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by tarkin2 19y ago
The original designers of Smalltalk taught a load of primary school kids to program. So squeak may be a good bet. There was even a video on it. I think I saw this in one of Alan Kay's UI videos that are available here: http://webcast.berke
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I was going to support the "What's wrong with the pub?" part as well. He's incorrect when he says it disconnects us, at least some of the time: I've got in contact with long lost friends through it. But if he arguing geographically close pe
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I was going to chose this as well because eventually I'll want to interact with new (and exciting) hardware. I think that's the overriding concern. For instance, no matter how much I love PLT-Scheme, Haskell, etc if I chose one of them ther
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I spoke to 2nd year Comp Sci undergraduate a few days ago. I'm about 70% sure he said the main language they teach is Java (I don't recall him ever speaking about C/C++). I was telling him about my forays into Haskell and how function compo
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I've used it before because I've wanted to separate my Html code from my Lisp code. It works well enough. It even automatically updated itself when I changed either my Html or Lisp code. I did have to bundle all my variables up into a hash
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Well, I'd like to leave, primarily because I don't trust facebook with my personal information, or at least I want to be in control of how it's used. But I often find sending messages with facebook more pleasant than sending them via my ema
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I thought it was more about the things you know and focus on, which are right in their narrow domain, but which prevent you from looking at the wider problem and therefore prevent you from perceiving, possibly better, alternatives. I kno
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by tarkin2 19y ago
"This caused me to create a theory that I had a strong skill at certain sorts of learning based on pattern matching, and that overuse of this skill had stunted other learning skills. I told myself that I'd look out for opportunities to solv
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by tarkin2 19y ago
haha - news.ycombinator.com Seriously, i've never submitted anything. I've been tempted to link to a few things from boingboing and mind hacks but never actually done so.
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I agree it depends on the cost. If it literately meant I would lose my home if I did not pay the thief then I definitely would pay him/her. But as to your argument about "everyone", it's more about diminishing this market rather than effaci
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Even if they store the passwords as MD5 hashes the system is still extremely vulnerable because of MD5 hash google searches as detailed a while back. Besides, the whole system is hub for potentially thousands of users passwords, and that wo
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Indeed. I was sceptical at first and then laughed it away when it asked for my passwords.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Perhaps it's a British thing but I wouldn't have paid the thief either. It seems like doing such would perpetuate this activity. It's far more moralistic than pragmatic, but I guess he and I value those more than monetary benefits. I would
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by tarkin2 19y ago
i couldn't get that to work. firefox 2.0 here.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Diabolially clever? At the moment companies pay to advertise on Facebook et al. With Badoo companies and customers pay for their bands/artists/self to reach the top of a list? This is just a slight alternation of the extant model not an alt
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I agree with quite a bit of what you said, but I wouldn't focus on upfront remuneration as the primary facilitator. If you look at the civil service, there are few civil servants who want to report misconduct because of what it means for t
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by tarkin2 19y ago
For me, it's not so much regulation vs. deregulation or political ideology. I'm more pragmatic than idealistic. In fact I only briefly thought about that. It's more short term vs. long term and, basically, effectiveness. For example, weed r
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I'm generally a prude when it comes to drugs, but I wonder how much this would increase cognitive muscles . I say this because I would expect the brain would, after a while, become used to this externally induced effect and therefore disre
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by tarkin2 19y ago
haha - I enjoyed reading the article, but I was always thinking: "but......... java..." Then again, with the right design Java isn't so bad... if you simply _have_ to use it.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Vote it to the top of sites like this? I'm pretty annoyed I read that article/advertisement.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I wonder how this will affect Opera now they've filed a complaint with the European Commission....
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I knew I shouldn't have given up the Guitar :(
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by tarkin2 19y ago
If you never change your mind, why have one? -- Edward de Bono
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I find grades are only a cursory indicator of intellectual worth. For sure, those who achieved A's are definitely hard-workers and have most probably looked into certain subjects at more depth and breadth (which they'll hopefully remember l
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by tarkin2 19y ago
Malcolm Gladwell is probably my favourite non-fiction author of late. I wonder if you can subscribe to the New Yorker in the UK. I'm starting to appreciate that magazine more and more.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
It gives that manufacturer and product publicity though. And that publicity is linked to your interpersonal relationship with your friend. Although that isn't explicit endorsement, I would argue it's implicit endorsement, and nevertheless t
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I'm a little troubled with: "[a]nd it's not with a text-editor." I'm all for evolution but essentially you deal with text. So no matter how much you augment that you still deal with text (unless you propose a completely pictorial system whi
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I've bought some product, mobile phone accessories for one example, that have worked okay for a while but after while have become completely useless. I wouldn't want Beacon to advertise them, especially not until I've used and tested them f
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I'm quite hesitant about giving any third party access to my personal data, although Facebook clearly has a very accurate profile of me. However, OAuth seems quite cool if I ever were to do so on a more extensive level (for instance, I've n
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by tarkin2 19y ago
It's certainly a reassertion of michel's iron law of oligarchy. That said, the article seems a little overzealous, a little like the accused poster's editing. Still, it's good to sully wikipedia's reputation a little because some people p

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