If you want better teachers, you don't necessarily need to pay much more. What you need to do is make the job better, and you do that by working to remove the things that make teacher's lives miserable. Teachers already…
> "Reasonably confident" is a remarkably weak threshold for putting half of one's future wealth on the line. Half of your wealth is very very small compared to losing custody of your kids. If she leaves, the legal…
Gitorious needs a "documentation" link on its front page leading to at least "overview" and "getting started" docs. Also, as an aside, Gitorious should consider switching to a new logo, or none at all, and then choose a…
There are many decent programmers who've been using high-level languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/etc for so long that they don't even remember the last time they had to think about a linked list.
> Then tell him your new hourly rate for consulting. Make it a good one. Note: search around here for tips on choosing a good rate. And then factor in your history with them.
Haven't yet used them, but these guys http://laclinux.com/gnu/Laptop sell and support Lenovo Thinkpads with GNU/Linux installed and swear by them.
I saw him speak a few years ago. The impressions I got were: * nice guy, but a bit awkward socially * very smart and good memory too * has written a lot of free software, and would like others to consider making theirs…
I don't think HN's sarcasm tags are rendering correctly today.
> but I'm getting a Lisp vibe: clever people use it, they develop cool new things with it, but it doesn't attain market success (aka secret weapon). The difference is, (AFAICT) Perl 6 also aims to be easy to use for…
This is a great interview. I'm glad Damian took the time to answer those questions.
> Git and mercurial are not the end of the story. > I'm optimistic that, within another few years (give or take a decade), someone will come up with a VCS that's both powerful and usable. :-) Do you think Hg…
How do you think the Bzr UI design compares with that of Hg?
Needs audio! But very cool indeed.
> and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day. Do you mean $1.35/day? If that's the case, then I see your point: even though you're passionate about it, it (in and of itself) won't pay…
Audrey, how do you think the combination of Rakudo and Parrot is coming along? Do you like the overall design of this Perl 6 implementation?
So, do you think the key to Perl 6's success is to avoid that? That is, do you think it's better for Perl 6 to have a smaller, more seasoned developer community in the beginning (to establish some best-practices before…
Yes. It's great to be able to use a LaTeX-formatted equation into a regular Pandoc Markdown document. BTW, for those wanting to learn more about how to use LaTeX, you might try writing your doc in Markdown, pandoc it…
Can anyone summarize how Guile is supposed to interpret/interact-with other languages? I thought Guile was just the GNU Scheme interpreter (now bytecode vm, I guess), but it seems lately that it's turning into something…
Congratulations on the book being published. I didn't know there were so many versions of Casting Spels (Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, Clojure, Haskell). Do you have any plans to do one for Scheme?
Perhaps providing a 10 or 20 second sample free -- right there on the page linked to -- would persuade people to do the email sign-up in order to get the rest of the screencast. Without a sample, we really have no idea…
Sounds like a great idea. My understanding is that PLT Scheme goes way beyond R5 (even R6), and with the new "R7" dual standard on the way, better to change the name now rather than later and be potentially confused…
If you want better teachers, you don't necessarily need to pay much more. What you need to do is make the job better, and you do that by working to remove the things that make teacher's lives miserable. Teachers already…
> "Reasonably confident" is a remarkably weak threshold for putting half of one's future wealth on the line. Half of your wealth is very very small compared to losing custody of your kids. If she leaves, the legal…
Gitorious needs a "documentation" link on its front page leading to at least "overview" and "getting started" docs. Also, as an aside, Gitorious should consider switching to a new logo, or none at all, and then choose a…
There are many decent programmers who've been using high-level languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/etc for so long that they don't even remember the last time they had to think about a linked list.
> Then tell him your new hourly rate for consulting. Make it a good one. Note: search around here for tips on choosing a good rate. And then factor in your history with them.
Haven't yet used them, but these guys http://laclinux.com/gnu/Laptop sell and support Lenovo Thinkpads with GNU/Linux installed and swear by them.
I saw him speak a few years ago. The impressions I got were: * nice guy, but a bit awkward socially * very smart and good memory too * has written a lot of free software, and would like others to consider making theirs…
I don't think HN's sarcasm tags are rendering correctly today.
> but I'm getting a Lisp vibe: clever people use it, they develop cool new things with it, but it doesn't attain market success (aka secret weapon). The difference is, (AFAICT) Perl 6 also aims to be easy to use for…
This is a great interview. I'm glad Damian took the time to answer those questions.
> Git and mercurial are not the end of the story. > I'm optimistic that, within another few years (give or take a decade), someone will come up with a VCS that's both powerful and usable. :-) Do you think Hg…
How do you think the Bzr UI design compares with that of Hg?
Needs audio! But very cool indeed.
> and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day. Do you mean $1.35/day? If that's the case, then I see your point: even though you're passionate about it, it (in and of itself) won't pay…
Audrey, how do you think the combination of Rakudo and Parrot is coming along? Do you like the overall design of this Perl 6 implementation?
So, do you think the key to Perl 6's success is to avoid that? That is, do you think it's better for Perl 6 to have a smaller, more seasoned developer community in the beginning (to establish some best-practices before…
Yes. It's great to be able to use a LaTeX-formatted equation into a regular Pandoc Markdown document. BTW, for those wanting to learn more about how to use LaTeX, you might try writing your doc in Markdown, pandoc it…
Can anyone summarize how Guile is supposed to interpret/interact-with other languages? I thought Guile was just the GNU Scheme interpreter (now bytecode vm, I guess), but it seems lately that it's turning into something…
Congratulations on the book being published. I didn't know there were so many versions of Casting Spels (Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, Clojure, Haskell). Do you have any plans to do one for Scheme?
Perhaps providing a 10 or 20 second sample free -- right there on the page linked to -- would persuade people to do the email sign-up in order to get the rest of the screencast. Without a sample, we really have no idea…
Sounds like a great idea. My understanding is that PLT Scheme goes way beyond R5 (even R6), and with the new "R7" dual standard on the way, better to change the name now rather than later and be potentially confused…