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by norswap 9y ago
Haha, no. Most data is crap and has no value. Even "valuable" data is only so when taken as an aggregate. Not that given enough data you can't do insidious stuff. It just isn't that valuable at the end of the day.
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Blinded by "how"(blog.andymatuschak.org)
1 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
You are right, I don't know IBM and Red Hat reasons, but I do not trust them very far on this. Red Hat has a great Java alternative in Ceylon with a module system which seemed far more sensible when I read about it (you should take thi
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by norswap 9y ago
If I may venture a prediction, the dealbreaker is going to be the price. MacBooks are overpriced, and have grown more so, and it looks like Microsoft is trying to position itself on that premium segment (the Surface tablets being ridiculous
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by norswap 9y ago
One good reason to refuse Jigsaw: it's far far too complex. I watched a whole hour and a half presentation on it, and the time was well necessary to explain the way things work and outline a migration path for existing code. The worst
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Satisfaction and Progress in Open Ended Work(blog.andymatuschak.org)
2 points by norswap 10y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 10y ago
It is a model, so obviously wrong, but it can still be useful. It's presented in an entertaining manner (at least to some of us). The whole "Gervais Principle" thing is a model, but this part in particular highlights the curs
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by norswap 10y ago
If you read the comments (not specifically of this piece), you'll see it isn't so. It's meant as an amusing theory, where tidbits might be useful.
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by norswap 10y ago
In the same vein: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-...
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The Curse of Development(ribbonfarm.com)
56 points by norswap 10y ago|28 comments
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by norswap 10y ago
Alternative is the new black. Or maybe it is the new indie?
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by norswap 10y ago
Correlation is not causation. But yeah, exercising is healthy. Who knew?
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by norswap 10y ago
Better write a blogpost about it.
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by norswap 10y ago
> So? So it makes Twitter a frustrating experience for those that do not "just" want to consume content, and it's one of the reason that it is not growing.
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by norswap 10y ago
Twitter's prime flaw is that it is fundamentally narcissistic in a way that, say Facebook, isn't. Of course you can be narcissistic on Facebook, but you can just add your friends and react on their shit, and occasionally post a ph
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by norswap 10y ago
Seems to me, most of these entrepreneurs could do with a bit more of yawning in their faces in order to come back down to earth. Don't get me wrong, many good things come out of silicon valley, and it's sometimes hard to judge the
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by norswap 10y ago
If you want to exercise your Prolog-foo: https://github.com/norswap/prolog-dry
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A brief history of software engineering(faculty.washington.edu)
2 points by norswap 10y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 10y ago
"A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler" is a bit more than what I want. I just want a cross-platform way to install/remove (and query the status of) a daemon process (i.e. run your process as a Windows s
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by norswap 10y ago
Linux is humongous. I don't know about what Google is trying to achieve with Fuschia, but I if you're willing to make trade-offs, I believe you can make an OS that is multiple order of magnitudes smaller than Linux (or other Unixe
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by norswap 10y ago
Interestingly, I thought of doing this, and still might. The biggest caveat is that you still have to rely on the buggy conference templates (or spend a lot of time recreating them).
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by norswap 10y ago
What would have made this a smash hit: Windows support. There is still no reasonable truly cross-platform way to deploy daemons.
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by norswap 10y ago
> It was created to help users discover resources It's not the first time I see this claim in a REST API. What is it supposed to mean? Does it hint at some form of automatic (machine-driven) discovery, or is it just a pompous way to
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by norswap 10y ago
Something better :) Honestly, nothing is 100% convincing, but if I could pick anything, I'd use HMTL with some templating magic (for generating references). It still leaves the issue of positioning floats and page breaks, which is real
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by norswap 10y ago
Everywhere I turn, people speak of AI. Often to say little, or less, as is the case here. The ACM in full splendor (I'm a member).
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LaTeX Tooling Guide(norswap.com)
167 points by norswap 10y ago|63 comments
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Explosive Knowledge: Cryptology in the 20th Century(vanemden.wordpress.com)
1 points by norswap 10y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 10y ago
> Some day, I would like to design a language that gets this right. But for the moment, I remain focused on Sandstorm.io. Hopefully someone will beat me to it. Two language that do it: Whiley ( http://whiley.org/ ) and Daf
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by norswap 10y ago
Brilliant! I'd like to see those numbers summarized somewhere though, a bit like the latency numbers every programmer should know: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 (visual: https://i.imgur.com&#x2
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by norswap 10y ago
This, totally. Starcraft 2 has a level of finish, particularly in those regards that makes the whole experience much more satisfying. Just take SC2 for a spin and look at how your army compresses to pass a bottleneck, then expands again onc

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