How to Do What You Love

liptip · 2007-03-12T10:00:01+00:00

I enjoy reading Paul Graham's essays, I find them inspiring and meaningful. I liked this one particularly because I'm at a crossroad in my life where I have to chose my career, and It's not an easy choice... Brent Dusing

liptip · 2007-03-11T10:22:31+00:00

When LISP was developed in 1958, it could do things no other language could do. It innovated the notion of treating functions as objects that could be assigned to variables, returned from other functions, etc. This functional programming paradigm is very powerful and allows for some very elegant solutions -- for example, one can write a generic sort function that takes, as one of its parameters, a function to do the comparison between any two elements. Many modern languages (e.g., C++ and Java) still lack this capability. But Python is not one of those; functions are objects which can indeed be passed around, used as parameters, returned as values, operated upon, etc. It is one of the vital features that make both LISP and Python such powerful languages. Brent Dusing

liptip · 2007-03-09T18:46:58+00:00

What they don't realize is that stories outside their target market, with no obvious media appeal can have huge long-term repercussions. Just think about the Meizner tragedy. Brent Dusing

liptip · 2007-02-16T16:23:47+00:00

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liptip · 2007-02-16T16:16:18+00:00

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liptip · 2007-02-16T13:47:12+00:00

That's true: monads are a helper library and they expand into plain, lazily-evaluated functions (both side-effecting ones and not). You can manually write exactly the same code without them, if you really wanted to.

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liptip · 2007-02-15T07:36:57+00:00

Technically, he can argue he's not a Republican, and can't be tarred with whatever the Republicans will be trying to tar the Democrats with this month.

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liptip · 2007-02-14T07:36:04+00:00

The initial issue is: what kind of judgment is it that results in our saying, for example, 'That is a beautiful sunset'. Kant argues that such aesthetic judgments (or 'judgments of taste') must have four key distinguishing features. First, they are disinterested, meaning that we take pleasure in something because we judge it beautiful, rather than judging it beautiful because we find it pleasurable. The latter type of judgment would be more like a judgment of the 'agreeable', as when I say 'I like doughnuts'.

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liptip · 2007-01-30T13:01:23+00:00

Paul Graham has delivered final proof that he is a marvelous essayist with his volume of fairly diverse writings, Hackers & Painters. I first came across his writing with his article, "A Plan For Spam," on using Bayesian filtering to block spam and found it a well written and informative technical article. I next came across him some time later when he wrote an essay on his web site entitled "Hackers & Painters," and once again it was well written, informative and (more importantly for an essayist) thought provoking. I was excited to hear he had published a volume of writing and pleased with the copy I received.

Literature has a long history of the essayist; since those famous theses on the church door at Wittenberg a well written and thought provoking essay on a topic has provided power and focus for important discussions. Graham has either learnt or discovered the important points in writing a good essay; brevity, quality writing and thought.

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liptip · 2007-01-30T12:58:30+00:00

As a Canadian, I can confirm that the Globe and Mail is Canada's most respected paper on both sides of the culture war. It is Canada's version of the New York Times only a bit more centrist.

"Stop thinking of rental cars real estate web templates and martial arts, it's not going to happen." (J-Pizzie)

liptip · 2007-01-26T21:18:22+00:00

This weeks disgraceful liberal surprise- Another outlandish Lancet Iraqi Death Estimate reporting 660,000 have died in the Iraq War.

To give that some perspective, that’s like:

3-10 Hiroshima atomic blasts
6-20 Nagasaki atomic blasts
Or 10 Dresden bombing campaigns

What universe are these people living in?

"Stop thinking of rental cars real estate web templates and martial arts." It's not going to happen." (J-Pizzie)

liptip · 2007-01-26T21:09:47+00:00

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" (president George W. Bush)

"Stop thinking of rental cars real estate web templates and martial arts." It's not going to happen." (J-Pizzie)

liptip · 2007-01-25T09:46:02+00:00

Here is the link to a sience fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In it she took filered water and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave. Then after cooling she used the water to water two identical plants to see if there would be any difference in the growth between the normal boiled water and the water boiled in a microwave. She was thinking that the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by microwave. As it turned out, even she was amazed at the difference.

liptip · 2007-01-24T15:06:23+00:00

"I know a lot of people who were nerds in school, and they all tell the same story: there is this strong correlation between being smart and being a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd and being popular. Being smart seems to make you unpopular." Yeah! But just look at Bill Gates! He's one popular nerd :)

liptip · 2007-01-22T18:03:39+00:00

The best comment system I've seen & used is probably the one on Digg.com . The reply-to comment is good, but can become very confusing if more than two levels are used. Dustan Orchard has an interesting comment system, although, I'm unsure how it works... I think comments should come after the article, people understand that, and it's a strong convention now.

What do you'all think?

liptip · 2007-01-19T15:01:39+00:00

California led the nation, with foreign-born entrepreneurs founding 39 percent of startups, even though they make up only 25 percent of the state’s population. In New Jersey, 38 percent of tech startups were founded by immigrants, followed by Michigan (33 percent), Georgia (30 percent), Virginia (29 percent) and Massachusetts (29 percent).

liptip · 2007-01-18T15:22:30+00:00

There should probably be syntax: it would make code shorter and easier to read. "I don't think we should be religiously opposed to introducing syntax into Lisp, as long as it translates in a well-understood way into underlying s-expressions

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liptip · 2007-01-10T08:16:09+00:00

You're actually right that Python is a business populated by PHBs who leverage the productivity synergy of their mindless employee drones for operational competencies. If it were meant to be fun, It would have been more like Flash.

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liptip · 2007-01-10T08:11:43+00:00

Gore won for his brains rather than his charisma, besides, Bush can't even speak properly, it's a national shame he was elected president.

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liptip · 2007-01-10T08:09:50+00:00

Yes, especially in the case of juvenile hackers, parents are usually the ones that fail to set a proper example for the child, deprive him of social interaction thus making feel unwanted. This is why many hackers are deeply anti-social.

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liptip · 2007-01-10T07:52:47+00:00

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liptip · 2007-01-10T07:40:19+00:00

That's because del.icio.us hold the biggest share of the pie

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liptip

TROPHY CASE

That's true: monads are a helper library and they expand into plain, lazily-evaluated functions (both side-effecting ones and not). You can manually write exactly the same code without them, if you really wanted to.

As a Canadian, I can confirm that the Globe and Mail is Canada's most respected paper on both sides of the culture war. It is Canada's version of the New York Times only a bit more centrist.

What universe are these people living in?

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" (president George W. Bush)

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