procrastitron

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by procrastitron 17y ago
I don't think it needs to be a black and white thing where either you are stuck with a single vendor or the user experience goes to hell. There is a middle ground between anarchy and dictatorship.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
"Why do people use emacs or vi rather than a proper editor?" If this was meant to be tongue-in-check, then the writer really needs to do a better job of conveying sarcasm in his writing. However, if this line was meant to be taken seriously
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Here's the java version extended to work for various input/output types (I also renamed some things to make the code clearer): public class Z { public interface Function<In,Out> { public Out apply(In param); }
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by procrastitron 18y ago
"It’s the closest to side effect free programming you can get in OO." No, you can still have side effect free programming in OO. All of the techniques for programming without using mutable state are language agnostic and should carry over t
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Well, unfortunately I have not been able to play with many in person, just the OLPC XO and the Sony Reader. I was basing my opinion on researching them online. The ones I've looked into whose design I preferred to the Kindle were the Iliad,
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by procrastitron 18y ago
It's some sort of special display that was created just for the OLPC. It has an adjustable backlight. When the backlight is turned on all the way the display looks like a regular laptop display, but when it is turned off all the way, then t
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by procrastitron 18y ago
You're right that most laptop screen's aren't good enough for reading e-books, but the OLPC XO is an exception because of its special display. Granted, that display still isn't as nice as e-Ink, but it is good enough for serious e-book read
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by procrastitron 18y ago
I completely disagree with you regarding the Kindle's physical form; I think the Iliad (and every other e-book reader I've seen) is far ahead of it in terms of design. When I'm reading an e-book, all I want in front of me is a large screen.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
"type inferencing as used in haskell et al, that's a fairly recent development - early 90's/late 80's?" According to the wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference#Hindley.E2.80.93... ), it dates back to 1978
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Here's an interesting issue with Quines; if you release a Quine under an open source license, but only distribute the binary, does that still satisfy the rules of open source?
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Well, yes and no. This article isn't about unemployment, it's about jobless claims. While jobless claims are tallied the way you describe, unemployment numbers are derived from a monthly poll: http://www.bls.gov/cps/uiclaims.htm Those num
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Actually, the strongest criticism that I've heard about the Monty Hall problem is that the game show didn't actually work like that. I've tried explaining the problem to both people who've seen the show and those who haven't. My experience
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by procrastitron 18y ago
The vast majority of non-competes are not "mutually beneficial". In order to meet that qualification, the agreement would have to entail some form of compensation during the period that former employees are barred from working for a competi
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by procrastitron 18y ago
California has banned non-competes for a while now, and I have yet to see any numbers indicating a mass migration of employers.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Indeed... handingover.com seems like a good fit: http://expired-domain.bemmu.com/d/handingover.com
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Pascal's wager only applies if you simultaneously discount the benefits of having contributors and play up the risks of clones. This seems backwards to me; it would take much less effort for someone to contribute to your project than to for
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by procrastitron 18y ago
I'm glad to see the program being handled by Amazon this time around; hopefully that will prevent all of the distribution headaches that happened during the previous program.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
"However, portable gaming consoles (like the PSP and Nintendo DS) fell 14%. This clearly is an outcome of devices like the iPhone which are now full gaming systems in their own right" This is not clear at all. The blog author is simply asse
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by procrastitron 18y ago
I have a Lisp OS that I'm developing, and it has a real-time garbage collector. The way it does this is that the garbage is detected using the weizenbaum variant of reference counting instead of some form of mark-and-sweep. There are a coup
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by procrastitron 18y ago
You can get chicken feet in the U.S. so there's no reason to guess, just go out and try it. In my experience the taste is nothing special, but the texture is notable (the skin is fairly rubbery). More than anything, though, they are hard to
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by procrastitron 18y ago
I don't have a G-1, but I've been playing around with the emulator lately and studying the architecture, and I find it to be really impressive. Also there does appear to be a third-party SSH app ( http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ ), but
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by procrastitron 18y ago
You don't declare them in your tax return. Donations to political campaigns are not tax deductible.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Actually, they are. Or at least, if you've ever donated to any political campaign they are. http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/
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by procrastitron 18y ago
It seems to have been Thomas Hart Benton speaking about John C. Calhoun: http://books.google.com/books?id=JLpYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34&#3... And you actually got the quote pretty close to correct: "No, sir. When God Almighty lays his hand upo
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by procrastitron 18y ago
That is my experience as well, but keep in mind that the design of the source language affects this. For instance, writing a parser for C++ would be a nightmare full of bookkeeping, but a basic translation to machine code would be relativel
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by procrastitron 18y ago
I think it has more to do with projected revenue growth. The big factor in stock price isn't profit, it's growth. During the past two years Nintendo's profits doubled year over year. As a result their price rocketed to ~$80/share. Now that
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by procrastitron 18y ago
A strictly less powerful namespacing entity at that... If you used objects for namespaces, then you can create new ones at runtime, pass custom namespaces to different modules, and a lot of other nifty things I haven't even thought of yet.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Can you give some reasons you think Javascript isn't good enough for server side programming? Certainly the language is pretty powerful, and with Rhino it's fairly easy to integrate with existing libraries.
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by procrastitron 18y ago
Up until recently T-Mobile refused to let people opt-out of receiving text messages, regardless of what steps you were willing to go through. The only reason they changed their policy was because of a class-action lawsuit that was filed aga
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by procrastitron 18y ago
I don't know about hiring other people to work on it... good people will cost you and bad people will cost you even more. However, there is another alternative if you can split your design up into infrastructure and core technology; open so

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