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by mark_h 16y ago
And don't forget basemap if you're doing anything geospatial. This is an absolute godsend for me, I wish I knew of alternatives in other languages too, but as far as I know there's nothing else like it for that sweet spot of free and aweso
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by mark_h 16y ago
I'd still be pretty close to funding Paul Buchheit if he was pitching me!
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by mark_h 16y ago
There's a few videos I've seen recently -- I've also just been trekking in the Everest region and watched and read a lot before going -- that do an amazing job of conveying that summit-fever attitude. The one that most sticks in my mind is
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by mark_h 16y ago
Thanks! Worked for me too.
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by mark_h 16y ago
On the topic of Erlang books... does anyone know what the story is with Geoff Cant's "Mastering Erlang: Writing Real World Applications"? It was due out around October from memory, but seems to have slipped into limbo. http://www.amazon.co
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by mark_h 16y ago
Exactly this. I wish more artists used bandcamp, I think I'd buy a hell of a lot more music.
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by mark_h 16y ago
"git archive" is the closest to what you're looking for I think (although, that only creates a zip or tar archive, so you need to add an extra step -- by default it writes to stdout though so it's not too hard)
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Distortion Grid Using CSS 3D Transforms(blog.persistent.info)
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by mark_h 16y ago
...and even that is going to look insignificant when this comes online: http://www.skatelescope.org/ Expected to produce around an exabyte a day.
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by mark_h 16y ago
Have you heard of India? (I've had a few random conversations with Indians while travelling recently, and they knew more about the players and results in domestic leagues in my own country than I do)
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by mark_h 16y ago
My thoughts too, although they address this (and claim they never will) in the techcrunch coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/07/rockmelt-browser-sharing-re...
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by mark_h 16y ago
I went to a lunch-time talk at WWDC'09 on this stuff (I forget the name of the guy presenting unfortunately, but I presume he was mentioned in those articles). Absolutely mind-blowing. Two things I recall, apart from the stunning images: *
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When process are cheap, who needs timeouts?(javalimit.com)
8 points by mark_h 16y ago|1 comments
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by mark_h 16y ago
If you're in Sydney: http://www.sydneytraveltribe.com/ (no, I'm not a member)
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The Future of Bookstores: Lead-Gen, not Dead Trees(blog.gaborcselle.com)
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by mark_h 16y ago
Nice, thanks! (Hmm, I wonder how much it relies on maven..) Now that I remember (I haven't tried it yet), there's also this: http://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim (a headless eclipse instance providing eclipse features inside emacs)
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by mark_h 16y ago
Mine's on github too: http://github.com/markhepburn/dotemacs It's quite large, and includes a lot of third-party stuff, much of it as submodules. It's relocatable (with additional platform and/or machine-specific loads) which might be sem
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by mark_h 16y ago
Oops, sorry :S Both looked wrong while I was typing them too, and I never checked... I should never rush comments.
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by mark_h 16y ago
Came here to post just that. The other thing I liked about that Jonathan Ives bit was how he went beyond the physical aspects and talked a lot about how much effort they went into the construction process as well. No one else in the docume
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by mark_h 16y ago
It has been a while since I've read it (as a rusty but not novice haskell programmer), but most of that does actually ring true. I do remember the error message now that you mention it! I assume the code was run automatically when the boo
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by mark_h 16y ago
The O'Reilly book would be Real World Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ It is very good, and expressly isn't a monad tutorial in the usual style, although they do get covered eventually of course (but from memory without any extr
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by mark_h 16y ago
I'm now very curious about what company has 9-5-drone culture, _and_ haskell! (Also, I miss-clicked and down-voted you by mistake I'm really sorry, I upvoted a couple of your other comments)
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by mark_h 16y ago
If you ever find a way to regale us without being sued, I am all ears :) His blog is that perfect combination of really meaty articles that are published infrequently enough to really be savoured.
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Will it optimize?(ridiculousfish.com)
357 points by mark_h 16y ago|59 comments
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The Game Theory of Frenemies(blog.locut.us)
2 points by mark_h 16y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 16y ago
Obligatory emacs post: M-x re-builder is also pretty handy. Of course, then you're using emacs re syntax, which is a bit clunkier.
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by mark_h 16y ago
I'm a big fan of Zoe Keating for coding music, and as a bonus she recently switched to bandcamp so there's quite a lot of it streaming: http://music.zoekeating.com/ Quite a lot of layers to concentrate on, but for some reason it also just
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by mark_h 16y ago
David Unger gave a great talk recently on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU (recorded at Stanford, but it's a reprise of his acceptance speech on receiving the Dahl-Nygaard award from memory) He has a role-call at the end o
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by mark_h 16y ago
The best thing is somewhere someone is probably working on actually implementing this, like so many XKCD cartoons.
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by mark_h 16y ago
I did a quick twitter trawl an hour or so after, and it seems like it was actually a joke: a new successor to TeX, using XML, arbitrary precision, and auto-layout. Also, my favourite was this one: http://twitter.com/elmindreda/statuses/174

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