garysweaver

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by garysweaver 12y ago
I know that it is helpful at times to realize that invention and innovation could happen in a myriad of ways, but I don't think that is a fair way of looking at things in this case, or in many cases. Without the invention of the mouse,
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by garysweaver 13y ago
This might be a good place to demo the language, assuming it is meant to be general purpose: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Languages
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Thanks, but may want to correct: method_as_fun = o.my-method which should be: method_as_fun = o.my_method and the examples themselves just look a little crazy, imo. Not crazy because of what you are trying to do, but in how you are trying t
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Another good one was the Tandy Model 100 Webserver: http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php source: http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> Most “scripting” languages don't support annotations for checking parameters and return values I coded in Java for many years and Ruby for the last several, the lack of explicit type checking in method signatures or via annotation
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Though we had a bit of fun in the past when multiple people are merging migrations at once, since it keeps version #s in the bottom of structure.sql and that can get out-of-whack if things aren't handled carefully, using structure.sql
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by garysweaver 13y ago
I think Raleigh is the best bang for the buck for tech, food, drink, and residence anywhere in the U.S. Downtown Raleigh has art festivals, music festivals (Hopscotch, Wide Open Bluegrass), Red Hat amphitheater, and Duke Energy Center for t
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> I'm now highly dependent on noise canceling headphones When you wear them are you listening to music, white/pink noise, etc. or just have them on with nothing playing? What kinds of noises do they cancel best, and what do th
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Also fit for livestock, but difficult to bale. And used medicinally (anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial to treat headaches, tinnitus, vertigo, Wei syndrome, alcoholism and hangover), and even for basketry. Unfortunately, the U.S. just conside
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Metric time is fun, but why not take it a step further and abandon the metric system, which places too much emphasis on base 10? We used the (21 cm) hydrogen line in the Pioneer plaque; if we don't use metric with our potential cosmic
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by garysweaver 13y ago
This is at once a brilliant and useless post. The brilliance is that of course you should provide something that people need that is risk averse, and using the analogy of making tires during the transitional period of wagon to automobile wo
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> And how exactly is it "different"? Robert Nyman of Mozilla pointed me at this: https://blog.mozilla.org/ligong/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-the... "Foxconn stated that they intend to have
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by garysweaver 13y ago
You can gain back a lot more than you lose, even if you get into a habit of "better" eating and more exercise for months. You probably think that exercising and eating "better" should be fine, because anything you do for
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by garysweaver 13y ago
I wish Douglas Adams was still alive and writing. And, someone should make marvin_bot ( https://twitter.com/marvin_bot ) start-up a conversation with @bankofamerica.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> he "compiled" the between function in his head Really? How about "adequately understood the function and did not have to reread it". We are humans, not compilers. ;)
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Awesome! Looking forward to being able to use FF OS on my laptop!
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> God made the integers. All else is man made. "God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man" - Leopold Kronecker. Possibly misquoted by Raymond Ayoub in "Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Refle
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by garysweaver 13y ago
The first version of anything worthwhile is typically an experiment. I'm excited about the prospect of a great way to write Go apps in the future that is better than what we have now. One of the best ways to kill a project is by trying
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> We wanted to know if it was possible to use Building Blocks not only for its main purpose, that’s creating phone applications, but also as a base to create a standard web site. While I've known that the "phone" has been
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> One reason is that Firefox OS uses the Android kernel. It uses parts of Android in HAL, but Gonk isn't Android.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
With two big differences: 1. Knowledge resources available to team and experience of the organization in the subject matter far exceed what the WebOS team had. 2. Was free/open and somewhat collaborative almost from the beginning. I sa
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Could you provide a link to a sample chapter and table of contents? Thanks!
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by garysweaver 13y ago
I think having fewer elements when they are unnecessary is a great idea, if it makes the interface easier to use. However, in this case, though I don't dislike GitHub's new interface, but the big colored line showing the perce
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of: http://be
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Network traffic graph currently showing what it is like to be HN'd: http://pi.qcontinuum.com/cgi-bin/rrd/rrdgraph.pi.main http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-day.png http:/&#x2
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by garysweaver 13y ago
It is both. Code and the effect it produces can be a thing of beauty, ugliness, or both, and at times the emotion and creative energy put into it would make it rival any art. But, I agree that more often it is like a craft because it tends
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Programming is an art, but as you get older and more experienced, you become less able to express yourself in a way that doesn't seem both rote and belabored. It is closer to making furniture than painting or sculpture, as it tends to
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by garysweaver 13y ago
It would be a good idea to provide the following info in presentations like this: 1. URL to the source code for the tests and instructions to run the tests to produce the same results. 2. The hardware, OS version(s), and browser versions th
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> NOTE: my blog is being slashdotted by Hacker News :) I think we need a new verb here.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> A startup company or startup is a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.[1] These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research

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