qwph | 17 years ago | on: Things I wish I’d known when I was younger
Youth is wasted on the young...
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qwph | 17 years ago | on: The Call of Cthubuntu
I think it's a Halloween special...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Zed follows up on the search for Matt
I agree.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: The Economist endorses Barack Obama
Bush is a national socialist
That's an interesting choice of words.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: REST is UnAmerican
Hardly anyone knows anything about Karl Marx nowadays...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
Death is not necessary to give life meaning.
That's an unfalsifiable statement, I'm afraid.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Help Zed find Matt
I hope this has a happy ending.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Windows is a Ghetto
...registry hives...
A great piece of MS terminology, apparently the result of inter-developer conflict...
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.a...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Brain peaks at 39 years of age and declines thereafter
My hope is... that date can be pushed back a bit.
You and me both - else I have just over 5 years til my brain peaks.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: The tel URI for telephone numbers
RFC 1149 is one of my personal favourites...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Arc: Where are we going?
What happened to procrastination and laziness?
To say nothing of impatience and hubris.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Android and its perceived 'openness'
Is it known for people to "run free and create viruses and malware" on Linux? I thought that was more of a Windows problem.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
5. Write unit tests.
6. Refactor mercilessly.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: 13 hours of Lisp
I think you might be confused about the GameBoy, but lisp has been used for game development...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: What if I don't have an idea?
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Black and white TV generation may have monochrome dreams
I've dreamt of Tetris...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Generating domain names using Markov Chains, now as a webservice
I think I broke it... :(
qwph | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many lines of code do you deliver every day?
Bearing in mind that you haven't said anything else at all about either program, I'd have to say yes, absolutely meaningless.
qwph | 17 years ago | on: No more tail calls in Javascript?
Yeah, but, if you can't rely on tail-call optimization, you can't really use recursion and expect your code to handle any arbitrary amount of data that's thrown at it. To write robust code, you're forced to use iteration instead.
The difference between O(1) and O(n) memory usage is a big deal, IMHO...
qwph | 17 years ago | on: The world *has* changed: Why we should be afraid
I can't upmod mynameishere's comment enough.