Well if that's not an invitation to finally start my blog, I don't know what is.
Having just quit my job for a contractor role in London, I am so glad to see this here.
The Economist and Financial Times are both modern success stories for selling on-line subscriptions, so your theory holds out in practice.
I could make tomorrow evening, or most other dates after work.
Zero-click info for error messages would be a great resource. There are already some sites that do this for specific kinds of error (e.g. ora-code.com for Oracle errors) but a general "put in this error and I´ll tell…
Several Lisp applications have config files that are just Lisp files run at start-up. Emacs is an example. You can (and people do) put absolutely any code in there. There's no need to restrict it to just setting…
There is a world of difference between the ad hominem fallacy and an insult. The ad hominem fallacy is bad reasoning. But insults are the spice of life and cathartic for the soul. Lady Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I…
There is not a single great movie in your 2005 list. In fact Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. As for the 1980s, this was indeed a much better decade than the current one. The…
If object-orientation means X then why don't people just call it X? If object-orientation is polymorphism then how come many polymorphic languages aren't object-oriented? At the very most, object-orientation is a…
These days, the commonly accepted wisdom is that movies were always as bad as they are now, and anyone who says otherwise is just idealizing the past. I offer the following evidence that the quality of movies is not…
I upvoted this because it's a wonderful example of mathematical crankiness. I've always wondered why cranks are attracted to the same things: Cantor's diagonalization proof, squaring the circle, 1=0.999.. Perhaps it's…
I'll second Hacker and recommend his Wittgenstein's Place in 20th Century Analytic Philsophy as a reasonably accessible starting point.
This thought struck me when I observed the reverse process in some poor countries during the oil boom. Where people are poor and energy is expensive, there's an incentive to 'deindustrialize' by replacing expensive…
But why do you need to offer them something when you could just take it? The answer is that they will shove a gun in your face if you do. Property rights are just as much based on force as any other law.
The FT called it the Great Unwinding, on the basis that the unsustainable debt/trade/current account imbalances would start to reverse their direction. It seems the only thing anyone can agree on is that we're…
You're both (a little) wrong! :) You can't call something an illusion just because its true nature is misunderstood. An illusion is something that looks deceptively like something else. A hologram of a table is an…
I don't know about TV, but for a very low budget film the major costs are: 1. Talent (although assuming you write and direct yourself, and use unknown actors, this can be brought down to under a few thousand). 2. Film…
Interestingly, almost everyone posting to the Reddit thread got that it was a joke (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81s36/i_hate_li...) but most people posting to HN took it seriously.
Creole and pidgin languages are special cases though. They are simple because they are relatively new constructions, rather than because they are unwritten.
I understand why. Thanks for replying.
I suspect it's more because these books have a fanatical following, the kind of people who want to deliberately manipulate 'Best Of...' lists to give their beliefs more publicity.
It makes no sense to say that the dictionary has it wrong. If you discovered that human beings were actually created by aliens for some sinister purpose then we would be their technology, but unless that's what you're…
It's quite clear that the unabomber did not consider human beings, or nature generally, to be a form of technology. His manifesto is all about the opposition of technology and nature. He says that technology destroys…
It's a symmetric relationship. If a note looks like a chord then a chord looks like a note. Both a mix of frequencies and a single frequency can produce the same colour, so they both look like each other.
There's a difference. A chord is always composed of multiple notes. There's no single note that can sound like a chord. But a colour like yellow can be generated by a single wavelength or a combination of wavelengths…
Well if that's not an invitation to finally start my blog, I don't know what is.
Having just quit my job for a contractor role in London, I am so glad to see this here.
The Economist and Financial Times are both modern success stories for selling on-line subscriptions, so your theory holds out in practice.
I could make tomorrow evening, or most other dates after work.
Zero-click info for error messages would be a great resource. There are already some sites that do this for specific kinds of error (e.g. ora-code.com for Oracle errors) but a general "put in this error and I´ll tell…
Several Lisp applications have config files that are just Lisp files run at start-up. Emacs is an example. You can (and people do) put absolutely any code in there. There's no need to restrict it to just setting…
There is a world of difference between the ad hominem fallacy and an insult. The ad hominem fallacy is bad reasoning. But insults are the spice of life and cathartic for the soul. Lady Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I…
There is not a single great movie in your 2005 list. In fact Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. As for the 1980s, this was indeed a much better decade than the current one. The…
If object-orientation means X then why don't people just call it X? If object-orientation is polymorphism then how come many polymorphic languages aren't object-oriented? At the very most, object-orientation is a…
These days, the commonly accepted wisdom is that movies were always as bad as they are now, and anyone who says otherwise is just idealizing the past. I offer the following evidence that the quality of movies is not…
I upvoted this because it's a wonderful example of mathematical crankiness. I've always wondered why cranks are attracted to the same things: Cantor's diagonalization proof, squaring the circle, 1=0.999.. Perhaps it's…
I'll second Hacker and recommend his Wittgenstein's Place in 20th Century Analytic Philsophy as a reasonably accessible starting point.
This thought struck me when I observed the reverse process in some poor countries during the oil boom. Where people are poor and energy is expensive, there's an incentive to 'deindustrialize' by replacing expensive…
But why do you need to offer them something when you could just take it? The answer is that they will shove a gun in your face if you do. Property rights are just as much based on force as any other law.
The FT called it the Great Unwinding, on the basis that the unsustainable debt/trade/current account imbalances would start to reverse their direction. It seems the only thing anyone can agree on is that we're…
You're both (a little) wrong! :) You can't call something an illusion just because its true nature is misunderstood. An illusion is something that looks deceptively like something else. A hologram of a table is an…
I don't know about TV, but for a very low budget film the major costs are: 1. Talent (although assuming you write and direct yourself, and use unknown actors, this can be brought down to under a few thousand). 2. Film…
Interestingly, almost everyone posting to the Reddit thread got that it was a joke (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81s36/i_hate_li...) but most people posting to HN took it seriously.
Creole and pidgin languages are special cases though. They are simple because they are relatively new constructions, rather than because they are unwritten.
I understand why. Thanks for replying.
I suspect it's more because these books have a fanatical following, the kind of people who want to deliberately manipulate 'Best Of...' lists to give their beliefs more publicity.
It makes no sense to say that the dictionary has it wrong. If you discovered that human beings were actually created by aliens for some sinister purpose then we would be their technology, but unless that's what you're…
It's quite clear that the unabomber did not consider human beings, or nature generally, to be a form of technology. His manifesto is all about the opposition of technology and nature. He says that technology destroys…
It's a symmetric relationship. If a note looks like a chord then a chord looks like a note. Both a mix of frequencies and a single frequency can produce the same colour, so they both look like each other.
There's a difference. A chord is always composed of multiple notes. There's no single note that can sound like a chord. But a colour like yellow can be generated by a single wavelength or a combination of wavelengths…