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1. 3211.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   Mr Dijkstra obviously did not code in Ruby.
2. 3212.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   Prime numbers can also be used to generate convincing pseudo-random numbers and patterns that don't repeat for long times. You can basically use them whenever you need a number that has as few relations to other numbers as possible. Anyway,
3. 3213.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   Hey, you're right, it would be a compile time error but indeed. I'd rather supply a generic constraint <Foo> to ArrayList than have it be cast to Foo that way (does it even do that automatically?). Also, do you think leaving out the
4. 3214.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   People should not be so eager to jump to the new functional constructs in C# to proof it can be cool too. There is no shame in imperative programming, it has its own advantages and can be pretty too. In this case, just using C# a bit more i
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   by tinco 14y ago

   This is an excellent talk, thank you very much for linking it. Clojure is such a pretty language!
6. 3216.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   I would love to see a Scheme or Clojure version of the code. I posted an attempt at it in Haskell, the only functional programming language I know, but it isn't particularily beautiful.
7. 3217.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   Alright, time to fire up ghci then.. it doesn't work with map or filter, but you get the idea: notes = concat $ repeat ["c", "c#", "d", "d#", "e", "f", "f#", "g", "g#", "a", "a#", "b"] majorSteps = [1,1,0,1,1,1,0] scale key steps =
8. 3218.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   Hey, yeah Ruby is a bit easier for me :) Your code is correct so it's not terrible. As to why you didn't think of it.. maybe it's because you practice less at making code look as pretty as possible? It is something I practice a lot, maybe b
9. 3219.▲
   by tinco 14y ago

   The code he wrote for showing how to generate is pretty ugly and left me confused. I think this shows much better the relation between the 12 notes and a scale: NOTES = ['c', 'c#', 'd', 'd#', 'e', 'f', 'f#', 'g', 'g#', 'a', 'a#', 'b']
10. 3220.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    I would pay for this service. I have a bookcase full of textbooks of $60-$120 a piece that I'd love to have digitized for like 10-20 bucks per kindle-readable book. Rebuying it on Amazon usually costs the same ridiculously high price or hig
11. 3221.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    Probably a reference to Van Rossum developing python during a lonely christmas.
12. 3222.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    So every dutch university teaches a language they themselves wrote the compiler for. The university of twente used to teach FP in a miranda dialect called amanda, which ofcourse was developed at utwente :p
13. 3223.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    Wow.. that's even more sad than I thought. btw, thanks for scrolling down to see my comment, it was lonely down here :D
14. 3224.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    The fact that the code is very neat and is well documented bothers me. Also the fact that javascript is a lot more readable when you put a blank line between every two lines bothers me (a lot!). And that it works perfectly and looks great,
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    by tinco 14y ago

    How would you envision this? 9 out of 10 ideas are just bad, or 9 out of 10 executions are just bad, and you can't know which ones are good or bad ahead of time. The amount of stress comes from the fact that you constantly need to reassure
16. 3226.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    Black people and women are so linguist. Not submitting talk proposals to Ruby conferences is just disrespectful. edit: Just found out raganwald submitted a talk proposal to BritRuby. Turns out my racist general remark was entirely misguided
17. 3227.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    This is a ridiculous statement. If you want to be non-racist, diversity shouldn't even be a word in your vocabulary. The definition of racist is not 'have at least one of each in your audience'. It is 'do not discriminate based on race'. I
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    by tinco 14y ago

    This sort of post is why I read HN, in my opinion posts like this should get more upvotes than Steve's death. For some reason I find it very reassuring to read articles that tell about all the downsides of being an entrepreneur. It makes me
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    by tinco 14y ago

    Hi, I added documentation to your code so people new to Haskell might understand what is going on: https://gist.github.com/4105864 Even with extensive documentation it is only 3 lines longer than the Go version ;)
20. 3230.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    I have the same thing. We should research it.
21. 3231.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    Please don't, isn't the whole idea of geometry wars that the difficulty comes from the visual chaos? If everything was super clear the whole challenge of the game would be reduced..
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    by tinco 14y ago

    Damn pretty great, I played a Geometry Wars game together with some other people, no lag, no glitches the entire game. And a whole bunch of nice animations and effects. This shows that at least for the arcade market, the web really has beco
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    by tinco 14y ago

    What's with the laughing at the stupidity of the airport security circle jerk? It's all fine and dandy that you can make an IED triggering device with any electronic device, that it is theoretically possible does not make it the absolute wa
24. 3234.▲
    by tinco 14y ago

    This doesn't work for them because Twitter has had 1.16 billion dollars in funding. Getting money from teeny little twitter apps is not the sort of plan they are going to make that money back with. Imagine if they charged a buck per usernam
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    by tinco 14y ago

    So, it is a noble thing Matt is doing here, but my skepticism always kicks in when a post like that does not include a self evaluation. I am sure you could fish up some great job opportunities for anyone who writes you a nice e-mail. But is
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    by tinco 14y ago

    There are three cases for a task that takes a regular human 5 minutes and a computer programmer 5 hours to automate: 1 The task is very complex, this means that there's a lot of room for human error. A well-tested and specified program will
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    by tinco 14y ago

    In my opinion, you should not tell people who do not understand how analytics will improve your caching optimization that you are working on analytics. You should tell them you are working on improving the caching layer. If you sound confid
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    by tinco 14y ago

    Just a small note to your comment above, the issues you mentioned with Symphony, they are not just because you haven't "mastered" the CLI. It sounds like they are true bugs in whatever manual or documentation accompanies Symphony, and it wo
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    by tinco 14y ago

    The features sound nice, they could use a bit more slick design ;) Why not make it for the Metro UI? Might rock.. If you suggested you would dive into the WinAPI and use your C++ skills to write a new console _engine_ I would gladly pledge
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    by tinco 14y ago

    Did you bring up the Diginotar hack/scandal because you think having a citizen authentication system is a terrible idea? I think the diginotar incident showed more of how bad the SSL CA situation really is than of the lacking security of di