nicolaus

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by nicolaus 7y ago
I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?
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by nicolaus 13y ago
The article conflates what I can do online with what my government, via projects like PRISM and others we've not heard of. My government using the same tools as I can use, perhaps augmenting it to do it on a larger scale, is not the sa
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by nicolaus 13y ago
You can't substitute a cheaper intern for a full time employee in the US for the same reasons you state. It's even questionable to have interns working on anything that adds to the bottom line of your business.
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by nicolaus 14y ago
This exactly. Tim Berners Lee and Roy Fielding both conceived of the web as a giant Lisp machine oriented around the URL / Hypermedia concept. HTML and the subsequent XML is a crippled form of an s-expression. If you change the tags into pa
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by nicolaus 14y ago
The sad part about this is how they kicked Bill Joy off the team because he wanted Java to have closures, functions as first class types, etc and nobody else did.
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by nicolaus 14y ago
I was a boy when I first saw that icon of a hard disk on a Macintosh System 6 desktop. The moment I saw it, I knew, instantly, EXACTLY what it implied and felt a deep sense of satisfaction that the person who came up with that (ostensibly a
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by nicolaus 14y ago
Offer access to one of these as a service? http://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-source...
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by nicolaus 14y ago
Or use Mozilla Persona. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
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by nicolaus 14y ago
When the government set up and fostered the development of the Internet, was it picking winners and losers then, too?
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by nicolaus 15y ago
I recall this missive from Linus Torvalds on the design of Linux: "If you want to see a system that was more thoroughly _designed_, you should probably point not to Dennis and Ken, but to systems like L4 and Plan-9, and people like Jochen L
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by nicolaus 15y ago
I own a Kindle. I like it. I have, however, never bought anything from Amazon on my kindle because of the power this gives to Amazon. I use it to store and read _3rd party ebooks_ only. This is also the reason I do not own an iPad or an iPh
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by nicolaus 15y ago
You forgot step -1> Write a test
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by nicolaus 16y ago
In 15 years of experience where Java sadly pays the bills, for example, systems written in that language that had a modeling approach that tended toward immutability and tended to limit the visibility of mutable state throughout the system