mahmud

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961.
by mahmud 16y ago
I completely don't get it.
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by mahmud 16y ago
Yes, webex is par for the course, but it helps you negotiate better $. Charge a "pain premium".
963.
by mahmud 16y ago
Yes, before you can drive Mercedes Benzes, you need to drive slaves.
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by mahmud 16y ago
Is that all you're contributing to the already long and offtopic discussion? really?
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by mahmud 16y ago
Silicon Valley programmers have to compete with a growing pool of domestic and global workforce. Hardy was a Cambridge brat; people like him were born & bred for foreign posts. The closest thing today might be being born anglo, going th
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by mahmud 16y ago
Don't twist my words. I have read Hardy's work more carefully than any other author, having cut my teeth on the Course. The colonial and classist attitude is pervasive and shapes his mathematical aesthetics.
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by mahmud 16y ago
I prefer to use UML as an output language, never input. It's good to come to foreign codebase and generate visual presentations of its hierarchy and flow graphs. As an input language, created by hand? No, not really. It's mostly somethi
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by mahmud 16y ago
If they were in a position of power & privilege, yes. I called a foreign minister much worse things, only a few days ago, and he didn't like it (felt bad afterward though.)
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by mahmud 16y ago
What are you going on about? They're completely different types of mathematicians. Knuth is a generalist/educator/computer scientist. He is not only one of the most prolific in the field, but also chairs journals and programs, develops soft
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by mahmud 16y ago
None of what I said was insulting or wrong. Hardy didn't "work" for a living, to him mathematics was an obsessive hobby. He had a very strict routine; get up, walk, maths, watch cricket, tea, maths, eat, etc. He almost had the same daily ro
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by mahmud 16y ago
Hardy was a whining, privileged bore. He had the time to do all that "maths" and watch all those cricket games because he didn't need to work for a living.
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by mahmud 16y ago
Absolutely adorable.
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by mahmud 16y ago
There is a way around it. Libyan activists, specially those in Tripoli are able to get the word out even if he powers down the whole country. Fret not, all Gaddafi is doing is signal to those in areas under his control that he is losing con
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by mahmud 16y ago
Yeah, if you're gonna right a smug article about your profession, at least get the lingo write.
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by mahmud 16y ago
I guess you don't push web servers. They're "apps", not system software. Anybody who deploys non-trivial web-apps knows this. Per-app web servers, standing behind a proxy, with a shared session-db is the most ideal way to get things done. A
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by mahmud 16y ago
you really are not missing much, it was a tautological snooze-fest.
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by mahmud 16y ago
Libertarianism = max$(Wealth, Freedom) dollar x your-freedom = dollar max$ { dollar x my-freedom = my-freedom
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by mahmud 16y ago
Well, what do you know, Clojure records and hash-tables are equal (strongly.) I will announce this great news to a few of my closest friends :-)
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by mahmud 16y ago
Even the manual recommends records in lieu of struct-map. And yes, that flaw is icky; one of the few in Hickey's otherwise excellent track-record in good taste.
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by mahmud 16y ago
That works in the short term, but beyond that, Clojure will need to resolve that issue. Records are not the same thing as hash-tables. A record, or struct, is a single unit value, while a hash-table, or map, is an aggregate container. There
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by mahmud 16y ago
Clojure struct constructor needs keywords badly. Right now it's position-dependent and only way to know what each sub-expression is doing is to look up the definition of the structure. (struct person 6.3 63 63) What do the magic num
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by mahmud 16y ago
What's this? If you wanna play HN-cop go and flag the countless simple-minded articles that grace the front page, rise up against the mundane minutia and mediocrity that pass for tech reporting or "hacker culture". Seriously.
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by mahmud 16y ago
Ruby is nice in it's own right, it doesn't need to be an acceptable Lisp or an adequate Smalltalk. If anything, Ruby teaches programmers to enjoy making software. It's awesome to see so much attention going into detail, and improving aest
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by mahmud 16y ago
Intifada everywhere. Today there are protests in 8 Arab countries. Let freedom ring!
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by mahmud 16y ago
I decided to learn it by writing a lexer for it in Lisp. Few pages into the spec I saw its objects are printed #<like this>. I was learning both Lisp and Ruby at the time, so I dismissed it as a Lisp with perl-syntax. That was in 20
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by mahmud 16y ago
Hurd not being ready.
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by mahmud 16y ago
Better known as FLATTEN.
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by mahmud 16y ago
BBC World News podcast, at least from last April. Google it.
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by mahmud 16y ago
There is a warehouse full of diplomatic and foreign presents given to leaders. Someone keeps a record of it, then it's forgotten until the leader is about to meet the gift giver again, when he is reminded to quip about what use he has put t
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by mahmud 16y ago
I was in the thick of the confusion, listening to the firehouse. The son is OK but ambassadors have resigned.

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