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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I think what drupeek says applies to this as well. You can be working on something and not really know what it is. I wrote this app a quite ago, only took me about 5 days to write it because it was quite simple, but it’s been years since I
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Hopefully you’ll interpret this as constructive criticism: perhaps you should have saved the publicity exercise of posting to HN till the time when you actually had this straight.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Reading this I find myself in the same position as PG: I know nothing about the app and trying to “get it”. The later explanations are more enlightening but I still don’t get what this app does.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I use POP3 as a way of storing a local backup of my gmail emails.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/1065/
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I want to agree with you. Could you be specific about what exactly is dishonest here and why?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
We’re only focusing on the BMI issue because that was revealed by the original comment. Goodside could have spikes placed on the ceiling that dug into his head only when standing. If this was the case we’d be barking up completely the wrong
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I don’t think this is true. Pretty much the only proven thing you can do if you want to live longer is calorie restriction. Supposedly this is because the fewer calories you consume the less exposure your body has to free radicals that are
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TED Talk: Peter Norvig: teaching 150,000 at once(youtube.com)
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Isn’t the main reason we are bad at these things because we don’t really care for them. I’m not suggesting we are asexual but that we don’t hold flirting etc. in very high regard.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Pure class. I love this guy.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I sort of hope you’re right because the idea of a technology that could inject things into people without them even knowing freaks me out a little bit.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
And a black sheet to block sunlight
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
The 2D (virtual) shop you are referring to: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/8601147/...
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Yeah I’ve seen him devise recipes to fit within budgetary constraints. He found it very challenging because the budget is like 40p per meal or something ridiculous like that. So he’s well aware of the problem. I think one of the things he c
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Well done everybody who didn’t reply to this.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
36/75. I honestly had no idea I knew of so many languages.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Please don’t. Googleable names only please.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
The only things I ever care about tend to be complex issues that are very difficult to distill into concise terms without significant consideration. But then again it has been suggested somewhere on here before that actually talking lots (i
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Looks like everyone ignored that bit where I said there was no point arguing over it :)
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Sounds like your thinking of /purely/ functional programming. Although none of these terms have precise definitions so there’s not really any point arguing over them.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
...you could even argue that technology has introduced a whole range of problems. My view is that technology is power and power itself is neither good nor bad, it’s neutral. Power just increases the stakes, how the cards get dealt is the im
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Why wouldn’t you use it Agda/Coq for general development? (Looking for reasons other than a presumed lack of libraries.)
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
> more importantly, there's no clear definition of what even is a Lisp. How about: If you program in it using s-expressions, it’s a Lisp.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Anyone here use Qi, Mercury, or Agda? I’m interested in what people think of those languages.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Better title: Acing The Interview Doesn’t Mean You’ll Be Hired. No explanation why though. Envy?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
You forgot the part where each team is trying to stop the other. That fact changes it from being a mere procedure to being a dynamic system.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I think you mean FP. And I agree with you.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
How about these? http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Culture-Commitment-High-te... http://www.amazon.com/neanderthals-work-people-politics-driv... http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Leadership-Personal-Journey... http://www.amazon.com/Th
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Yes of course. There are startups just started almost by accident with no money. Game development projects are nothing like that though.

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