mike_organon

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by mike_organon 17y ago
That linked article does not say acetaminophen is an intentional poison, but that its is an active drug that now appears to have side effects, and they also want to remove it from medicines where it is the primary ingredient.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
This article is out of date. [1] is the more common fork and it describes ELPA and Leiningen which are now the easiest way to install clojure into emacs. [1] http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Fair enough, but the article only talks about Sam Stein.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Obama wants to cancel the moon mission and change NASA to do his own plans (starting with climate, of course). This is the problem of letting politicians run a science program in the first place. Let the private companies do science, and
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Some Chinese people apparently give the government that right, but not all. People are individuals, not a single unit. And since they are not free to speak, you can't really tell how many want to give up freedom.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
page moved: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Get_Paid_What_You%27re_Worth
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by mike_organon 17y ago
I agree that is part of the issue, many customers don't care. I think there is another relavent point. The video of the Ford guy illustrates how companies are competing on improving this tech. If it were mandated, might that be like forcin
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Scoble's text is different from what the Ford guy says. Ford doesn't automatically hit the brakes, only preps them and when you hit the brakes, it automatically applies them 100%. Prius automatically applies the brakes and Scoble says he no
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by mike_organon 17y ago
It is a very good writeup. I like his point that Clojure sets a high bar for concurrency features. His dislike of Lisp is my only disagreement.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
One of the inventors of XML has a hard time reading s-expressions. Okay.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
I wouldn't expect so, at least by the math. It looks is pretty simple. Number the seats 1 to 8, then for each side sum the seat numbers. The standard rig gives 16 and 20, but all 4 of these solutions are 18, 18.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Video of Guy Steele at ICFP. Shows lisp and fortress code of data structure and algorithms than can be parallelized.
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Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution(vimeo.com)
4 points by mike_organon 17y ago|1 comments
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by mike_organon 17y ago
There is value in static checking for some things, but it is also limiting. It requires that code be written such that those things are declarative, can be understood without running the program. There is also value in having those things
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Actors for Clojure has been mentioned as a future feature, but this would be for remote procs. Clojure has Agents for local async state changes, but these are only used when you need that feature, not ubiquitously. You should ask on on th
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Also, checked exceptions were not used before, but sounded like a good idea. And they turned out to be harmful in my experience.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Rights are freedom from others, protection from violence, force, etc. They are not freedom to services provided by other people. To claim a right to services is to take away the "traditional" rights of the people who will be forced to pro
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by mike_organon 17y ago
I had noticed problems a few weeks ago, but it seems to be working today. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.hypertext/search?group=al... And the advanced search always worked and still works better. http://groups.google.com/advanced_sea
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Strictly speaking, if it has no purpose you wouldn't do it. Your hacks may be for learning, entertainment, distraction, avoiding work, etc. Art has a different and distinct purpose, more along the lines of emotional fuel. This is why I disa
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by mike_organon 17y ago
No, not in the sense of "fine art" like Michelangelo, that is a different kind of thing. It's a human artifact, it's design and engineering. And I would argue that art does have a purpose, greater than, say, entertainment.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
In my experience NPE is the most common java exception and a huge waste of programmer time.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Sadly, that's not true. They do know lisp which has much better ways of dealing with nil. Lisp methods can even declare a nil handler function. Other languages allow defining special functions to handle null, it's not rocket science, but it
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by mike_organon 17y ago
But saying a billion isn't the same as giving an estimation of growth. It just seems like a misleading (even if true) statistic.
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by mike_organon 17y ago
I disagree with that quote by Ozzie. The wave protocol is an extension of an existing IM protocol. The app is a combination and rethinking of existing web concepts (IM, email, and others). This isn't something entirely new. Also, other prov
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by mike_organon 17y ago
Yes, and they are also assuming that sudden popularity causes the sudden unpopularity. If the trend they describe is true and common, it might be because the large number of people who follow fads quickly don't stick with them for long, w
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by mike_organon 17y ago
"When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing, you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit it." I can't see how this can be done
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by mike_organon 17y ago
I'd say it's a hack because he played within the rules, at least some of them. I wouldn't call "paying under the table" a hack.
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by mike_organon 18y ago
"Society implicitly trusted MBAs to do no harm when it allowed financial markets to operate in a relatively unregulated fashion--but its faith has been betrayed." Should we trust a Dean who thinks we have a relatively unregulated market? T
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Java: Coming Soon to Google's App Engine(gigaom.com)
1 points by mike_organon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I agree with what he said about bankruptcy, but then he said banks should not go through that process, they should just be owned and run by the government, and he defended that position with nothing more than the standard "too big to fail"

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