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by whitten 12y ago
A reasonable strategy for developmet and a clever title for the blog entry. As someone who uses an unusual computer environment, I echo nicolas' statement that thinking about the problem and trying for a solution first is a good way of
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by whitten 12y ago
Contrary to my assumption that this is about people in the USA, the title mentions "Average High School Senior" but means Japanese High School student that is applying to the "Japan’s standardized college entrance test".
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by whitten 12y ago
I don't think the Lisp Machine actually ran Scheme, did it?
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by whitten 12y ago
Thank you for sharing that link to the tinycode Reddit. Did the original poster (for the C in four functions) participate in that sub-reddit ?
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by whitten 12y ago
I'd heard of palimpset before, but didn't realize old parchments were used to make bookbinding or ceremonial garb.
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by whitten 12y ago
This seems to be a language where there are several kinds of blocks: if-elif-else , a let-in-end, begin-end and curly braces, square brackets, and round parenthesis. There are a few operators, with several levels of precedence, both prefix
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by whitten 12y ago
It is interesting to me that there is a mystery death from the 1940s that people still track, whereas I expect that people die in India everyday that no one knows why, and there isn't a 50 year investigation of the details. This seems
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by whitten 12y ago
I think including a JSFiddle link is a great idea! There's nothing like seeing working code to help people see your vision. Large organizations tend to have a lot of inertia and don't change the broad strokes of their architecture
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by whitten 12y ago
There is a process of building unity by demonizing the "other" that you don't agree with. I think this is going on with many fanboys. This article presents an example of a Microsoft Fanboy who attacks Apple because they dare
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by whitten 12y ago
It's not clear what programming language is being used in this blog entry from April 2014, but it does show a trick or two using a higher level function as input to the foldr recursive function. This feels like it has some examples of
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by whitten 12y ago
A heart-warming piece about Youngluck, an artist who went to prison, and is now working on RedditGifts as a designer. This reminds me that stories are the best way to help us develop our empathy.
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by whitten 12y ago
This analysis of the activity of writing a paper (and the paper that was written) are both interesting because of the dedication of Mohammed AlQuraishi to data (and evidence) driven activity. Perhaps this will decrease rarity of someone col
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by whitten 12y ago
I liked Eternal Flame and Clockwork Rocket, they are an interesting exploration of the possibility that the Time is an actual spatial dimension orthogonal to the other three spatial ones.
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by whitten 12y ago
The argument that a fingerprint is like handing in a DNA sample or a physical key, which citizens can already be legally compelled to give to police. The significant point here, in my opinion, is that you can be legally compelled. I wonder
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by whitten 12y ago
I appreciate this article. The mention of the Birthday problem made the calculation reasonable, and the trick to ensure time-locality as a fixed bit pattern was enlightening.
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by whitten 12y ago
The LiveCode open-source effort was funded on Kickstarter, and was successful. I'm glad to say I was one of the sponsors.
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by whitten 12y ago
Apparently, Apple has changed their mind: http://mashable.com/2014/10/30/pcalc-widget-allowed-again/#:...
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by whitten 12y ago
This article points out again, that just in writing programs or defining a process for an artificial intelligence processor, the knowledge put into the system influences the view of the system. Creating a spreadsheet model is similar to cre
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by whitten 12y ago
This is an impressive bit of coding, especially since it displays the battles in real-time.
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by whitten 12y ago
Since an AI named Mycroft (after M. Holmes) is an essential part of the story "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned. Of course, it depended on trinary circuits and Loglan (a logic based progra
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by whitten 12y ago
I think this article has a good point re community building. When a group of people move, it takes more effort to get them to start and stop (social momentum). Transparency of the source of software allows the external community to plan and
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by whitten 12y ago
I wonder if this is looking at the local machine for a cookie, or the news.ycombinator.com machine for login information, or if it is a coordination between a private cookie storing an index that makes sense when combined with the database
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by whitten 12y ago
It is unclear exactly what this page or film is about. It shows a clever pseudo terminal input, but I'm sad to say that I didn't really get much from it.
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by whitten 12y ago
@diogoleal, Thank you for the summary. I will share it with others at my work place.
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by whitten 12y ago
It is fascinating that the individual motivations of players fits into such predictable mass movements. I think this is at heart, the power of statistics. The simple numbers for a group of values shows a predictive strength based on certain
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by whitten 12y ago
It is a fun idea to have one of those book wheels but with laptops loaded instead of books.
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by whitten 12y ago
I wonder if a similar expansion and increase in intelligence is also occurring with opossums. I had several near my house in Houston, and even had one house invader that I found in my kitchen. After carefully moving it into a cat carrier,
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by whitten 12y ago
Daniel Suelo sounds like he has given up a consumerist lifestyle with the limitation that he doesn't have any assets, such as a car or house or bulky belongings. I doubt that he would be able to work in a computer related industry at a
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by whitten 12y ago
I agree that the link below by crazypro is more relevant to the title. The interesting thing to me, is that medical folks want to know more about the proper procedures for handling Ebola cases, and the CDC considers two conference calls as
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by whitten 12y ago
Heh. This is a different take on e-commerce. Get the computer to order a sandwich for you. Now if we could only send our robotic drone over to pick it up and bring it back, under program control.

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