twopoint718

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by twopoint718 17y ago
Maybe it also has something to do with the Rubber Duck method: http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174....
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I agree completely, the notion of the "inscrutable macro" is often brought up when arguing against a Lisp. Whatever one could say is dangerous about macros, I would argue, could be said equally of functions. But I think something else is go
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by twopoint718 17y ago
It looks like this is good news for anything that targets the JVM though, as it looks like the path to Dalvik bytecode is: .java -> [javac] -,-> .class -> [dx] -> .dex / ??? ------------' Ha
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by twopoint718 17y ago
It does. What would be the rationale for this? Is it just that they didn't want the standard Java ME runtime?
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by twopoint718 17y ago
This is exactly what I thought: "Uh, what if the reason Twitter developers aren't using Twitter much is because they are developing Twitter ?"
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by twopoint718 17y ago
That could very well be the case: http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1... "Whether stability is such a good thing in a downturn, though, is a different matter. A decade ago Andrew Oswald of Warwick Un
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I've used this: http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/ It puts out pretty good looking resumes and it can render to HTML, plain text, or PDF. It is written in Java and uses Apache FOP http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I work in a university department and the situation is exactly the opposite. When a new grad student arrives, they're set up with a Scientific Linux machine (a version of RHEL modified by CERN and Fermilab). My feeling is that a lot of scie
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by twopoint718 17y ago
After I heard about him, I went to my campus library and checked out "Afternoon." It comes on one 3.5" floppy disk and couldn't be removed from the reading room. So I sat down (at the only machine left with a floppy drive) and clicked throu
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by twopoint718 17y ago
The thing that comes to mind here is the notion of a "controlled vocabulary" from library science. When you're building a hierarchical model of concepts (Library of Congress, or Dewey Decimal Classification) it helps to have a relatively sm
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by twopoint718 17y ago
"Anarchy" (the word) isn't a political argument, it just means "an-" without, "-arkhos" leader.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I'll offer Michael Joyce as an example: http://faculty.vassar.edu/mijoyce/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon:_a_story I think you could consider this a use of hyperlinking before the web. And if you count "As We May Think", then it
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by twopoint718 17y ago
This was my favorite blogging platform back in the day. It was easy to plug markdown into and I thought they had a good idea for just using the filesystem (no web post editor). Not to put words into any mouths, but they must have figured yo
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by twopoint718 17y ago
The book (and TV series) "Connections" by James Burke is a very interesting peek into just how interconnected technology is. The one that amazed me was how the technology of the auto loom lead to the computer (via punch cards). Again, this
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by twopoint718 17y ago
You may have to watch out because the GPLv3 is designed to prevent this sort of thing (having some GPL'd software inaccessible on the server side (the "application service provider" loophole)). So it could be a problem, I'm not an expert
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by twopoint718 17y ago
It looks like Sun is going to get into the game with an app store based around Java: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165219/sun_see... http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/will_java_be_the_world
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I've never heard this characterized so well. There was a <something> that I had always been trying to put my finger on when I'd read these sorts of articles and the top-down/bottom-up description is right on the mark. My own feeling
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by twopoint718 17y ago
On Lisp is a must , it is just a really brilliant book that delves into what Graham argues (and I accept) is the most distinct and powerful feature of Lisp, macros. I can see evidence that Clojure contributors have read it too, just the ot
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Reader macros?
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I had never heard of the idea of keeping a ring of rings for a limited stack trace (the "history"). It's my experience that seeing the last few calls in a backtrace is usually enough for me to see where I went wrong.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
When someone pays to advertise they know it is a "leaky" mechanism. It is understood (or should be) that not every person in the world will see that ad. It is also understood that not every person that sees the ad will buy the products adve
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I enjoy using xmonad too. It puts you in a very different workflow. Also don't miss the great list of people's config files: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive I ended up adopting this one almost without modification: h
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I've come to like my iBook G4 more since I've been running Debian on it. The advantage, which no fanboy can dispute is this, free upgrades. I got sick of this or that not working under 10.3 (no Java updates, for example) and so I thought "I
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by twopoint718 17y ago
This falls more into the "tips and tricks" category, but I wish someone had mentioned this to me earlier. Once you have a good book on C[1] install all the man pages for the standard library. Once you start writing code, being able to say s
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by twopoint718 17y ago
As long as you're paying for PS, check out Codeweavers' Crossover Linux. You can run native Windows programs under Linux (Crossover is a tweaked version of Wine). It looks like Photoshop isn't quite there yet though: http://www.codeweavers
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by twopoint718 17y ago
That does look nice, thanks!
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Again, not an anti-MS person here, I support a large number of Windows clients, but it is not my OS of choice. Maybe there are user interface tweaks that one can perform on Windows (do tell) but I can never seem to get it as minimal as runn
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Don't let me put words in other mouths, but the reason tomsaffell is saying that if MS sells a $y-priced version of Windows for netbooks that they'll end up losing $(x-y)(# of non-netbook PCs) is this: if there is a fully-functional* Window
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Thanks. I was looking for a "search in book"-type link but couldn't find it. There are some excerpts on e2 that I found, but not of the passage that I was thinking of.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
This reminds me about the story where Feynman is being interviewed by a psychologist. He answers each question in a way that is both perfectly reasonable yet would cause the psychologist to become increasingly concerned.

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