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by twymer 16y ago
"click a little [+] next to predict(p) and see it right there inline, with its argument replaced by p? Oh, that’s how that works, cool, [-]." While I like this idea, I fail to see how having to use my mouse to navigate to and click the +/
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by twymer 16y ago
The only existing reason is that the two of them run on modern, enterprise accepted platforms. If you're hacking your personal projects in Lisp, you have no reason to switch. If you want to sling some Lisp/ML at work, well Clojure of F# are
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by twymer 16y ago
I completely understand where you're coming from on this. I think the fight for free software is important but in this argument I take the realistic side. I feel like spreading a "free" environment where the backbone and majority of what yo
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by twymer 16y ago
I don't think they are encouraging it, they simply make it obviously available to those new (often not tech savvy) Linux users. The adamant promotion of strict adherence to FSF beliefs is fine, but it's not going to help the platform grow t
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by twymer 16y ago
I like how there's plenty of examples of down voting and not discussing the reason on this thread. I'm assuming you got down voted because it's just a flat karma value (I guess 200?) to allow down votes. They meant that your karma from subm
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by twymer 16y ago
I don't feel that this post is fair. You can't say "we can't do solve real world tasks with functional programming because Haskell isn't practical." I'm sure this isn't a fair analysis either, but I think it's an accepted belief that pure f
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by twymer 16y ago
If you get lucky with a couple story posts, yes. If you're strictly commenting you've got a while.
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by twymer 16y ago
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/ General help and discussion International Game Developers Association: http://www.igda.org/forum A lot of activity on this one about entering the industry. Not a discussion group like here but in
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by twymer 16y ago
I think the problem with F# is going to be competition from Clojure (which also runs on the .NET platform).
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by twymer 16y ago
I was a little surprised with D being listed as one of the main contenders. I guess Clojure and Go were obvious suggestions. Go has the backing of Google and aims to be everything we want (fun/ease of Python, speed of C++) and Clojure is th
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by twymer 16y ago
I don't know if I completely agree with this being the right thing to do, but how is this surprising or unjustified? They forked the project, had the guts to ask Oracle to donate the OpenOffice name to them and now are expecting to be able
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by twymer 16y ago
I've personally found that game developers and "normal" developers are two pretty distinct set of people. I think the people of HN are not going to offer the type of feedback people writing games are looking for, so they post elsewhere.
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by twymer 16y ago
Not to be rude, but StackOverflow is a Q&A site. Why would you not just ask the question you had there instead of trying to answer questions to make it to the chat rooms? You'd probably get enough reputation from that question to be abl
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by twymer 16y ago
If the ideas you hope to prototype live on the web, this is a reasonable choice. However, I don't recommend using PHP as a general programming language. Python kind of works for everything, if you want to do web dev you can pick up Django,
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by twymer 16y ago
Nobody walks into an IKEA and says "Hey guys, I've never used furniture before, what should I buy?" and unlike furniture, some languages are easier to use than others and are more likely to fit with what you discover later you'd like to do.
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by twymer 16y ago
How is it 5-6 "good" answers? You get 10 rep per up vote. I'd imagine any "good" answer would get at least 1 vote, so I would say 2 answers, 3 at max. If they aren't willing to answer or ask a question to use a chat room structured around a
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by twymer 16y ago
The problem is that SO wants their main source of incoming traffic to be from google. They want people to search for something they are trying to solve, and find an answer on SO from google. There's no way to expect that the SEO for chat ar
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by twymer 16y ago
Certainly a cool idea, but doesn't this distract from people posting new questions on the site?
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by twymer 16y ago
I can see some worth in the idea where a country/culture creates a home spun version of a Linux distro as it could come complete with the appropriate language packs and more relevant software included. However, I can't imagine building an O
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by twymer 16y ago
What about the possibility of the emergence of distributed version control? Perhaps this is causing less actual commits to the actual project, but not necessarily less code being written.
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by twymer 16y ago
Edit: I need to learn to read better. I've never used System76 but saw them at a recent Linux fest. Seemed like very quality machines: actually have their logo as part of the case and windows key replaced with an Ubuntu key (neither are sti
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by twymer 16y ago
Anyone know if there's a copy of the mentioned graph elsewhere? The original link is down.
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by twymer 16y ago
There is also http://codesnipp.it . It is similar to Forrst but strictly for code. I just joined today (asking for an invite almost instantly got me one, by the way) so don't know how quality it is.
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by twymer 16y ago
I think he's arguing that the scale of the punishment is not just. People get charged up to several hundred thousand dollar fines for downloading a tiny amount of music.
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KISS frontman on P2P: "Sue them all"(arstechnica.com)
25 points by twymer 16y ago|36 comments
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by twymer 16y ago
Do all of these "daily" chores extend on the weekend? I feel that would be a good distinction between chores, as I don't do most of my weekday "chores" on the weekend.
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by twymer 16y ago
While yes you'd be safe, you'd also much reduced interest. Your service would likely revolve around people using your site and getting told to go elsewhere to find it to listen to.
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by twymer 16y ago
Personally, my bet would be that the extreme amount of effort we put in to promoting diversity in educational institutes and the work place will be something people eventually can't imagine being necessary. Hopefully. Edit: I guess I wasn't
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by twymer 16y ago
When building something to make you money, you're not working with a large group of other developers or "giving back" to any community.
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by twymer 16y ago
What I don't understand is why this is strictly against Motorola. What does the Droid line do that others do not to warrant this?

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