cpurdy

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by cpurdy 2y ago
So murder someone who wasn't involved in a purported rape because he at some point in the past introduced a purported victim to the purported rapist. There's so much wrong with this purported claim whose purpose is likely to be th
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by cpurdy 2y ago
I remember when Levo started this project. At the time, he was getting fed up with the various editors that he was using while he was working on his compiler. He didn't like any non-responsiveness or slow-downs when he was trying to lo
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by cpurdy 3y ago
There's a URL for each user that shows their standing. Any recent (last 30 days) reports are listed there. You can't tell who reported you, but you can tell what they were complaining about (which post, what reason they gave). The
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by cpurdy 3y ago
The self-promotion on lobsters is rampant, and not surprisingly, most of the self-promotion is very low quality crap. However, I have seen a few self-promotion links that were brilliant, so I have some mixed feelings on the topic. I don&#x2
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by cpurdy 3y ago
I don't think I've ever posted any articles on Lobsters, but there are a bunch of users there that use the "report" feature any time that they see a post that doesn't support their own personal opinion. That aspect
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by cpurdy 3y ago
Words have meaning. The fact that you fear that possibility is indicative.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
I wonder if Vladimir Ilyushin wrote one as well.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
For context: VCs make much more money by flipping money-losing concerns that have high growth rates, than by building profitable companies. The resulting behavior is predictable.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
That TSS in Boston was an amazing confluence of people, mostly all unknown at the time! There was: You, Gavin, Bob, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Marc Fleury, Neelan Choski, Patrick Linskey, and at least a dozen other notables, all who went on to ha
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by cpurdy 3y ago
I think it only reasonable then for you to show us how to do it in COBOL, Lisp, or some other 1950s programming language.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
You were one of his favorite people that he ever got to work with. Even years later he couldn't stop gushing about how proud he was of you. No exaggeration.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
Yes. He wrote big chunks of the original Davlik libs.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
I knew Crazy Bob online for a while before we met. We both ended up working with some of the same packages (early Java enterprise stuff) for some of the same big companies, and we were chatting with each other on our blogs, and posting&#x2F
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by cpurdy 3y ago
Hey Sam, that's actually the JavaOne that I was flying to from a meeting in St Louis. When I got on the plane, I met ... Crazy Bob and the rest is history.
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by cpurdy 3y ago
For what it's worth, he still talked about you pretty much every time we got together. He loved his time there.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Well, it worked great for Elon
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by cpurdy 4y ago
That's a weird way to look at it. The many states that have agreed to this (have passed the bill) have simply accepted that the votes of the people is worth more than the feelings of the billionaires who have sponsored the Republican g
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Yes, but less of an obnoxious accent (I live in Boston. The accent is crazy.)
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by cpurdy 4y ago
But I heard Alex Jones say something different ...
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by cpurdy 4y ago
California has already passed the National Popular Vote bill. https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation Republican controlled states don't want people's votes to count, so none of them have passed th
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by cpurdy 4y ago
My mom uses Facebook. I use Google. That's the difference.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
My boss at my previous job made $40 million a year, and he was literally single-handedly tanking the company. He got fired and so he went to work for Sundar Pichai at Google ... making even more. People who are on the low rungs of the ladde
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by cpurdy 4y ago
>I'd be curious to know about any/all languages where types can be passed to functions, returned from functions -- and even generated at runtime by functions... that is, where the language regards types as first-class construct
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Reading as a prereq definitely weeds out most of the MAGAs.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
I hate the Python syntax using "else" for this, but I love the feature. I've often wanted both a "then" and an "else" from both for and while loops. The "then" would be for a successful completio
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by cpurdy 4y ago
It's an interesting mix of "hex" and "array" into one syntactic composition. I do kind-of like it. Here's how we ended up supporting byte strings (# prefix) in Ecstasy, in this case multi-line: Byte[] byt
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by cpurdy 4y ago
That's so sick.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
This is one that I like a lot. Years ago (1997 timeframe) I had implemented it in a Java compiler, and a few years later in a Java library ( https://github.com/oracle/coherence/blob/4e6e343e1ffd9bbfea3... ) tha
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Ecstasy uses % for modulo, and /% for divrem (division and remainder). So "a = b % c" for calculating the modulo, but "(a, r) = b /% c" to get the divisor and remainder.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Log4j was never part of Java

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