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by tumult 17y ago
1) I'm not saying those other people aren't masters as well. Clearly they are. I listen to all of them, frequently. 2) When I say "Michael Jackson", I am referring to the entire 'product' known as Michael Jackson. If I said "Apple has some
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by tumult 17y ago
If you think Michael Jackson was a musical master, you've come to the wrong shop. Oh, blow me. Michael Jackson was an incredible musician. Have you actually listened to any of his music? Four decades ago, Time magazine declared "Civili
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by tumult 17y ago
In addition to this, another great Haskell+monads learning source is Real World Haskell, whose exercises will have you implement your own monads without telling you, and then reveal the surprise later. Well, it would have been a surprise, b
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by tumult 17y ago
Is that really suspect? One comment (in two places) saying not to use some function beyond 1960 because it will give divergent results? The author of the post says something like, "see, these programmer people leave comments in code to remi
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by tumult 17y ago
It's strange to me that some people seem to believe that artists would stop making art without economic incentive. As if somehow, the prospect of being financially rewarded is the differentiator between creating art and not. As long as you
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by tumult 17y ago
The only money I've ever made off of music is doing live gigs. Give your music away for almost nothing (or dirt cheap) and then play your own shows. Record sales as a way to profit probably should never have existed. I would not be surprise
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by tumult 17y ago
For example, in our job board application, we might store open, expired and filled listings using a table-per-class strategy: [image of some class hierarchy] That ain't no man's soft delete, boy. You want to know what soft delete is? We
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by tumult 17y ago
The sandbox developers all got invites to give to their friends. I think that's where most of the people on the Wave Preview came from at the moment.
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by tumult 17y ago
Apple employees have the advantage of being paid by Apple to work that way.
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by tumult 17y ago
Right. I personally think browser apps will become less relevant. The only reason people are using browser apps is that installation and management of applications on desktops has historically sucked very badly. Install/Update/Uninstall is
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by tumult 17y ago
The price of college will keep "correcting" itself upward as people continue to see it as necessary for non-labor employment. College isn't a prerequisite for competence. Once people come to their senses about this, it will drop back down.
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by tumult 17y ago
It's much easier to make powerful, cross-platform browser applications when IE compatibility is not an issue. I don't think I can stress how important that "much easier" is.
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by tumult 17y ago
Makes Office and Windows less relevant.
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LambdaCube and Bullet (3D library and physics for Haskell) on Hackage(just-bottom.blogspot.com)
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by tumult 17y ago
JavaScript compilers (in the sense of Java->JavaScript, not V8/TraceMonkey) already do this. Surprisingly inlining can help quite a bit in JS; due to how JS is "specified", there is extremely little room for interpreters to perform opti
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by tumult 17y ago
Thanks pg, this one was great. I was just ranting about software here in HN comments the last couple of days, so it feels even more timely.
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by tumult 17y ago
Intel makes some very good software -- for example, their compilers. Car companies that cannot produce good software are indeed dying. The next generation driving systems rely heavily on a software component (traction control, user interfac
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by tumult 17y ago
OS is more than a kernel and some drivers. Unless you would consider Android, Palm's WebOS, Nokia's various OSs, Arch and Ubuntu to all be equivalent.
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by tumult 17y ago
Read this earlier. Dead on. Any company which cannot build decent software does not have a bright future. Not just in computers -- probably any field. Software is becoming a more pervasive part of life every year. The many who cannot adapt
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by tumult 17y ago
Absolutely it's true. Programmers in most corporate environments are treated like assembly line workers. Work for X hours, Y amount of work gets done. Programmers should be interchangeable units that can be continuously reorganized to optim
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by tumult 17y ago
To me personally, the coolest thing about xmonad is that you can read the entire source in just a few minutes and understand it all as well. It's just a few hundred lines. You can then immediately start hacking on it.
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by tumult 17y ago
Historically in the record business (as in, since the birth of the record business up until about 2000) artists had almost no hope of ever making any money. Playing live gigs or putting out an album usually involved going into massive debt
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by tumult 17y ago
I'm talking about the class tracing V8 does, not prototype chains. "Property chain" meaning in V8, it must climb the series of what it calls "hidden classes" in order to find all of the properties. Other engines do various things when you p
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by tumult 17y ago
Some Sitepoint Article: How not to Critique a Javascript Library for (var i = fromIndex; i < arr.length; i++) { This for loop looks up the .length property of the array (arr) each time through the loop. Simply by sett
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by tumult 17y ago
From experience: the "News2" thing does work. The only problem is that after a few "NewsN" iterations, you come to realize that you're just basically kicking out everyone except for the same few core groups of users each time you make a n
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by tumult 17y ago
Hopefully you'll excuse a short rant with no data to substantiate it. It's easy to give someone a list of something to do. You already know how it's done. Need a sandwich? "Go to the store. Buy these x items. Come home. Take two slices of b
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by tumult 17y ago
People who troll for fun don't adjust their behavior, usually. I mean, they aren't behaving that way on accident. The point of being a troll is to mess with other people. "Oh look how nice this site is, suddenly I'll stop trolling and be ni
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by tumult 17y ago
That's very very cool, thanks for the info
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by tumult 17y ago
Assuming the OS threads/preemptive multitasking are playing nice (i.e. letting me devour timeslices at my leisure), how well do you think the GC would work when I need to land events in a 15 microsecond window at 40hz on a normal desktop PC
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by tumult 17y ago
Right on, good to know, thanks :)

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