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by sbt 16y ago
I would like to believe these guys but the figures seem a little low and I couldn't find a citation. What does 'access' mean here? How do they define 'broadband'?
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by sbt 16y ago
I had the same issues starting CL. I think which LISP you pick is less important in the long run, rather than getting into the mode of writing functional programs. At some level, writing CL and writing Erlang are not that different experien
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by sbt 16y ago
That's it, I'm buying gold. First the Cisco forecast, now this.
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by sbt 16y ago
Great initiative. Get Ctrl-C Ctrl-E to work and I'll be even more happy :)
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by sbt 16y ago
I don't think the Nobel committee has ever given out the price without having been slammed by someone or some government. The price is political so it's no wonder. Apparently, Chinese foreign affairs has already stated that this may damage
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by sbt 16y ago
I always found Chaitin's books very enjoyable. The guy does not exactly curb his enthusiasm for algorithmic information theory, often with erotic allusions - it's porn for discrete mathematicians :)
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by sbt 16y ago
I don't think this is a good idea. As a somewhat loose comparison I wouldn't make a newyrktimes.com with an alternative layout either. There must be endless other ways of spending one's spare time, e.g. by making something you can charge fo
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by sbt 16y ago
Speaking of echo chamber, stepping outside SV for a while would probably do many good.
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Should We Cut High School to Two Years?(bigthink.com)
3 points by sbt 16y ago|0 comments
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DHH: Appstore is a warehouse of shit(bigthink.com)
66 points by sbt 16y ago|73 comments
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by sbt 16y ago
I use Emacs/Eclipse in my job because I work with Erlang/Java, but previously held several C#/VS positions. I sometimes get the feeling that people who haven't worked with this combo don't realize how powerful it is. Visual Studio is great
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Java 4-ever(youtube.com)
199 points by sbt 16y ago|61 comments
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by sbt 16y ago
yes. emacs is pretty good while all the other alternatives are so half-baked. this goes for erlang as well. what remains to be seen is if somebody eventually decides to make a great editor for one (or more) of these languages without all th
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by sbt 16y ago
being a white male sometimes feels like the entire fucking universe is suffering from some sort of inferiority complex.
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by sbt 17y ago
I need to get into this business. Couldn't agree more with the style. Somehow my managers have been convinced that financial incentives don't work in tech. Screw that. I think we should make t-shirts saying 'Fuck You, Pay Me'. startup anyon
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by sbt 17y ago
I would check out some of Thorsten Joachims' projects, try to run them with some examples, and look at some course notes. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/tj/
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Long Bets(longbets.org)
33 points by sbt 17y ago|13 comments
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by sbt 17y ago
I don't get it. I thought the whole benefit of having an ebook reader was the e-ink. Until someone develops an actual color e-ink, how does this differ from a tablet with some pdf software?
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by sbt 17y ago
Google - Be Evil.
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by sbt 17y ago
I hope you're talking about the US.
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by sbt 17y ago
Bruce Bawer reminds me of a religious zealot, having been confronted with facts forcing him to accept that the world is more nuanced than what the American post-war era he grew up in propounded. The reaction is predictable, but ensues nonet
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by sbt 17y ago
"The assumption here is that peace between nations can somehow be resolved by just communication among private citizens and individual friendships". No, the assumption here is that facilitating communication will help resolve a conflict. A
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by sbt 17y ago
I'm not from Germany, but the CDU is decidedly not a libertarian party. It's conservative center-right. You don't really have an equivalent of this in the US.
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by sbt 17y ago
"I am working on another Lisp book, specific to Franz AllegroGraph" I've been curious about AllegroGraph. Too many Lisp books take an academic / implementation-agnostic approach. Lookng forward to reading it!
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by sbt 17y ago
How does this find and load shared objects?
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by sbt 17y ago
You really don't need to speak a scandinavian language in scandinavia. People speak english almost as well as the dutch, and they don't mind switching to english at all.
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by sbt 17y ago
Is this a joke?
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by sbt 17y ago
Agreed. I wasn't really sure what I had just read. One thing I feel fairly certain about though is that these duct-tape people will screw up a project in the long run.
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by sbt 17y ago
I don't consider myself experienced enough to give anybody advice on startups, but it seems to me that programmers should pick up non-CS skill-sets. That way, two things may happen. - Your startup won't be a clone of about 500 other startup
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by sbt 17y ago
Exactly. This is not news. C# has always been a step ahead of Java. They're both enterprise languages, good for large teams. But C# has always offered comparable features to Java as well as more higher level features. Add to this, albeit a

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