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uninvertedon You’re a little company, now act like one

"Foobar inc., Portugal's leading provider of accounting software in the $50-$100 range marketed toward shipping companies".

uninvertedon Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python

The title sounds randomly generated.

uninvertedon Xmonad 0.9 released The light, reliable, extensible tiling window manager

What? You say that software with tests is more reliable, and then give an example of reliable software without tests.

uninvertedon What is the "minimal" set of primitives needed for a Lisp interpreter?

I can't stop myself from reading it like free verse because of the line breaks :|

uninvertedon Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is still revolutionizing the world

Classic game theory: it's (supposedly) a net benefit for everyone to watch TV, but for any given person it's a net loss.

uninvertedon The C++ bashing season is back

I wonder what a language with a three character Fibonacci sequence would be like. You'd probably need Unicode, if the language wasn't specifically designed for the Fibonacci sequence.

uninvertedon The Wolfram Alpha API Has Arrived

This is a paragon of obfuscatory buzz-speak.

uninvertedon Perl 5.11 released

There's a chicken and egg thing here...

uninvertedon Perl 5.11 released

I don't care which language is popular, I want to know what makes a language popular. I try to choose languages orthogonally to popularity.

uninvertedon Perl 5.11 released

I wonder if perl would be less popular if it was a better language.

uninvertedon Perl 5.11 released

java cobol c++ fortran basic pascal php

uninvertedon A bit of vaporware (or "Microsoft's Secret Newton Killer")

Secret Newton Killer? Einstein?

uninvertedon Ask HN: Do you create music? Let's hear it!

I just scared the hell out of my neighbors. :)

uninvertedon How To Appear To Be A Sophisticated Programmer

There's no language called "Indian". They speak Hindi and English in India.

uninvertedon The Design and Implementation of XMonad

I use a really similar wm called Awesome (written in C and Lua), but I might switch once I grok haskell more.

uninvertedon Computer science lacks women, minorities

Yep, total old boys club; you only get in from reference counting. When will women be able to mark and sweep?

uninvertedon Wolfram Alpha proves that N = N - 1

This is very dubious (proving the opposite is easier), but it was quite a lot of fun.

uninvertedon Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub?

...Man, Clojure seems to have just about everything from every language ever.

uninvertedon 999999999999999 - 999999999999997

I like Lisp too, but there's nothing especially accurate about it's arithmetic that you can't get in other civilized languages.

uninvertedon Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub?

Smalltalk would be trivial to model with s-exps: (object message args)

uninvertedon Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub?

I think you need laziness to be a little more prevalent than that before it makes a difference. Haskell's super-concise Fibonacci sequence illustrates that:

  let fib = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fib (tail fib)

uninvertedon Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub?

This question would be the length of a book if I had to define those words. Any hostility you detected was imagined. I was only pondering if a language in a certain style could be overly restrictive.

uninvertedon Ask HN: Teaching others to code

http://utilitymill.com/utility/MetaUtility Just about the same thing for Python. It would probably be trivial to write another one like _why's with Rails, though

uninvertedon Ask HN: Haiku?

  I am reluctant
  to upvote any haikus that
  employ plagiarism.

uninvertedon Ask HN: Haiku?

  Four then Five then Five
  A proper haiku makes not
  Try Five Seven Five

uninvertedon Ask HN: Haiku?

  BeOS was an
  Operating System, 'twas
  never meant to Be.

uninvertedon LangId Tells You The Language of Your Text

Did anyone else expect this to be for programming languages?

uninvertedon Learn Icon

Some of the biggest reasons to learn a new language are the features that you can take back to more domestic ones; almost nothing that makes Icon special (backtracking, generators, string scanning) can be used in other languages

uninvertedon Ask HN: What would you do with a Class C IP block?

Why would thick wall be a problem? (I'm not being sarcastic, I really don't know)