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by mdemare 19y ago
Yeah, the other article ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_... ) was fantastic as well.
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by mdemare 19y ago
The domain could be taken by a competitor, not in order to use it, but to prevent you from using it. Or it could be taken by somebody for whom the domain name also made sense. For example, someone who sells paintings of octopusses. Also, by
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by mdemare 19y ago
I went to the demo in Amsterdam, and that wasn't the best venue in town: low ceiling, bad lighting, a weird and incredibly distracting echo in the microphone, and worst of all, it was incredibly hot. The talk was nice, although most of what
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by mdemare 19y ago
Is there a transcription, or an abstract? I haven't got time for video.
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by mdemare 19y ago
In Ruby it's even easier: module Kernel alias ? lambda end (where ? is the lambda-sign... why does it show in the title but not in the comments? oh well...) and put this: $KCODE = 'UTF-8' at the beginning of your
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by mdemare 19y ago
That's probably my single favorite article (by pg). He makes every word count. It's also available as mp3: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/itconvers...
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Social networking | Face off(economist.com)
1 points by mdemare 19y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
6. search for "monta~na" and find spanish sites about mountains, not english sites about Montana. Yay Yahoo for respecting accents! Edit: Boo news.yc for NOT supporting unicode. Or HTML-entities, for that matter. Blub supports Unicode! htt
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by mdemare 19y ago
They're bigger than Toyota. And that's the No 1 carmaker in the world. They're bigger than WalMart, bigger than any U.S. bank. They're valued at 13 million dollar per employee . This can't be right, can it? There has to be more money i
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by mdemare 19y ago
I hate widescreen, I'd use portrait mode if my monitor could pivot.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Nice. http://inglua.com/blog/images/c64.png Lack of syntax highlighting is very easy on the eyes.
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by mdemare 19y ago
That's an utterly bizarre font you're using - otherwise... nice!
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by mdemare 19y ago
Can you live with that font? No anti-aliasing and Courier New?
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by mdemare 19y ago
Tada: http://inglua.com/blog/screenshot.png
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by mdemare 19y ago
(via http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/10/i-hate-it-when-comedy-co... )
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Java developers finally realize the party's over(fakesteve.blogspot.com)
1 points by mdemare 19y ago|1 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
But Google hasn't fixed it. If you're looking for electronic parts, Octopart works much better than Google. But how to find Octopart? How to even know it exists? I envision a search engine that gets to know you, asks for clarifications, and
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by mdemare 19y ago
What's so ridiculously hard about indexing and searching? Google does it well, but if I had to use MSN or Yahoo I'd hardly notice. It's very hard for a startup to beat Google at general search, but by choosing a subset (cheap prices, review
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by mdemare 19y ago
I thought Google was overpriced when it was $170 a share, and I shorted it. Lost me quite a bit of money. I was wrong, it wasn't overpriced then. It is overpriced now , but I've stopped speculating.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Nobody I know cares about that. Nobody even realizes that Google stores every single search you do. People should care, but they don't, and they're not going to either.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Lengthy and in-depth is an understatement. Great job, worth reading!
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by mdemare 19y ago
Exactly. I use it even for sites that have search - it's much more accurate. And if you search a site often, you can create a macroexpansion for the address bar - e.g. in my browser (safari + sogudi) "w lisp" expands to http://www.google.c
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by mdemare 19y ago
Actually it doesn't work - calling the returned lambda should increment n - your implementation doesn't.
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by mdemare 19y ago
The point-free style means avoiding lambda expressions: http://rickyclarkson.blogspot.com/2007/09/point-free-program...
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by mdemare 19y ago
Well, by definition it's more readable, since nobody is familiar with the new notation yet. But objectively it has problems: unnecessary def and lambda keywords, using () and || for argument lists, using def .. end and {} for scopes. There'
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by mdemare 19y ago
In Paul Graham's Accumulator Generator comparison ( http://www.paulgraham.com/accgen.html ) Ruby is now terser than any language except Arc. foo = 'n -> x -> n += x'.to_proc f = foo[4] f[2] # => 6 f[2] # =&#62
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... because Ruby isn't terse enough yet(weblog.raganwald.com)
17 points by mdemare 19y ago|27 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
Well, 'risky' knowledge seems generally easier to research than the knowledge to contain it. See the atomic bomb vs. the missile shield, over 60 years later. It's easier to destroy than to create. Also, humanity isn't exactly united in aimi
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by mdemare 19y ago
May language adoption is not so much a matter of people flocking to a new language, but rather people fleeing their old language and its inadequacies,
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by mdemare 19y ago
And Ruby dragged the Java programmers halfway to Lisp. Who will drag the Ruby programmers halfway to Lisp? We'll never get to Lisp at this rate, but we'll approach it ever closer.

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