lambdom's comments

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help a Highschooler with His Resume

My 5 cents, but I don't really like the A, B, A-, etc. Focus on what you know and what you like.. and if you want to show your grades, just join them on another paper.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Teenagers allowed to wake up later have fewer absences from school

1 word: duh.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Tell HN: Meet Cloudomatic, an easy way to discover SaaS apps. (StartupWeekend)

Suggestion: I would make the "Go to app" link bigger because it took me some time to find a way to access the app I wanted.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

Other idea: Keep track of other people color theme. But, yes.. I use vim and textmate and I'm a bit jealous :) Good job!

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN Startup Idea

It would be cristal clear before you pay the $1,000 what will happend with that money if the company is succesful and how much you would get.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

Download on the appstore button doesn't work for me.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your startup's URL ?

There was the same question some time ago.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Tell HN: Lessons Learned from Y Combinator Rejection

If it makes you happy, I answered no to those questions and still got rejected ;)

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on BijectKarma, our YC prototype

The video is a bit long. You want to say in a nice way: People offer job and trade karma. People accept job and get karma. I don't need to watch a 2min video with login, logout, login, logout, login, logout to understand that. Otherwise, I like the idea.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: OMGHowMuchTimeLeftForYCDecision

I liked the "Math calculation" :0

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Poll: Ask or Leaders in Top Bar?

Ask, or maybe Lists.. There are many hidden treasures on this site, and "ask" might be a small step to help us discover some of them.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: New IDE: code bubbles

With those great IDE, you can do everything, but not editing effectivly :p

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which really famous people do we have on here?

I don't think that is really important. I'm sure you can learn a lot by reading comments and always trying to analyze it, might it be a famous or not author.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Relax. You can (mostly) stop using Interfaces in Java now

Is it me or in both of the examples there is an extra { ? Is this something about Java I don't know about?

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Functional Programming Differences

Well, you choose how you want to name your function. That you code in a functional style, or in python or in haskell has nothing to do with that. And the fact that you use high-level level function based on maths is still a choice of yours.

What I say is by using a functional style (might it be in java, c++, haskell, scheme, python, or whatever), it makes testing, threading and understanding things easier.

For instance, it's easier to test an immutable class since once it is created, it will never change.

Threading is also simplified since you don't have to think about your object being corrupted by 2 threads mutating it.

Understanding is simplified in the sense that it's easier to quickly get an idea of what an object is doing because it only has 1 state at a time.

But please, don't think I didn't understand your point about obscurely named function and bad code.. Often when people show functionnal code, they try to show how short the code is so they make it practically unreadable for the novices - which is indeed not the best way to show the vertue of FP.

"you'd be much better off writing it in Python." => Nothing stop you from using FP in python :)

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Functional Programming Differences

Functional programming make testing easier. Functional programming make threading easier. Functional programming make understanding things easier. (i.e. easier to understand something that will never change vs understanding all the possible permutations of something)

(Sorry for my bad english)

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Woobius introduces: the Eye

It seems really useful. I would use it with no-tech people. One thing I disliked thought: The sound of the pen drawing on the board. I'm not a native english speaker and I'm not sure how to say it.. but that sound "freeze my back" - the same feeling as one might have with a chalk on a board.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Write HTML Faster with Sparkup (Vim and Textmate)

I think it misses a <ul> in the example.

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Good ideas are meant to spread

I bookmarked that readability site.. that's awesome. And yes, you are right about the bluish, however, by means of abstraction, it's the same thing for a geek like me: I found it hard to read ;)

lambdom | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?

Presently, on the webpage of mixcloud, there's an ad that repeat itself horizontally (Like a tile). That's the new kind of bug you can have if people automatically upload a wrong sized image ;) But I like the idea and I'm sure you can fix that bug quite easily.