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by marijn 18y ago
That does not mean performance is irrelevant, does it? Heavily used web apps benefit a lot from a fast runtime (it allows you to push the point where you have to split across servers forward quite a bit), and being able to do CPU-intensiv
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by marijn 18y ago
I'm not sure how using 20 threads tests threading performance, but there's probably some issue that Ruby used to have that I'm not aware of. It is impressive though, that to beat the given Ruby time on my machine in SBCL, I actually had to
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by marijn 18y ago
Hah, sometimes I do miss the downvote-article feature. I made it halfway into the article without spotting a single redeeming quality. Ad-hominem attacks on made-up opponents ... who's going to swallow that.
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by marijn 18y ago
As far as color-scheme assistants go, I like http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp .
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by marijn 18y ago
The process doesn't have to be conscious. People who are competent in areas one doesn't understand can come across as vaguely intimidating, while being weak in areas where one is stong might be interpreted as stupidity. As such, unless you
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by marijn 18y ago
'Blocks' are not necessarily an improvement. Some would argue that their time has come and gone. I certainly prefer simple designs with as few quasi-separate units as possible. (That is, if you mean something in the direction of http://gam
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by marijn 18y ago
You're probably intentionally missing the point -- but what I was referring to is the fact that they are quite unashamed about retaining data about me.
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by marijn 18y ago
Makes sense -- I've probably been guilty of interrupting others, though it's rarely bothered me . Anyway, private offices are lonely .
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by marijn 18y ago
Oh, good point. When something's posted here, I kind of assume it is recent.
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by marijn 18y ago
Exactly. I've seen some Google ads that were a bit too targeted lately -- related to stuff that I searched for last week -- and it is getting spooky. I'd like to have a decent alternative. Maybe I should just get used to Yahoo, but this l
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by marijn 18y ago
> Nobody on your team wants to use source control? Create your own CVS repository Oh for God's sake, stop! Create a git repository, a subversion resository, a darcs repository, but not a CVS repository. [Edit] Also, I don't get this t
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by marijn 18y ago
Hm, re-reading the thing, you might be right -- though I'm still not sure. Anyway, the whole piece seems to be setting up a straw man just to tear it down. Is anyone really that naive about hydrogen?
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by marijn 18y ago
"[...] our addiction is enriching and empowering those who seek to destroy us. We are funding, if indirectly, the madrassahs that teach vile hatred of Western civilization and the backward cultures that create death-seeking soldiers for Isl
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by marijn 18y ago
The dichotomy between single assignment and variable-name reuse seems to be false. In OCaml, you can just rebind the same variable name again halfway a function body, which will cause a new variable with that name to be bound, having a sc
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by marijn 18y ago
> We’re hearing they’ll just push through with a new round of financing. I may be a bit clueless about the whole web-entrepreneurship thing, but I'm amazed that after three and a half year and zillions of users, Digg is still not making
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by marijn 18y ago
Downtime? It was only an 'Availability Event', thank you very much. But yes, I like that they provide details.
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by marijn 18y ago
I was expecting something about neon-green monkeys, or man-sized rats at the very least. Bummer.
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by marijn 18y ago
Has anyone tried to create an actual 'Knol' yet? I did, and the experience was less than smooth... in fact I gave up. Editing a big article is not only slow, but will cause stack overflows in JavaScript, making it impossible to save your wo
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by marijn 18y ago
Nonsense. Often your code will be ugly because some API in other code is broken or missing (see a lot of JavaScript), or doing something the right way is too slow or complicated, and you don't happen to have enough time to make a research p
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by marijn 18y ago
This is a major pet peeve of me. People: Hey, we're going to a bar. Want to come along? Me: Sure. Bar: REALLY LOUD MUSIC Me: [tries to shout some conversation, gives up] People: [make half-hearted dance moves, stand around, drink] Me: [stan
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by marijn 18y ago
How do you interleave without switching contexts?
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by marijn 18y ago
Mixing HTML-generation and logic, no matter how nicely the languages mesh together, is still a mess. This is coming from someone who's done a few sizeable Common Lisp projects using tools like YACLML and CL-WHO, and then went back to using
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by marijn 18y ago
Does not deliver!
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by marijn 18y ago
The Sony prs-505 is very similar but without the full keyboard and ability to get books without a pc. I got one earlier this year and I like it.
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by marijn 18y ago
Ah, you're giving people too much credit. Collective bitching is easy and fun, constructive work is hard .
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by marijn 18y ago
Oh, a slide show that automatically moves to the next page after a given time. Awesome idea! Now I won't have to push any buttons. The pictures got loaded almost halfway on my wonky wireless connection before the page decided that it was ti
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by marijn 18y ago
Also see http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/pcall/background.html . (Tooting my own horn, of course.)
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by marijn 18y ago
(But note that CL implementations also don't provide clever sorting or any kind of regexps at all. SBCL and Allegro do get case conversions right -- at least for Latin characters with accents. I'm too ignorant to test more exotic characte
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by marijn 18y ago
Nope. (Runs like a charm on 64-bit Intels though.)
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by marijn 18y ago
Actually, my experience is different. This was a year ago, so maybe they've improved, but my detailed bug report was anwered with a dumb question that showed the person had hardly read it, and then when I asked whether they could let me kno

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