wlievens

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by wlievens 16y ago
I think a great way to learn programming is to start with the simplest languages. Start with Scheme. It doesn't even have proper objects and classes, so you'll be forced (guided, actually, if you go the SICP route) to implement them yoursel
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by wlievens 16y ago
Maybe it was a viagra reference instead? :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
In Java, I would use FreeMarker as template language for all sorts of things, including i18n, rather than the typical sprintf-like syntax, because FM templates can contain arbitrary complex code, but the simple template cases work too.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Not in Britain.
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by wlievens 16y ago
It does make an awesome battery, does it not?
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by wlievens 16y ago
To me, strongly typed means something entirely different: a strongly typed language does not allow you to do unsafe conversions. In C for instance, you can cast any integer value to a pointer, creating references to things that may not even
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by wlievens 16y ago
What part of 'if there are no consequences to it' did you glance over?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Will vi be around in 20 years?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Yes, absolutely. My typing efficiency (compared to a good keyboard) on a touch screen is like 20% at most. We may see alternatives to the current 'static' keyboards though: displays on the keys (I know...), malleable form, flatter, whatever
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by wlievens 16y ago
I like your attitude regarding this. I feel very much the same way about my own projects. A wave going from "this is awesome, I can't wait to finish it" to "oh my, this is way too ambitious, I'll be dead before it's ever complete" and back.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Just because that's the case for illnesses (and brushing your teeth?) doesn't necessarily mean it's true for your hair.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I actually worked for ARM, but not on their main architecture. I worked for a satelite office acquired a few years earlier, which was spun out again last year. The project was a dynamically retargettable compiler for DSPs.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Would you mind sending me an email (see profile)? You've got me really curious now.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Which game, if I may ask?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Constraints give rise to creativity. Just compare that to the "1K" or "7 day" competitions.
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by wlievens 16y ago
You can't do that on $500M I'm afraid.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> Service Unavailable > The server is temporarily unable to service your request. > Please try again later. Guess what, you're right.
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by wlievens 16y ago
For every sport except soccer, I presume. The FIFA is heavily against computer-aided officiating.
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by wlievens 16y ago
The comment about nontriviality and equivalence goes for physical objects too, you know.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Except he doesn't write it. It's output from a program. Compilers don't emit readable output either. I'm not saying I'm against clean HTML. But the argument you give is probably invalid.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Do bayesian classifiers dream of electric sheep?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Exactly. I like how you threw binding in there too; I use schema languages (such as XSD) for binding at least as much as for validation. Maybe it's because I program in a statically typed language, but I really apprecicate the value of sche
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by wlievens 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1931799 I found it because I commented on it and had the same deja vu as you did :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
You could go all transhumanist and use e . ( http://www.orionsarm.com )
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by wlievens 16y ago
Yes. You gonna send me money? :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
One of the issues the whole setter/getter convention creates is that, for instance, I'm now reluctant to write a setter method that does more than just set the field value [1], because some other programmer or some tool might expect that
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by wlievens 16y ago
It's the X-Is-XXX header, actually.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Maybe this will lead to improved father-son bonding? Or just lots of akwardness.
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by wlievens 16y ago
The Democratic Peace Theory, this is called, if I recall correctly.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Nicely done. Too bad it's in Flash, I would have loved to check out the WMS service behind it.

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