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by sah 17y ago
You're overestimating the amount of effort and creativity it takes to play a song someone else wrote, and underestimating the effort and creativity involved in the kind of sampling Danger Mouse did on the Grey Album. Kenny G definitely had
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by sah 17y ago
The differences are hard to notice, but to me the /classic page is subtly better. Things I'm personally interested in ("Fibers & Cooperative Scheduling in Ruby") are mostly voted a couple places higher, and things that bored me ("Steve
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by sah 18y ago
Not just hilarious, but truly in the spirit of AFD, unlike most of the lame "pranks" that plague the internet every April 1st. Maybe it was unwise and bad for business or maybe it didn't actually matter, I don't know. But either way, this
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by sah 18y ago
Isn't "this feels like clutter to me" what the down-mod button is for?
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by sah 18y ago
"Making people happy" is hard to define, but you can pick better concrete metrics than RMSE, and this article offers suggestions on how. An important part of solving any problem is defining success correctly.
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by sah 18y ago
I should have added: if you can prevent the hire, probably the most significant thing you can do for the company is to learn how to correct the problems, real or perceived, that have led to the desire for a new engineering manager.
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by sah 18y ago
It's normal for the VP Eng to be a peer of the CTO and report directly to the CEO. That said, you are almost certainly being marginalized. Your CEO likely knows he needs your irreplaceable understanding of the company's technology, but ot
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by sah 18y ago
I see your point about the bad interaction between indentation-based block delimitation and parens for function parameter delimitation. But I think something like Ruby's block syntax should be doable, and probably you can even pass multiple
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by sah 18y ago
Yeah, Python has named local functions: def f(x): def g(x): return 2 * x def h(x): return 1 + x return g(h(x)) More interesting was your point that Haskell has anonymous functions and is whitespace delimited. I don't thi
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by sah 18y ago
Would you find it problematic to write if and for statements like this? def _forbody(x): def _ifbody(x): print x if x % 2: _ifbody(x) for x in xrange(10): _forbody(x)
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by sah 18y ago
Obviously no reasonable person wants Python to be identical to Ruby, since those who like Ruby better can go use it. But Python has over its lifetime incorporated new ideas from other languages. Giving substantive reasons why you don't li
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by sah 18y ago
You wouldn't want to have to declare named functions for the bodies of built-in control flow constructs like if/else statements and for loops, right? All of the reasons why also apply to why you might not want to declare named functions in
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by sah 18y ago
You might say by the same argument that single-line lambda expressions take care of 90 or 99% of cases, and you should revert to using named functions for the rest. I don't think either is true -- if you have more flexibility in the syntax,
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by sah 18y ago
A similar feature was already proposed and rejected: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0340/ Anyway, I'm kind of sad that people seem to want a straight copy of Ruby's blocks. I'd prefer syntax that allowed passing more than one block t
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by sah 18y ago
A great team can sometimes recognize a bad idea early enough and replace it with a better one. I've seen that happen. Good ideas have a lot less ability to replace bad teams. (Or rather, they can do that just fine, by letting the bad tea
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by sah 18y ago
When I first realized that various small businesses and websites I was familiar with were quietly making millions, it changed the direction of my ambitions and got me interested in starting a business. So, I found that pretty interesting.
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by sah 18y ago
"if some business really wants to remain private about their success, then why blame the media or anyone else for not talking about them" Because it's the news media's job to tell us about interesting and important things that are happeni
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by sah 18y ago
Can someone explain what a CSS framework is, and why I might want to use one?
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The New Indie Videogame Movement(online.wsj.com)
25 points by sah 18y ago|24 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Well, they certainly don't when the ensuing argument buries the valuable thread in question! Lots of good book recommendations below, folks. Keep scrolling.
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by sah 18y ago
Wow, your school was a lot better than mine.
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by sah 18y ago
I assume that if cell phones were even a little likely to cause plane crashes, passengers wouldn't be allowed to carry them on planes at all.
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by sah 18y ago
The real gain is that I can find interesting things without wading through the crap on Reddit, and read comments from the news.YC community. I think this article was fine.
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by sah 18y ago
If the number of slaves is growing more slowly than the population, slavery is on the decline as a cultural institution, even if the absolute number of slaves is increasing. I would feel good about that.
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by sah 18y ago
Some languages have more strengths (or more weaknesses) than others. If you want to claim that every language is useful and good in its own special way, you may have to accept that COBOL is primarily good at being compatible with old system
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by sah 18y ago
I think the costs of safety checks can be more pronounced in software than in other areas of business. It's not just that good hackers are particularly irritated by them -- they're irritated for a reason. A two-week release-process lag is
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by sah 18y ago
Newer versions of uTorrent have features designed to maximize its bandwidth usage while getting out of the way of other network traffic, so that it doesn't monopolize your connection. Not much has been written about that stuff so far, but
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by sah 18y ago
Isn't that a separate issue? You can be part of a company from day one and not have any input into its direction, and maybe sometimes you can join late and have significant influence on future decisions.
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by sah 18y ago
So what do you call someone who joins a company before any salaried employees and has equity comparable to that of the founders?
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by sah 18y ago
Come on, it's not as simple as " WRONG ". Chrome acts more like an OS, in part by delegating many tasks to the OS itself. Firefox does more of what an OS needs to do, because it does all the work of handling those tasks in a simplified way

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