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811.
by oconnore 16y ago
True, but the number of developers who expect batteries to be included is not small. And those are the people who "* for dummies" markets to. And when your manager goes to Barnes and Noble and sees an entire wall of "* in 3 days", guess wha
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by oconnore 16y ago
The problem is most people building meaningful programs are not people with "just a quick job to do". For those people, having abstractions available allows them to focus on the harder problems that actually matter, instead of constantly re
813.
by oconnore 16y ago
It's rock solid for us, although we are using Elephant for disk storage, so I have no knowledge of the fluid library. http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks/browse_thread/thread...
814.
by oconnore 16y ago
True, but accepting, say, 1-1000 arbitrary Unicode characters is a step in the right direction.
815.
by oconnore 16y ago
What? There are zero lisp compilers that store COMPILED lisp code as cons structures. He might as well reference GCC's abstract syntax tree, notice that it's huge, and quickly dismiss C as appropriate for embedded work. Most lisp compilers
816.
by oconnore 16y ago
Well, for better or for worse, no lisper I know would ever try to fuse a database system in at the kernel level. That's one of the ugliest system designs I've ever heard of. The whole point of lisp is that the language is extensible, so tha
817.
by oconnore 17y ago
This comparison doesn't work. For starters, shopping carts are free, given to you for your own convenience. Furthermore, you don't need a shopping cart to use the mall.
818.
by oconnore 17y ago
Your use of "moral content" is entirely ambiguous, because that content will vary depending on which moral system you refer. And since a market is essentially an amalgamation of individuals (whom likely have or are capable of inducing moral
819.
by oconnore 17y ago
When your Superbowl ad turns into an instant meme, surely you have achieved sainthood in the marketing community.
820.
by oconnore 17y ago
I'm not acting offended. I did mean that. And at this point you are adding nothing to this discussion. Quoting generic Wikipedia articles, of which you only skimmed the first paragraph, does not prove your point, whatever that may be. Neith
821.
by oconnore 17y ago
You flew right over the point, and you had to slather your post in ad hominem to get there. It's not about justifying carpet bombing, it's about not fighting when you don't have to. Vietnam was a horrible idea, not because we didn't have pr
822.
by oconnore 17y ago
True, I wasn't all that clear about self defense. I think self-defense is really the one instance where you would be willing to wage total war (whether as a country, or as a person). In that case, the country (or person) would do whatever i
823.
by oconnore 17y ago
You suggest that there exists some "moral code" which justifies killing each other in certain circumstances. Combat is never respectful, nor is it ever moral. To make honorable rules of engagement is to obscure the horrific violation of hum
824.
by oconnore 17y ago
You could use a built in object system instead of trying to roll your own? Closures are wonderful, but when you have access to a high quality piece of software designed to make holding state easy, why not use it?
825.
by oconnore 17y ago
Bash fu? alias qwer='curl -o'
826.
by oconnore 17y ago
You'd also be surprised at how difficult it is to get wifi in ancient Rome.
827.
by oconnore 17y ago
I wrote a small improvement on the default lisp indentation: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2951 Vim users are yet to have a full Slime replacement, but Nekthuth is quite nice.
828.
by oconnore 17y ago
On another note, customer service is typically not happy when they claim that a certain error message is impossible and you reply with the section of source code that generated it.
829.
by oconnore 17y ago
Thank you. I should have read this first. I got all the way to the bottom before I realized his only point was that editing macros are cool.
830.
by oconnore 17y ago
http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/compare I'm surprised to see Opera 10.50 beat out Chrome and Firefox.
831.
by oconnore 17y ago
So, Java is popular because it is popular... ugh. :P
832.
by oconnore 17y ago
I don't consider the executable critique to be legitimate. Java cannot run without a JRE, and arbitrary Lisp code cannot run without the entire Lisp image without losing runtime compilation. It would be possible to forbid (eval ...) and fri
833.
by oconnore 17y ago
The biggest problem in my opinion is multimedia support. I bet there is a market for a $25-50 Linux distribution with Open Office configured to use Ms-Office formats by default, have support for all "royalties required" formats, Microsoft f
834.
by oconnore 17y ago
I am going to up vote this, and even comment so that I feel less guilty for doing exactly what napierzaza accuses. As a bonus, I will even feel intellectually superior by agreeing with his meta-analysis of the situation.
835.
by oconnore 17y ago
GCC?! Real programmers use punch cards. More seriously, abstraction is not the issue. The issue is poorly written libraries and languages that require you to worry about the small details. Your brain can handle many small details or a few b
836.
by oconnore 17y ago
I exist too! http://www.opera.com/
837.
by oconnore 17y ago
My University paper did something like this. They were looking for someone to do some website design and maintenance for them at $300 a semester, and I offered to help. Not because eleven dollars a week rewards the effort I would put in, bu
838.
by oconnore 17y ago
I don't think this should be down voted, because it represents a fairly common (and therefore interesting) opinion. Also, the replies are enlightening.
839.
by oconnore 17y ago
Tichy, I have checked. I'm almost positive it doesn't exist, but I welcome others to prove me wrong. I don't see how you made the logical conclusion that I was asking questions without doing any research at all?
840.
by oconnore 17y ago
Speaking of things the scientific community needs: less academic snobbery.

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