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by zephjc 17y ago
Day 21.001: Fade out of existence because you forgot -- despite your years of physics training -- that killing your younger self is a time paradox.
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by zephjc 17y ago
Is that a big-ass message, or a big ass-message?
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by zephjc 17y ago
Yeah, I pressed the up key out of habit and was pleasantly surprised to find it did what I expected
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by zephjc 17y ago
Google is large enough that I assume they keep an eye on every language of note. As I understand it, they use a number of different languages for their various needs.
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by zephjc 17y ago
This is par for the course on UI elements (including window controls) in OS X and I believe in Windows too.
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by zephjc 17y ago
No, the worst merge lane is the Treasure Island ramp onto the SF-bound lane of the Bay Bridge is the worst ever. You have approximately 5 feet to get from a stop at a stop sign to highway speeds.
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by zephjc 17y ago
Did you, the submitter to HN, present the presentation, or were you there? I'm interested in how LIPSs in general are viewed in India, and Clojure specifically, with its JVM integration. Is there anything more about this talk?
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by zephjc 17y ago
Well, the game exists (there's a link to download the jar) but the premise is a joke ... unless your comment was also a clever joke >_>
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by zephjc 17y ago
I don't think there is any reason to make them change it unless Google complains (unlikely; I am guessing Tumblr is much more visible than ispyapp.com) - I couldn't find any ToS for signup about appropriate usernames. You might want to info
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by zephjc 17y ago
Safari in OS X made my CPU fan really start to kick up some noise, and it was still pretty choppy on my beefy MBP - the full screen transition was too.
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by zephjc 17y ago
silt settles at the bottom of a pond.
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by zephjc 17y ago
(by biased I mean an article about how wonderful Chrome is, on a site called chromevoice.com)
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by zephjc 17y ago
I've a friend who was born and lived for about 14 years in mainland China, and holds the belief that the bulk of the chinese people are somehow not 'ready' for real freedom. Of course, her head nearly imploded when I had to be the one who t
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by zephjc 17y ago
a bit biased - there are clear advantages that local storage has over cloud storage. anyway, the article links to a longer, more in-depth article about it at http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/93787/googles-chrom...
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by zephjc 17y ago
It is an "increasingly fluid partnership between people and computation" that will help both solve problems neither could solve on their own. This is a solution that makes sense right now - there is no reason to think that it
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by zephjc 17y ago
Only change I would make: Include Santa Cruz in SF Bay state
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by zephjc 17y ago
Probably looking at county populations
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by zephjc 17y ago
I can't tell - is the title a typo or a pun?
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by zephjc 17y ago
That's true too, but what I meant was more specifically for MMOs (and games that have the player move in similar ways) - any bits of fun in the game should be not more than a 30 second drive/walk/run from another one. Imagine, for instance,
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by zephjc 17y ago
I remember someone mentioning that WoW (and other good MMOs) have a 30 second rule, in that you can run 30 seconds in any direction and find something to do (even if its killing more mobs) in order to keep the player's attention
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by zephjc 17y ago
IdleRPG sounds like http://progressquest.com/
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by zephjc 17y ago
That patents now last 20 years is completely absurd in the modern world. Anything that is 20 years old has either long ago become ubiquitous, or is long forgotten. Even 8 years is too long these days in many markets (esp. technology) but w
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by zephjc 17y ago
realdoll + tickle-me-elmo = this
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by zephjc 17y ago
So which came first: Clozure, or Clojure?
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by zephjc 17y ago
A failure pile in a sadness bowl
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by zephjc 17y ago
I guess you can view newLISP in at least two different ways: a naive implementation of it, or a reboot of it, branching from a much older LISP than most today do. I think of the new LISPs out there, Clojure has its act together much more th
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by zephjc 17y ago
Interesting take on it, though really it's a tale as old as man - a powerful group trying to push aside/enslave/wipe out another, weaker group. Avatar is quite clearly about the north American Indians, since that is likely what Cameron know
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by zephjc 17y ago
Wow, a pretty old LtU thread! I think too many PL geeks working on one language is a sure fire way to either get nothing done, or get some really weird hodgepodge that would satisfy nobody - the ultimate design by committee!
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by zephjc 17y ago
Stepanov is a really smart guy, but I find his arguments that OOP methodology is "wrong" or somehow is no good, doesn't hold water. The truth is that a lot of the world is build on at least some OOP principles and that they have worked for
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by zephjc 17y ago
link appears dead, and their search turns up nothing - mirror? Edit: Working Google cache: http://bit.ly/6HNZbs

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