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squires | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

I don't remember the last time I got such a chuckle out of a domain name, but this one is great.

squires | 5 years ago | on: America is determined to sink Huawei

USA is commonly known as America, and the fact that some variant of this comment always surfaces when it's referred to as such won't change that.

squires | 8 years ago | on: Bob Chassell has died

One line that made an impression on me when I read this book a few years ago:

"Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon's cave of treasures"

Meanwhile, the best I can muster about most tools I'm required to work with on a daily basis is:

"This mostly works, I guess"

RIP, Bob

squires | 9 years ago | on: Kim Stanley Robinson’s “New York 2140”

This is a surprising to me since, of Robinson's work, I've only read Aurora. One of the primary impressions it had on me was the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the futility of space exploration/colonization.

Perhaps I should muster the courage to try some of his other work.

squires | 10 years ago | on: More Money for Better Open-Source Software

I think it might be an interesting approach to run a kickstarter-style campaign for each major software release, and once the goal is reached, release the software with a normal open source license. Nothing would stop other developers from forking the software, but if the author was providing enough value, I believe people would contribute.

squires | 10 years ago | on: U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China’s Hacking

This is complete speculation, but perhaps an interesting idea. What if the recent turmoil in China's stock market is a direct result of the US retaliation for this incident? Clearly, the US wouldn't admit that, but they might want the implication to exist.

squires | 12 years ago | on: 7 Minute Workout by Quick Fit

The original paper says that you can repeat the workout 2-3 times, time permitting, but does not state that it's required in order to get the benefits of the workout.

In fact, the NY Times article[1] from May 9, 2013 that introduced many to the workout says:

"Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of several hours of running or bike riding."

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...

squires | 13 years ago | on: Highly relativistic spaceflight would be fatal for passengers and instruments

This also reminded me of the "Archangel" class ships described in Endymion by Dan Simmons. FTL travel on these ships instantly kills all passengers but then conveniently resurrects them once they reach the destination.

squires | 13 years ago | on: Rust 0.4 released

The 'r' is the zeroth character of course.

squires | 13 years ago | on: Study: High Speed Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors

I'm not involved in HFT, but I imagine the following scenario is plausible:

You place a limit order to buy FOO at $32

Someone else offers FOO at $31.90

A HFT algorithm buys FOO at $31.90 and immediately offers it at $32

You buy FOO at $32 from the HFT algo

So you have lost potential profit on the transaction even though you technically hit your limit price.

squires | 13 years ago | on: The Word Count Problem

I won't dispute the utility and versatility of UNIX tools, but your comment that "nearly everything we use today is Unix" is wildly off the mark. According to the following article, it's estimated that Windows is installed on 36% of servers and 92% of desktop systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...

squires | 13 years ago | on: Gccgo in GCC 4.7.1

Anyone have any insight as to how Go will avoid the garbage collection latency issues that arise in some situations with other GC languages, such as those that run on the JVM or CLR? I ask this in particular since Go is frequently mentioned as a C++ alternative.

squires | 14 years ago | on: MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing

1) Is it toxic? 2) Does it affect the flavor in any way? 3) Have we forgotten about the existence of plastic squeezable bottles?

squires | 14 years ago | on: Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

Interesting, well written article.

However I was surprised to be made aware of the existence of a logician named Haskell Curry. The name struck me as the punchline to a joke only told and appreciated by the uber-nerds in the halls of elite university mathematics departments.