jpr

648 karma · joined November 12, 2009

Probably the way youtube videos are interactive, you click to close the ads.

I'm going to save this for the next time someone asks why there aren't more females in CS/programming. I just tell them that this kind of code is held in high esteem, instead of being ridiculed for the stupidity that it is.

jpron Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing.

Fuck everything, we're doing a Wordpress theme!

jpron ACM considered harmful

1. Annoying things are harmful in the long run when you can't fix them.

2. There is really no need for constructive criticism when someone does something that is very clearly wrong.

3. Titles aren't content, duh.

jpron Techies don't understand what business Apple is in

Relevant:

Non-Apple’s Mistake

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=132

jpron LOLCats... Yes, you can haz $30m

I had to double check to make sure it wasn't me who made that comment.

jpron The Read Eval Print Lie

How many languages have a REPL that gracefully handles class/type redefinition at runtime? Even some dynamic languages (Python, I'm looking at you) fail at this.

jpron An alternative to lengthy Twitter arguments

If it's not accessible via browser, it doesn't exist to most people.

jpron As predicted on HN: Kindle Lending Club

Yay for business models based on artificial scarcity!

jpron W3Fools Takes on W3Schools

What horrible website those W3Fools have.

jpron Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period

I pretty much decided from the title alone that I will begin to use double space just to piss the author off. After reading the article I'm sure that I made the right decision.

jpron "Should I still learn Java?" Answered: Yes.

For which architechture?

jpron "Should I still learn Java?" Answered: Yes.

You forgot the

    class foo { ... }

And that it has to be in a name called foo.java. And that you have to compile it and run it with

    java foo

instead of simply

    ./foo

And that startup time of JVM is orders of magnitude worse than pretty much anything else.

jpron An Old Article I Wrote: "What To Know Before Debating Type Systems"

There's no implicit conversion, truthiness in Python is just defined to make sense: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-tes...

Contrast this to something like Java where all code is littered with shit like foo != null and foo.length != 0.

jpron Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available.

I liked you better when you were still underground.

jpron I Paid a Bribe

    This was never the way I planned
    Not my intention
    I got so brave, pedal on the floor
    Lost my discretion
    It's not what, I'm used to
    Just wanna try this bimmer
    I'm curious how you
    Caught me speedin'
    
    I paid a bribe and I liked it
    The price of a new macbook
    I paid a bribe just to try it
    I hope my lawyer don't mind it
    It felt so wrong
    It felt so right
    Don't mean I'm in jail tonight
    I paid a bribe and I liked it
    I liked it
    
    No, I don't even know your rank
    It doesn't matter
    You're a corrupt cop
    Just human nature,
    It's not what,
    Good cops do
    Not how they should behave
    My head gets so confused
    Hard to obey
    
    Us yuppies we are so loaded
    Soft money, red bimmer, so predictable
    Hard to resist, so profitable
    Too good to deny it
    Ain't no big deal, it's innocent

jpron Happy New Year in Your Time Zone - What's your resolution?

1) Build and publish my first real app

2) Cut the beer consumption

3) Lose weight (already lost about 10 pounds in about a month due to beginning #2 early)

4) Begin regular exercise (I already started semi-regular walking but then weather suddenly went to -25C and 60 cm of snow...)

5) 1280x1024 and sometimes 2560x1024

jpron GNU Emacs Theme Generator (beta)

By waiting, do you mean wait for the release, or wait because the software is busy doing something?

jpron Oooh - I'd kill for a four day week...

One would assume that most people of working age would speak at least English, which should be enough to get started in many countries.

jpron Why your child's school bus has no seat belts

I can just hope that the people in the front seats realize that you are effectively risking their lives by your stupidity before it's too late.

jpron Why your child's school bus has no seat belts

I have often wondered about the difference in accident rates between professional and other drivers, anyone know if there are any studies done on this?

jpron Why your child's school bus has no seat belts

In cities with good public transport, many otherwise-would-be-cars are buses. Here in Helsinki many school children use public transportation, and none of the buses, trams, trains or subway cars have seatbelts, and as far as I know, nobody has ever suggested them to be installed.

jpron Oooh - I'd kill for a four day week...

There is no reason to believe that the work done per time unit remains the same when the length of work day varies.

jpron Oooh - I'd kill for a four day week...

While you may not begin to like something disgusting just by cutting back the time spent on doing it, you may begin to like something you already liked more if you reduce your workload.

jpron Follow-Up to "Haskell and the 'foul stench of cargo cult mathematics'"

What is this I don't even?!

Haskell is Haskell, math is math, category theory is category theory. They are not the same, even if they have some things in common. Deal with it.

jpron Mathematically optimal markup with HTML5

I have hard time understanding why browers' parsing algorithms should be standardized or why it's a good idea to do so. Shouldn't a language be defined declaratively using a grammar?

jpron "In Haskell we think for quite a long time before starting typing"

Ditto for my Finnish keyboard.

jpron Would global warming be so bad?

Or there's -25 Celsius and 60 centimeters of snow outside.

jpron Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?

Maybe I have missed something, but what did Zuckerberg do to deserve the title this year?

jpron List Processing in C

> Expressions separated by the comma operator are always evaluated left to right.

That's correct (for C), but I feel the need to add that in function calls the parameters are separated by commas, and they can be evaluated in any order.