aufreak3

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by aufreak3 12y ago
Thanks for the link to draftin. Looks very useful. Fwiw, the op's work seems equivalent to draftin's "Hemingway mode" .. which (if I understand it right) doesn't permit any edits at all.
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by aufreak3 12y ago
Interesting experiment to forbid editing. Though the delete key doesn't work, cut-copy-paste does. Forbid that too! ... otherwise I'll be tempted to cheat :)
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by aufreak3 12y ago
> Are there any other languages that allow the calling scope to specify how lower-level functions handle errors without unwinding the stack? another possible answer - Erlang. While the look of the condition/restart scheme may be ver
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by aufreak3 12y ago
> Are there any other languages that allow the calling scope to specify how lower-level functions handle errors without unwinding the stack? While it isn't a mainstream language by any means, a scheme dialect called muSE [1] that I
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West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline(science.nasa.gov)
3 points by aufreak3 12y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 12y ago
If any of you actually need such constraint satisfaction in javascript, checkout my fd.js library [1]. You'll find einstein, sudoku and other puzzles in the tests.js file. I also recommend a Mozart/Oz style interactive search tree
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by aufreak3 12y ago
Agree with your "slam dunk" argument. Though net neutrality seems utopian in principle, from another perspective the providers with the infrastructure seem to be simply asking for the market to decide the use of their private infr
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by aufreak3 12y ago
I find the "premortem" way of looking at it psychologically more appealing. When asked to "think of all the dangers", I can imagine a tendency existing to bury one's head in sand and say "what danger? What risk
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by aufreak3 12y ago
There is, for me, a peculiar connection between cameras and pc computing power (I used to work for muvee technologies). As computing power grows, I've been quite frustrated with how he extra tends to get eaten up by a higher qualiy vid
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by aufreak3 12y ago
A meta comment - I'm reading a lot of the "use the right tool for the job and stop arguing" statement in language/framework/system/machine comparison threads these days. I find the "right tool for the job&
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by aufreak3 12y ago
I used to frequent the bay area around 2000 when I worked for a Singapore based startup who setup their HQ there. As I didnt have a driving license, I used to take public buses from San Mateo to Burlingame, and make train trips to SF. I was
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by aufreak3 12y ago
If readers want to dive in and get to the point where "entanglement = time's arrow" becomes evident, the post would be that on "decoherence" [1] [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/pp/decoherence&#
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by aufreak3 12y ago
Recently, there was a paper talking about this aspect of quantum theory - http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1111.3328 ... well, it was "recently" and fresh in my mind, but it appears to be back in 2011 :)
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by aufreak3 12y ago
Would be good to add Mozart/Oz. Dealing with process coordination using the resolution of logical variables gave me a refreshing new perspective. The finite domain constraint system design in Oz is an awesome example of this in action.
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by aufreak3 12y ago
It was BASIC and assembly initially, on the zx spectrum (at a friend's). A gentleman introduced me to BASIC and showed me a loop with an "I = I + 1" which made me argue with him about how that cannot be true :) .... and then
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Mogees – Play the world (Kickstarter .. closed)(kickstarter.com)
2 points by aufreak3 13y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I believe the "get more people to code" movement wasn't about "we need more programmers". It was about what Alan Kay might call "digital literacy".
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New startup Pracly: Connect to timely expert advice on demand(pracly.com)
1 points by aufreak3 13y ago|1 comments
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Be it stoicism or any school of thought that recommends a way of life, the key fallacy to avoid fall into is that it is these principles that make you happy, or productive, or wealthy, or healthy or whatever. While such principles can be
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by aufreak3 13y ago
True .. and while I revisit the linked references some of which I'm familiar with (fran and ilk, for ex), I'd like to point out that having the list of references at the bottom of the post of something would be much more handy t
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Great examples and way ahead indeed! On a similar note, it would really help if the website for the Wolfram Programming Cloud had just one bloody-awesome/blow-me-away example or tutorial that would make it accessible to a lot of capa
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Component.io - client-side Javascript components(component.io)
4 points by aufreak3 13y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 13y ago
At its core, a programming environment provides a link between a formal system and some aspect of our world. You could think of a general purpose Computer as providing a link between any formal system and the aspects of our world that it
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Creativity: Music to my ears – Free online course from Stanford(novoed.com)
41 points by aufreak3 13y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Not to mention that when such an accurate simulation becomes possible, special relativity gets violated - you can know whats happening anywhere before a signal can travel from there to you.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Switching from giving importance to "which idea to pursue?" to "which problem to solve?", can greatly help ... as it did during my phd. Changing from "interesting ideas" to "interesting problems" not
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The High Visibility Project(highvisibilityproject.org)
2 points by aufreak3 13y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I disagree with supporters on the value of this comment and of the OP as well. Though the naming seems to give documentation benefits, naming variables and functions is one of the hardest things we do as coders. The practice of properly fac
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I don't find the arguments against macros workable since the emergence of syntax transformation while modeling a problem shows many deep relationships between parts of the domain .. in the cases I've seen. Just want to share some
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Right on. Jeff Raskin's equation is pure gold - Intuitive = Familiar

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