ibsulon

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by ibsulon 16y ago
Well, that's how Expect became public domain...
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by ibsulon 16y ago
I don't know about that. For a while, at least, people raved about DD's coffee.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
It's human 1.0, really.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
That's a saturated market too. :)
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by ibsulon 16y ago
"Publish or perish." The dirty secret of universities: the job of most faculty isn't to teach, it's to research and bring prestige to the university. In the sciences, research is a byproduct of bringing in money, so research grants are the
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by ibsulon 16y ago
Factory workers here would revolt if you limited them to 45 hours. Many regularly work 60.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
These workers are taking it to the extreme: 12 months on, their kids have a shot at going to college rather than working in a factory.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
I'm curious... how would you have developed a schema for S-Expressions without it ending up just as verbose? What do you lose? End tags? http://www.agentsheets.com/lisp/XMLisp/ as an example of what XML in lisp would look like, and I can'
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by ibsulon 16y ago
Gur ceboyrz vfa'g cnenqvfr, gur ceboyrz vf gur ybff bs pbageby. Jura jr ybfr gur cbjre gb pubbfr bhe bja yvirf, naq rira jura gb raq gurz, vf vg ab ybatre cnenqvfr? Znal unir fhttrfgrq gur fnzr ceboyrz jvgu gur gurbergvpny urnira: ng jung c
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by ibsulon 16y ago
How many times was Marion Jones tested? He had BALCO-type money that could help evade the current state of the art in testing.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
No, just Lance Armstrong. (Many allegations have followed him.) To be fair, he's accused of blood doping, not steroids. Cycling seems to be governed by the phrase, "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."
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by ibsulon 16y ago
Do you believe that Electronic Arts would use LUA if it produced an inferior result? Do you think it would harm their efficiency and portability if they weren't mystically "excepted" from the policy?
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by ibsulon 16y ago
This assumes that a non-apple compiler will yield an inferior result. Unity3D is one example to the contrary. ActionScript may or may not be another, but efficiency is our secret sauce as developers. It is our inherent value.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
If you need Lisp, Python, or Ruby to increase your productivity to cut corners on web development times, perhaps that means you're not charging enough for your services. Java or bust! Level the playing field.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
It makes more sense than it sounds. Client-side: Punch tape goes in, results come out. The idea of a server doesn't make sense because there isn't enough power for time sharing. Server-side: We have powerful enough computers to timeshare, b
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by ibsulon 16y ago
...until Apple changes its mind.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
It would be more expensive, not less. The post office currently operates as efficiently as it does because of the economies of scale, and as such is close to break even. It's not like the free market doesn't compete. UPS and FedEx are sti
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by ibsulon 16y ago
The problem is that bulk mail subsidizes the rest of the system. Now, you might say, then the system is flawed and perhaps a private solution would be better! The problem is that the post office exists mostly because most rural mail costs m
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by ibsulon 16y ago
This is the kind of time where you build something larger than the minimal viable product. Something you may want to consider is building an open source project, then charging commercial support once you get a green card.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
For PHP at least, there is a license match issue.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
Obviously, some problems are harder than others. However, many of us come from backgrounds of some privilege. You have a computer and likely have the capacity to program. You speak English, the current language of commerce, and you likely l
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by ibsulon 16y ago
I just don't understand this. A file is very very very simple to convert once. Tell your developers, "If you don't encode in UTF-16, you will have a performance penalty. Set your file encodings as UTF-16 too. You weren't doing complex inter
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by ibsulon 16y ago
What do the overlords say? I learned Just Enough TCL for some Expect scripts, and anyone who is working on problems that need the features Redis has aren't going to sweat a little TCL, IMHO.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
raises hand Single people and Dual Income No Kids.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
"During Pandora’s first year, the 90210 zip code was the area listening to Pandora the most" This was because, to make sure that listeners were in the US, they required a zip code rather than geocoding IP. (I was at his get together in Tucs
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by ibsulon 16y ago
Yes.
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by ibsulon 16y ago
It's much harder in the non-tech world, especially competing against people with specific skillsets. If you spent your time as an editor, nobody is going to look at you for a secretary when there are 50 resumes for secretaries staring you i
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by ibsulon 17y ago
I was wondering what the business case was for the switch. I'm evaluating both for a project of mine right now. (I use GXT for another project, but that won't fly for this one.)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
You don't have to do continuing education work at that time?
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by ibsulon 17y ago
http://progressive.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/article.php?article_... speaks of the place of privilege in Objectivism. If every child was guaranteed equal access to health care, food, shelter, good education, and health care, I would have less

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