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by wes-exp 13y ago
Clojure running on SBCL seems like a no-brainer. I do not know why this does not exist. SBCL is super high-performance and the underlying lisp semantics should be a perfect fit.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
You're right, Mozilla didn't initially depend on Google. It depended on Netscape, which created Mozilla. I think it's hard to argue that Firefox's ultimate rise to prominence wasn't directly related to funding provi
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Sorry for the lack of clarity. Case #2 is only meant to illustrate that commoditization has harmful effects of innovation. Microsoft, for a time, commoditized the browser market, which harmed web innovation. I don't think that's i
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by wes-exp 13y ago
The author states: "There’s very little time spent developing operating systems and basic utilities anymore" This could be a good thing, or it could be a bad thing - depends on your perspective. Maybe people "spending time&qu
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Academic CS research has practically nothing to do with professional programming. Professional programmers constantly learn new tools and technologies... for the most part these aren't academically novel. (Much to the field's detr
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Any recommended resources for learning more about sales?
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by wes-exp 13y ago
You can sell GPL software. It's just really hard to actually make money :-P
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by wes-exp 13y ago
mass surveillance can be blinded Suppose the political climate creates incentives such that ordinary people are compelled to report on each other. Explain to me how technology blocks that?
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by wes-exp 13y ago
J. Edgar Hoover's surveillance mania was pretty low-tech by today's standards. As was the Stasi. These were clearly political problems first and foremost. Maybe technology can help, but, it shouldn't be overvalued.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I second this. Join your kind. Another option could be academia.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
as long as the company has a privacy policy and can be held accountable Is there any evidence that privacy policies 1) are actually followed and 2) enable any accountability whatsoever and 3) are anything other than a meaningless token ge
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I've found that a bit curious Older people vote and are a simply a constituency that politicians don't mess with. The same logic of "think of the children" can be "think of our seniors" with the added weight
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Privacy is what economists call an "externality" - i.e., the full cost of harming privacy is not accounted for in conventional business activity (like pollution). In the past, naturally occurring inefficiencies helped to safeguard
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I so wish that Google had opted for native code on Android, and a native toolchain SDK 100X this. Android's platform APIs are now trapped in Javaland. That is just totally inexcusable. I sort of imagine the decision to use Java was a
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Craigslist.org is for-profit. In fact their motto lately seems to be "sue everyone, because... money"
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by wes-exp 13y ago
It depends what you want, though. Many developers are more interested in maximizing the popularity of their code rather than making sure it is always available under OSS terms. In this case, MIT is a much better choice.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
This is so factually misleading, I don't know where to begin. On the subject of: Now let's say one day you change course and want to close the source for future development. That is completely okay. It may not be okay though. If
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by wes-exp 13y ago
This. GPL "code sharing" sounds harmless until you realize that it is enforced with a 500 pound ball of red tape that prevents commercial use in numerous typical development scenarios.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Depends what you are going for. If the point of type declarations is speed, I think most high-quality CL implementations will take advantage of a type declaration. If the point is compile-time type safety, yeah, that's a more obscure f
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by wes-exp 13y ago
If you think that is good, wait until you find out that Lisp has similar code navigation features under SLIME and yet is a dynamically typed language.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
You are confusing dynamic typing vs static typing with run-time execution vs compile-time execution. A statically typed language can do arbitrary stuff at run-time too that will not be amenable to static analysis. This has nothing to do wit
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Solitary confinement is believed by many critics to be a form of psychological torture which can cause long-lasting damage to the brain. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/solitary-confineme... The fac
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Lisp has had metaprogramming, optional type declarations, speed, and DSLs since at least the '80s. This isn't some magic new technology just introduced by the shiny new languages cited by the author. http://en.wikipedia
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Hmm. Only the $600 computer has the feature that I feel better that I am not contributing toward a race to the bottom in computer design.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
$600 telephones might be ridiculous. $600 cutting-edge computers that fit in your pocket? Seems totally justifiable.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I look forward to being annoyed with a Moto X ad every time I use a Google service.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I feel like the OSS consulting model benefits from releasing buggy, hard to use software that requires the developer's assistance to get working. It sounds like she wants to release software that works well without needing any maintena
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I seem to recall studies in controlled environments where people were not allowed to exercise, and there was a significant difference in calorie burn attributable to small movements. So the homeostasis argument seems totally plausible to me
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Lost me at the 10pm meeting time.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
GPL (2 and 3) is completely hostile to commercial (i.e. proprietary) use. In a big middle finger to business, v2 even describes a hypothetical businessperson as "Ty Coon, President of Vice".

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