michaelneale

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by michaelneale 19y ago
Scala usually results in much faster code then Java. Of course it isn't a "script" language in the usual sense, but are much more modern static and strong typed language (with functional leanings).
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Really cool !
1113.
by michaelneale 19y ago
Once a day. Given up on reddit and digg. Now its news.YC and Slashdot. I really need to work out a better way to get "local" news - I feel really out of touch at times.
1114.
by michaelneale 19y ago
you got it. Powerful tools require a large investment of your time. I was never an emacs user but I am slowly changing that, as it seems to still be relevant and you can get it anywhere.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Ah yes. Well anyone who did it incorrectly can't now read the response, but anyway.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
yeah its hard if you are not familiar with the IDE at hand. Its not unlike say, setting up SLIME for CL when you are gasp not an emacs user ;)
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Good to know. Yes I love the SICP videos and noticed that - but then they were done in the 80's, wasn't sure if things had changed somewhat since then. In my limited exploration, I always though CL was showing its age, yet scheme seemed mo
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Can you answer this: Do people call Scheme a dialect of Lisp? I know often its spoken that way. But as an active (and avid?) user of scheme is it wrong to call it "a lisp"? Or when people say Lisp do they really mean CL (other then in acade
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by michaelneale 19y ago
My optometrist recommended you unclog the pores in your eyelids. You eyelids have pores that emit a thin layer of oil that covers the eyeball, and helps prevent evaporation. Those pores get blocked. She said to use a heat pack/mask (as hot
1120.
by michaelneale 19y ago
Yes. GPL.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
An oldie but a goodie. Has a bit of open source myth in it though. He kind of believes that it magically congeals out of the ether, rather then by frequent (and paid for) hard work of hackers and engineers in a deliberate fashion.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
I am a little frustrated by the ability to not vote things down (hence the need to make a negative comment). Also, I have no idea why I commented on this story. I must have had mouse parallax error and clicked on the wrong one. I was outsi
1123.
by michaelneale 19y ago
I don't think this is appropriate for hacker news. reddit.com is a better place for stuff like this.
1124.
by michaelneale 19y ago
Can I still call them "swatch thingies" ?
1125.
by michaelneale 19y ago
The technology to simulate a human brain, and scan the "state" of a brain into that simulation looks like it is more likely to happen sooner then a general AI. So it maybe pragmatism that causes it to happen that way.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
licensing to adobe, microsoft I would expect. That or those little color swatch thingies ;)
1127.
by michaelneale 19y ago
brilliantly said. It seriously takes minutes to pick up ruby. In any good team, any decent developer would be productive by the afternoon. And honestly, who hasn't really looked and noodled with ruby, even if their day job has nothing to d
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by michaelneale 19y ago
I don't agree that exposure has anything to do with it. Its like saying being a viola player makes it harder to pick up the guitar (as you are tranposing strings/notes in your head). Yeah for about the first day it may be a bit strange but
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Python is certainly a good one (ruby as well) - "Learning Python" by Lutz & Ascher I think is suitable for someone like you (and it is not a bad reference as you get more experienced). Ruby can be a bit stranger, people like to be "clev
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Python is certainly a good one (ruby as well) - "Learning Python" by Lutz & Ascher I think is suitable for someone like you (and it is not a bad reference as you get more experienced). Ruby can be a bit stranger to newcomers (in my opin
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by michaelneale 19y ago
I think its fine - anyone who things otherwise will find plenty of non editor places to hang out on the net.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
I think as wet-ware we are too accident prone. The average lifespan would still be (relatively) short unless we have a way to backup/distribute minds.
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by michaelneale 19y ago
yeah - well I guess its easier to "hope" as the article says that technology can solve the problem, when really it is a people problem. I think we put too much emphasis on the tech as to why things go right or wrong. We should just shut up
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by michaelneale 19y ago
Right - so he can't legally look at it yet he has an apparently accurate opinion of it? Do MS shakle their thinkers that much (or does he mean look at it to use it, not literally look at it).
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by michaelneale 19y ago
i thought the article was a little critical of the "little apps" approach. I think the point wasn't so much the mess of things, its more that the approaches used are very very basic (like a big unforgiving calculator more then intelligence)
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by michaelneale 19y ago
I got sucked in by my non geek friends (all my geek friends I was already connected to). If nothing else it has been good for keeping in touch with past friends. Kind of overhyped for that purposes, but it works for me, but its nothing prof