jafl5272

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Minimizing Boolean Functions (Quine–McCluskey)(jafl.github.com)
1 points by jafl5272 16y ago|0 comments
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Does it scare anybody just how quickly the technology has evolved to negate many of his arguments?
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by jafl5272 16y ago
I see they're taking a hint from Google.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
But lawyers don't normally work in a management hierarchy, do they? And I'm pretty sure hospital administrators hate physicians just as much as managers hate programmers. (Not all of them do, of course, but I'm guessing it's similar.)
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by jafl5272 16y ago
> So, what have we learned about the woman programmer’s dress code? Unlike the men’s dress code, beards are not in fashion Thank goodness!
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by jafl5272 16y ago
This seems like a pretty big change for a patch release?
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by jafl5272 16y ago
On my MacBook Pro, only the command key has a symbol on it. All other modifiers only have text.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Somebody would surely find a way to spin that into an act of war, clear out the scuttled ships, and invade Iran.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
He's not rejecting progress. He explicitly says that C isn't for everything. But he wants real progress: a language with GC, concurrency, etc., not just C-with-classes-plus-etc-etc-etc
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by jafl5272 16y ago
I'll deal with this in order of decreasing insanity: 1) Polymorphism is NOT functional programming. Using function pointers, which you seem to detest, is one aspect of functional programming. If you've only used C++, then you don't k
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Users work in an infinite number of different ways, and they way they worked before they use your app is probably forced by whatever crap they are currently using. No matter what you do, you end up forcing a lot of people to learn to work t
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by jafl5272 16y ago
I thought your name sounded familiar. I'm very much looking forward to your post on this topic!
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by jafl5272 16y ago
One more point: I would recommend building on top of the YUI 3 core instead of re-inventing it, unless you can point to something that you think they flat out did wrong. YUI 3 core is pretty small. The YUI team learned a lot from YUI 2 :
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Anybody who can build a framework is clearly not a moron. I just have strong opinions about frameworks, since I've built a few myself. Since I misunderstood his use of the term "HTML5 apps," I evaluated it as a framework for a web site,
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by jafl5272 16y ago
> Jo is geared more for downloadable apps OK, that makes sense. This explains the use of non-standard tags, too. Progressive enhancement and using a standard DOCTYPE aren't a big issue for apps.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
The guy surely learned a lot building this, but... No comparison to jQuery or YUI 3. The documentation suggests jo has a lot of catching up to do. > If you're using jo to create all the UI for your application, you won't need any conte
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Agreed, but if you're not paying attention to the bottom line, it's easier to go down a rabbit hole instead of pivoting.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
If you're only interested in having fun, you run the risk of building something really cool that nobody needs.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
http://www.simplyphysics.com/flying_objects/acetylenetorch.h...
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Agreed. As soon as this setting became available, I simply went it and set it to "does not incorporate ... encryption of any kind" for all of my projects that do not use encryption.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
The more time sinks you follow, the larger the net drain.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
This is why I read only HN, avoid Facebook, etc., and own a mobile phone which isn't useful for anything except phone calls.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
The article talks about how slow the book is. He fails to realize that Tolkien is writing about a very deep game of strategy. It's like watching grandmasters play chess. Sometimes there is a flurry of captured pieces, but a lot of it is
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Anybody complaining that the Iliad and the Odyssey are full of clichés is forgetting that they were written several thousand years ago. The clichés where stolen from Homer, not the other way around!
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by jafl5272 16y ago
I learned programming on the Apple ][+ by typing in programs and then modifying them. Nothing forces you to read the code better than being forced to type it in!
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Somebody should try to use it to predict Google's next move...
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by jafl5272 16y ago
I just tried it in IE7, and the JavaScript from Google causes an error. The font still renders, however.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
> Flash may have killed Safari but OSX keeps working as if nothing happened. That alone should say something about the OS. Sure does: Keep the UI out of the kernel :)
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Sad, but true. And this explains the state of the Linux desktop today: copied from Microsoft instead of inspired by Apple.
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by jafl5272 16y ago
Yes, it's messaging that really forces clean encapsulation. Otherwise, you can end up in getter/setter hell, where everybody still knows everything about everything, even though all data is private.

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