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by nocman 16y ago
I agree with at least one thing bdclimber14 seems to be implying. babyli.st is a 'cute' domain name, but I think it is an extremely poor choice for domain names you want people to remember. How are you supposed to pronounce that to someon
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by nocman 16y ago
Thank you particularly for the arstechnica.com link. The way I read the discussion before, I was expecting the conflict to be originating with Apple (like something in their agreement forbidding the use of GPL'd software or something). Bu
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by nocman 16y ago
I know that if you fork a GPL licensed project, you have to release your version under GPL also. That's why I said "Obviously folks other than Id Software can't relicense the engine under something other than the GPL" My question was, how
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by nocman 16y ago
Sorry, I just got back to this thread. > > You will have to excuse me for not being terribly excited about the words "probably" and "in many cases". > He said categorically that it would not happen without the user's permission.
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by nocman 16y ago
I find this interesting -- yours is the second reply I saw to mention GPL being incompatible with App Store licensing requirements. Did I miss something? ID Software released Castle Wolfenstein to the IPhone with it being GPL licensed, and
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by nocman 16y ago
"It's importance has ebbed and flowed over time." Are you talking about the importance of Lisp macros here? That's what you appear to be doing. I don't see a decline in enthusiasm for use of Lisp macros among Lisp programmers. "It's imp
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by nocman 16y ago
"... And we probably, in many cases, won't do it forever." You will have to excuse me for not being terribly excited about the words "probably" and "in many cases". He sounds to me like someone who is saying exactly what he thinks people wa
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by nocman 16y ago
One of the really cool things about Eli's story is the fact that he received a copy of SICP signed by Abelson and Sussman after completing his project (because of the actions of someone who knows the authors). That had to be a fun thing to
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by nocman 16y ago
OK, well that might explain the Asian preference. But I'd like to hear from a source that is not explicitly Asian (since I've seen the same choices in many non-Asian groups).
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by nocman 16y ago
I'd like to know more specifically the choice of acceptable instruments. My observation is that the choices of piano and violin are not limited to Asian families (at least, not in the US). There seems to be a link between people who wish
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by nocman 16y ago
I don't think it is vague at all. For one reason. Hitting the "Submit" button happens within a context. The person just filled out a form. That form showed up in their web browser because they navigated to the page the form was on. Much
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by nocman 16y ago
Just to be clear, I didn't describe Lisp as "natural", I described using the STL (meaning, particularly, heavy use of STL algorithms, function objects, etc) as feeling terribly unnatural and forced. Judging by the reaction here, "unnatural
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by nocman 16y ago
"I'm both a Lisp and a C++ fan..." I find that to be very interesting. I spent far too many years working with C++, trying to master all of its nooks and crannies. It was my frustration with the limits of the language that drove me to fin
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by nocman 16y ago
Ugh. Having horrible flashbacks here. :-D I once worked for a company that had a version control system where they checked in all the data by project. You could go in an see the history of a project by reviewing the documents (emails, spr
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by nocman 16y ago
I'm not sure whether to respond to that with "How stupid can you be?" or "I find that very difficult to believe."
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by nocman 16y ago
If he had only screwed up the the "your" you pointed out (as in "you're never...") it might be a humorous mistake. But he intentionally screwed up both -- he also said "able to get you're points across". BTW, thank's for pointing this
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by nocman 16y ago
One down side to CCL is that it will not run on Intel boxes that don't have the SSE2 instruction set extensions. That isn't a big deal if you're doing a web application on the server of your choice (which will probably have SSE2), but if y
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by nocman 16y ago
I realize this is all intended to be in jest, but I really don't think it is appropriate to joke about companies killing people. There's really nothing funny about it (especially because it is an event that could very well happen in real l
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by nocman 16y ago
"So every year Martin would get his blood checked, fearing the 1% to 2% chance that the marker had spiked. It never did, and Martin slipped into a routine that included juggling long hours at the office, raising three teenage boys, racing c
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by nocman 16y ago
Actually, the pedagogy of his videos is the thing that the opposite of "broken". Khan has an excellent teaching style, and gets his points across rather well. So calling it "pedagogically broken" is completely ridiculous. If you had
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by nocman 16y ago
"creating marcos"? Marco who? :-D Please tell me you meant "creating macros" -- or is there some secret meaning of "marco" that I'm missing here?
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by nocman 16y ago
In the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" they refer to this as "rubber ducking". The origin of the term was from a particular programmer who kept a rubber duck sitting near his computer (I believe on his monitor, I don't have the book handy
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by nocman 16y ago
Geez, man. Do you ever sleep? :-) Oh, and just out of curiosity, what guitar music are you spending the most time on? Is it mostly your own stuff, or are you learning a lot of things written by others?
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by nocman 16y ago
Seems to me like you are jumping to a pretty big conclusion about nkohari's comment. Or am I misunderstanding what you were trying to say? I didn't see any "feeling superior" at all in what nkohari said. You don't have to feel superior to
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by nocman 16y ago
You make it sound like pop is the only alternative to rap. I happen to like some of both (along with a lot of other styles of music), but am not interested in the rants of people who are acting like jerks from either musical style. Dave Mc
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by nocman 16y ago
Conway didn't say that he's not interested in making lots of money. Sounded to me like he was just pointing out that making money is not his primary motivation for investing. Now, I don't know him at all, so I can't vouch for whether he's
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by nocman 16y ago
By "something" do you mean Ruby itself, or the fact that most Ruby implemenations are slow? If it was the former, then I think you're responding to the wrong statement. The statement was about "5 things you dislike about the tools and lan
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by nocman 16y ago
Jerry Lucas used his own memory system and his personal collection of data on opponents to his advantage during his extremely successful basketball career. The video at the following link discusses it briefly. At the moment I can't find an
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by nocman 16y ago
I think it is also important to remember something else here. Guy Steele certainly had significant influence on Java, but he was far from the final decision maker. I'm sure there are tons of things he would have wished Java to have (or no
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by nocman 16y ago
Maybe I'm weird (and I've been accused of that before), but I can't think of a single beverage that tastes better to me through a straw. All cold drinks taste best (to me) direct from a glass (and, I mean one made of glass ). Hot coffee,

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