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by shasta 16y ago
1. Hey, I more or less agree with this guy 2. Hahahahahaha 3. Aside from the fact that his wording is backwards from his meaning, I agree that it should be possible to write code that doesn't ever garbage collect. 4. Ok 5. Does this guy kno
962.
by shasta 16y ago
Exactly. If it makes business sense to wait for someone to accidentally infringe on your patent, you clearly shouldn't have that patent.
963.
by shasta 16y ago
After seeing the emerging pattern, I skipped to the end to see if they just sold spice racks. Too bad, I'd have liked that ending better.
964.
by shasta 16y ago
From the essay on determination: > We can imagine will and discipline as two fingers squeezing a slippery melon seed. The harder they squeeze, the further the seed flies, but they must both squeeze equally or the seed spins off sideways
965.
by shasta 16y ago
If you've already done "significant work" on the business idea without discussing the split, you've got problems.
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by shasta 16y ago
If it's a good prototype that proves the concept and acts as a target, then it mightn't matter if there's any reusable code there.
967.
by shasta 16y ago
Well, maybe I was wrong about you - I'm cynical. When I watch a late night informercial with some guy claiming he'll sell me his super simple plan to make lots of money, I tend to think I already see his plan.
968.
by shasta 16y ago
I think the authors of these SEO blogs should come clean at the end of the article about the real purpose of the article - SEO.
969.
by shasta 16y ago
Am I the only one who came up with the solution "embed the ads in your game" while reading the description of the problem? Of course, my excitement of having guessed this plot twist faded when I read on about how this was patented. Oh wel
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by shasta 16y ago
It's only counterintuitive until you think about it. Like "people who receive chemotherapy are more likely to die of cancer than people who don't."
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by shasta 16y ago
Languages and abstractions aren't really that different. Every time you define a new function, you're in some sense extending the language. In languages with powerful macro systems, this "language extension" is even more potent. I agree w
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by shasta 16y ago
Main reflex: Some useful syntactic advances over Java, but where's the beef? I see generics exist at runtime - what else? Also, is the type system known or believed to be sound? Are there casts?
973.
by shasta 16y ago
You forgot "sexy"
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by shasta 16y ago
I say the point goes to HilbertSpace here. I think Nudge wasn't merely suggesting that there's another way to interpret the quote, but was rather suggesting that was the intended way to interpret the quote. Of course, Nudge was right ab
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by shasta 16y ago
I'm surprised that ~45 and counting people would downvote this. I assume these are people who saw "See no evil, hear no evil" and are taking it out on me.
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by shasta 16y ago
Anyone know the name of this algorithm? There is a similarly solved classic problem in complexity theory: Given an O(m) list of O(n)-bounded integers, determine if there are duplicates in O(m) time and O(n) space.
977.
by shasta 16y ago
Wow, it says -4, but I seem to have lost over 30 karma on this comment. Is -4 just the display cap?
978.
by shasta 16y ago
I think I saw a documentary about your aunt and uncle, with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.
979.
by shasta 16y ago
Dijkstra slipped up and used "loose" when he meant "lose", which I found to be humorous and a little bit jarring. That's all my above comment meant - nothing base! Apologies if anyone read it the wrong way. Also, pull my finger.
980.
by shasta 16y ago
He said 'loose'. huh huh
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by shasta 16y ago
Usually the way you mitigate risk is by pooling it. That can be done voluntarily, you know.
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by shasta 16y ago
The way this should work out in capitalistic theory is that those affected by panic disorder should fund the research into its cure. > Economically speaking, finding a more effective to regrow hair in bald men would probably be a lot mo
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by shasta 16y ago
Gift tax is similar (has been 45%, might go up), on amounts over $10,000.
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by shasta 16y ago
Being able to inspect state is useful whenever you have state. Have you used a good debugger for Haskell? Does one exist? Do you write complicated software in Haskell? I'll agree that Fibonacci and factorial programs don't need a debugg
985.
by shasta 16y ago
What types of tools are obviated by a better language? - Code traversal? No - Refactoring? Mostly, no - Debugging? I know some disagree, but no - Profiling? No Some of these are less important in certain languages, but I think you still
986.
by shasta 16y ago
Prediction: the highest rated comments will be extremely naive and rightly should be ignored. Go look at a Digg or Reddit... or YouTube.
987.
by shasta 16y ago
It could automatically contact friends from your contact list and ask them if you stink.
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by shasta 16y ago
Well, the insurance company hopefully doesn't demand that you use a helmet but rather asks whether you want coverage that applies when you're not wearing a helmet, and it costs more. And freedom is a slippery slope to anarchy. Slippery slo
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by shasta 16y ago
> neither of which has any contributory effect to the harm of others Unless you count the insurance company or taxpayer that has to support the trauma victim
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by shasta 16y ago
I doubt that infection with one strain of HIV is preventing infection with another strain, except to the extent that some of the people engaging in the most risky behavior are getting "taken out of the system" by AIDS. Something like this

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