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by xtho 17y ago
> I've torn through a SF trilogy in the last week and I read all five Temeraire books (highly recommended!) in about ten days last month Do you have a job? Or to put my question differently: What does it mean for you to read a book? How
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by xtho 17y ago
It requires Flash 10, which is a good thing if you want to avoid your elitist community being infiltrated by random Internet users.
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by xtho 17y ago
> A part of the workspace threw an exception Did this happen with the standard workspace as it was distributed? This typical smalltalk experience might be acceptable you. There is a chance though that your customers won't find it simila
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by xtho 17y ago
Faster than single-threaded ... BTW why is there still no clojure entry in the language shootout game.
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by xtho 17y ago
Since he didn't write it by free will, I wonder what it's worth.
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by xtho 17y ago
Just take care you don't look like 50 once you're 40 -- and even young looking people can age quickly at that age. If this is an advantage or not, probably depends on whether it's discounts or, well, girls :-) you're after. I personally fin
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by xtho 17y ago
I would say that being on top of the "forbes wealthiest list" isn't the only worthwhile goal in life. It would be interesting to know if the post author and the above commentor have ever attended university.
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by xtho 17y ago
"If you’ve never written anything thoughtful, then you’ve never had any difficult, important, or interesting thoughts." Socrates would have disagreed.
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by xtho 17y ago
The post is on the website of the software that was used. Take a look at the navigation bar.
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by xtho 17y ago
Well, it's music if a listener perceives it as music. Play those mp3s to someone who doesn't know how they were created. I found some of them pretty impressing. It made me download sc. I haven't had a chance yet to work through the tutorial
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by xtho 17y ago
So you write unit tests for all possible scenarios and you write unit tests and unit tests and unit tests ... most of which you wouldn't have had to write if you had used a statically typed language right away.
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by xtho 17y ago
Why should all developers use/know a system programming language? And the title of the article implies the list to be valid for "every developer".
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by xtho 17y ago
I'm not so sure: http://www.google.de/trends?q=perl%2Cphp%2Cjavascript Anyway, php is still very useful if you want to put something on the web and have no money. So is javascript although the need to write JS yourself will decrease due t
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by xtho 17y ago
According to Wikipedia :-), the first browser that supported a tab UI was InternetWorks by BookLink.
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by xtho 17y ago
Build auch a device in A3 format powered by solar energy and come back again when you're done.
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by xtho 17y ago
Starring G Maone as Aristotle. This would put Google in the role of Plato then?
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by xtho 17y ago
I find the list slightly disappointing. Those languages are listed in almost every other list of that kind. Checking out new entries in the language shootout is more informative.
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by xtho 17y ago
I beg to differ. Learning a new language[1] also means learning to know a different paradigm & culture & ecosystem. You learn to know novel ways of doing things that you can transfer to your main programming language---or not. Tinke
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by xtho 17y ago
How should a function be "user" specified? (But which user?) The set of eligible options is well defined at the time of writing the program.
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by xtho 17y ago
Instead of mimicing method dispatch, shouldn't this be handled by a factory that returns an appropriate action object? Okay, the author writes: > Skeptics may say, that problem has been solved in the Object Oriented world by [...] Wow,
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by xtho 17y ago
If you plan experiments and the like, the definition of a significance level (always) comes with a definition of sample size.
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by xtho 17y ago
I'm always skeptic if there is only one actively maintained implementation of a language in use. In this respect, this is per se a good thing.
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by xtho 17y ago
Maybe because more??? people draw bold conclusions from insufficient data sources (one expert interview + own reasoning) just to get that damn (blog) article published?
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by xtho 17y ago
IMHO the popularity of R is grounded on its compatibility with S/S-Plus. if they hadn't used S as language, they would have never reached the position where they are now and R wouldn't be increasingly adapted as standard statistics package-
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by xtho 17y ago
Using lisp as language for statistics has it's precursors like xlisp-stat. In a historical perspective, S (or similar functional languages) have taken the crown though.
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by xtho 17y ago
This could also mean that there is neither an opera named "common lisp", nor a comedy group, nor a gemstone fo the same name ... and well perl's fame is waning or fewer people misspell pearl.
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by xtho 17y ago
The charts in the demo section look uglier than Excel charts.
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by xtho 17y ago
That would be for typesetting letters and invitation cards in latex? That's what WYSIWYG word processors/editors are good at.
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by xtho 17y ago
Ah, from 1999 when there were no converters for transforming more human ascii formats to latex with its funny error messages. Today I'm amazed why people still struggle with latex weird syntax when they could also use wiki-like markup langu
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by xtho 17y ago
An explanation for this digression from prolog syntax would have been welcome.

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