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Supreme Court to Decide Standard for Proving Invalidity of a Patent(eff.org)
2 points by rickmode 16y ago|1 comments
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by rickmode 16y ago
So is the magic here, over Clojure, that Kawa uses less ephemeral garbage, or is it doing Dalvic bytecode generation, or is it the size of the dependent runtime libraries, or ...?
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by rickmode 16y ago
Common Lisp may be worth another look. I've been loving Clojure for the past few months but this looks promising. Quicklisp looks especially nice, hopefully solving the packaging and dependency situation.
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by rickmode 16y ago
Indeed. The site seems geared to linking existing cofounders rather than matching new ones.
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by rickmode 16y ago
It won't make sense until you make a concerted effort to learn lisp. Dig into "The Little Schemer". It's enlightening. And fun.
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by rickmode 16y ago
I take the comment "don't expect your partner to be an expert in your career; rather, expect support". The comment's wording sounds a bit like "put women in their place", but I suspect that isn't the intent.
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by rickmode 16y ago
As hyperlink: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627390
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by rickmode 16y ago
Lying is endemic in corporate culture; success in corporations is not the same as being good at your job. Watch out for Snakes in suits. I suggest creating or finding a work situation where the group isn't big enough for bosses, and thus co
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Feds to look at Apple policy on programming tools(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by rickmode 16y ago|1 comments
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by rickmode 16y ago
grogsearch.com is also available. I'm with the other dissenters here. Groggle is an obvious play on Google. Get over it.
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by rickmode 16y ago
My head just exploded.
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by rickmode 17y ago
Perhaps Sun didn't respond to the vulnerability because Sun doesn't exist anymore.
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by rickmode 17y ago
Further, Apple specifically constrains multitasking to keep the user experience smooth and fun. Allowing free multitasking is a path to madness. Only a power-user would care or want it. And even though eventually a power-user would need to
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by rickmode 17y ago
Patents and copyrights are artificial government grants making the intangible tangible. It's the artificialness that bothers me. Our culture has come to think ideas are real like real estate. But they are not. They are intangible, and so
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by rickmode 17y ago
I have an excuse to stay up all night playing video games, watching TV and reading!
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Copyright and wrong: Why the rules on copyright need to return to their roots(economist.com)
57 points by rickmode 17y ago|33 comments
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by rickmode 17y ago
Heh... Pun not intended; just typing too fast.
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by rickmode 17y ago
What happened is the we finally hit "the dream" of building software out of large building blocks instead of having to reinvent screws and bolts for every project. The lack of fun is, in my opinion, a side effect of using weak languages tha
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by rickmode 17y ago
His example (around minute 12) doesn't sell static over dynamic typing for me. He asserts that using static types makes a program more provably correct but then he doesn't really back this up. In my experience a type system helps avoid mist
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by rickmode 17y ago
This sounds a heck of a lot like the drive by wire issues Toyota is having. As technologist we should have a healthy distrust of any software. It's simply too complex to predict. Is it corporation group-think that causes them to ignore this
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by rickmode 17y ago
Is this your bot? If so a second link to the Hacker News discuss page would be nice.
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by rickmode 17y ago
Thanks for the tips. I haven't checked out Postmodern. I'll check that out and try building up something with that stack.
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Common Lisp Pain(rickmode.com)
7 points by rickmode 17y ago|2 comments
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by rickmode 17y ago
Gold and silver used to have value because our currencies were based on it. This prevented governments from printing money to inflate themselves out of debt. That is, a government with a fiat currency can devalue their own currency to also
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by rickmode 17y ago
Right on. And I can write a word processor in one mouse click. (OK maybe a double-click.)
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by rickmode 17y ago
"...that's not a bad salary." That's entitlement thinking and it ignores economics. Salaries in software (and in most white collar jobs) are a negotiation. If all goes well the employer feels they are slightly overpaying and the employee fe
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by rickmode 17y ago
word! learning to program is far easier than learning to be smooth with the ladies...
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by rickmode 17y ago
Are they still running your code? I'd curious to know more of the history of Viaweb between 1999 and now. Is the architecture still the same (CLisp backed by files)? I'm curious from a "how good is Lisp long term" angle.
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by rickmode 17y ago
The article is way too long. For anyone that bothered to read the whole thing, did he make another point besides "let there be an easy mode and get over it"?
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by rickmode 17y ago
That bring up an excellent point: is there a strong correlation between high-PDI countries and cheap outsourcing? Even more un-PC: is there a correlation with low-PDI and high-GDP?

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