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by morty16 4y ago
what I took from that is that inertia is more significant than total energy. if you've got a tank of gas you can go a long way slowly, a short way quickly. a flywheel takes a lot of effort to spin up or spin down. once it's going
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by morty16 9y ago
The original JS borrowed heavily from Scheme (lisp1 + everything evaluatable) and Self (prototype model of inheritance) and then was covered with a bunch of Java-like nonsense, which (IMO) just made things more complex. There's been a
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by morty16 10y ago
From early on in the article > asyncio.get_event_loop() returns the thread bound event loop, it does not return the currently running event loop. How can these be different objects? In order to ask for the thread-bound event loop, you mu
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by morty16 10y ago
Amen. Further, C helps you think like a particular evolutionary path of computer, and the language and architecture developed mostly in parallel. It's like saying that giraffes have long necks because they need them to reach the tall b
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by morty16 10y ago
I'm just going to leave this here... http://sqitch.org/
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by morty16 10y ago
My understanding is that English is a natural second language for the Dutch and is taught extensively in schools (i.e. learned by everyone). Also, they are close enough to the U.K. to receive broadcast television, etc. so they also have tha
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by morty16 11y ago
The allies (the RAF) had fairly specialized bombs in WWII to blow dams. They would fly in from upstream and drop a bomb shaped like a barrel (picture a barrel of oil) from very low altitude. The bomb would skip along the surface as it lost
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by morty16 11y ago
"do the right thing" for a corp. is to maximize profits, full stop. Labour laws exist to keep unfettered capitalism in check.
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by morty16 11y ago
I think the GPS receiver comes "for free" with the phone hardware (the DSP/antenna package). So, I doubt it, just because it wouldn't add much and would cost significantly more (both in components and battery life). With
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by morty16 12y ago
I read that as a short story in the Nebula anthology, and then again when "Story of your life and others" came out. That was more than a decade ago, and I still think about it more often than most sci-fi stories I've read.
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by morty16 12y ago
There's a recent release by O'Reilly called "Choosing a Javascript Framework" ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781939902085.do ) that you might want to look at. It covers the same frameworks (Angula
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by morty16 12y ago
This is for the education market, IMO.
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by morty16 13y ago
Gartner also had an active hand in killing Smalltalk in the enterprise. CTOs would pay Gartner millions of dollars to have them confirm their bias to go 100% Java/Windows/IBM. Not that ParcPlace did themselves any favors.
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by morty16 13y ago
PyCharm also has plugin support, because it's a shared framework (much like Eclipse). I'm running PyCharm (3.1 pro) and I currently have plugins for .sh, .pl, .md, and more. Some plugins require download (iirc, I had to go through
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by morty16 14y ago
>Deprecation with threat of removal of robust long-standing threading APIs with rewrite required. What's he referring to here?
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by morty16 14y ago
When are they going to start hunting them to extinction for delicious, scientific reasons?
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by morty16 14y ago
yes, but I get reminded every day how it is not SmallTalk. e.g. the primitive vs. object distinction, the lack of closures (gcd is a poor replacement) and the way they allow a rethink of control flow, the neat things you can do because the
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by morty16 14y ago
I went from SmallTalk to Java/C/C++ in the mid-nineties. Obj-C is both a relief and a constant source of frustration.
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by morty16 14y ago
> There's a fantastic WWDC 2012 session that covers how the iPhoto UI is put together in more detail). Do you happen to know the session name or number?
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by morty16 14y ago
I was a very mediocre and uninspired student in primary school, often getting Cs and Ds. My parents enrolled me in a small Montessori school for grade 6 and my whole attitude changed. I was back in public school for junior high, but I was g
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by morty16 14y ago
You're forgetting your history. Apple bought NeXT in early 97, the iMac came out in early 98, OS 9 came out in late 99 and OS X didn't ship in beta until 2000. Obviously Apple was working on Pink/Copland all through the 90's, then Rhapsody/
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by morty16 14y ago
>but RIM seems to be afraid to throw away the old. They aren't going to say that they're abandoning the current platform, they'd Osborne themselves if they did. That doesn't mean that the company isn't throwing all of it's efforts into
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by morty16 14y ago
It's because you don't have to pay per-message, and there's groups. i.e. cheap and fast.
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by morty16 15y ago
>If they become a label they have to start giving advances to artists Why? Logic now costs $200 and a MacBook. I daresay that most musicians pay far more for their instruments than they have to for a production studio. The idea that you