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by noahlt 16y ago
I think that in general there are more interesting problems to work on in the programming language design than additional syntactic sugar.
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by noahlt 16y ago
I'm still a full-time student. What math should I learn?
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by noahlt 16y ago
I see an exciting future in journalism that consists of building tools to help users navigate and manipulate data.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Can anyone explain why this is so terrible? To me, it seems like Lisp, but backwards: in Lisp, you have symbols, which normally evaluate to their values unless they are quoted. In PHP, you have strings, which normally evaluate to themselv
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by noahlt 16y ago
Are you aware of Daytum? It's a web app by Nicholas Feltron, the guy who does "personal annual reports", infographics about his life. http://feltron.com/ http://daytum.com/ You might be interested in contacting him. At the very least,
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by noahlt 16y ago
It's interesting to many of us here who are interested in building online communities. If a person happened to walk by this man's funeral, they probably wouldn't shout that he was "better off dead". But a person who happens to see this ma
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by noahlt 16y ago
"Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through. But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touch to holograms." Clearly I missed something here -- what
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by noahlt 16y ago
There's a trend, particularly in the Apple community, to use "gorgeous" and "beautiful" to describe software which uses full illustrations rather than 'vanilla' UI elements. In accordance with this trend, this "Amazon Instant Search" might
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by noahlt 16y ago
The words are genderless, singular pronouns.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Surprising that it took this long. PG's quotes page includes several by "Tara Ploughman", an anagram for "Not Paul Graham". When this was discovered, PG lamented the lack of a socially acceptable way to publish "single sentence essays".
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by noahlt 16y ago
His point isn't that the public sector should shed a proportional number of employees, but that the collective income of private sector taxpayers has decreased, yet they are forced to sustain public-sector pensions with that decreased incom
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by noahlt 16y ago
Forgive my ignorance -- what does "relative job losses" mean, and how does it differ from "absolute job losses"?
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by noahlt 16y ago
It seems like an easy way to avoid many of these issues is simply to make web applications where all the software is stored in the cloud. Most of the arguments I've seen for web apps are from the devs' perspective (you control the hardware
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by noahlt 16y ago
> Her name is Jenny - we're working our contact for Jenny's last name. Wait, what? Why is that necessary?
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by noahlt 16y ago
Why isn't this in a peer-reviewed journal?
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by noahlt 16y ago
I think there's a missing word in this sentence: "What I'm saying is that the kind of help that matters, you may not have to be a board member to give."
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by noahlt 16y ago
The guy who gave this talk, Chris Paget, actually used OpenBTS in his demo.
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by noahlt 16y ago
It's a famous Mozart duet for violins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpktS4rNZC8
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by noahlt 16y ago
Keep in mind that this was a pretty bad recording; it sounds like a (badly) synthesized acoustic guitar. Professional, live recordings of Bach's Musical Offering include the Crab Canon and sound much better.
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by noahlt 16y ago
I've seen this a handful of times, but I don't know enough about physics to understand the specifics of the theorem to make meaningful statements about it. Can anyone explain the free will theorem to laymen?
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by noahlt 16y ago
This "article" is hilarious -- all of the interesting information in the article is contained in the headline.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Was the term "FU money" coined by Neal Stephenson, or was it in use before he wrote Cryptonomicon?
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by noahlt 16y ago
I am convinced that this is because the primary input method for PCs is the keyboard, so user input is primarily text. Perhaps a visual programming language will emerge on the iPad, or some other platform where primary user input is graphi
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by noahlt 16y ago
The problem with Linux typography isn't a lack of fonts, it's bad rendering. I can buy a font from Adobe. I can't buy a better font renderer for Linux.
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by noahlt 16y ago
I think it's interesting that in the language features vs editor features debate, Lispers tend to be on the "language features" side, while Java programmers usually favor powerful IDEs/editors. In this particular discussion, the sides are o
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by noahlt 16y ago
Interestingly enough, his "parenthesis-stacked" C code looks just like Python, which I find a pleasure to read. There's one difference, though: conventional Python is indented four, not two, spaces. In fact, the main aspect of his "normal"
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by noahlt 16y ago
Perhaps greater than you'd expect, if lsb had read the other post.
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by noahlt 17y ago
What is the video in question? There's a video on the front page of wikileaks, but it's not a "39 minute video".
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by noahlt 17y ago
This might be because at most schools there are no cuts to the cross country team.
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by noahlt 17y ago
There are a lot of blogging or social networking sites that are very popular regions other than the US.

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