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by rsheridan6 19y ago
I'm doing just that. Not everybody at Hacker News is going to become a successful founder who ends up selling their startup for millions of dollars. I fucked up my shot at it and ended up in tons of debt. If I had followed Paul Graham's
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
If you use paredit.el in Emacs, it would be absolutely trivial to write Arc'. Some Schemes are already sort of like that, because they allow you to use brackets as parentheses, and they require that closing brackets match opening brackets,
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
Seconded. Spivak is ideal for self-study because there is an answer book for it. I tried Apostol first, and, although it's a good book, I had no idea if I was doing the exercises right because I didn't know what a proof was supposed to lo
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
Or you can just do a free 10-day course from this organization: http://www.dhamma.org/ or others.
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
Class isn't just about income. It's also a cultural thing, reflected in your grammar, clothes, mannerisms, etc. A plumber whose vocabulary includes "ain't" and makes $40,000 is not of the same social class as an assistant professor with t
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
How would it benefit Chrysler to open the source? According to this article, their software gives them a competitive advantage. Why would they want to share it with other companies?
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
No, but jar was involved with T, which had the same reason according to pg.
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
>...and Scheme has no libraries. That's a strange reason to write a brand-new language that has even fewer libraries. If that's the problem with Scheme. I hope PG and JAR had better reasons than that.
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by rsheridan6 19y ago
Would it be feasible for a competitor to use Ebay's network effects? If users gave an Ebay-killer their Ebay passwords, their feedback could be imported, helping to get the initial activation energy. A superior auction/marketplace meta-s
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by rsheridan6 20y ago
I wouldn't count them out just yet. It's true that they can't kill a web 2.0 businesses like youtube the way they could kill desktop-based competitors in the past, but don't forget that the browser itself is a desktop-based app. If I contr