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lambdom

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lambdom··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··on Teenagers allowed to wake up later have fewer absences from school
1 word: duh.
lambdom··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··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··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··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··on Ask HN: What's your startup's URL ?
There was the same question some time ago.
lambdom··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··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··on OMGHowMuchTimeLeftForYCDecision
I liked the "Math calculation" :0
lambdom··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··on New IDE: code bubbles
With those great IDE, you can do everything, but not editing effectivly :p
lambdom··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··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··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··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··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··on Write HTML Faster with Sparkup (Vim and Textmate)
I think it misses a <ul> in the example.
lambdom··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··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.
lambdom··on Good ideas are meant to spread
A bit out of subject, but I find the white on green hard to read.
lambdom··on Please critique our little website
I see a white square with nothing in it.
lambdom··on Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
Studying IA for my exam tomorrow. Fortunately, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)" is a great book. (I said fortunately because I need to read half of it tonight - I`m half done).
lambdom··on Ask HN: Review my dispoable email & spam tracking app
It sounds interesting and I like the idea. However, in your videos, you talk a lot about spam, but with gmail, I really don't have that much.

I could use the app when a site ask for my personnal email and I don't want to give it, but then, I already have "trashes" email serving that purpose.

As I said, I like the idea but I think it misses the killer feature which would really force me to use it.

lambdom··on Starcraft 2 Beta launches -- Kiss your free time goodbye
Just for your information, since starcraft and warcraft are really popular in Korea, we usually use the term "gosu" for professional player which basically mean "progammer" in Korean. So, we often see things such as: This guy is pretty gosu or This guy is chobo (beginner) ;)
lambdom··on Starcraft 2 Beta launches -- Kiss your free time goodbye
rhhhhhhaaaaaaaaawh (zerg)
lambdom··on Starcraft 2 Beta launches -- Kiss your free time goodbye
Yes, and more than that, there are strategies that were pretty cool in the beta but removed from the real game for different reasons. I remember in warcraft3 beta, we tried some unique strategies with units that were removed from the game!
lambdom··on JQuery Quicksand plugin
The website design is great too. Congrats.
lambdom··on The night I Met Einstein
Already posted some time ago but still a beautiful story that I enjoyed (re)reading : )
lambdom··on Your startup idea... sounds neat. (A short dialogue you may have heard before)
Funny ;) Loved the (no text) part. And I really know the feeling when they tell you: isn't what email are for? or, well can't you do that with facebook, or worst: Haven't you heard about www.awesomewebsite.com.. it does all that and it's free.
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