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by substack 16y ago
For fun I was whipping up some haskell one-liners as I read along. You can just do: let fibs = 1 : 1 : [ fibs !! n + fibs !! (n - 1) | n <- [1..] ] for the Fibonacci sequence and take 10 $ iterate (succ . recip) 1 for
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by substack 16y ago
Neat. This style of code reuse is a lot like perl6 roles ( http://search.cpan.org/~rkinyon/Perl6-Roles-0.01/lib/Perl6/R... ) or haskell typeclasses: instead of describing how objects fit into a taxonomic hierarchy, objects or typeclasses ar
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by substack 16y ago
Isn't it common in countries outside of the US for the younger generation to stay in the same home as the older generation? Perhaps this 20-something phenomenon is just a sign that Americans are becoming more established in their communitie
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by substack 16y ago
Not at all! The reason we haven't rolled out our demo yet is because hosting virtual machines takes a lot of server power to do. All of our code is up on github, so anybody can give it a spin for themselves, provided they can get it all run
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by substack 16y ago
These are pretty great and it looks like an interesting project, but why "4+ years of experience"? First of all, what exactly is a "year of experience"? You spent the entire year using some piece of tech? You used the tech once a year ago?
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by substack 16y ago
Can any individual government agent in such a capacity ever really be "just like me"? I don't take orders from anyone. They do. In that respect, they are nothing like me at all. A large part of what makes tales of government harassment like
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by substack 16y ago
Modal dialog boxes make me sad/depressed/angry.
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by substack 16y ago
We plan to offer some kind of rdesktop or vnc backend for powerusers, since our software hooks into these on the backend anyways. This is a useful point!
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by substack 16y ago
Wow I had no idea! StackVM is all html and javascript and we've taken great care to make sure it works on all browsers without any silly plugins.
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by substack 16y ago
Yeah, it is one of the big unknowns we are testing with this startup, but for us it makes a lot of sense. By being open about our technology, we hope to gain eyeballs, traction, and goodwill from fellow hackers who might be our future custo
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by substack 16y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! Spoon seems to have found a nice niche in hosting up individual applications. StackVM right now is more about the entire operating system and geared towards hackers for the time being, but we may pivot into oth
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by substack 16y ago
I prefer: my_variable or raise 'Hey dude! Where's My Variable Assignment' or else: my_variable.nil? and raise 'Hey dude! Where's My Variable Assignment' since it puts what's being tested in front like with if/then but is a
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by substack 16y ago
I second the Sinatra recommendation. When I tried rails for the first time, it felt very large and unwelcoming, with a bunch of files that I didn't create sitting in my directory hierarchy doing unknowable things. Sinatra behaves just like
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by substack 16y ago
The language is absolutely important, since in haskell I could just: > reverse [1,2,3,4] or if I couldn't use the Prelude (yikes!) reverse [x] = [x] reverse (x:xs) = reverse xs ++ [x] > reverse [1,2,3,4]
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by substack 16y ago
The point of releasing open source software for me is that I am contributing in my own small way to the state of human technological progress and to the massive canon of free software that I benefit from every day. Plus it's exhilarating to
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by substack 16y ago
This is a good point but at the same point not many employers have this strategy so I suspect there is plenty of underemployment among people writing open source given the level of skill. The hiring strategy that pkrumins advocates seems pr
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by substack 16y ago
Thanks for this response and the parent question too. I updated the article to make this point more clear.
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DNode: Asynchronous Remote Method Invocation for Node.js and the Browser(substack.net)
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by substack 16y ago
When advance() in BufferList gets called, the linked list of buffers behind the scene advances so that all the unused buffers can get garbage collected. Binary has a flush() method too that calls advance().
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More one-liners from commandlinefu explained(catonmat.net)
51 points by substack 16y ago|2 comments
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by substack 16y ago
This reminds me of a story from all the way back in high school algebra. I had just got a ti-83 calculator that year and was having fun writing basic programs for it. One of the class topics towards the end of the semester was the normal di
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by substack 16y ago
I really hate years of experience used as a metric because it doesn't distinguish between people who did are actually experienced in a technology and people who have merely been around a technology for a long time but never bothered to prob
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by substack 17y ago
Light your lamp before going south and you'll be fine.
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by substack 17y ago
I ran the source through jsbeautifier.org yielding this: http://gist.github.com/351418 Some fun stuff: * there is a MUD * find kitten launches a mini-game * apt-get moo * i read the source code
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An average half-kilometer S-type asteroid is worth more than $20 trillion.(googlelunarxprize.org)
61 points by substack 17y ago|61 comments
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This winter break, I built a python-powered robot telescope.(substack.net)
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by substack 17y ago
As a male, computer science major, and avid coffee drinker, I too am repelled by energy drinks. That aside, in my experience I see two mostly-exclusive classes of "geek": people who are much more fascinated with producing technology and peo
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by substack 17y ago
I've used Haskell's OpenGL libraries some, and definitely recommend them over C++. OpenGL's callbacks feel much more natural in a functional language and the monadic do notation works very well at managing nested matrix transformations. Als