patrickc

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by patrickc 15y ago
troll, perhaps? gave me a laugh
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by patrickc 15y ago
You're right. I meant to say passing first-class functions as arguments, rather than pointers to functions as you would in C or an object method as you would in Java.
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by patrickc 15y ago
Yes. Google walmart "moving pennies" and click on the first result
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by patrickc 15y ago
If it ain't got macros, then it ain't a Lisp. Javascript is definitely no Lisp, but I really like that it allows function composition, which is somehow reminiscent of a Lisp. f(g(h(x))); instead of (f (g (h x)))
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by patrickc 15y ago
To quote Douglas Crockford on JavaScript, "Lisp in C's Clothing"
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Implementing MapReduce in Bash(linux-mag.com)
1 points by patrickc 15y ago|0 comments
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by patrickc 15y ago
This is brilliant in its simplicity. It would be very feasible to implement on a single web server, but what are some ways to extend it into a protocol? If multiple servers mirror an email thread, how does one edit what he has already sent/
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by patrickc 15y ago
The source code is well commented
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Beef up on your algorithms (repost)(cs.sunysb.edu)
3 points by patrickc 15y ago|0 comments
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by patrickc 15y ago
I wonder if this means more DRM is on its way to Ubuntu.
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by patrickc 15y ago
Most people just browse to web. If you want a shell, it's way easier to use a linux thinkpad that has a proper keyboard and proper OS, as opposed to an iPad. But that's not to say that an iPad is not good for some things.
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by patrickc 15y ago
Thank you for posting this to HN.
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by patrickc 15y ago
I'll second that. Strang's book is by far my favorite introductory math book. He addresses fundamentals quite well, and gives good treatment to applications such as linear programming and game theory.
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by patrickc 15y ago
I've no doubt they can monetize it, but I suspect there'll be "traffic forwarding" libraries popping up on Github, if this idea takes off
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Building your very own Linux distro(ibm.com)
2 points by patrickc 15y ago|0 comments
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by patrickc 15y ago
Secret Apple undercover propaganda blog!
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by patrickc 15y ago
People just use Bing to search for porn so Google can't see that. Then they use Google for pretty much everything else, which is not much.
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The Art of Undercutting your Competition(rollingstone.com)
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by patrickc 16y ago
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~park283/wp-content/uploads/2010/1...
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Man gets idea, builds motorcycle from scratch, beats Ducati.(youtube.com)
5 points by patrickc 16y ago|1 comments
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How one-men teams beat corporate ones (John Britten v Ducati)(youtube.com)
1 points by patrickc 16y ago|0 comments
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A Lisp Startup(paulgraham.com)
4 points by patrickc 16y ago|0 comments
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by patrickc 16y ago
If my understanding is correct, rather than creating a new thread for each client request, it handles connections asynchronously, much like Nginx. But unlike Nginx, it uses only a single process, so it doesn't require any interprocess comm