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Lion/iOS 5 APIs included in latest GNUStep Objective-C Runtime release(lists.gnu.org)
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by mvzink 15y ago
Awesome. When I first heard of Thoonk, I failed to grasp its utility, but after reading this I can't wait to try it out. The ease this will afford in isolating features is really exciting. Anybody else think this after reading the article a
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by mvzink 15y ago
No, I don't have it backwards and that is indeed the kind of programmer he was talking about. I am only saying that the "This codebase already has something that is slightly different; we can probably generalize that slightly and save a lo
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by mvzink 15y ago
If you have two programmers, and one is "10x more productive" than the other in that he knows when to reuse or adapt other code, but there is a problem that actually does require writing code, which one will put out a more correct, reliable
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by mvzink 15y ago
This is cool. I would like to see more news from accepted Startup Chile companies. Julio says there are lots of other benefits afforded by Chile, as has been said elsewhere; I'd like to hear some firsthand anecdotes about these benefits.
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by mvzink 15y ago
> But Haskell programmers are allergic to extra variables. Point-free style, best style. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233870
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by mvzink 15y ago
There's nothing I want more from a politician's response than a simple, "Yeah, you're right, this shit sucks."
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by mvzink 15y ago
You bring up Marxism, and it's interestingly relevant. Happiness and liberty, for Marx, are about deliberately creating our material world. That is, every man is equally free to shape the conditions in which he lives (so far, presumably, as
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by mvzink 15y ago
What are they promoting?
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by mvzink 15y ago
Great, now we are linking to reddit's share bar pages or whatever.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Honestly, I feel like people are too scared of C, and sometimes I think that derives from ignorance about systems (and not quite the type of systems Rust is supposedly dealing with, I don't think; but I didn't finish the slideshow). Read CS
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by mvzink 15y ago
Really? School House Rock's _How a Bill Becomes a Law_ is Engadget's idea of a "Video recap of the patent reform process"? Thanks for furthering civil education I guess.
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by mvzink 15y ago
For this audience, this might get more clicks if the title mentioned CS, nanotechnology, AI, etc. not physicists. And besides that, the title is incorrect: the only bomb mentioned in the article was sent to the author's brother; the author
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by mvzink 15y ago
Cool. I feel like having to click on the icons for them to show up on the map is too expensive. Perhaps just a hover over? And it looks like spots are already categorized; how about having a category that you can click (or hover!) to see al
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by mvzink 15y ago
Okay, I'll give you #2 after that. And I'll point out that asking for a 10:1 difference in expressiveness from JS is, let's face it, ridiculous. (Except in specialized domain applications perhaps.)
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by mvzink 15y ago
I'm bothered by these bits: Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite. I don't know when "order of mag
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by mvzink 15y ago
The article says nothing about what a Higgsless universe means for science, but at the end links to Wikipedia's list of "Higgsless models": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgsless_model
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by mvzink 15y ago
The keys often make it or break it for me. I really don't like the keys on the TI-89 nor the HP-50g. I love the keys on the HP-48 though.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Who's going try reading some of this before doing the ML or AI Stanford courses?
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by mvzink 15y ago
Yeah, his one client rule is really particular to his situation, not people doing this full time.
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by mvzink 15y ago
That's really cool! Non-incremental innovation indeed. Thanks for the link! Has this been submitted to HN proper?
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by mvzink 15y ago
Perhaps analyzing translations themselves would be fruitful. Compare them to other translations, or to other works by the same authors (for the translator-authors), etc.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Indeed, I didn't want to add even more cruft to my comment, or I would have clarified that I didn't think you saw people skills that way.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I really don't give a shit about the rest of this argument, or yours, but I want to point something out. Plenty of others have quoted this part of your speech: helps them see through the seemingly-meaningless boilerplate and social grease
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by mvzink 15y ago
Perhaps intellectually honest, but a weak conclusion nonetheless: in my understanding, getting Safari 5 to run on Windows requires porting parts of Apple's huge, complicated Cocoa framework to Windows. That framework is always changing, and
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by mvzink 15y ago
Indeed. That's what bothers me about the cries for patent reform: you are asking lawyers to let tech companies fire huge swaths of other lawyers . However, maybe the patent wars (like this HTC v. Apple one) will climb to such heights of
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by mvzink 15y ago
At first we thought the high error rate could be the result of the fact that we always run Safari on Windows, while it’s made by Apple. That’s easy to dismiss, because earlier versions of Safari were fine. I'm sorry, what? That's a prett
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by mvzink 15y ago
I can't help but doubt it; did you see the link in that very article about "Hpricot striking back"? As I recall, _why seemed pretty good-humored about it (but human memory is quite fallible).
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by mvzink 15y ago
Huh. I must have missed something. Through Leopard, Snow Leopard, and now Lion, I've never not seen that dot, and I certainly never changed any plists to accomplish that.
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by mvzink 15y ago
> Why is this an abuse? From Wiktionary: abuse: (n.) Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; perversion. In my understanding, the intended purpose of the patent system is to protect and foster inn

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