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Writing a Lisp Interpreter in Go(bobappleyard.wordpress.com)
6 points by uriel 16y ago|0 comments
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by uriel 16y ago
> This is arguably true. It seems that a big reason for the GM bailout was keeping the union workers employed, and keeping business going to the parts suppliers. And to keep the flow political contributions from unions into the politici
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by uriel 16y ago
I have seen Flash crash a few times on Windows too...
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Hello World, using the Singleton Pattern.(deusexdesignpatterns.blogspot.com)
2 points by uriel 16y ago|0 comments
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by uriel 16y ago
Flash is a horrible nightmare on Windows too, it just is even worse on Linux and OS X.
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by uriel 17y ago
And worse, I have never figured out how the hell to disable that "feature" on OS X, I'm sure there is a way, but I wasted enough time pocking around the configuration options.
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by uriel 17y ago
From what I have seen so far " Information is Beautiful " would more accurately be called " How to lie with cute infographics ". I don't think they intentionally lie, but their infographics are often misleading at best, and give people a fa
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by uriel 17y ago
> b) wikileaks employees had been detained by various gov'ts and This turned out to be false , the guy that was detained in Iceland was detained for breaking into somebody's business and there is little or no evidence it had anything t
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by uriel 17y ago
Here is a great article about the inner workings of Wikileaks: http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/...
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by uriel 17y ago
How does that 'malice' square with this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#36182090
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by uriel 17y ago
Financial difficulties (which to be honest, I have trouble understanding), does not justify over-hyping and over-editorializing content, it only hurts their image and reputation and means less people will appreciate their work. Also, if the
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by uriel 17y ago
> It could be thoughtful positive feedback, which is just as useful as criticism (i.e. thoughtful negative feedback). I disagree, (supposedly thought) positive feedback is extremely common and rarely provides anything new (or own minds
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by uriel 17y ago
Go follows quite closely in the spirit of C, and doesn't try to protect you from yourself (but also doesn't give you complexity just for the purpose of helping you hang yourself cough c++ cough .
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by uriel 17y ago
Go (the language, the game is interesting but I know I will never be good at it ;)
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by uriel 17y ago
> Instead, I should have found something good to say, because I know there are plenty of good things I could have said. I disagree, criticism is much more useful than flattery.
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by uriel 17y ago
But it is mostly the money from the monopoly prohibition has granted to that criminal class that perpetuates its existence. If you replace the criminal drug industry with a legal drug industry, you will encourage the growth of the non-crimi
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by uriel 17y ago
The most intelligent persons are often the best at fooling and deluding themselves. Once a path has been taken, it is very hard for an intelligent person to admit it might have been a mistake, it is too easy to rationalize and justify why y
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by uriel 17y ago
> The fact that this does not make it possible to keep exceptions from being fatal is a limitation on how strongly exceptions are handled. Maybe I'm missing something, but this does allow you to keep exceptions from being fatal using de
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An (official) proposal for an exception-like mechanism in Google's Go(groups.google.com)
25 points by uriel 17y ago|10 comments
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by uriel 17y ago
> Rather than address the problem of too many calculations, Sassa opted to make massive investments in hardware and software in 2004. Under Winner's leadership, a team of engineers completely rewrote Friendster's code into a different
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by uriel 17y ago
A bit sad that he made the usual silly argument that somehow Theora is more susceptible to submarine patents than H.264. Sure there can be submarine patents in Theora, but they can exists for H.264 too, and then you have to deal with the pa
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Xpilot-AI: A library for writing xpilot bots.(xpilot-ai.org)
6 points by uriel 17y ago|2 comments
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by uriel 17y ago
> why would anyone ever use XML for anything? I ask myself that every day. XML is a huge scam perpetrated on the software industry, but now it is too late because a huge parasitic 'industry' has built around it, and too many people (spe
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by uriel 17y ago
> The comment about developers making work for themselves is also spot on. I answer a lot of programming questions, and the questions are always asked because the programmer has reached the end of a twisty maze of his own creation. Turn
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by uriel 17y ago
> I've gotten the informal impression that incidental complexity (you know, complexity arising not from the problem but the solution) is a factor behind the hugeness of the XML ecosystem You are absolutely correct. As Phil Wadler put it
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by uriel 17y ago
larswm predates ion by a few years, and that was inspired by Rob Pike's acme programming environment for Plan 9 ( http://acme.cat-v.org ), which was preceded by Help, which in turn was influenced by Oberon.
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by uriel 17y ago
I think the argument for JavaScript is something along the lines of "It could have been much worse". Also, of the whole 'HTML5' stack, JavaScript, the language, is probably one of the least bad parts. The DOM, SVG, all the XML and XML-like
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by uriel 17y ago
Bzr is a huge and slow mess, I can't imagine why anyone would switch to it from git or hg.
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by uriel 17y ago
> it is neither useful nor effective, but has proved to be a source of inconvenience to the customers who actually bought the game. So, exactly the same as every other DRM system ever created.
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by uriel 17y ago
> Very rarely have I found smart developers that understand and recognize their limits This is the greatest problem in all areas of software development, not just games.

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