tfinniga

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   by tfinniga 18y ago

   smugmug? picasa?
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   by tfinniga 18y ago

   Well, proof is in the pudding - apparently Atwood is doing a good chunk of the coding on stackoverflow.com. Joel seems useful for funding, business advice, his community, and to tell Atwood that he really should learn C.
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   by tfinniga 18y ago

   This is entertainment and marketing, not any useful useful insight into programmer personalities (as you might thing from the title). The point of this is to make a manager read it, laugh that Harry is a Hippie and Nelson is a Nerd, and the
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   by tfinniga 18y ago

   My problem with the site is twofold. One, they're deceptive. Top of every page says you to pay to join to see the answer, shows scrambled answers, etc. Bottom of the same page shows the actual answer. Two, the ratio of crap to goodness on
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   by tfinniga 18y ago

   I love that the broken window fallacy is being applied to windows.
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   by tfinniga 18y ago

   Well, the alternative you suggested is not the only alternative. As you point out, it's a rather bad one. Perhaps a better one is to study similar situations, talk to all members of a system and get feedback, and then make a decision based
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   by tfinniga 19y ago

   I agree - I think it would be a stretch to say someone 'designed' this UI. This is a small project, with an easy UI. Getting a simpler UI would take more work, but just because someone is a programmer doesn't mean they can't design a good
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   by tfinniga 19y ago

   Interesting that storm and kraken are also both based in Russia.
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   by tfinniga 19y ago

   It looks to me like the best way for a talented cs guy in the US to get ahead is to found startups until he achieves commercial success. Whereas the quickest way to get ahead in poor countries is to be noticed, get out of your country, and
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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    Bummer. I tried huddlechat today, and was impressed. I hadn't tried campfire before, for various reasons, but I think I might give it a shot now. At this point it might be just as effective of a tech demo to release the source to huddlech
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    Ask YC: Tech startup blog search

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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    They are trying to get more efficient power supplies.. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/26/2039213
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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    I agree that lisp can be made readable. And C can be made unreadable. OTOH lisp encourages deep nesting, which makes it harder to be readable. Here's a rougly equivalent program, if I read the lisp correctly. void test-+() { *t
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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    The point I was trying to make is that whitespace and parens are not equally good as delimiters. Specifically, reading a newspaper that has parens instead of whitespace would be harder. (Specifically,(reading(a(newspaper(that(has(parens(ins
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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    Good points. Perhaps the problem is also how lisp is taught? When I learned lisp, the procedural aspects of lisp were shown, but with the understanding that they were bad, and not to be used. Probably because it was shown as a functiona
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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    Well if you ignore the human visual processing system, that's a valid argument. One ascii character is just the same as the next. Unfortunately for lisp, that's not the case. Whitespace is different than lines. There's a reason most peop
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    by tfinniga 19y ago

    I think lisp's problems started when it wasn't designed for actual use. It is elegant, functional, and amazingly regular. Usability wasn't a design goal. If you look at languages in wide use, they're all procedural - everything from ASM a