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by sramsay 14y ago
I don't know the circumstances, but my first reaction was: Eight minutes?! Eight ?! Like, can we use those eight minutes to take all the developers out back and have them shot?"
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by sramsay 14y ago
I am nearly driven to madness by the torrent of noise in public environments. I don't expect places full of people to be quiet, per se, but I do not understand why every such space needs to have eight screens and speakers every ten feet pu
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by sramsay 14y ago
I agree that a lot of people are cathecting their desires onto app.net. I'm probably guilty of that as well (and yes, I coughed up the $50). But what got me excited was his basic insight -- not entirely novel, I'll grant -- that any giant
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by sramsay 14y ago
Very surprised to see what a centrist I am; my unscientific number is -5). I would have pegged myself as much more liberal, but when it comes to specific points having to do with design and deployment, I'm more conservative than I would ha
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by sramsay 14y ago
They're using Instagram filters. ;)
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by sramsay 14y ago
The Friedman process goes like this: 1. Take a massively complex, world-historical economic process. 2. Ignore it. 3. Write a story about a shoe factory in Bangalore that massively oversimplifies, but overturns conventional thinking on, #1.
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by sramsay 14y ago
I take the point about clutter and typography, but the best email client I have ever used is nmh < http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/> , largely because I was able to hack together this kind of work flow effortlessly. I'm always marvelin
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by sramsay 15y ago
I had the same reaction. I think Rich Hickey is a genius, and I'm an absolute Clojure nut. I have every confidence that this is probably a very cool thing. But judging from that opening description, I gather that Datomic puts the data and
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by sramsay 15y ago
From the ChangeLog: "All command-line options are now documented in the man page." This should clear up any difficulty users may have had using the program.
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by sramsay 15y ago
Yeah, but what exactly is happening in "foliage grass short?"
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by sramsay 15y ago
Considering what happened to Lisp when machine learning was called AI, I'm not sure I'd want my language to win this contest. ;)
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by sramsay 15y ago
Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie were obviously major pioneers (and I admired them both), but of the three, McCarthy's work impresses me the most. I still marvel at the profound degree of lateral thinking evident in his articles. I suspect th
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by sramsay 15y ago
And it's awesome. When it came out, I immediately wrote half-a-dozen little things to work with it, including "whatson" -- an app that lets me do things like "whatson thursday" and have it show me what's on the calendar.
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by sramsay 15y ago
IM was one of the last graphical applications to go for me (I'm the author of the article). I had the same problem until I discovered bsflite ( http://bsflite.sourceforge.net/ ).
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by sramsay 15y ago
I've added a followup post to yesterday's discussion here and in the comment-thread for the post itself. http://lenz.unl.edu/2011/08/05/the-man-finger-aftermath.html
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The Mythical Man-Finger(lenz.unl.edu)
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by sramsay 15y ago
What's so striking to me, is how similar the exam is (in range, pace, and tone) to the Ph.D. oral exams I took for a doctorate in English (years ago). That same rhythm. The minute you start to set forth an argument, they get you off onto
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by sramsay 15y ago
Yeah, just kidding. It struck me as funny, because it's exactly the kind of thing hackers do (including me -- and I'm also a big Lisp/Clojure nut). As far as I can tell, this is more-or-less exactly how TAOCP was written.
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by sramsay 15y ago
So, I wanted to start a blog. But then I discovered that all blogging platforms suck, so I decided to write my own. Then I decided that all programming languages suck, so I had to learn a new one to write my blog. I would say Lisp's world
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by sramsay 16y ago
Ah! Now we're talking . . .
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by sramsay 16y ago
When I saw this, I thought, "Wow! A better nailgun?!" But alas, it's built on top of nailgun -- which presumably means that it inherits all the security problems of that older, apparently moribund project.
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by sramsay 16y ago
I'm discouraged by the fact that this may well be the worst logo in the history of technology.