in Haskell the other day".
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by lsb 18y ago
AFAIK some experimental versions of GHC can compile Haskell to GPUs, and you only lose a pretty small constant factor.
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by lsb 18y ago
Erdős was an amphetamine fiend from when he was 58 until the end of his life. Lots of guys I knew in college were unhealthily addicted to caffeine and sugar. It's worth noting unhealthy habits.
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by lsb 18y ago
A man with a shovel, instead of an up arrow? That's like ADD X TO Y GIVING Z. instead of z=x+y so yes, it wouldn't be that bad, but food from Per Se wouldn't be that bad if you ate it at McDonald's, either.
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by lsb 18y ago
It sounds like they make decisions when confronted with heaps of data. A billion searches? Sure, we can figure out what worked & what didn't. Versus a few dissatisfied customers, orders of magnitude too small to train models on. Also
878.
by lsb 18y ago
Just like Google Code was aimed, tangentially at least, at reducing the number of software licenses, it'd be a major coup for GOOG to establish a VM for languages big and small.
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by lsb 18y ago
Put the ebook up on Lulu / CreateSpace / Cafepress and keep selling it, at slightly lower margins?
880.
by lsb 18y ago
The bad thing about keeping your data in the cloud is that you don't really know 100% if it's secure. The good thing is that you all get security updates at exactly the same time without doing anything.
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by lsb 18y ago
As the video explains, he was loading files from S3 in an iframe, so nothing touched his servers.
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by lsb 18y ago
Carlin mused about a fridge with a butter warmer.
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by lsb 18y ago
I'm sitting in on Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind class, and he keeps reminding us that MASSIVE PARALLELISM IS NOT THE INTERESTING ASPECT OF THE MIND. Think about playing chess. Each move, there's 30 branches to follow. If you have a mill
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by lsb 18y ago
It seems like for 1, if you just have a bunch of files somewhere, you should be able to keep that in source control. When is it a good idea (if ever) to keep a SQLite database in git?
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by lsb 18y ago
That was pretty interesting, but left me wondering, if you're selling web services, why would one get a merchant account, versus signing up with Amazon Simple Pay or Google Checkout or Paypal? It seems like there, all you need is a bank ac
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by lsb 18y ago
That'd give the companies a higher valuation, which would (in turn) preclude small exits, so it's a mixed bag.
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by lsb 18y ago
Yes, it's one of the best private schools in the nation.
888.
by lsb 18y ago
This was back in the summer of 2004; I don't remember historical cache sizes, but I do remember Wheeler saying something about cache misses (because the BWT sorts things by blockwise context -- all the "_he quick brown fox" strings get arra
889.
by lsb 18y ago
This blog post has a very arrogant tone. If you've made something your user doesn't understand, perhaps the problem is in explaining it. Assuming that the person isn't stupid, they can theoretically understand the answer, but they haven't
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by lsb 18y ago
The creator of bzip lamented this very fact, at a conference about the "b" transform that powers it, the Burrows-Wheeler Blocksort. With gzip, the output comes from looking up strings in a hash table, and just streaming it out, but bzip so
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by lsb 18y ago
So they get 2.5x as much done?
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by lsb 18y ago
So, in Haskell, each function is pure. If you want to modify the state of the world, you thread the world through your function. Just as a thought, it'd be interesting to see if Haskell could use a memcached backend to memoize the values o
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by lsb 18y ago
I don't know the specifics, but there's no point in embracing an open standard if you just run hopscotch through the spec, picking and choosing what you'll implement.
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Haskell has memcached bindings; maybe GHC could memoize directly to memcached?(hackage.haskell.org)
4 points by lsb 18y ago|3 comments
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by lsb 18y ago
Ok, so you agree with 1 and 2, and as for 3, where users feel free to break things 4 teh lulz (cf HN exploit), there's a non-zero chance than a normal user will become an attacker. 4. Dissecting a slug, making slides, and examining them un
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by lsb 18y ago
Alternately, /etc/sudoers and explicit instructions to escalate privilege.
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by lsb 18y ago
I agree that security shouldn't be a last-minute thought, but those are terrible examples! If you're prototyping, think at a higher level, and prototype with native language objects, or if you need to use a DB, use an ORM. Writing raw SQL
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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security(ranum.com)
44 points by lsb 18y ago|20 comments
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by lsb 18y ago
Once you've been to the UK, and experienced the blazé waiters and bartenders, you realize why being paid by tips is so important for good customer service. It's probably terrifying to be paid $3/hr + tips, which is common, but that's a big
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by lsb 18y ago
Location location location. If you fear/hate your neighbors that much, why move there?

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