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by zephjc 16y ago
It's almost funny, I guess in a sad way, to watch this and realize that every person you see in the film is planted (including those in the backgrounds), the young actors carefully picked, every shot is framed to make NK not seem like the
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by zephjc 16y ago
Cheap housing. Good infrastructure. Friendly to tech startups. Pick any two.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Personal experience only, but I don't know the last time I've seen a programming or web-tech related webcast that wasn't made on a Mac.
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by zephjc 16y ago
clickable links http://interstateapp.com/ and http://interstateapp.com/join
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by zephjc 16y ago
Chrome is a pretty spankin' good browser, but it's version number system has bugged me, like theyre only doing it to seem like they make advances quicker than other browser vendors.
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by zephjc 16y ago
"We’re currently spending about $40 million a year on books. And they last about seven years." And they expect the iPads to last that long? The hardware might, but the latest iPad (or whatever comes next) software will no longer target suc
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by zephjc 16y ago
Write a basic Lisp interpreter/compiler and write everything else in Lisp? :) Would compiling Lisp code count against the challenge's LOC limit?
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by zephjc 16y ago
I think it is some sort of pseudo-attempt at a spelling reform movement, very silimiar to this http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2357504854 but even that doesn't have the s/ſ and ¿? changes.
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by zephjc 16y ago
The German->German beatbox trick is much more interesting (see http://www.geekosystem.com/how-to-make-google-translate-beat... )
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by zephjc 16y ago
UI bug report: Scrollbar behavior is weird. The thumbnail scroller is very cool and stops when the end of the file is visible at the bottom of the view. However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the to
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by zephjc 16y ago
For anyone curious about the Paula achievement: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx
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by zephjc 16y ago
This is from 1997. Lots more info if you read Diamond's _Guns, Germs and Steel_.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Does this differ significantly from the clojurescript which is already on clojure-contrib? https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/tree/master/cl... You can try it out at http://clojurescript.n01se.net/repl/ which evals your code
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by zephjc 16y ago
not only that, its multi-user - you walk around with a lot of other Larrys, all completing the same quests, drinking the same beers, etc. - World of Larrycraft?
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by zephjc 16y ago
Compared to, say, Santa Cruz (just over the hill from the Silicon Valley) with yearly average ranges from 39-60 (Jan), to 52-76 (Aug), with most of the days from the spring thru fall in the high 60s, low 70s, which I personally think is ide
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by zephjc 16y ago
"The weather is awesome! We’ve got a humid subtropical climate." These two sentences seem contradictory to me.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Well that's the first 30 of 50 years - in desperate need of an update, I think.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Agreed, those are better, but the idea stands - tell users what they're doing when they click that button with the button text
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by zephjc 16y ago
It's still vague and doesn't tell the user what is DONE when you submit. "Save Changes" for settings, "Sign Up Now" for users joining a website, "Log In" to log into a website, "Reply" for replying to a comment ;-) Etc.
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by zephjc 16y ago
This harkens back to Windows vs Mac conventions for alerts (see http://developer.apple.com/ue/switch/windows.html#designClea... )
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by zephjc 16y ago
The first example with the social network buttons was probably his inspiration, and the variable name is a hold-over. Also, with such a small code base as that, a minifier like Closure Compiler is pointless. I ran it on http://closure-com
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by zephjc 16y ago
I think "online" in this case means on a computer, not necessarily networked
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by zephjc 16y ago
Funny, my first was similar, in Apple ][ BASIC. When I was in 7th grade, a friend (still to this day) and I had a typing class which used Apple ][s. One day we had a substitute teacher in who knew absolutely nothing about computers. I de
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by zephjc 16y ago
"I personally have a difficult time wrapping my head around ideas like, functional, and closures, and lambda, in the abstract, so this is my way (not there yet BTW) of really wrapping my head around these ideas." - fogus He went from that t
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by zephjc 16y ago
its seems to me that using a trick like Clojure uses to omit functions from being exported (defn vs defn-) and inferring the module name from the file name, would be better than to have to manually list them.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Someone in the comments mentioned Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) which seems interesting, and appears to live on (in relative obscurity) at https://github.com/rvirding/lfe Friendlier macros is a win at the very least!
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If you remember who America's ancestors were (religious zealots) you can guess at a lot of its present behaviors with less surprise.
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tl;dr?
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Heh. I think homeopathic is a term tossed around a lot to mean "herbal" or "non-perscription medicinal" or "holistic" and it's probably important to distinguish between that and what homeopathic actually means - diluted to the point of not
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by zephjc 16y ago
If you REALLY need infix notation in Clojure, Fogus' new book has some an example infix function at https://github.com/fogus/unfix/blob/master/src/joy/unfix/inf... which you use like: (infix [1 + 2] * 3) ;=> 9

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