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by mdemare 17y ago
Clojure has #(+ % 10) for Arc's [+ _ 10]. Does anyone know if Arc inspired Clojure, or whether there's prior art for this syntax?
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by mdemare 17y ago
That would be awesome, might be the best use case for Twitter yet! And yes, Apple lets you do that. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1665119/how-to-play-a-son...
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by mdemare 17y ago
Great rule! "I will now discuss the implications of the foo build structure" is lethally boring. There is however one exception: http://consc.net/misc/moser.html
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by mdemare 17y ago
I have the same question, but for Vim. Also, for find-and-replace. I think it requires a plugin, but I'm baffled why it isn't there out-of-the-box. (Unless it is there, and I haven't found it yet.)
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by mdemare 17y ago
I wonder if Google is neglecting Groups because they think Wave will replace it?
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by mdemare 17y ago
Please do repost, it's a good read. What are you going to switch to?
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by mdemare 17y ago
Google has a cache: http://74.125.77.132/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=en-us...
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by mdemare 17y ago
You'll get more answers on a site like superuser: http://superuser.com/search?q=i7
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by mdemare 17y ago
This is why you should use images for titles: http://mug.gd/QSEu
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by mdemare 17y ago
Every symbol and every letter (upper- and lowercase) on your keyboard has a specific meaning. Spend an hour trying out what all (80 or so) do - that's fun! Then do some actual editing and try to navigate as efficiently as possible - make it
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by mdemare 17y ago
Yes, it's less (about 1/3 to 1/2), but it's significantly more than cola. Don't switch to black tea if you want to kick your caffeine habit. Here's another source: http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm
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by mdemare 17y ago
Black tea contains about as much caffeine as Red Bull (per liter). Admittedly less than coffee, but hardly minimal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
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by mdemare 17y ago
Hope there will be customizable search from the address bar, like in Opera, or with Keywurl in Safari. I looked into the extensions API, but didn't find any hooks.
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by mdemare 17y ago
That sounds very interesting. I guess you'd need some kind of abstraction layer to bridge the app and the individual websites, with one implementation for each community. What would that API look like? getListOfTopics , getListOfComments
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Business Idea: Online Community Integration(philip.greenspun.com)
30 points by mdemare 17y ago|16 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
I found the part about IDEs fascinating: IntelliJ will recognize those ugly anonymous classes, and show them to you as closures. I wonder how far you could take this. A language like Duby gives you Ruby syntax, while producing identical byt
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by mdemare 17y ago
Wow, I'd love to use a more dynamic language for the iPhone (or at least one with GC). Here's another article about Lua (with Wax) on the iPhone: http://www.mobileorchard.com/announcing-iphone-wax-native-ui...
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by mdemare 17y ago
That's a pretty compelling argument actually - especially since all monitors I can find with comparable resolutions (2560x1440) are over $1000.
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by mdemare 17y ago
He's the inventor of the Hungarian notation, and has a very interesting explanation of what it's intended to accomplish. Great interview throughout.
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Programmers At Work: Charles Simonyi(programmersatwork.wordpress.com)
3 points by mdemare 17y ago|2 comments
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Tales of a Former Disassembly Addict(prog21.dadgum.com)
3 points by mdemare 17y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
I'm not sure if C#/Java's type-safety has morphed into a ridiculous version of itself. I suspect that there has been too little, rather than too much development in this regard. Type-inference and typedefs would go a long way of solving th
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by mdemare 17y ago
This isn't Java, this is C#. (In Java this would be more verbose).
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by mdemare 17y ago
Note that Greenspun is inviting comments. I think the biggest drawback is finding good software design reviewers. If you haven't got the technical expertise to judge the work of your programmers, you're not equipped to judge the result of a
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by mdemare 17y ago
"At this point the US is the undisputed leader in almost nothing except military tech." That's just ridiculous. Internet, software, airplanes, medical equipment, computers, entertainment, the list goes on.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I'm still waiting for same month delivery. Standard shipping takes 18-32 business days. How hard is it to ship all packages to the bigger European countries, and then use the national one-day postal service? Not enough volume?
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by mdemare 17y ago
I used to love IntelliJ IDEA - it was the one thing that made coding in Java fun. I even used it for a year after switching to Ruby - despite its complete lack of support for Ruby. But I'm trying it now, and I can't say I'm impressed. There
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by mdemare 17y ago
Exactly, I thought that was the point of the article. We need "indexing by meaning" - for unix utilities, for iPhone apps, for words. For instance, I'm looking for an iPhone app that let's you take pictures of people, add names and details,
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by mdemare 17y ago
Locality - a word to remember. As soon as you extract a method, or turn a switch statement into classes with polymorphism, or introduce a MVC pattern, you hurt locality, and that kills readability, like an essay with dozens of footnotes. Al
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by mdemare 17y ago
And even in those cases, it isn't cut-and-dried. They claim "The advantage is that tomorrow, we can fulfill the request for a new type of bond by simply creating a new class, with the single required logic to calculate the value of that new

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