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by meredydd 18y ago
My favourite two reasons for using it: 1. I often tend to use it when I want to pipe the output into a command. If it's a big transfer, I don't really want to have to stream several gigabytes of data onto disk, then off it, then back on ag
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by meredydd 18y ago
There's a project called Hedgehog Lisp that's been used "in the wild" for embedded sensor systems. It's bytecoded, but the interpreter gets down to 20kb. It's not CL; it's got its own set of special forms and predefined functions, but it's
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by meredydd 18y ago
I'm finding it difficult to square your assertion that Reddit is "unique" in this respect with the assertion that it's the web that's "making marketing and distribution free". The only way that web marketing is "free" is if product awarenes
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by meredydd 18y ago
This is begging for a link to Val Henson's photoset of her with this delightful monstrosity at the Computer History Museum... http://www.valhenson.org/kitchen.html (Context: Val wrote chunkfs and large chunks of ZFS, among other things)
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by meredydd 18y ago
Just to add, the guys have it far worse in this situation. -Clonk.- Yes, the guys have it worse if you view it primarily as a dating situation . But viewing it primarily as a dating situation is a large part of what makes it so uncomfo
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by meredydd 18y ago
We need more women in startups (seriously, have you been to the meat market parties after tech events?!) ... Moreover, it'll give lonely male hackers more choice Although you probably didn't mean it, this attitude is most definitely Part
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by meredydd 18y ago
I think the author meant "some boilerplate code _in C++_" It's possible. But once you've acknowledged that boilerplate code is inevitable in one language but not the other, that was The Macro Enlightenment(tm) - you just had it.
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by meredydd 18y ago
Sometimes, the answer is no. Some boilerplate code (like exception catching) is an overhead that can not be avoided [...] I’m still looking for my “Lisp Enlightenment” with respect to macros That enlightenment is just this: "boilerplat
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by meredydd 18y ago
in a massively multicore world, parallelism is more important than concurrency, and the two are not the same I think you're right in a technical sense - that article used the term slightly sloppily. However, the degree of parallelism in a
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by meredydd 18y ago
in a massively multicore world, parallelism is more important than concurrency, and the two are not the same I think you're right in a technical sense - parallelism is indeed the great goal, and that article used the term slightly sloppil
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by meredydd 18y ago
Mobile phones are definitely worth thinking about. There's quite a web-app skew round here, with associated bias towards the big shiny featureful platforms like Android and the iPhone, but don't discount the other 90% of phone users. There'
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by meredydd 18y ago
[...] More than was ever earned in the history of banking? To me that would seem to imply that at this point every banking institution would be bankrupt. Actually, all you would need is some subset of banking institutions to go _spectacul
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by meredydd 18y ago
Damn data. How dare it not conform to my preconceptions? That said, what I was trying to express was my feeling that the poll options you chose don't tell the whole story, because you only offered "Startups and CS, no exceptions" and "anyth
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by meredydd 18y ago
...staying away from American politics... Good gracious. Might I suggest that America does not have a monopoly on political controversy (nor on visitors to this site)? It may be an election year, and the country fairly heavily polarised a
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by meredydd 18y ago
the only thing I'm 100% sure is valueless and off-topic is the "this is off-topic" comment that Actually, I'm not even sure about that. It seems to me that the average opinion here is in favour of most posts being about technical/startup
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by meredydd 18y ago
Android: Java? Or any language? The bad news is that the vast majority of the "other" languages for the JVM - and this includes Clojure, JRuby, Jython, and rest - are dynamic. This means that they are either interpreted or compile to Java
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by meredydd 18y ago
If you open your own profile, then click on the number next to "saved", it gives you a list of everything you've ever upvoted. One of HN's cooler features, IMO...
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by meredydd 18y ago
Well, if you want to carry the analogy further, to know Java is to know the basics of how the JVM looks at life. The JVM has concepts of class, inheritance, methods, instances, constructors, and garbage collection baked into it, and they
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by meredydd 18y ago
My personal opinion is that one should learn, and become comfortable in, Java before attempting Clojure. Clojure is a very neat little language, but if you don't understand what it's doing under the hood on the JVM, a lot of stuff is going
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by meredydd 18y ago
If you wouldn't mind, I'd find that very useful. I live and work in non-US markets, and US carriers' behaviour strikes me as idiosyncratic and frankly bizarre :)
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by meredydd 18y ago
Agreed, entirely. The big problem with voicemail as a medium is that it takes so long to read. Not to mention lack of indexability, near-impossibility of seeking accurately... ...So remind me, again, why we're getting so excited about video
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by meredydd 18y ago
There has been some genuine research work in this area, with pretty much the ideas that you're suggesting. Google for data-flow computer architecture for a low-level take on the idea at the instruction level. (This guy seems to be talking a
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by meredydd 18y ago
* * face-palm * * Do these people actually understand any maths at all? In tests of fourth-grade reading from 2000 to 2007, for instance, the scores of the lowest-achieving students increased by 16 points on a 280-point scale, compared wit
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by meredydd 18y ago
Looking at the user, I think it's fair to say that this is a (fairly well-executed) troll. One post since registration, and all you'd need is two sock-puppets in rapid succession to push it onto the front page. I have to say, I've been wond
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by meredydd 18y ago
Imagine if J2ME-equipped handsets were subject to the same sort of malware ecosystem ... I think there's a very good reason for carriers to be nervous. Now, that's true for something like Symbian (or iPhone) native applications, which pre
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by meredydd 18y ago
make founders firable "at will" instead of "for cause", so if one founder is acting up the others can kick him out to satisfy any defintion of "leaving" and that's that Note - this is _highly_ dangerous in the presence of outside investor
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by meredydd 18y ago
Indeed - Curie was most definitely "the shit", and that shouldn't be taken away from her. However , it is also almost certainly true that she was taught because she was female. Now, I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. I would, in fac
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by meredydd 18y ago
I understand that it's a small component of the overall system you envisage; I just believe that it's a small component pointing in the wrong direction. If you boil it down, my point is that while "do people like what I say?" is a suboptima
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by meredydd 18y ago
And for those of us for whom "D'oh, I deleted that!", or "Nooooo....I overwrote that file yesterday!" is more of a danger than "My house just burned down", I strongly recommend rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ It's short,
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by meredydd 18y ago
Counting 'freshness' is even worse - that just turns the whole thing into a game of speculation. "Piling on" to existing popular consensus does enough damage to originality, but what you propose would explicitly reward a proactive chase of

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