mattknox

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by mattknox 13y ago
how long after threes came out did 2048 appear?
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by mattknox 14y ago
cool-thanks...I'll look at that sometime.
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by mattknox 14y ago
This would be very interesting to me: did you end up putting your ruby hackery up on github?
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by mattknox 14y ago
We use Clojure at twitter and I believe that google supports CL as part of the after-effects of buying ITA. At the time I wrote this, clojure didn't exist and ITA was not particularly well-known.
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by mattknox 14y ago
Note to any potential readers: I was barely a vertebrate when I wrote this (edit: that must have been 6-8 years ago). I did so because I had selected TinyScheme for a project that I was doing at work and a bunch of people who had never hea
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by mattknox 14y ago
How much elapsed time would make it OK? 6 months? a year? 10 years? Expecting a large company to know where it's going a year in advance and reveal it to outside devs seems unreasonable, even for pure platforms.
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by mattknox 16y ago
technical erratum: if each node in the list adds all the previous nodes as new objects, then with 4 nodes, the total number of objects is 10, not 24, and the overall order of the operation is O(n^2). It's still cool that he is faster, and
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by mattknox 16y ago
I've been waiting for this release for a looooong time. Bravo!
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by mattknox 16y ago
I'm the dude organizing it at twitter, and yeah, there is leeway. If we get hundreds of applicants, we obviously won't be able to let everyone in. But we'll let in everyone we can reasonably fit.
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Come code at Twitter's annotations hackfest(engineering.twitter.com)
21 points by mattknox 16y ago|12 comments
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by mattknox 17y ago
I'd love to hear the tech case in favor of DRM, but then I'd also love to hear 50 mins of crypto flaws. Sounds like it'll be a great talk either way!
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by mattknox 17y ago
<shameless self promotion> I use goaloc ( http://github.com/mattknox/goaloc ) for rapid prototyping-it allows me to blow smart scaffolds out into rails code, which I then style. Usually, this gives me about the level of functiona
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by mattknox 18y ago
The correlation of relationships and achievement probably varies from profession to profession. As I understand it, physicists nearly always do their best work before marriage, while businessmen often do theirs after. There are a bunch of
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by mattknox 18y ago
BTW, as the author I can say this without offending myself: lisp deserves a better article. I wrote this fast, a long time ago. Although I think the equality thing is a really big deal, I have different and better reasons now. (article f
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by mattknox 18y ago
Why do you think it's so common? I mean, as a lisp/forth guy I can certainly buy the idea that everyone does a stupid thing for a long time, so I could understand if there wasn't a reason, but surely some kinds of high-level optimization a
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by mattknox 18y ago
It might not be a badge of honor, but it is often the best thing to do in the short term. This isn't even new to startups. My grandfather was looking for work in the middle of the Depression, and got a 2-day 'feel-you-out' kind of assignm