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by tsally 17y ago
If it's worth the read, it's worth the read. Otherwise why write it?
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by tsally 17y ago
Sounds like you don't want Lisp then. Lisp is the battery. It's the ultimate freedom of choice. Use libraries from: your friends, a coder you respect, or write your own. You don't complain about not knowing where to look to get a Linux
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by tsally 17y ago
Someone tell me we're not there yet.
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by tsally 17y ago
Ah, of course. That's what I get for commenting when I'm tired. The only comment that I would make is that the dot notation is very OO, indicating the method on the right is a member of the class of the object on the left. The 'using nam
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by tsally 17y ago
Your example is way different. You're operating on objects instead of return values. Rewriting what you gave: using namespace UnixUtilities; sort(grep(cat(filename), 'XYZ')); No object necessary. No storage necessary. For your
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by tsally 17y ago
This isn't quite correct. Google may have the best search right now, but its competitors could be just as good and it would still take us a while to find out. That's what happens with momentum. Here's an example: in September 2009 Micros
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by tsally 17y ago
Adwords without Pagerank is useless. The pay per click and auction mechanisms for Adwords are innovative in a sense, but Adwords is not successful because of its technical implementation. Adwords are what people pay for in a literal sense,
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by tsally 17y ago
I can't speak with authority on OCaml or Haskell, but Common Lisp isn't lacking in terms of libraries. You just have to know where to look ( http://www.cliki.net ) and how to manage them. And one last thing. Is functional programming real
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by tsally 17y ago
Brin and Page are good examples of the fact that ideas in themselves can be extremely valuable and are worth guarding. They're probably one of the worst examples. It was technical brilliance, not their idea, that allowed them to succeed.
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by tsally 17y ago
My opinion is that procrastination is a symptom not a disease. The average life span in the US is 78 years, and you're really only at your peak for about 50 of them. Ever have a year just fly by? Well that was 1/50th of the total time yo
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Bilski Oral Argument at the US Supreme Court (Software Patent Case)(fsf.org)
13 points by tsally 17y ago|12 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
Regardless of the details of the actual defect, I think this whole Toyota fiasco highlights a problem in training. The sad reality is that the vast majority of the fatalities could have been prevented if the driver had simply shifted into
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by tsally 17y ago
I guess I always thought retired meant that if all your sources of income disappeared tomorrow, you could live off of your savings for the rest of your life. Don't get me wrong, I find owning a business where you can pay your own salary im
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by tsally 17y ago
I'll be watching for a longer post as well. Nice job. :)
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by tsally 17y ago
Wisdom of the crowds isn't infallible, and YC acceptance/rejection is certainly a likely place where it might fail. Erlang day getting taken too far is a great example of this type of failure happening in the past. EDIT: That being said, I
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by tsally 17y ago
Just FYI: this is what it looks like in Firefox with NoScript: http://i.imgur.com/b85b2.png . Javascript can be required for a site, but usually layout is built so it looks ok without it.
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm sorry but your argument is simply stupid and wrong. Well spoken. You're eloquence is overwhelming. If someone mentally ill, there is a higher chance what they write is not reflective of reality. I acknowledged that possibility in m
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by tsally 17y ago
I don't like the term "real literature" either. I'm using it colloquially to mean works that have some combination of the following: * Taught by mainstream college professors * Well received by mainstream literary critics * Winner of a not
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm curious why you consider the nutty idea that mental health is completely orthogonal to one's ability to write 'correctly' obvious. If your ability to perceive reality is impaired (say, you're delusional or clinically paranoid or otherw
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by tsally 17y ago
This isn't correct. Science fiction routinely has elements that violate the laws of physics and nature as we know them today. Having actual science is in most cases a disqualifier (there is some SF that sticks to science, but that's hardl
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by tsally 17y ago
I've found the success of a work Science Fiction as a work of literature is closely correlated to how far removed it is from present day society. Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World are both fairly close to society today, as far as Scienc
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by tsally 17y ago
Simply pointing out it's a crazy letter written by a mentally ill person who hadn't even seen it. I'm curious why you feel a person's mental health has anything to do with the correctness of his/her writing. It's an obviously incorrect i
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by tsally 17y ago
I appreciate the correction. My statement was based on my memory of the news reports at the time. Clearly my memory failed in this case. :-p
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by tsally 17y ago
Every time I see one of your websites I think of a homeless guy holding a sign that says: "will trade strong crypto for good web design". :-p
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by tsally 17y ago
And that is why annoying one of the better programmers in the world today by withdrawing his free license is a bad idea. Git only exists because Linus didn't want to migrate to the commercial version of BK.
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by tsally 17y ago
I think you capture the issue perfectly. The things you value determine your opinion of software. From where I stand, I value good design (reliability and security are natural side effects). I find the aesthetics of well designed softwar
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by tsally 17y ago
It wasn't. iDefense retracted that part of their report.
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by tsally 17y ago
Right, the real reason Reader is a target is because of its ubiquity (especially in the enterprise). The reason why I mentioned Javascript is because I think it highlights Adobe's mindset perfectly. They refuse to design simple and narrowl
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by tsally 17y ago
Because who could have predicted allowing Javascript in a document format was a bad idea.
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Needle by ITA: Creating Databases from Data Anywhere On The Web(pub.needlebase.com)
4 points by tsally 17y ago|0 comments

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