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Re: RussellBeattie.com - IRSeeking trouble...

she — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:50:38 -0000

its not true, there is data that is useful in IRC logs

and often, on the "better" channels, a longer conversation is a melting pot for new ideas

yes it is rare compared to the noise out there, but it exists. and we all know how data mining can be profitable

Re: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

she — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:12:55 -0000

But the bottom line still is true - ideas alone are not useful.

It is what one makes _out_ from ideas is what is worthwhile

Re: Announcing Ninja-Patching!

she — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:02:46 -0000

"I suppose this was meant as a joke"

LOOK AT THE DATE MAN!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Announcing Ninja-Patching!

she — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:03:10 -0000

But i must agree somewhat :-)

I think whenever someone mentions monkey patching from now on, I will refer to ninja patching. Sounds a lot better.

Re: Mono Embeds Nabble - Miguel de Icaza

she — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:12:37 -0000

Great news, I never liked mailing lists but i always liked forums.

And I am a VERY long time user as well. So it is not always true that old people like mailing lists. ;-)

I never managed to handle with the amount of message that really gets by. A forum is much nicer... I dont need to collect
it in any way, can look at what I want to do, and look at my email only for things to buy, family and friend connections etc... which
are really more interesting and important than the spam and noise mailing lists generate IMO.

Re: baratunde.com - Blog - Please backup your hard drive now... twice!

she — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:40:16 -0000

hahaha ignore the comments with idiots

i myself had a lot and long time with backup problems

after i lost 2 weeks of work, i now backup to

a) second hdd installed on stand-top PCs
b) backup on external USB hdd

i need to find a c to backup some data remotely

i hope data storage continues to get a lot cheaper...
i heard about the crystal storing devices via nano-technology, its now about 3 years old, they can easily store around 50 terabytes in 1 cubic-cm

but unfortunately its just prototype.... and who knows if that ever breaks through (monopolies dont want innovations to kill them.....)

Re: Stop Wine From Beating Your Windows Apps With The Ugly Stick | Tombuntu

she — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:39:56 -0000

cool thing!

but i guess it will take some more time before we can enjoy nice themeing

without the ugly grey look of windows as forced option for everyone

Re: Testing Misconceptions #1: Exploratory Programming

she — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:09:00 -0000

Well putting things together into OOP/classes is also splitting concerns, and you can hardwire tests into this all as well. I still believe the biggest factor is the human factor.

Re: Testing Misconceptions #1: Exploratory Programming

she — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:09:00 -0000

Well putting things together into OOP/classes is also splitting concerns, and you can hardwire tests into this all as well. I still believe the biggest factor is the human factor.

Re: Testing Misconceptions #1: Exploratory Programming

she — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:09:00 -0000

Well putting things together into OOP/classes is also splitting concerns, and you can hardwire tests into this all as well. I still believe the biggest factor is the human factor.

Re: Hack Attack : Get Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update

she — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:27:16 -0000

i think MS first has to convince me to use that ...
XP is decent enough, i just reinstall it a lot (i mean every few months anyway) and most of the admin tasks i do with ruby and a little C glue code...

Re: OOP and Django

she — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:35:00 -0000

OOP in general is good. Once you start to think about objects and they being able to solve the problem at hand, everything becomes better arranged. And I dont refer to C++ OOP although even C++ way in this regard is better than C's way. (But C++ has a lot of other problems)

I am using plenty of objects, some big some small.
The complexity has nothing to do with it, maybe except really trivial things like displaying hello world.

Re: Turducken

she — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:37:49 -0000

One big difference is static, old languages vs dynamic, newer ones.

And I dont mean Perl - perl is ugly.
I refer to the generation of ruby and python (i mentioned ruby first because I prefer ruby, but I prefer python's readability over perl's line noise any time, even if some decisions in python are extremely awkward for me)

(For this matter, I will even include php, although php is the most horrible language ever created. It however shows that the www is extremely important, and even if you are such an ugly language you can win a LOT by trying to be simple in essence, and focusing on getting a job done. I dont think php would have ever survived
without the www though, and I am still sad that neither ruby nor python really tackle php's strongest base - the www root. A solution like rails or django is totally the wrong way to beat php, for several reasons. Anyway, I digress with ranting... sorry)

Back to the point

"Teaching someone to program is a nice illustration of how impossibly weird this activity actually is, and how foreign it is the first time."

I think with i.e. ruby, these things get a lot more natural in human thinking. Yes, you still have loops and if/elsif conditions, but at least you have your data structure easier accessible (easier to your brain)

array.each do |your_entry|
puts your_entry
end

(Though I'd prefer {} in the above case, but "do" is a nicer word for my brain and thus nicer to try to understand)

> Functions can contain any code, including calls to other
> functions. This is crazy for people. They just sort of freak out
> when they see functions calling each other and nesting inside of
> each other.

I think that depends on the way you think. In ruby, everything is a method, and if you have a cat like this:

class Cat # which obviously should be a cat

then I think everyone would understand models like this:

cat = Cat.new
cat.meow # the cat will meow
cat.hide # the cat tries to hide... what a coward
cat.move_legs # obviously, in order to move, the cat must move it legs
cat.run_away # a method which will invoke many other methods... run_away is a complex task, which may involve hiding, moving legs, meowing maybe if you want to alert a human "friend" etc... etc..

Ruby's model is not a perfect real-life simulation. There are "multiple relationships" in reallife world, but ruby distinguish between a class and a module.
In such a way, a language like Io has a "purer model" (but personally I feel Io still has quite a way to go before it can really take off)

I think that the best new language would be one that stops
re-creating what other languages feature, and instead
concentrates on the human being. Objects are great to
work with but it still is not the best way for a human
THINKER.

Re: LOLCode.net - Now your LOLCats can use the CLR!

she — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:13:00 -0000

we need applications that are written in lolcode
so people can stay interested in it
lolcode already has the fun
now we need the cool apps