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by mdemare 19y ago
You need to do a better job of convincing users that the product is trying out. Photos grouped by date, is that your biggest selling point? Emailing photos is nice but I wouldn't name it as one of the three selling points. And I'm sure I ca
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by mdemare 19y ago
No, I disagree. There are plenty of completely uncharismatic politicians around. (John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, Bob Dole, Bush the Elder).
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by mdemare 19y ago
You mean like "Ten Tips For Getting More Mileage Out Of Your Gotos"?
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by mdemare 19y ago
And the tip button doesn't work in Safari either. Are you developing on Linux? ;-)
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by mdemare 19y ago
I also have a few bug reports: - while signing in it said that my email-address was already taken, and did I left my pwd blank. Highly unlikely and no. - in safari I can't move my cursor around in the email-address field because you jump to
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by mdemare 19y ago
What a fantastic idea! You've created not just a start-up but a social experiment. I have no idea if it'll work, but I love the idea of separating the act of tipping and the act of paying. Do users get a reputation based on the proportion o
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by mdemare 19y ago
Because people agree with me. And that's why modding is so useless. What you want is new insights being modded up - what you get is people being modded up for expressing well what everyone else is thinking, and modded down for dissenting. I
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by mdemare 19y ago
Me too, I think by now Yahoo search is about as good as Google, for some things even a lot better. It's their ads that are much worse. Google docs is a gamble that may or may not pay off, but it's not making them any (significant) money. Ya
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by mdemare 19y ago
I don't see the point of explaining your mods. I think modding comments is of dubious value by itself. Private messaging might be helpful, but I don't see an urgent problem to be solved.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Yeah, here's the quote: "(Note, long after I wrote this entry: I think OCaml has some fairly fundamental problems that keep it from being a first choice for server-side development. If I were to use it for anything, it would be as a substit
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by mdemare 19y ago
Thanks for your excellent post! I'm interested in OCaml, but I am very much a momentum-based PL-switcher.
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by mdemare 19y ago
With web-applications you can force users to either pay for them or not use them. Good luck doing that with desktop applications.
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by mdemare 19y ago
What's a problem is that there aren't any good books about it. Practical OCaml was almost universally panned, so I skipped it. I'd love a good book on OCaml or Haskell.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Steve Yegge, who you're quoting as being in favor of OCaml, has since implied that he found it lacking on closer inspection, but, uncharacteristically, without writing at length about it.
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by mdemare 19y ago
If you have a mac, Cmd-Opt-T
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by mdemare 19y ago
Nâh, dâh zèn we maui klâh mei... (define Y (λ (m) ((λ (f) (m (λ (a) ((f f) a)))) (λ (f) (m (λ (a) ((f f) a)))))))
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by mdemare 19y ago
Just counting the tokens in the codetree is not an acceptable measure of brevity, because it implies that adding primitives to a language always makes it more powerful as long it makes your application shorter just once. But adding primitiv
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by mdemare 19y ago
You can use Unicode in Ruby 1.8, it's just not very convenient.
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by mdemare 19y ago
The cool stuff I want to build happens to involve languages with diacritics. And strings are (or should be) core to programming languages.
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by mdemare 19y ago
That's after dutch income taxes. But my point was that people were paying 5x more for my services than I need to live on, even though I was working at less than 10% of my potential (due to language, tools, motivation, working hours...). The
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by mdemare 19y ago
People were willing to pay $100 per hour for me (of which I got to keep about 20%) while I was working on projects I did not believe in, using a language I found completely unsuitable, using frameworks that were a configuration nightmare, w
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by mdemare 19y ago
I completely agree with point 1 and 2, completely disagree with point 3, 4 and 5. 3 will lead to cheaper medicines in the short run, but much less research in the long run, which is bad for everybody. 4 is mostly a problem for western europ
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by mdemare 19y ago
Have apple install a new battery for $129 all-in.
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by mdemare 19y ago
But should we call Arc's future CPAN-like collection of applications "hive" or "hipelago"?
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by mdemare 19y ago
This doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I am, however, looking forward to turning 30 in two years. The big 2^30. Will I live to see 2^31? I don't know... All this is assuming that time exists, of course.
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by mdemare 19y ago
My wishlist is pretty short: UTF-8 support. What's a y-combinator without λs (lambdas)? edit: ooh, it almost works! But the ampersand gets escaped.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Does this article contain any facts that are actually correct? Java losing marketshare to AJAX? "One bit of good news: developers and analysts agree that Java is alive and well for internally developed enterprise apps." Has Java ever been
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by mdemare 19y ago
They have 4.5 messages and 6.5 to-do items per basecamp user account. That suggests to me that the number of active users is 10 or 20 times lower (100000 to 200000 users). Even if only 20% of those are paying, that's enough to be very profi
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by mdemare 19y ago
Why are you discussing capitalization preferences with complete strangers?
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by mdemare 19y ago
I'd like to see a version of Wikipedia with prerequisites. Each article would list the articles you'd have to know and understand in order to understand the current article. It would also store which articles you'd already knew, and show fo

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