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At least one of the links for a paper links to a GoogleTM search for it.

I think the design issues for APIs, DSLs and languages are very similar. For adoption, the learning curve is very important, and the beginning of this curve is sensible defaults (l…

BTW: just noticed HN automatically adds a [scribd] link for a pdf. Convenience and cross-promotion in one. :-) ( edit added pdf warning)

That is good to hear. It seems that quality (perfection?) is secondary to actually building stuff, making mistakes, improving it, learning. As said in your essay, determination is …

I agree with your points, though I keep coming across variants of rapid prototyping in different fields; and as Fred Brooks told us "build one to throw away". Is it possible to hav…

I'm curious, what do you mean by "transparently persistent"? Do you mean that you can serialize anything (and so persist it as a file or what have you)?

I came across this http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Tutorials_a... which seems to confirm progn ~ do I'm just surprised that (it seems) you can do statement-based c…

I think the layout similarity was an issue; but it seems to me that they just have demonstrated a barrier to entry (a non-product one). For a product company, 37Signals does a lot …

Another Java-style construct: Clojure has a do form, which enables you to consecutively execute the following expressions in the list. It seems to me a way to sneak statements into…

I've calculated this too (the same round numbers too: 10%, 10 years). He doesn't mention that you might learn something from each attempt (if you stay in the same industry). I thin…

> probably the best large organization for a real , cs focused, software engineer Makes sense, it's the only multi-billion dollar business based on an algorithm. Patent-based busin…

1. That glow ground effect is pretty much what I was thinking, except, for the glow source to not be visible itself - you just see a mysterious glow from under the bike. Easy enoug…

1. That glow ground effect is pretty much what I was thinking, except, for the glow source to not be visible itself - you just see a mysterious glow from under the bike. Easy enoug…

I've used vi for 20 years now (gosh), and it's only in the last few weeks that I've actually started using it properly. One example is that I wanted to save in fewer keystrokes; li…

I just created a poll with karma of 196

polls polls polls!!

it's OK to do a test, just delete it right away

you shouldn't do a test! You are a bad person.

I saw David in Florence, and I was amazed to see that they also had on display the prototypes for David. There were 3 or 4 or so. From memory, they were all massive blocks of marbl…