mike_organon

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by mike_organon 18y ago
That's just the syntax failing to support such a nice way of accessing those objects. Packages, classes, and methods are objects. Of course, primitives are not objects, but autoboxing helps.
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I disagree. That's just allowing people to vote other people's money away. The point of having rights is that my property is mine and the majority can't vote it away. In your system, where does it end? The US is a republic (nation of
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I agree except that Clojure is specifically intended to be used functional, and not as OO. Clojure is not pure FP as it does allow state changes (in a controlled way), but that's an acknowledgement that state changes are useful and purity
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by mike_organon 18y ago
This article is advocating a economic plan made possible by taking money from people, and worrying the plan will fail because people will want to improve their own lives instead of further sacrificing their lives for the sake of the country
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by mike_organon 18y ago
The problem is that the government even has the ability to take our money and spend it as they wish. We need seperation of economy and state, for the same reasons we seperate church and state.
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by mike_organon 18y ago
Money isn't an end goal, it's a means to something else. Who said the goal would be buying crap? A better use of money is financial security for raising a family, having free time, buying things you really value, retiring early and enjoyin
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by mike_organon 18y ago
But their living standards didn't go down suddenly, so how does that explain an effect? What changed was trade, which meant the cheap labor was accessible.
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by mike_organon 18y ago
You make an interesting point, analogous to building an immune system slowly from small diseases, so one big disease can't kill you or an entire population. Similarly, small-time malware over the years has made us stronger against major in
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I think the point is that it opens the door to blocking whatever they think is "inappropriate" which you may not agree with. It's not just censorship of the bad, but censorship of what they don't want us to see.
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The FCC's Plan to Censor the Internet(aynrand.org)
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by mike_organon 18y ago
Interesting talk. Lomborg is not just a skeptic, he accepts warming as true and probably caused by humans, but his talk focuses on solving problem rather than wasting effort on carbon reductions. For example, if people are dying in heat wa
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I think it's unfortunate you haven't even looked at Clojure. If you did, it's possible both languages could benefit. While I am a fan of the JVM, one downside of the language is that compromises were needed to work nicely on the JVM. Bes
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I thought they based this feature on html5 which wants an non-patented format, so the web stays open.
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by mike_organon 18y ago
Large and small businesses can be innovative when government stays out of the way.
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Big Business: Home of Individualism(ariadnecapital.com)
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by mike_organon 18y ago
Interesting videos. Anders talks about functional support on .net, concurrency, immutability. Guy Steele talks about Fortress on JVM. Too bad they are afraid of macros (access to AST), though Steele does say Fortress has some support.
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I use clojure-mode and http://github.com/jochu/swank-clojure/ . They work for local or remote Clojure repl, compile files, look up code, auto-complete, display args and docs help, etc. It's not as complete as CL. It doesn't have debuggi
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Easy Git, git for mere mortals(gnome.org)
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I often like Schneier, but his arguments are weak in this article. "My problem with quips like these -- as right as they are -- is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human rig
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I learned emacs not too long ago, and I was amazed that the better principles were established so much earlier and abandoned for new tools. One thing about its philosophy I think makes it better is the consistency of everything being buffer
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by mike_organon 18y ago
I look forward to having dynamic languages improving on the JVM. When I moved from doing all of my work in Java to learning and doing mostly Lisp at work, I learned one of the biggest headaches of coding wasn't a lack of static typing (s
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by mike_organon 18y ago
If found #7 to be the most interesting, even beyond UML. "Pictures prove to be good at sharing ideas and allowing people to visualize concepts. But in the end words are better at describing the fine details." The same applies to many "visu
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by mike_organon 19y ago
The examples in the article are a corporate intranet and how to find a local store.
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Bezos On Innovation(businessweek.com)
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by mike_organon 19y ago
Some features we expected. We added task deadlines (and its effect on prioritization) based on feedback, and assigning resources is coming very soon. Plus, someone wanted to understand how to migrate into StreamFocus slowly, continuing to
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by mike_organon 19y ago
Sure, you can sign up on the site, or I'll grab your email from your profile here. http://streamfocus.com/beta
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by mike_organon 19y ago
Peter, thanks for the review of our product. I agree with all of your points about improving the UI. Most of our early work was about the concepts and organization. The beta process is already helping us see where the UI needs work, and
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by mike_organon 19y ago
And our website has a new look and new content, so feedback on that would be great.
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by mike_organon 19y ago
2 downsides are, you don't own the static ip address, and you have to get your own data and database backed up to S3 instead of the webhost handling backups.
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by mike_organon 19y ago
Yes, that's what Fred works. I have a different situation, where I had a fulltime software job, but when I was ready to leave, they offered to keep me at 20 hrs/wk, supporting me enough to put the rest into the startup. That opportunity t

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