sharkbrainguy

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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
for associative arrays foo: bar, for non-associative foo, bar, surely this is unambiguous? x: y: "a", z: "23", q: 54, 32, 45 , r: 43
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I hate to be the guy who's always saying the same thing but, that is easy in python. dx = 0.00001 def deriv(f): return lambda x: \ (f(x + dx) - f(x))/dx In [11]: def cube(x): ....: return x*x*x
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
Surely this has been posted here enough by now.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
def cons(a, b): return lambda f: f(a, b) def car(p): return p(lambda a,b: a) def cdr(p): return p(lambda a,b: b) As well as in theory you can do this in practice. It's about as elegant (hard for me to judge a
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I don't use "startup" generically to mean any small/new company that hopes to one day be big. That isn't to say that my definition is definitive (what?) or that a small company that doesn't fit into it is less worthy. I've always used the t
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I upvoted this because I didn't feel it was stupid (certainly not enough to hit 0 points). Condemning Gitmo is not endorsing terrorism. Condemning the idea of "illegal information" is not endorsing child abuse. Child porn is usually a resul
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
Sure is, it's in the repo so "sudo apt-get install lyx" should grab it. It's also available for Windows/OS X so you might be better off just trying it on your primary OS. http://www.lyx.org/ I don't think you're going to find the kind of
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
Is a digital animation studio a startup? It doesn't really have a huge scaling potential does it? Your output is constrained by your animation stable surely. The closest analogue to a breakaway product or hot patent would be a hugely popula
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
It sounds like you're talking about tiling windows managers. http://awesome.naquadah.org/ http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ http://xmonad.org/ or am I just confused?
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
chubby, short, boring, badly dressed, poor, always late, glib, irresponsible Please... just stop describing me
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I'm pretty sure the title is tongue in cheek, and would be more accurately rendered as "I hated lisp when I first had to learn it", considering e.g. the name of the blog, and posts like these with considerable lispy content. http://funcall
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
The name in the article is "Alan Feng"
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
so ... it turns out that this is just a property of floating point math... weird that I've never seen that before. It behaves the same in Python and MzScheme, so I can't imagine that this is something "keeping people away" from javascript.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
whoah... what? surely ... but ... >> (0.1+ 0.2) * 10 3.0000000000000004 >> (0.1 + 0.2 + 0.1) * 10 4 wtf is going on here? Where you would expect 0.3 you just always seem to get 0.3000000000000004 ... but then it
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
It's available as part of the arc language distribution... http://arclanguage.org/ This is an incredibly popular question... something should be put in the nav maybe
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
Just to make it blatantly obvious that this comic was not specifically made about this situation. http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/library/post/getting-ready-for-... P.S. not strictly relevant but Dylan Horrocks is a really great guy and
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
If my text-editor has tight unix integration, smart-completion, a repl, and good build integration... what am I missing out on?
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I really think that tangentially attacking the vi(m) strawman at the end really hurt your credibility and focus.
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Interactive Html Development with Emacs and Mozrepl(people.internetconnection.net)
4 points by sharkbrainguy 18y ago|0 comments
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
Being on hacker news seems to HUGELY affect a links google rank. This is anecdotal btw, I haven't measured it in any real way.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I'm not sure if I should flag this or vote this up for trying to harness the hackernews effect to win an seo contest. On the one hand it's evil, but on the cooler hand it's really clever.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I call cultural bias on 5 and 6 (aka the two I got wrong).
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
When the reasons you originally believe the project could (not necessarily would or even probably would ) succeed become invalid, you should stop investing in it. To answer your question someone would have to know what those original rea
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I'd prefer it if you'd tag links to sites that display NSFW ads.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
To me, being open or not is a big factor in being "the best", so if IE8 was "the best" and ran on the OS's I use then yes. I would use it. Although I place a high value on extensions as well, so a browsers extensibility would also be a fact
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
Shy guys can always host themselves and hide their source as much as they want. http://appjet.com/download has all the software you need to have your own appjet server.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
One of the coolest "features" of appjet, visible source. http://appjet.com/app/588101939/source
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
He obviously doesn't use a pseudonym on slashdot.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
I totally agree, what you're doing is not design. If you're writing the html/css it's in everyone's best interests that it's you doing the slicing and dicing. Learn enough of photoshop to do that.
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by sharkbrainguy 18y ago
or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage. (def homepage (page (top 10) (newest 5)))

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