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by sgentle 16y ago
As in the minimum character set? As of 1.9.2, you can do lambdas with a = ->(x){do stuff} and call them with a[3]. So I think you could probably translate to SKI calculus using only: (){}->[] Since SKI gives you lambda calculus, and
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by sgentle 16y ago
I would argue that you've come at this problem from the employee side (ie, "I have a job but I might jump for a better job - someone should make a website for that"), but the employer side is where you'd be better off spending your time. Th
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by sgentle 16y ago
I was at the Sydney government data hackfest in the Powerhouse Museum yesterday. Everyone seemed pretty focused on the hacking and nobody as far as I could tell brought completed code. I think you're right that the downside of having a high
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by sgentle 16y ago
"Had" or "had had" are both correct, even though the latter sounds a bit silly. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_ha... Welcome to English. We're sorry.
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by sgentle 16y ago
I think, though, that for "never loses changes" to be meaningful it has to be shorthand for "never loses changes unless you do unsafe things". I mean, it certainly loses changes if you don't push to anywhere and then delete your .git direct
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by sgentle 16y ago
That's crazy. I actually set my virtual desktops up exactly as he described in VirtuaWin, back in the day. The advantage he doesn't talk about directly is that if you're using a virtual window manager that doesn't have a notion of physical
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by sgentle 16y ago
Hey, thanks a lot. I looked at the WP article but I must've missed that section. Looks like this essay, then, is the first example I can find of its use. Dellums wasn't in office until 1971, and the Lennon song was 72.
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by sgentle 16y ago
I'm curious. There's a John Lennon/Yoko Ono song called "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" from the early 70s. Was that comparison in common use at the time? I can't find any references elsewhere, but it seems like a strange coincidence oth
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Ze Frank: Ideas are Brain Crack (2006)(zefrank.com)
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by sgentle 16y ago
Some other neat "I'm a psychologist and my magnum opus will be to decompose the human mind into N elements" theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality http:/
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by sgentle 16y ago
I'm really excited to hear this, especially after the Pyramid announcement earlier in the year. I used to do a lot of Pylons development, and although it was a great framework that gave you a bunch of ways to do just about anything, I alway
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by sgentle 16y ago
CSS transitions. Webfonts. Doctype. [Edit: data attributes]
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by sgentle 16y ago
I see a lot of "just learn to program" around here, and I think it's all a bit glib and far from reality. Firstly, programming is hard . It's not the sort of thing you pick up in a few weeks. Hell, there are people who manage to make it th
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by sgentle 16y ago
In case anyone's not familiar with Javascript/HTML/CSS and is curious how this works, it's actually pretty simple and elegant. Ben is just an image positioned in the centre of the screen using a CSS property called "position: fixed", which
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by sgentle 16y ago
Alright, I'll give it a shot. A couple of definitions will be helpful here: A turing machine is a theoretical device invented by Alan Turing. It consists of a tape (data) and a fixed table of rules (the program). The machine has a head whic
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by sgentle 16y ago
Respectfully, I think this is a false choice. A rephrasing: "Are you a developer or just like to write code? During the last few years I've been making functions. I really like writing the code and choosing good sets of functions but I don'
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by sgentle 16y ago
Microsoft has done a lot of harm in the last 20 years. They succeeded through a strategy of continually expanding into new areas (operating systems, office software, web browsers, email, programming languages, etc) and producing products th
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by sgentle 16y ago
"When determining what product you are going to build, Ev notes that the key is to create 'something for everyone.'" Really? My understanding is that trying to create "something for everyone" is a great way to make "something for no-one".
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by sgentle 16y ago
I think the future will judge this as a time of great confusion. Scarcity, the fundament of our economy, is becoming obsolete. Danger, the most powerful of human instincts, is largely irrelevant. Our technology gives us so much power that m
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by sgentle 16y ago
I found this enlightening: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ It's a treatise against interaction as the fundamental paradigm of information software. Presenting your information well means not needing to interact with it much to gain value
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by sgentle 16y ago
I have done this and it worked excellently. I notice there are lots of references to your ppa around but few thank-you notes, so thank you!
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by sgentle 16y ago
All this has happened before, and will happen again. Here's my personal favourite, from when Mozilla dropped MNG support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574#c672 I remember being upset that MNG was removed. I never used it
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by sgentle 16y ago
I really like these kinds of puzzles. I'm not sure if they have a name, but I like to think of them as "invariant puzzles". The key to understanding them is finding an invariant - something that doesn't change when you manipulate the object
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by sgentle 16y ago
A story, perhaps apocryphal, about Thomas Edison. He would hold ball bearings in his hand as he fell asleep, and the noise of them falling to the floor would wake him immediately as he went to sleep, thus generating the shortest possible po
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by sgentle 16y ago
The last version of XFlux I used reset the screen brightness every second, which made the screen flicker uncontrollably during fades (eg on lock, logout, screen saver etc). Does that still happen?
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by sgentle 16y ago
I think it's too easy to blame. We wouldn't look at a watch that was running slow and say "that watch is lazy", and we shouldn't look at ourselves when we don't achieve what we want and treat it as some kind of failure of will. Psychologist
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by sgentle 16y ago
I suppose I should clarify. I like competition, and I think it's great that Google's driving a tank through the ol' walled garden Apple's got going. It's not that their comments are unkind or harsh that gets me, it's that they're weak. Some
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Anyone else think that the constant Apple jabs at I/O are really poor form?
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Issues Linux game developers face: a post-mortem from the creators of Osmos(hemispheregames.com)
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by sgentle 17y ago
The goal of freemium is the upsell - "hey you liked my x, try my y!" - which requires a tight association between your products. You upsell in the same market. You do brand differentiation in different markets. Basically, if you can imagine

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