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by m0th87 16y ago
I have a prediction: 20 years from now we'll look back at articles like these and think "wow those were stupid predictions," in the same way that we look back at those Popular Mechanics articles from decades past that foresaw pill food and
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by m0th87 16y ago
The last time I saw a post like this on HN, I replied that both idea and execution are important, with a contrived example. The creativity of the responses made me rethink my stance. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404428
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by m0th87 16y ago
Why does everyone insist that there will be a next Java? Maybe the programming language ecosystem is getting less homogenous.
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Why Graduate School(ysimonson.tumblr.com)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Not that I agree, but the carrier does not wish or intend to become a pipe. The carrier wants to be vertically integrated, where it controls the entire mobile user experience. iPhone and Android have chipped away at this concept pretty quic
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by m0th87 16y ago
There is a subtle sense of superiority in this comment over people who simply want a job. Which is ironic given your identification of the disrespect people have toward the full-time hacker.
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Where Bean Counting Fails(ysimonson.tumblr.com)
2 points by m0th87 16y ago|1 comments
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by m0th87 16y ago
If you ever saw Across the Universe, Timothy Leary is the guy played by Bono from U2. The guy was fucking nuts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary
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by m0th87 16y ago
Antitrust law provides some interesting insight into the question IMO. It was established because laissez faire economics failed to prevent monopolies. Instead, a carefully crafted regulation supported capitalism. I think true capitalism ca
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HN's "I'm Feeling Lucky"(ysimonson.tumblr.com)
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by m0th87 16y ago
I guess you're not blind :) Having only icons would be such an accessibility disaster.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Yes, I'm sure it is (for some definitions of faster) and isn't (for others). No benchmarks, no comparative NoSQL code, and the example is trivial. There's nothing interesting here.
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by m0th87 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonald...
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by m0th87 16y ago
This is a slippery slope. It's just a matter of time before we have novelties like http://www.reddit.com/user/keanu_reeves/ :)
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Sleep Hacking(ysimonson.tumblr.com)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Maybe there's more to come, but not much more. It's purposefully bare bones. When I was writing some canvas-based games, everything I looked into felt too heavyweight. Processing.js uses its own DSL. Akihabara was just overwhelming. This is
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by m0th87 16y ago
Yes, I sort of regret calling it canvas.js but it's a bit late now. I will add information on how to compile coffeescript.
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by m0th87 16y ago
https://github.com/ysimonson/wordman demo: http://ysimonson.github.com/wordman/
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by m0th87 16y ago
Because the actual canvas API is more limited in what it can do. Basically this was designed to be a lot like processing, without the special DSL; you write your applications using just javascript/coffeescript.
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Canvas.js(github.com)
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by m0th87 16y ago
I think the author misses the biggest reason why lisp never caught on: too many developers are simply aversive to s-expressions. Maybe Clojure, with its slightly richer syntax, will solve this.
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by m0th87 16y ago
I don't have any experience with Scheme, but the argument was on whether a GUI written in Scheme would be unacceptably slow. A synthetic benchmark measuring AFAIK mostly number crunching suggests nothing about GUI performance.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Right, which is why they're executive orders :) Guantanamo is in a half-state because Congress invoked NIMBY with the attempts to prosecute detainees in the US. No other country wants to take them in.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Wait what? He standardized the Army field manual for interrogation [1] and has been attempting to close Guantanamo [2]. 1: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-22/politics/obama.interrogat... 2: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-22/politics/gua
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Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit(javadude.com)
9 points by m0th87 16y ago|12 comments
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by m0th87 16y ago
There is the TANGENT algorithm: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~zha/CSE8801/CF/p657-onuma.pdf Applied to a social graph, it would (hypothetically) find content that is both recommended by friends and probably new to you.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Surprisingly pleasant. I'm a big fan of the hashmark URL updates. It's a subtle feature but its necessity becomes glaringly obvious when trying to share google maps results.
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by m0th87 16y ago
True, though some languages are more inviting.
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The Fastest VM Bytecode Interpreter(byteworm.com)
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Macros Matter: infrastructure for building new programming languages [video](youtube.com)
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