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by randrews 16y ago
Clarity from changing "Objective C" to "Objective-C", whatever. The rest of the changes didn't add clarity, they were totally stylistic. People are not computers, and we're touchy about stuff we write. If you want to add a tag to my questio
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by randrews 16y ago
That's exactly why it is worth quitting over: I don't want to be part of a culture where that's normal.
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by randrews 16y ago
I asked two questions, one about C and one about Objective C. I got answers to both, relatively quickly. The answers worked. But, in the C question, I provided some more information by adding a comment instead of editing my post. Result? Co
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by randrews 16y ago
All that stuff would be nice to have, but I don't think they're required for it to be a widely useful language. What I think the minimal required set is: - Fix "this". Even people who know what they're doing screw it up. - Make keywords n
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by randrews 16y ago
I like this, but I think that any site that implements it will have the same result Netscape did: http://www.jwz.org/doc/about.html
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by randrews 16y ago
Hopefully, if I am writing a garbage collector from scratch, it won't be in a context where performance matters. :) I thought the best part of that section was that the garbage collector ran in constant space, which makes sense as a require
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by randrews 16y ago
I'm looking forward to this. I can't claim to have rigorously done every exercise, but I did read the books closely enough to know what was in there if I ever need to, say, write a garbage collector. The real reason to read them, though, is
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by randrews 16y ago
Yes, you're right, but the argument is still about semantics. Java programmers don't think in terms of passing a reference, they think in terms of passing an object (which happens to be done by passing a reference to it). There's a correc
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by randrews 16y ago
It's a war over semantics. Everyone agrees that primitives are pass-by-value, but when you pass an object, is that pass-by-reference because you're passing a reference to the object, or pass-by-value because you're passing the reference by
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Consciousness, copy-protection, and airport security(rbandrews.dreamwidth.org)
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by randrews 16y ago
A thousand times this. Not only do abused people not know any better, they're actively prevented from knowing any better. It's how abuse works . It's especially terrible when parents do it, because children are naturally, genetically predi
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by randrews 16y ago
That's a lot like how abuse works: cut off from any social reality outside the abuser's, you come to think you deserve it; being abused becomes normal. Reading that WSJ article made me angry, because it's obvious that's what she's trying to
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Proposal for a kinder copy protection system(rbandrews.dreamwidth.org)
1 points by randrews 16y ago|0 comments
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by randrews 16y ago
It was these that won me over: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . Most of the time I know what general sort of thing I'm looking for, and I'm happy to give the search engine hints if it'll help. Even if I don't, it'll essentially flat-out
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by randrews 16y ago
This kind of worries me. On the one hand, Google isn't the best web search tool. I've switched to DuckDuckGo, and so has everyone who's seen me use it. But, I think Google still provides a valuable public service: indexing the entire web an
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by randrews 16y ago
43. Well then. I find that a lot of the questions are things that I can do, I just have to think about it, where other people can do it automatically. For example, telling someone's emotions from looking at their face: all people look prett
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by randrews 16y ago
The "Expected growth in merchandise purchases made on cell phones" graph in this article may be the worst one I have ever seen. They extrapolated an exponential growth curve from one point . They only have data for 2009! Not even 2010, muc
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by randrews 16y ago
What a terrible article. The author bought a Mac, expected it to work exactly like a Windows PC, and then returned it when it didn't. Somehow this is Apple's fault. Some choice bits: TextEdit, essentially a stripped-down version of Note
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by randrews 16y ago
The stereotypical "never gonna work" idea that I always see is this: * There's a sort of thing that there are many implementations of (website logins, say) * Having many implementations is confusing, one canonical one would be better (Hey!
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by randrews 16y ago
I've been looking at one of these: http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKGK... Seems like a fun toy, and I really enjoyed the "write bubble sort on a PIC" project I had in college.
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by randrews 16y ago
Just bought the ebook of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. I liked Bruce Tate's talk on it at Lone Star Ruby Conf; I was going to wait to buy it until I actually had time to read it, but I figure it'll never be cheaper than right now. Looks l
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by randrews 16y ago
It doesn't seem to work with folders... I dragged an Xcode project folder on to it and it spun forever at 0% uploaded. Other than that, it's pretty cool. Very nice interface. You should make a shell extension or something so I can right-cli
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The True Story of Hello World(lisha.ufsc.br)
2 points by randrews 16y ago|0 comments
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A Case of Physical Abuse in a Japanese School(everything2.com)
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by randrews 16y ago
It's true, and I'll probably remember it now. But, since I have every single time used the -f flag, it would make a lot more sense for it to say "you asked me to compress a file that doesn't exist and ends in .tar; I bet that's what you mea
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by randrews 16y ago
I've never actually been bitten by rm (or done anything remotely this badass) but in college I did have a bad Unix moment: Late at night, I was tarring up a finished project right before emailing it to my professor. I ran: tar -cvf *.
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by randrews 16y ago
The Unix Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike has an excellent introduction to lex and yacc in it. Following along with this gave me an idea of how languages get parsed and turned into code, and you can work though the
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by randrews 16y ago
This is a totally content-free post, complete with a disturbing and irrelevant image of someone committing suicide.
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by randrews 16y ago
I never said Apple wasn't bad news, just that MS wasn't exactly a champion of small business either.
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by randrews 16y ago
Microsoft "saw to" that? What about IBM, Netscape, the bundling deals with hardware manufacturers... Microsoft has screwed at least as many small companies as Apple.

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