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by sdp 17y ago
I recommend that you don't turn it up to 512 resolution on a macbook in firefox. =(
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by sdp 17y ago
I've always been confused about Bayesian probability, until I read that article. I am a heavily visual learner, so the diagrams made a lot of sense to me...I finally get it!!
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by sdp 17y ago
I find it curious that the tech-savvy world of Hacker News, which should be comfortable with the idea of specialization in modern capitalist economies, seems to pine for a return to a "cottage" music industry, where the musician is to perf
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HotCocoa API in MacRuby(rubyconf2008.confreaks.com)
5 points by sdp 17y ago|2 comments
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by sdp 17y ago
Ah, I was making a couple of assumptions: any DSL which generates markup must be more concise than the markup itself Otherwise, there will have been no point in creating the DSL. This assumption is probably fair. An example of this
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by sdp 17y ago
Your argument assumes workflows never change. If that were true, we would still be using whatever workflows our forebears used for every task. Since that is clearly untrue, workflows must be able to change. However, given that business ar
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by sdp 17y ago
Why not follow this to its logical conclusion? Remove all synonyms Example: fine -> good Remove antonyms and just negate the word Example: bad -> ungood Remove special-case nouns: just combine a noun and one or more ad
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by sdp 17y ago
Not so bad compared to the rest of the stories, but I still work as a developer/tech support. I have to drop whatever I'm doing to troubleshoot student tech problems, so the interruptions are frequent.
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by sdp 18y ago
How would an algol language with sexp syntax differ from scheme?
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by sdp 18y ago
That's assuming an even distribution of such events. I'd like to suggest they are much more seasonal.
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by sdp 18y ago
"which is then one step away from generalizing about people on other attributes, like race or sex." Since pursuing an advanced degree is a choice, rather than an attribute you're born with, it is much more akin to generalizing about
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by sdp 18y ago
I use Groovy and Java at school; PHP and Python at work; and finally Smalltalk and C at home. I have recently switched from all emacs, to TextMate at school and home, and emacs at work (although I'm trying to see if JEdit will work better).
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by sdp 18y ago
Using babel fish ( http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=ur... ), I discovered this page seems to be displaying an error. "Your duration of connection expired"
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A Detailed Review of Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"(cscs.umich.edu)
2 points by sdp 18y ago|0 comments
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by sdp 18y ago
Interesting point, although I would argue that writing unit tests is more like reinventing Design by Contract.
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by sdp 18y ago
Language-agnostic...as long as it's .NET
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by sdp 18y ago
My experience with the OS/GUI built on top of the Squeak VM has been very positive.
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by sdp 18y ago
The "crude measure" that you cite which "ranks C at 1, Java at 2, Python at 5 (roughly)" shows that on average, every line of code in Python is worth 5 lines of C. Let assume that this is true. Naturally, this seems to imply that more powe
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by sdp 18y ago
Thank you for letting me know I should have explained myself more clearly. "Lack of key fundamental data structures, leads to the OOP bandwagon." Lack of built-in data structures -> overuse of OOP "Interfaces and inheritance a
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by sdp 18y ago
After reading your OOP and the Death of Modularity [ http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=935 ], I see your point more clearly. (I'm not very perspicacious ;-) Your point is that OOP "creates a means of loosely coupling code in a given complex sy
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by sdp 18y ago
How does a lack of "critical built-in data structures" (as opposted to libraries) lead to poor design? C has a ridiculously small set of built-in data structures, but the unix core tools written in C are very elegantly designed.
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by sdp 18y ago
"OOP didn't do this to us; we did it to ourselves. OOP just held our hats." I support the article's claim that programmers are responsible for spaghetti code, but I disagree that OOP in general is responsible for facilitating this behavio
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by sdp 18y ago
Happy holidays. =)
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by sdp 18y ago
Of course!
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by sdp 18y ago
A tortoise? What's that?
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by sdp 18y ago
This book seems to be exactly what I was looking for when I found this article, thank you.
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Make - A Tutorial(eng.hawaii.edu)
18 points by sdp 18y ago|4 comments
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by sdp 18y ago
I find TiddlyWiki to be rather elegant. http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
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by sdp 18y ago
A fine example set for the MPAA and RIAA of a group willing to embrace and capitalize on the internet medium, rather than suing the hell out of it.
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by sdp 18y ago
Fascinating! However, I meant errors to do with the typing process.

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