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by fp 15y ago
To be fair: That is actually #1 in the list.
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by fp 15y ago
It's a commercial project, so yes, people are willing to pay to see it. They had more than a million visitors in 2009 [1]. [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland (German language link)
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by fp 15y ago
"Man builds" is not quite correct. The airport is part of the largest model railway in the world [1]. The thing is build by a rather large team with ten years worth of experience in building high-end models. If you ever come to northern Ger
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by fp 16y ago
Haskell (GHC at least) has lightweight user-level threads, similar to Erlang.
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Ask HN: Measuring the Aesthetic Quality of a Set of Colors?
18 points by fp 16y ago|17 comments
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by fp 16y ago
Please, please, pretty please: If you use charts, choose a sensible type of chart to illustrate your point. A pie chart is simply wrong for representing a comparison of benchmark results. A bar chart would be the correct type, in this case.
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by fp 17y ago
Can you talk about the metric(s) by which they measure productivity? I would appreciate it.
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by fp 17y ago
I think Clojure is not a simple language. The reason is, that you have to learn about 1) Lisp, 2) Clojure's approach to concurrency (immutable data structures + reference types) and 3) the JVM. These are all fairly complex systems on their
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by fp 17y ago
Could you elaborate, please? Or point me to a discussion of the issues with said functions? Thanks!
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by fp 18y ago
Priceless! Thank you for making my day.
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[video] Concurrency in Clojure(blip.tv)
6 points by fp 18y ago|0 comments
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by fp 18y ago
I hope this will be included in future Shoes versions. Shoes is already awesome for making (portable!) retro-games. This will add another great deal of retro-ness. ;)
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E-Book: The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (by S. Peyton Jones)(research.microsoft.com)
3 points by fp 18y ago|0 comments
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by fp 18y ago
Who can do numbers 3, 5 and 8 in six minutes? I guess they will make you a Better Programmer (tm), but will consume slightly more time. Or does the article claim to make me a Better Programmer by just letting me know how to become a Bette
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by fp 18y ago
No matter what you do and how you do it: most likely it will work for some people and won't work for others. If you do what just works for you, that's probably sufficient to be successful. As merrick33 pointed out, it will not hurt to liste
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by fp 18y ago
For games, Hamburg (Germany) is great. Probably slightly more expensive than Berlin, but at least as great in terms of public transportation and culture.
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by fp 18y ago
Nuclear power is not an option. There are about three companies in the world that have the know-how to build a nuclear power plant. And they are already at the limit of their building-capacity. Also, some people argue that the nuclear fuel
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by fp 18y ago
I also thought, that these small "test" assignments might be a trick to get (some part of) the work for free. In ten hours for free plus ten hours at five per cent, times the number of eager programmers, you can get a lot of footwork done.
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by fp 18y ago
I'd also recommend Ruby and suggest you take a look at Shoes ( http://shoooes.net/ ) which makes it very easy to code GUI-apps with all sorts of fun-stuff in them like animations, downloading data from the web, videos. The most important pa
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by fp 18y ago
Why? It's often a good idea to google for an answer. See the second result for "number of gas stations in the us", for example: http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/number-gas-stations-us-1995... If you want the candidate to show his reasonin
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by fp 18y ago
A very important point is comprehensibility of any voice and readability of all the text in your video. Some demo videos I've seen are not too great at these.
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by fp 18y ago
The joke wasn't too bad, was it?
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by fp 18y ago
or, you can just do like others and learn rails or python. I suggest learning Ruby, not Rails. Unless you know Ruby, you will not be able to really understand how Rails works. Ruby is way more than just Rails.
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by fp 18y ago
One could argue, that "raw foodism" isn't really technology. In your example the technology would be "fire" or "cooking".
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by fp 18y ago
"Wishful thinking" is a great technique to produce clear and concise code. I use it whenever possible. It's absolutely recommendable! I don't recall if PG used the term, but Gerald Sussman uses it in the SICP video lectures.
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by fp 18y ago
The long compilation time is due to the optimization options. Without optimization it compiles in a few seconds. Yet, the macros leave plenty of space for optimization. See the size of your executable compared to the unoptimized one of qwph
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by fp 18y ago
"Like Perl, C++ is a swiss army chainsaw of a programming language. Unlike Perl, it's got all the blades simultaneously and permanently cast in a fixed half-open position. Don't turn it on." Priceless.
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by fp 18y ago
At least one, considering that PG wrote he used vi. Apart from that, I think an 'easy' editor would help beginners. I you know neither Emacs nor Lisp, Emacs is quite a tough beast.
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by fp 18y ago
He said "All English-speaking countries are in top 10", not "All countries in the top 10 are english-speaking".
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by fp 18y ago
I want to master the way of the Lisp Jedi. "These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more ... civilized age." http://xkcd.com/297/

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