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by sbt 15y ago
I think this is a cool idea, but it seems to necessitate a language with a pure tree structure, i.e. lisp without conventional line-comments. Perhaps code merges would be more enjoyable too if the SCM software operated on trees instead of t
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Facebook Plans Data Center in Sweden(online.wsj.com)
1 points by sbt 15y ago|0 comments
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by sbt 15y ago
I don't take notes and tweet them, but I do search for books in the online store via whispernet. I have no idea how that's going to work on this device, probably something like registering your name on Zelda, which will be a pain and probab
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JP Morgan explains the euro crisis with lego(blogs.reuters.com)
6 points by sbt 15y ago|0 comments
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AT&T Seeks Approval of T-Mobile Deal With Offer to Bring Home 5,000 Jobs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sbt 15y ago|1 comments
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Spotify is profitable(businessinsider.com)
7 points by sbt 15y ago|0 comments
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by sbt 15y ago
I'm confused. The discovery article says "Each Lens, which measures 112 meters in diameter, can provide enough energy for an average household." Does that mean we need millions (or even billions) of these structures?
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LHC results put supersymmetry theory on the spot(bbc.co.uk)
32 points by sbt 15y ago|6 comments
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by sbt 15y ago
I applaud that you want to become an expert. Emacs is a good example of a tool that takes a long time to learn, but this effort is well amortized. My intention was not to criticize C++, I think it's the right choice if you have the right pe
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by sbt 15y ago
I think the comparison to C++ is apt. Both languages are sensible tools for experts, but unfortunately very complex. In C++, this is naturally due to backward compatibility with C. But in CL, it's the result of design by committee. Clojure
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by sbt 15y ago
I disagree with the author about the lack of market for a fast lisp, essentially a Go Lisp. Clojure's arguably greatest advantage, the JVM, is also a drawback. Think of how long it takes to start the JVM or how sluggish Eclipse is. I write
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by sbt 15y ago
That's true, but it should be added that Norway was already a much more open society than the US. There are obviously reasons for this that could be discussed ad nauseum. Remember, the Norwegian police are not carrying weapons (unless they
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by sbt 15y ago
This would be great, if I could use it for Mac or Linux. There's already a kickass C editor for Windows - Visual Studio. Meanwhile, on Linux where I'd prefer to do all my C programming, there's a host of half-baked alternatives. Currently I
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by sbt 15y ago
Compiling to LLVM is an interesting prospect, because if you could make the language dovetail nicely with, meaning compile functions into LLVM functions and use their datatypes fully you could presumably be highly interoperable with other l
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by sbt 15y ago
Very cool, and certainly not easy to pull off. It would be interesting to see a good native run-time for Clojure, essentially freeing it from the JVM (though, granted the JVM is driving its adoption). I fear that this is a lot of work howev
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by sbt 15y ago
I agree. At work, I fill our Java codebase with 'final' keywords because it helps me make more assumptions about code I didn't write.
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by sbt 15y ago
I wrote that better tool support is important for widespread adoption. I think widespread adoption takes care of most of the other problems such as staffing concerns and flaky libraries.
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by sbt 15y ago
This title is misleading - Facebook is not launching a music service. Spotify already has a music service and it already integrates with Facebook in a nice way, though perhaps some people will like to launch it from the FB website, who know
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by sbt 15y ago
The TV-series The Wire nailed this pretty well. In each season, members Baltimore's police department, school system, government are looking for ways to "juke the stats". Highly recommended as an analogy for process heavy software companies
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by sbt 16y ago
Honestly, if there was a bubble, would any venture capitalist ever admit to it.
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by sbt 16y ago
My God, where to begin on this unnecessarily provocative link-bait fuckup of a story. "This is particularly surprising, because the prices Dalmo pays for government services are among the highest in the world." >Of course, the country h
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by sbt 16y ago
'Social search' will be the next big thing unless there's anything else going on. Rest assured there will be a next big think regardless of whether or not it is of benefit to society.
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by sbt 16y ago
Here's a Nature article that's pretty readable http://www.cs.cornell.edu/selman/papers/pdf/99.nature.phase....
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by sbt 16y ago
Now I just feel old
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What Is Wrong With Cutting Taxes?(baselinescenario.com)
2 points by sbt 16y ago|1 comments
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China to award own peace prize ahead of Nobel award(af.reuters.com)
1 points by sbt 16y ago|0 comments
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Alec Baldwin: Assange goes on trial, they go on trial(huffingtonpost.com)
6 points by sbt 16y ago|1 comments
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by sbt 16y ago
I hope the mainstream media in general wake up to this soon. Charlie Rose and others seem to think this is a matter of stopping Assange. Wikileaks is no more about Assange than DNA is about Francis Crick.
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The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by sbt 16y ago|0 comments
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by sbt 16y ago
Well apparently one side is the mob

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