I know that it is helpful at times to realize that invention and innovation could happen in a myriad of ways, but I don't think that is a fair way of looking at things in this case, or in many cases. Without the…
Thanks, but may want to correct: method_as_fun = o.my-method which should be: method_as_fun = o.my_method and the examples themselves just look a little crazy, imo. Not crazy because of what you are trying to do, but in…
> Most “scripting” languages don't support annotations for checking parameters and return values I coded in Java for many years and Ruby for the last several, the lack of explicit type checking in method signatures or…
Though we had a bit of fun in the past when multiple people are merging migrations at once, since it keeps version #s in the bottom of structure.sql and that can get out-of-whack if things aren't handled carefully,…
I think Raleigh is the best bang for the buck for tech, food, drink, and residence anywhere in the U.S. Downtown Raleigh has art festivals, music festivals (Hopscotch, Wide Open Bluegrass), Red Hat amphitheater, and…
> I'm now highly dependent on noise canceling headphones When you wear them are you listening to music, white/pink noise, etc. or just have them on with nothing playing? What kinds of noises do they cancel best, and…
Also fit for livestock, but difficult to bale. And used medicinally (anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial to treat headaches, tinnitus, vertigo, Wei syndrome, alcoholism and hangover), and even for basketry. Unfortunately,…
Metric time is fun, but why not take it a step further and abandon the metric system, which places too much emphasis on base 10? We used the (21 cm) hydrogen line in the Pioneer plaque; if we don't use metric with our…
This is at once a brilliant and useless post. The brilliance is that of course you should provide something that people need that is risk averse, and using the analogy of making tires during the transitional period of…
> And how exactly is it "different"? Robert Nyman of Mozilla pointed me at this: https://blog.mozilla.org/ligong/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-the... "Foxconn stated that they intend to have FFOS running on all categories of…
You can gain back a lot more than you lose, even if you get into a habit of "better" eating and more exercise for months. You probably think that exercising and eating "better" should be fine, because anything you do…
I wish Douglas Adams was still alive and writing. And, someone should make marvin_bot (https://twitter.com/marvin_bot) start-up a conversation with @bankofamerica.
> he "compiled" the between function in his head Really? How about "adequately understood the function and did not have to reread it". We are humans, not compilers. ;)
Awesome! Looking forward to being able to use FF OS on my laptop!
> God made the integers. All else is man made. "God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man" - Leopold Kronecker. Possibly misquoted by Raymond Ayoub in "Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical…
The first version of anything worthwhile is typically an experiment. I'm excited about the prospect of a great way to write Go apps in the future that is better than what we have now. One of the best ways to kill a…
> We wanted to know if it was possible to use Building Blocks not only for its main purpose, that’s creating phone applications, but also as a base to create a standard web site. While I've known that the "phone" has…
With two big differences: 1. Knowledge resources available to team and experience of the organization in the subject matter far exceed what the WebOS team had. 2. Was free/open and somewhat collaborative almost from the…
Could you provide a link to a sample chapter and table of contents? Thanks!
Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of:…
Network traffic graph currently showing what it is like to be HN'd: http://pi.qcontinuum.com/cgi-bin/rrd/rrdgraph.pi.main http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-day.png http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-week.png
It is both. Code and the effect it produces can be a thing of beauty, ugliness, or both, and at times the emotion and creative energy put into it would make it rival any art. But, I agree that more often it is like a…
Programming is an art, but as you get older and more experienced, you become less able to express yourself in a way that doesn't seem both rote and belabored. It is closer to making furniture than painting or sculpture,…
> NOTE: my blog is being slashdotted by Hacker News :) I think we need a new verb here.
> A startup company or startup is a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.[1] These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of…
I know that it is helpful at times to realize that invention and innovation could happen in a myriad of ways, but I don't think that is a fair way of looking at things in this case, or in many cases. Without the…
Thanks, but may want to correct: method_as_fun = o.my-method which should be: method_as_fun = o.my_method and the examples themselves just look a little crazy, imo. Not crazy because of what you are trying to do, but in…
> Most “scripting” languages don't support annotations for checking parameters and return values I coded in Java for many years and Ruby for the last several, the lack of explicit type checking in method signatures or…
Though we had a bit of fun in the past when multiple people are merging migrations at once, since it keeps version #s in the bottom of structure.sql and that can get out-of-whack if things aren't handled carefully,…
I think Raleigh is the best bang for the buck for tech, food, drink, and residence anywhere in the U.S. Downtown Raleigh has art festivals, music festivals (Hopscotch, Wide Open Bluegrass), Red Hat amphitheater, and…
> I'm now highly dependent on noise canceling headphones When you wear them are you listening to music, white/pink noise, etc. or just have them on with nothing playing? What kinds of noises do they cancel best, and…
Also fit for livestock, but difficult to bale. And used medicinally (anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial to treat headaches, tinnitus, vertigo, Wei syndrome, alcoholism and hangover), and even for basketry. Unfortunately,…
Metric time is fun, but why not take it a step further and abandon the metric system, which places too much emphasis on base 10? We used the (21 cm) hydrogen line in the Pioneer plaque; if we don't use metric with our…
This is at once a brilliant and useless post. The brilliance is that of course you should provide something that people need that is risk averse, and using the analogy of making tires during the transitional period of…
> And how exactly is it "different"? Robert Nyman of Mozilla pointed me at this: https://blog.mozilla.org/ligong/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-the... "Foxconn stated that they intend to have FFOS running on all categories of…
You can gain back a lot more than you lose, even if you get into a habit of "better" eating and more exercise for months. You probably think that exercising and eating "better" should be fine, because anything you do…
I wish Douglas Adams was still alive and writing. And, someone should make marvin_bot (https://twitter.com/marvin_bot) start-up a conversation with @bankofamerica.
> he "compiled" the between function in his head Really? How about "adequately understood the function and did not have to reread it". We are humans, not compilers. ;)
Awesome! Looking forward to being able to use FF OS on my laptop!
> God made the integers. All else is man made. "God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man" - Leopold Kronecker. Possibly misquoted by Raymond Ayoub in "Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical…
The first version of anything worthwhile is typically an experiment. I'm excited about the prospect of a great way to write Go apps in the future that is better than what we have now. One of the best ways to kill a…
> We wanted to know if it was possible to use Building Blocks not only for its main purpose, that’s creating phone applications, but also as a base to create a standard web site. While I've known that the "phone" has…
With two big differences: 1. Knowledge resources available to team and experience of the organization in the subject matter far exceed what the WebOS team had. 2. Was free/open and somewhat collaborative almost from the…
Could you provide a link to a sample chapter and table of contents? Thanks!
Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of:…
Network traffic graph currently showing what it is like to be HN'd: http://pi.qcontinuum.com/cgi-bin/rrd/rrdgraph.pi.main http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-day.png http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-week.png
It is both. Code and the effect it produces can be a thing of beauty, ugliness, or both, and at times the emotion and creative energy put into it would make it rival any art. But, I agree that more often it is like a…
Programming is an art, but as you get older and more experienced, you become less able to express yourself in a way that doesn't seem both rote and belabored. It is closer to making furniture than painting or sculpture,…
> NOTE: my blog is being slashdotted by Hacker News :) I think we need a new verb here.
> A startup company or startup is a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.[1] These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of…