s-phi-nl

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Tk gui toolkit tutorial(tkdocs.com)
2 points by s-phi-nl 17y ago|0 comments
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Choosing names for your computers(faqs.org)
77 points by s-phi-nl 17y ago|86 comments
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Given that Google does rewrite the code of many companies that they buy, it wouldn't be surprising if they did rewrite the ITA code.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
This reminds me of this article about the iPad and Steve Wozniak: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247922
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Cincom Smalltalk's Web Velocity seems to have something like what you describe. See http://vimeo.com/groups/webvelocity/videos/6156626 at about 1:17
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I wish more people knew Latin, too. My interest in languages is one of the reasons both that I am here and that I have a φ in my username. I posted the translation because I thought doing so would teach the most people a useful Latin phras
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Translation: Who will guard the guards? The people.
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Graphical interface: BART train schedule redesign(worrydream.com)
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Implementing an External DSL(martinfowler.com)
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Exact Cover problems(en.wikipedia.org)
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752262 .
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Code Readability(clarityincode.com)
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
It's up for me. In the future, take a look at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ .
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
For a hilarious usage of this stuff, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
There is. After you flag something, the link that used to say "flag" changes to "unflag".
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
For a tutorial on solving sudoku using Dancing Links, see this tutorial: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~xche635/dlx_sodoku/
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Have you looked at Listia? http://www.listia.com/
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
An open-source Smalltalk implementation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak .
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Paging the Past of Tinkering(jarober.com)
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Easing Smalltalk compatibility with Grease(blog.fitzell.ca)
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046516 Web apps in Objective C --- the second-least safe programming language on the market. Oh please, oh please, build your next huge application in this. College tuition for my kids is f
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
This reminds me of John Harrison's invention of the chronometer. In both cases, a modest Briton brought a solution to an "impossible problem" to the officials, who rejected it because it was too simple to be correct. (John Harrison also ha
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I find both Google and searchyc useful. When one doesn't find what I'm looking for, the other usually does.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
This and the post by silentbicycle above [1] make the point that GNOME abandoned the Unix philosophy to provide a more Windows-style monolithic GUI program. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059853
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Why is Objective-C so unsafe? From what little I know about it, I see no reason why it should be less safe than, say, Smalltalk. If Objective-C is the second-least safe language, what is the least safe language?
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
The more direct response to the OP would be to limit downvoting based on whether a user has already downvoted another post of the same user already. But even that gets silly.
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Census uses partnerships to count hard-to-reach people(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by s-phi-nl 17y ago|0 comments
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
You mentioned in your essay on this that you wrote a sign-up program for it. Just out of curiosity, did you use Arc? If not, why not? If it was written in Arc, I'd guess that it was much simpler than HN in terms of complexity. (Blatantly
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
You can do that using the best list at http://news.ycombinator.com/best . This is the best recent stories, for some value of recent (I believe 10 days).
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
The prize committee did declare that there was "no suitable living candidate" the year after Gandhi died.

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