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by swolchok 17y ago
Steve Yegge's blog entry "Rich Programmer Food" is about why Compilers is the most important real CS class. Great read. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...
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by swolchok 17y ago
Touche! Didn't do my homework on this one.
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by swolchok 17y ago
On the surface, your argument has intuitive merit. However, you don't sue a business unit (Youtube), you sue a company (Google). Google is profitable.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Oh, you mean minipayments.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Don't understand why "netbooks are going the way of the dodo" and "the race to the bottom will make them disappear". The race to the bottom will shake up the market and make the industry more competitive, but shipping cheap netbooks that lo
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by swolchok 17y ago
GWT compiles Java to JavaScript, right? So compile the Swing calls into calls to equivalent JavaScript UI library calls. Barf if they try to do stuff you can't do in JavaScript (filesystem), as GWT surely has to do already. (disclaimer: nev
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by swolchok 17y ago
Netbook acceptability checklist: 1) Runs a web browser 2) Has k hours of battery life 3) Has "big enough" screen and keyboard These things don't compete on features, they compete on binary "good enough" and price. They're practically commod
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by swolchok 17y ago
RAD = rapid application development, the business term for "drag-n-drop GUI builders" that we all know and hate. Not having one for the Web is a valid criticism, but if GWT can handle Swing API input then we DO have one.
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by swolchok 17y ago
It would have to be Windowsy, unless Chrome has its own internal windowing layer that's a suitable general abstraction. I assumed that "windowing environment" meant "window manager" not "GUI toolkit" anyway.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I have to disagree -- $50 is 20% of the price of the cheapest netbooks, and it's 10% of the price of relatively expensive $500 netbooks. The cheaper netbooks get, the more of an issue $50 is. The Eee PC was supposed to be the $200 laptop an
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by swolchok 17y ago
Added the 2-space indent; it did not work.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Was going to send this to them, but they requested serious attempts only, so here you go HN: WSA: push 10 push 97 push 106 push 110 push 105 push 78 push 32 push 111 push 108 dup push 101 push 72 push 11 label
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by swolchok 17y ago
Am I on Reddit? Seriously, what's with the headline?
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by swolchok 17y ago
YouTube is not the only site with Flash video on the Internet. The handful of sites you could name and point out special-case apps for still will not cover the set of interesting sites with Flash video on the Internet.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I remember in sixth grade when they revealed to us that "3 \cdot a" and "3a" were additional notations for "3 x a" (three times a) and encouraged use of those notations on homework, I happily wrote "a3" as well because multiplication is com
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by swolchok 17y ago
OK, now you want to develop a desktop version of your application with a snazzy graphical interface. Good luck.
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by swolchok 17y ago
(Could've sworn this was in C++ FAQ Lite, but I can't find it) The language specifies exceptions as a feature, not an option. Turning off a language feature and how that works with other features that may reference it is a heavily compiler-
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by swolchok 17y ago
I would not advise this style of programming, because it creates a very tight binding between the application logic and the interface. In fact, it's exactly the problematic style caused by GUI builders that generate event handlers and ask y
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by swolchok 17y ago
If you have a lot or the clear potential to get a lot, money seems like a pretty decent way of keeping score.
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by swolchok 17y ago
What if we change the slang to "flail", which is at least both a noun and a verb?
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by swolchok 17y ago
from original article: > The #1 predictor for how someone will side in issues of gay rights is whether or not they know someone who is gay. Why couldn't one conclude that the #1 predictor for whether or not someone will meet someone who
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by swolchok 17y ago
GPL-licensed projects also have users who cannot fix problems in the GPL-licensed code they use, because of their complete lack of technical training.
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by swolchok 17y ago
The problem is that learning to think this way in general makes you habitually write things like x >> 8 instead of x / 256, which makes your code hard to read for no benefit if you're using a compiler that was written sometime in, o
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by swolchok 17y ago
or a is negative.
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by swolchok 17y ago
No one complained that C# is significantly more verbose than Python/Ruby/Arc/whatever?
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by swolchok 17y ago
He mentions that "you can implement personalized PageRank on a small cluster of computers", but from a business perspective, you probably can't do it because PageRank is patented.
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by swolchok 17y ago
>Now I was under the impression that not a single shred of evidence existed to back up the premise that second hand smoke is dangerous to your health. Just plain wrong. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS
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by swolchok 17y ago
topic in #python on Freenode says: "It's too early to use Python 3.x"
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by swolchok 17y ago
Joel Spolsky's closing thoughts in his interview in Founders At Work are that you do have to quit the day job so that your choices are to either succeed or get a job. He mentions that he stole at least some of the sentiment from pg.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Ironically, this article violates its urge to "meta-discuss sparingly" by meta-discussing for a whole article. (Attempts to point out the same irony in this comment will suffer from the same problem.)

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