olliesaunders

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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Is this healthy?
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
I never said Stack Exchange websites were “perfect” for anything. I’ve just been using it today and I hate it. Stack Exchange websites use competition to achieve answers to questions a paradigm that is completely at odds with collaboration
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
You obviously don’t socialize with non-programmers very much
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Yeah. I want to learn Racket and my Haskell is very slowly advancing so I’m definitely down with Lisps etc.
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Thanks for the useful reply. I’m giving MailMate some serious consideration depending on whether the smart mailboxes feature can distinguish between threads I’m involved in and threads I am not. > Also look for bloggers who have quality
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Ask HN: Where should one go to discuss the higher topics of CS/programming?
5 points by olliesaunders 13y ago|7 comments
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Oh yeah, this is not a book to use for learning Haskell. I personally recommend Graham Hutton’s Programming in Haskell or Real World Haskell if you want to learn Haskell. Hutton’s book focuses more on the principles of the language while RW
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
The first part is all about logic and it tells you everything you need to know. You have to approach it like reading a big academic paper though. It’s not like you’ll be flipping through the pages rapidly but it is definitely understandable
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
The absence of that executable flag does nothing to protect you from using an existing executable and some data such as an interpreter and source code.
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
That advice creates startups that are more likely to work, yes, but also seriously narrows the range of different startups likely to occur. You’re optimizing for reliability—not surprising, you’re an investor—not for where the need is great
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Except the overall effect of this startup will be the opposite of what you just describe. Prim isn’t creating more dirty laundry, it’s consolidating the laundry jobs into batches that will be performed by fewer businesses than would otherwi
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Nah, switch to DuckDuckGo and Firefox please :)
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Aren’t we on IE 10 now? Why would you upgrade to IE7?
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by olliesaunders 13y ago
Don’t handicapped and retarded me pretty much the same thing? Why does one offend and you use the other freely?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I don’t really understand what he means by the POV quote. Could you explain it?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
> There's no legal obligation to do that, so why should they? Because of morals? Are your morals demonstrably more correct than theirs? The people get the government they deserve. If you demand fairness you might get it. This is why it
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
What’s LO?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I think people are going to try to avoid the tester experiencing errors. Why would anybody write something badly if it’s just going to come back to them in a couple of hours as wrong? But any half-decent culture is probably already thinks t
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I have no objection to that. I just don’t want those words written by people to make it sound like the application is a person. The app can talk about itself doing things (it does do things after all) but not as a human being with feelings
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Researchers say AI prescribes better treatment than doctors(gigaom.com)
5 points by olliesaunders 14y ago|0 comments
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Good UI design is all about effective communication. If you have a UI that is pretending to be something it isn’t (a person) then it is basically lying to you. That’s hardly good communication. It’s confusing and dishonest. And believe it o
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
But versions of Windows before 95 didn‘t have the prefix. In Windows 3.1 it was just Program Manager, Write, Paintbrush, File Manager etc. So they took a step backwards in 95. It took them a decade to get back to where they were in the 80s
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I think this is a bad idea on so many levels. But all those aside, just think of all the other research that’s not getting funded because of these assholes.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
> We should all do whatever the fuck we want, until we die. Yeah but we’re not allowed to. Most employers will demands you show up for 40 hours a week and then frown at you or, at least, never promote you if you don’t stay for a lot mor
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Incidentally, an enforced max number of hours per work week is a potential solution to the high unemployment a lot of countries have right now.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
> Oh, and by the way, the current worldwide depression will never end. I think this is probably true. A related book is The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin, which I highly recommend.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Same old story: judging people by stereotypes isn’t such a great idea but remains tempting due to potential savings in cycles.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Price increases are the natural response from market forces given the reduction or merely risk of reduction in supply. This has at least two important beneficial effects: 1) people are less likely to panic buy 2) the incentive for supplying
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Switching is particularly costly. Just watch someone complete a web form who doesn't know to press tab. Painful.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Is this really the author's biggest objection to war? Really? I'm not surprised by this development. War is about winning. Props to gamification--really pointsification--for having gained enough traction to be used in this context. War stil

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