tnovelli

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by tnovelli 17y ago
Ahh, good question! 3 college credits for ~250 hours. That's the incentive. One did it just for the experience, and regretted it.
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Volunteering is something you do for a charity.
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Second that. We had unpaid interns at my last job, and their work consisted of telemarketing, harvesting email addresses, web form spamming, data entry. It wouldn't be cost effective if their earned even $5/hr. What did they get out of it..
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by tnovelli 17y ago
"Web development sucks." Yes. It's so practical compared to old-school GUI development, and so it pulls you in and mushrooms into a scaling/integration/maintenance fiasco unless you can say "no no no!" to every non-essential feature. Thin
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by tnovelli 17y ago
"Sorry, I don't know much about that. I'm just a programmer!"
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Interesting... I hadn't heard of Siek's work before. A link: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~siek/gradualtyping.html
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by tnovelli 17y ago
I'd want all of them on my team, but #4 makes the big bucks. (Looks like I'll never get rich :-)
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by tnovelli 17y ago
I've seen some nice articles in LWN, but I'm not interested in Linux news per se. I'd suggest they drop the subscription model and narrow the focus, or move on to other things. It's not just LWN that needs to change; the big question is ho
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by tnovelli 17y ago
> So, suddenly it all came together for me. He seems new to this stuff. Nothing really advanced here, but he brings up a big unresolved issue in language design in a way that probably makes sense to a Java-educated college student. BTW,
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Too much information, that's the problem. Just wait until people are actively spamming the surveillance system :-)
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by tnovelli 17y ago
...using the Java Virtual Machine
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by tnovelli 17y ago
I've done things like this in Scheme - not robustly, but it's worth pursuing IMHO. I can't stand math formulas in SEXP notation. Array/slice/hash lookup notation would be nice too. Lisp gets it right by excluding sugar from the language k
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Umm... what's this scheme_make_pair(car,cdr) function in plt/src/mzscheme/src/list.c? That's a wart (the crisis is in my mind :-) It doesn't have to be that way: Clojure has abstract sequence types, with cons/car/cdr wrappers in case you
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Heh... I know a guy who thinks he's too dumb to program in anything except Lisp (ALGOL syntax is hard! It's like math! :-)
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by tnovelli 17y ago
He rambles a lot, but he's right about the need for a new Lisp, and refers to the ILC'05 presentations by Dussud, Baker, and McCarthy on "Re-inventing Lisp". Those are some pretty radical proposals. (Summaries: http://www.findinglisp.com
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Right on - H1B is akin to indentured servitude. It's hard for the rest of us to compete with a captive work force.
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Everyone is passing the buck... what's the connection between your investment and a productive enterprise somewhere? A long chain of financial games. Decisions are based on statistics and third-hand information, not on the merits of the end
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Thanks for depressing me ;-) -- by and large we're in the same sorry situation 9 years later, aren't we?
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Oh yeah, software state machines are silly, considering that microprocessors are very efficient state machines. It's funny how algorithms that make perfect sense in Assembler can become so slow and convoluted in an HLL. Coroutines, contin
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by tnovelli 17y ago
I tend to agree with Alaric here, but reading this inspired me to take a look at design patterns, ironically. I've never studied design patterns per se in my two decades of programming (mostly lone hacking) and I think it's about time I too
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by tnovelli 17y ago
Interesting how so much money/power/responsibility is diluted and reconcentrated over and over in mutual funds, pensions, insurance companies, governments, etc. -- much like those subprime mortgage tranches. And we call this capitalism?!