rincewind

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by rincewind 17y ago
Please do not create a no-signal-noise-only-persona. There is a reason why "consultant barbie", "the joke explainer" and "mr i tell you why i upvote" are not here but on reddit.
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by rincewind 17y ago
I tried this with arc (worked with anarki based in arc2) http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8172 The syntax is inspired by McCarthy's in his paper from 1958. It works, but i don't find it useful.
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by rincewind 17y ago
http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html
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by rincewind 17y ago
I trust security advice from tptacek or cperciva more than from [name withheld until you vote]. Threads get really confusing when [name withheld until you vote] argues with himself all the time.
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by rincewind 17y ago
Odd. I generally only pull in a few comments a day—and most of those are fairly constructive—even when they are critical. Something was wrong. half of the comments on that post are just stuff like "great post. thank you.". To the other ha
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by rincewind 17y ago
I paraphrase: He constructs a narrative of a hn user who does not feel "entitled" because he got what he wants. This hn user must be in constant anxiety because he is more successful than he deserves, so he rationalizes his position by expl
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by rincewind 17y ago
this sounds a bit like timecube
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by rincewind 17y ago
You don't write software for power plants in COBOL. COBOL is intedned for stuff like managing payrolls, not control engineering.
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by rincewind 17y ago
I am interested in the "ugly hack". Did you use atoms or write your own coroutines with clojure-cont?
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by rincewind 17y ago
so what does M-x butterfly do?
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by rincewind 17y ago
I think you mean the first world war.
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by rincewind 17y ago
Maybe it's worse with harvard undergraduates than "normal people", because they are better at recalling and rationalizing their decisions.
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by rincewind 17y ago
This is the bill(in German): http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/128/1612850.pdf relevant part: Die Sperrung erfolgt mindestens auf der Ebene der vollqualifizierten Domain- namen, deren Auflösung in die zugehörigen Internetpro
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by rincewind 17y ago
You can access the servers by their IP adresses. The filtering will be DNS-based
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by rincewind 17y ago
For Hackers maybe, but most people do not even see the benefits in using Jabber over MSN or ICQ
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by rincewind 17y ago
Our OS Prof. told us that some programs for Windows NT like compilers display progress bars to look more interactive (to the kernel, not the User) and to generate I/O completion events to get stuff done faster.
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by rincewind 17y ago
squeak smalltalk
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by rincewind 17y ago
Aristotle has thought of himself as a "political" being, but he perceived the world and the meaning of "political" in a very different way from me and you.
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by rincewind 17y ago
It's also the /proc filesystem
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by rincewind 17y ago
Drupal is a CMS written PHP that has plugins for the features you describe.
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by rincewind 17y ago
Google is smart enough for this: http://www.google.com/search?q=1%2011%2021%201211%20111221%2...
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by rincewind 17y ago
That is exactly the point of the story. Gravity works the same way everywhere in this universe (this includes non-earth locations). But instead of applying common sense, the TA made up a fact about the Moon. Maybe there is some kind of
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by rincewind 17y ago
ssl client certificates
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by rincewind 18y ago
Nice was meant to be an improvement upon java when it did not have generics. Java 1.5 introduced generics that worked different from Nice's, so Nice became a dead end. Nice also supported a more functional programming style. For example the
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by rincewind 18y ago
The name for this in HCI-experiments is wizard-of-oz method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment
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by rincewind 18y ago
This looks like a one of "Murphys Laws of Work" e.g. http://www.bored.com/jokes/0241377.html (Conway's Law #2)
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by rincewind 18y ago
What about Clojure? http://gist.github.com/55921
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by rincewind 18y ago
Do you mean you can't have both?
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by rincewind 18y ago
Don't you mean it has an S-expression syntax? The article also got the syntax part wrong. The syntax of F-Script is smalltalk's not Objective-C's. Objective-C's object semantics was influenced by smalltalk, so F-Script looks and feels lik
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by rincewind 18y ago
It shouldn't be that hard in Squeak + Etoys. Drawing things interactively and hooking up dials to them is the Standard Etoys tutorial.

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