hawkw

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by hawkw 12y ago
Sorry, that wasn't meant to read as sarcastic or critical, I actually think Mochi is really neat. I love Scala, basically because it adds pattern matching to Java, and am really happy to see Python get a similar treatment.
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by hawkw 12y ago
So Mochi : Python as Scala : Java? Neato.
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by hawkw 12y ago
This is wicked cool. I am really happy to see this.
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by hawkw 12y ago
Purely out of curiosity: what is it that you do that forces you to work with COBOL on a daily basis?
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by hawkw 12y ago
Footnote typesetting is abominable, too.
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by hawkw 12y ago
Not sure if I see an actual use case for this since we live in a world that has Pandas, but I'm impressed.
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by hawkw 12y ago
I feel like Wired goes back and forth a lot - some of their articles (on a number of topics, not just computer-related) are pleasingly technical and I've really enjoyed them, and some feel really watered down. Probably, it depends on t
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by hawkw 12y ago
As a Scala enthusiast, it's neat to see one of my pet languages get press, but...a "software engineering technology called Scala"? Did you mean "programming language"?
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by hawkw 12y ago
Enochian? Also, I recall there being a reference to an Enochian Metagrammar at one point or another...
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by hawkw 12y ago
Yeah, that's a good trick - I was thinking specifically of the benefits of launching into an inclined orbit vs. the incredibly painful process of gravity turn, circularize, change inclination, and circularize again...
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by hawkw 12y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from Kerbal Space Program, it's that inclination changes are Hard and Scary...
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by hawkw 12y ago
Icon was actually one of the first programming languages I learned, way back in elementary school. Thank you for reminding me of this.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Oops.
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by hawkw 13y ago
If there's no money to be extracted from it, then it's dead in the eyes of industry.
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by hawkw 13y ago
I assumed this was about whole brain simulation / emulation. Needless to say, I was disappointed.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Seriously, I have no idea what's going on here.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Looks like we crashed his webhost. :(
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by hawkw 13y ago
Ah yes, Sweden. A place where there is no technology. At all.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Okay, I'll admit that the whitespace crack at the end was pretty funny.
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by hawkw 13y ago
The fact that I have to click on something to see language breakdowns is a problem. The fact that I have to refresh the repo page to make the language breakdowns go away is a bigger problem.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Took me a couple moments to figure out this was a joke.
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by hawkw 13y ago
ITT: journalists don't "get" programming.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Oh no! The hackers are coming with their terrible powers of "subversion"!
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by hawkw 13y ago
...at Berea College.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Kary Mullis, the inventor of polymerase chain reaction, is an HIV denialist.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Yeah, this is marketing/ad advice, not UI advice.
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Weird Is Good: What Portland's Economy Can Teach Every City in the World(theatlantic.com)
3 points by hawkw 13y ago|1 comments
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by hawkw 13y ago
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to RubyMotion.
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by hawkw 13y ago
Probably that video of RMS eating something from his foot...
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A (BLANK) Solution to a (BLANK) Problem(overthinkingit.com)
2 points by hawkw 13y ago|0 comments

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