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by sketerpot 18y ago
I pirated Windows XP and put it on a machine for which I own an XP license, because the legitimate copy I have just wouldn't work. I tried to do it honestly, I really did. I use Linux now.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
That is a clunky version of exactly what I'm talking about. Awesome.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
We're on the same wavelength. If this is to catch on, it should be easy enough for someone to just jump in and make some content without reading the manual. That's a big challenge in its own right: how much multimedia editing functionality
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by sketerpot 18y ago
If it does that, then it's essentially a computer in the shape of a TV.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Sounds like a lot of work compared to using Hulu or BitTorrent. The Internet bandwidth costs more, sure, but it's convenient. Lazy wins.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
> What would it take to make a University lecture into a decent production? Improved slides/visual? Re-recorded audio/narration? Stock footage? Supplementary materials such as other lectures or pieces of documentaries. I've actually bee
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by sketerpot 18y ago
You have to heap-allocate data sometimes, too. There's nothing special about Lisp in this respect. I mean, why wouldn't you have to use a heap?
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Why bother? The pirated version works right out of the box, and since he legitimately owns a copy, his ass is covered morally. He may not be getting the Windows "Genuine Advantage", but as far as I can tell this "advantage" is about as real
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Did you just read the headline? Maybe a better phrasing would be "The need for unit testing is causing OOP guys to write in a functional programming style."
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Those get hardware acceleration, which is more power efficient than doing it purely with the CPU.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Those guys have style, and always have.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
What we need are apps that plug into commonly-used programs. An example of what I'm talking about is Google Talk: it's a chat program, and I use it from time to time, but I never run it. It just happens to be there when I have Gmail open, s
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by sketerpot 18y ago
If it adds expressiveness, then by definition it's not clutter.
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Sounds like therbligs are back. After 90 years, and without the ridiculous name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Oh man, don't get me started! I wrote some PDF processing software last year -- it was supposed to extract pinout diagrams from integrated circuit datasheets -- and to extract the text was a ridiculous task. Since characters can be specifie
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by sketerpot 18y ago
A4 paper doesn't fit well into typical folders and binders sold in America, and I didn't see A4 paper at all until I went to another country for a while. US universities tend to just have the printer set to scale pages to fit the paper by d
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by sketerpot 18y ago
Nitpick: I think you meant ((24^2)*2)^(1/2).
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by sketerpot 19y ago
Pike's comment at the beginning of the Markovified text is brilliant: > For those unfamiliar with M. Baudrillard's work, the thesis of the essay is, in a nutshell, that reality is indistinguishable from good simulation.
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by sketerpot 19y ago
Does Arc have an API for iterating across general types of data structures? The classic example is lists and arrays; in Common Lisp, supporting both can be a hassle and the language itself seems ad hoc when the issue arises. MAP supports
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by sketerpot 19y ago
That's why it's really nice to see that Arc has threads and an atomic-execution mechanism. GHC-style Software Transactional Memory would be a natural fit, and it seems to scale very well. Locks seem to be on their way out.
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by sketerpot 20y ago
It's possible to make a site simpler and more straightforward for users by making it prettier. Really good web design is very subtle; things like giving small but definite visual cues for where posts begin and end, or making the "reply&