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by mdemare 19y ago
What I liked about Slashdot was that you could redefine +1 Funny as -1 Funny.
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Implore YC: Refactor My Code (uses Ruby and continuations)(refactormycode.com)
5 points by mdemare 19y ago|5 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
The last couple of years my programming style has changed a lot. I've noticed that I've been using inheritance less and less. When I was still doing Java, I only used (implementation) inheritance when the API forced me to, and now in Ruby I
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by mdemare 19y ago
I second that. I've blocked Reddit (even programming.reddit) because it's a productivity killer for me. Coming here still feels work-related and gives me a tremendous motivation boost, and I'd like News.YC to stay that way.
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by mdemare 19y ago
But that's a brilliant idea! It makes complete sense! There must be a catch - are they going to block Skype? Throttle bandwidth (or more deviously - increase latency) to prevent viable VoIP? Because WIFI everywhere is death to the telecom i
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by mdemare 19y ago
Mark argues that we should boycott the iPhone if we're bothered by its being closed. But what if we are already boycotting all the other phones because they're so awful? Maybe the iPhone is a great phone, even for hackers, in spite of being
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by mdemare 19y ago
That doesn't tell me very much. Should I forget about the Valley then, because visas are too hard to get? I've got better things to do than dealing with immigration issues - it seems a big drawback. The next best option is probably London.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Can you edit your reply? The pre/code screws up the layout (in Safari). Thanks!
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Ask YC: Non-US Founders, What's Your Story?
17 points by mdemare 19y ago|20 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
At last Rails catches up with the web...
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by mdemare 19y ago
The engaget link: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/iphone-update-facts-and-f...
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by mdemare 19y ago
I knew there was a code/data divide, but not that there also was one between documents and data.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Mmm, design patterns for humor. There are so many of them (lightbulb jokes, snowclones ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone ), variations on Monty Python sketches, etc). The real challenge is to come up with new patterns, not to use exi
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by mdemare 19y ago
WHOA!
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by mdemare 19y ago
On the other hand, pg's articles have never managed to crash my browser even once.
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by mdemare 19y ago
You'd have to trust governments to not ever raise X. Because they will, and then you're in exactly the same situation as we're in now.
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by mdemare 19y ago
And because it is the information age, it is now very easy to structure your finances so that your wealth rises and falls with the oil price, instead of the dollar. Or gold, or euros, or uranium. Whatever you want. Financial freedom is he
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by mdemare 19y ago
There's a great article on learning Haskell by writing a Scheme interpreter: http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/scheme_in_48/tutoria...
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by mdemare 19y ago
But there's a lot of pseudoscience being taught today. Maybe Rand shouldn't be taught, but why isn't it? Because of the form of her output (novels)?
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by mdemare 19y ago
Oh, I've got one of those, only in Javascript.
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by mdemare 19y ago
pg: Are there any philosophical texts that you'd recommend?
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by mdemare 19y ago
<snipped code example, what kind of mark-up is valid here anyway?> Anyway, I don't like the notation for programming, but I love it for HTML: http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/
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by mdemare 19y ago
Maybe, but perhaps your cousins will start using email more as their social circle expands.
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by mdemare 19y ago
This made me laugh too: "But then, while you're sitting on your googlechair in the googleplex sipping googleccinos and feeling smuggy smug smug smug..."
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by mdemare 19y ago
Some of these questions are simply stupid. I mean, if I'd be shrunk to the size of a nickel, I would have bigger problems than imminent blending. Assuming constant cell size, which cells would I lose? Or do they shrink the atoms too? Wouldn
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by mdemare 19y ago
My guess: there are X people at a party. If everyone has a unique birthday, Bob gets $Y, else Ina gets $Z.
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by mdemare 19y ago
By the way, why I think this would work is that many people care about clothes, people love organising/collecting/classifying, and extremely targeted ads would be almost trivial.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Oh, why a social music site? Because discovering new (to you) music is a harder problem than playing, organizing or buying music.
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by mdemare 19y ago
If you make a better webmail-client, make switching easy! Allow me to give your site a try with my current archive of (gmail) messages and contacts, and keep gmail up-to-date, so I can switch back if I decide (and I'm a pessimist) that your
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by mdemare 19y ago
Measuring performance doesn't work, Joel says: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/oldnews/pages/July2002.html

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