mquander

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by mquander 15y ago
Well, it does need two kinds of lambda, in a sense. In Lisp, something like with-file would be a macro, which solves the same problem that "blocks" are solving here.
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by mquander 15y ago
Yeah, does anyone know what the deal with that is? I was really enjoying following Steele's notes on Fortress. I hope that neither the language nor the blog has been binned.
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by mquander 15y ago
Note that source control in particular is particularly amenable to the command line, since the output of source control commands is blobs of text that refers to text files on disk; grepping around in it and wanting to access, process, or mo
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by mquander 15y ago
This is an impossible question to answer without any examples of what you are talking about.
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by mquander 15y ago
I did, but I think those also intersect with the most important things in everyday work -- soft skills, founded on judgement and aesthetic sensibilities, which are hard to measure, but which make the difference between an OK solution and a
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by mquander 15y ago
I'm surprised that you feel you were able to measure something accurately with that list. I feel like it's very vague, and I don't have a clue how good I actually am for many of the important things like "problem decomposition", "systems d
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by mquander 15y ago
I would happily sacrifice my ability to make a living writing software if it meant that all software was FOSS. That would absolutely thrill me to no end. I think that so much good would be done for the world therein that it would be ethic
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by mquander 15y ago
Everyone else already said it, but you are completely dead wrong. Very little of the stuff on 4Clojure has anything to do with mathematics. It is about teaching you the standard library, concepts which are as common and fundamental in Clo
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by mquander 15y ago
The law doesn't say, Viacom may make a claim on your content, so make a deal with Viacom and you're golden. It says that any rights-holder can make a claim on your content. There's a big problem with patent trolls right now making totally
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by mquander 15y ago
Yeah, OK. Let me know when they OPPOSE making serious decisions that affect real people based on who needs the most sucking-up-to today.
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by mquander 15y ago
I was in roughly the same prior-Harry-Potter-knowledge state as you are and I enjoyed it.
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by mquander 15y ago
Your ideas about what is "logical" are completely arbitrary. Look, I can make up rules too: * '5' - 3 should return '5', since it's the string '5' minus all the instances of the character '3' in it. There is no other logical outcome! * '5
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by mquander 15y ago
I was offering a response to the parent, who was asking whether we should pay for sanitation -- not to the situation in the article. I don't know what the right solution to Birmingham's problems is, and I've never even been to Birmingham,
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by mquander 15y ago
As for downvotes, that button should be reserved for off-topic, vulgar, or otherwise obvious trolling cases and not just because "I didn't like what he said, he's stupid, or whatever." I disagree. Why do you think that? I think that "I
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by mquander 15y ago
"Right" is a word made for arguing about. Let's forget the word "right". Clean water and sanitation are pretty much the two things which most enable us to maintain population-dense cities. Lack of modern sanitation repeatedly led to horri
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by mquander 15y ago
You're still giving the industry way too much credit for being reasonable. This is not a case of 600MB files named "Thor (2011)" that aren't Thor. In the link above, you can see that Warner Bros., having the copyright to the film "The Box"
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by mquander 15y ago
Oscar, when your code itself is making little frowny faces at you after you write it, something has gone wrong. x == 1 ? alert(x) :( alert('Error'), x = 1, alert('All Fixed!') );
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by mquander 15y ago
A previous HN thread on the topic with an Avery Pennarun post and some comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088389
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Bufferbloat roundtable w/Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, Jim Gettys(queue.acm.org)
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by mquander 15y ago
Bullshit. There are no "some people" who "like that" when Ubuntu does not update documentation to reflect the changes they have made to core functionality. That doesn't make any sense.
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by mquander 15y ago
So if that is the way the world works, what of note have they accomplished, aside from drawing the ire of the US government and getting a leader martyred, their finances blockaded, and a barrage of at-best ambivalent media attention? htt
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by mquander 15y ago
That may be, but there is only one first move.
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by mquander 15y ago
I think your characterization is very unfair to the article. Right after what you quoted, the following is stated explicitly: " Of course you may not trust me about any of [the examples you wrote about]. And so my purpose today is not to
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by mquander 15y ago
Actually, the purpose of going to school and studying for four years is to learn things which you aren't already good at.
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by mquander 15y ago
A blogspam post copied from prisonplanet.com about US politics? There are not enough flag buttons in the world for this one. Please don't post things like this here.
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by mquander 15y ago
the knights could be in the corners... "plus or minus two"
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by mquander 15y ago
It's obvious that there are going to be exactly the same number of possible first moves plus or minus two. And what that has to do with the perceived complexity of the game, I haven't the slightest.
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by mquander 15y ago
I agree completely.
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by mquander 15y ago
This is a lame argument, akin to complaining that people using computers for fun are reducing the supply for people using computers for work. We can just make computers for everyone. That is what the free market is designed to do. You sho
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by mquander 15y ago
Six months? If you really want to pay money, then why don't you just spend an hour watching the Peepcode "Meet Emacs" screencast for twelve bucks, and then spend two weeks applying what you learned? Don't make it seem harder than it is.

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