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by steego 11y ago
Xerox didn't do it all by themselves. Listen to one of Alan's talks and he'll tell you about they stood on the shoulders of guys like Doug Engelbart and Ivan Sutherland. Xerox didn't invent the research atmosphere to f
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by steego 11y ago
I love playing with and working on projects that transform code into different code and I love that you're drawn to meta-programming, but I have a few issues with a few of the ideas: > If it's boring, then something is done wro
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by steego 11y ago
This is wishful nonsense. Destroying the middle class to improve margins does not grow the real economy. You grow the real economy by investing in technology and an educated workforce that can translate their skill set to providing real go
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by steego 11y ago
You have a point, and I think the source of the author's confusion is the article never actually demonstrates the need for union types. Simply put, his example could have been simplified to this based on his use cases: type Acti
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by steego 11y ago
You're accounting for Facebook's and Google's business model all wrong. The end users aren't the customer. Advertisers are the customers. Think of Facebook and Google more like giant hydro-generation plants that have
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by steego 11y ago
You might want to consider spending $90 for the waterproof top to protect your investment.
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by steego 11y ago
There is definitely a higher expectation for someone over 50 and with someone with an advanced degree. It's both unfair and understandable because the subconscious implication is experience and advanced degrees cost more, so they will
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by steego 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd qualify TVML as another mark up language. It looks like an XML standard that adheres to a particular XML schema. Asking, "Another XML schema?" would sound like a silly question because that's the
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by steego 11y ago
Fantastic documentary and great story! It starts off slow and teases you a bit, but it culminates nicely. I'd love to see documentaries of this quality tell the stories of computer science's rich history in the early 20th century
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by steego 11y ago
Oh noes! Don't give people these bad ideas! :) In all seriousness, I worked with a bright guy who was a lot of fun to work with, but every once in a while his exuberance for this sort of thing would find itself in code that other peo
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by steego 11y ago
It's $0.60 cents a day. It's still a deal if you only use one thing and they offer 2 million things you absolutely know you'll never use. I don't know what your hourly rate is, but if you were only making $10 an hour, t
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by steego 11y ago
Really? You realize you can get all of their products for a little more than a dollar a day, right? Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend my money than to buy something that I use every day that will easily pay for itself
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by steego 11y ago
...but you need someone to play the role of the scammer. That's what the parent was offering: "I should totally provide them screenshots showing that I just sold their domain out from under them."
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by steego 11y ago
It would be hilarious until Paypal decides to file fraud charges to make an example of you to send a clear message to anybody who thinks it's fun to embarrass them.
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by steego 11y ago
> Yeah. Just a conspiracy theory. Nothing to it. Nothing at all. The pharmaceutical industry has no influence whatsoever. We know the pharmaceutical industry has some influence on what treatments a doctor recommends. I don't think
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by steego 11y ago
You're missing the point. The biggest issue with all this fundraising isn't that it's just taking away from time to legislate. The biggest issue that amount of time fundraising can makes it difficult for an honest politician
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by steego 11y ago
It really sad Prolog/Datalog based languages never took off. Our industry has no problem embedding SQL strings and mini relational engines in our imperative programs. If you're going to encode your problems in terms of relations
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by steego 11y ago
> that deplete what little faith I have remaining in "science." I'm not keen on using the word science like it's some sort of faith that you choose to passively agree or passively disagree with. You shouldn't ha
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by steego 11y ago
> You're welcome to call me callous, but I choose not to cry for humans, African or otherwise. Thank you. You're insipidly callous.
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by steego 11y ago
A guy writes down one point you disagree with and you dismiss the article and person. While, I agree with your point that this sort of hypocrisy calling doesn't help anything, I can't agree with your overall conclusion. This arti
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by steego 11y ago
I know it's outside the scope of this post, but I'd like to add that F# adds a really nice feature called Active Patterns which are incredibly handy when your expression tree and logic become more complicated. In the author's
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by steego 11y ago
Calling for a moratorium sounds very dramatic, but I suspect PPK wanted to use dramatic language to make the point that we're not putting enough thought and exercising enough caution about what we're introducing to the web. These
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by steego 11y ago
I think he was extolling the virtues of large scale R&D spending and adding that the Cold War happened to be the impetus for this spending. He parts with: "I wish private industry would do more." That seems to suggest his ma
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by steego 11y ago
There's a good chance they think it will make the world better. With that being the case, I'd argue people are more likely to circumvent debate and controversy if they think it will make the world better. That's not the po
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by steego 11y ago
> Why this needs to be done as one giant agreement seems crazy... If you want to circumvent debate and controversy, get all your buddies together and write up an omnibus agreement or bill. Bundling different ideas together makes it hard
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by steego 11y ago
I searched for all the sentences with the word talk: > Nobody talks to each other so everyone is reinventing the wheel. > Still, nobody talks about sharing concepts that would definitely improve all of them. > I will continue to ta
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by steego 11y ago
I think this is a slide where people really have missed the joke. Scott Wlaschin does an excellent presentation on Function Programming Design Patterns ( http://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/fp-patterns-ndc-lond... )
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by steego 11y ago
Don Syme calls F# a "functional first" programming language, which I think it more accurate. While it supports imperative constructs, they're not enabled by default. The idea is you make a language that makes it difficult f
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by steego 11y ago
I have mixed feelings on this. I have a history of projecting arrogance when it comes to new programming paradigms. I've been doing it since the mid 90's when I used to arrogantly deride non object-oriented programming. How cou
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by steego 11y ago
I don't think this provision is as unambiguous as you make it out to be if different judges are coming to different conclusions. It makes sense that different judges will come to different conclusions because it may not be entirely cle

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