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by thomas11 15y ago
Awesome, I'll be there!
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by thomas11 16y ago
Not sure if that's worse or the "GNU Hurd" pair of pairs of mutually recursive acronyms. [1] [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/o...
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by thomas11 16y ago
The ELisp frontend of Guile 2.0 will allow a gradual migration from ELisp to Scheme by integrating Guile into Emacs and letting it execute code in both languages. I can't wait for that to happen. Guile hacker Andy Wingo (wingo on HN, hi!) g
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by thomas11 16y ago
Buddhists say it's not.
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by thomas11 16y ago
"Most of the time you only need to load a little bit of data anyway" - that's highly questionable as a general statement. In a rich UI like GMail, yes. But in examples like the new Lifehacker, you load a whole story, yet its locator is behi
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by thomas11 16y ago
My Kindle 3 turns PDF pages about as fast as I could turn a page in a book or a stapled article printout. Not lightning fast, but good enough for me.
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by thomas11 16y ago
It's really great that in a few years, browsers will support a new AJAX technology that solves this problem that we wouldn't even have with sane, traditional URL schemes.
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by thomas11 16y ago
I'm a Perl fanboy, and even I agree here. There's just no substance.
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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies(blog.asmartbear.com)
259 points by thomas11 16y ago|125 comments
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by thomas11 16y ago
An alternative that's been around for a while is Pandoc, a document converter written in Haskell. It can make S5 and Slidy slide decks from Markdown. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#producing-html-...
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by thomas11 16y ago
RDF is certainly awkward for many use cases, but it's the same API everywhere. Each custom web API needs custom code to use it. I don't believe in automatic agents, either. But RDF as a universal data format, forming a web of data, can be
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by thomas11 16y ago
You're saying that a standardized formal model of a graph is equally hard to understand for programs than human language? The people working on natural language processing since decades must be really dumb then.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Let's also not forget the Linked Data idea. You find a node in an RDF graph that you're interested in? Follow the URI that is its id and get more RDF describing the node, and so on. A web of data. We're not there yet, but the number of RDF-
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by thomas11 16y ago
The Vikings navigated very well, for the time, consistently over a long period.
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How to Launch Your Startup in 16 Easy Steps (Infographic)(softwarebyrob.com)
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by thomas11 16y ago
I assumed the figures were in USD. So the majority of the kind of employees that would be here on HN, such as software developers, earn less than 37k EUR in Italy? True, the upper end of the range, 100k USD = 73k EUR would be pretty high. B
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by thomas11 16y ago
In most of Western Europe, the buckets proposed by rdl hold as well. And in most other places, the numbers would be pretty meaningless because of the big difference in purchasing power. Most people in the developing world are in a low bucke
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by thomas11 16y ago
Perl 6 is not really an upgrade, except in the most general sense. It's a new Perlish language, and Perl 5 will have a long and happy life besides Perl 6, even when (if?) the latter is used in production.
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by thomas11 16y ago
I told Ricardo Signes, hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Then MS Office users who aren't computer geeks wouldn't associate it with MS Office at all. In the IE vs. Netscape battle it probably was a big factor that "Internet Explorer" had the work "internet" in it - if a computer-illiterate person
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by thomas11 16y ago
Your last statement is very interesting. Frequently, one hears about the divide between academia and the real world, and how much research---even in CS---is unlikely to ever have practical benefits. Could you give an example or two of the A
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by thomas11 16y ago
I downloaded those where I already know the technology well. That way, I hope to pick up a couple of neat tips and tricks every once in a while when I have a few minutes to read.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Excellent! I just loaded a few on my Kindle, and they work great. Thanks!
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by thomas11 16y ago
I don't see any programming in HTML in these examples. Via the class attribute you specify which Lift component renders that particular fragment of your site, but there's no logic such as conditionals or computations.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Instapaper is fantastic, but focusing on an article has nothing to do with meditation. An article is someone else's thoughts. Meditation is stilling one's thoughts.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Preparing you for these (transient) negative feelings is a standard of Buddhist meditation teaching. At least it's in the foundational texts and it was mentioned in the few Buddhist groups I've attended. It would be unfortunate if modern me
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by thomas11 16y ago
I wouldn't give up the Kindle for anything. The E-Paper screen feels much more comfortable on my eyes. Its size is perfect for having it always with me and reading with one hand in bed or on the train/bus. And I don't interact much with the
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by thomas11 16y ago
It's much easier to check the credentials of the relatively few people who offer such services. For the above example, you'd find that the Stonehenge people [1] have a long history of contributions to Perl and an excellent reputation. [1]
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by thomas11 16y ago
When would you read all your books if you bought ten times as many? I think that's a hard limitation of the book market - even devoted readers can only read so much.
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by thomas11 16y ago
In Emacs you also benefit from sentence-level commands that let you move forward or backward by sentence, kill the current sentence etc. Very helpful. These commands recognize sentences by the double space so they don't confuse abbreviation

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