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Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: In Defense of Arc(chartophylax.blogspot.com)
31 points by rml 19y ago|30 comments
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by rml 19y ago
On a related note, it seems to me that if you can "drive a new approach to social networking and solve key problems holding back the advancement of the semantic web," you ought to be able to create a site whose visual structure doesn't coll
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Online Reputations and the Limited Value of the 'Website as Medieval City-State' Model(chartophylax.blogspot.com)
1 points by rml 19y ago|0 comments
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by rml 19y ago
I was born and raised in upstate New York. I have never seen an article that better describes the rotting corpse that is the Rust Belt of the United States - "You can't make money with some goofy website! When are you going to get a real jo
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by rml 19y ago
... where "utilize social connections best" is defined as "being born into the right family." I see your point.
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by rml 19y ago
No particular reason -- I just read it several days ago, enjoyed it, and was hoping others might have suggestions as to further reading. Thanks for the link to Stross, I'll check it out.
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by rml 19y ago
What is it about his style that you dislike? For example, is it the colloquialisms, the pace at which the story moves, or is it something more structural?
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Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe (free download)(craphound.com)
3 points by rml 19y ago|5 comments
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by rml 19y ago
Point #3 ('Use succinct languages') deserves special mention. I've noticed time and again that writing small helper functions (especially new predicates) at my Scheme REPL leads to being able to express the problem at hand with ever more cl
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by rml 19y ago
Thanks to whomever posted this... I love getting the chance to poke through someone's code and (hopefully) learn from it.
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by rml 19y ago
Reading the comments here, I don't think the commenters are fully grasping Adams' point. Especially interesting is his desire that the hole-digging robots be self-replicating, so as to allow for ever greater numbers of replacements, lower c