Kartik Agaram

Re: FreeLink - WebSeitz/wiki - http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki...

May 13 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"The first four bullets are really just different implications of the same rationale, and I'm not sure I buy that avoiding spaces or requiring capitals has any affect on converging the vocabulary. CamelCase is very common in programming, for example, and the vast majority of codebases never converge :) It seems pretty weird to suggest that Java makes for better code than C because it uses camel-case rather than underscores. Convergence requires discipline and gradual cultivation; no naming convention will get around that. (And it's fine for 'outlying regions' to never converge; they drive the engine of creativity that cultivates the center.) The fifth bullet is valid. But it's not always a huge factor." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Re: Libraries suck - http://akkartik.name/blog...

April 22 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"Gregor Kiczales put this far better in '92: http://www2.parc.com/csl/group... (especially the Summary at the end)." - Kartik Agaram

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Re: Comments in code: the more we write, the less we want to highlight - http://akkartik.name/blog...

April 4 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"Perhaps the different kinds of comments are meant for readers with different levels of motivation? http://alistair.cockburn.us/Sh..." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

FUN -How to have it and why we need it. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

March 31 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

akkartik on I think I just lost 90BTC! Are they stolen?? Help!!! - http://www.reddit.com/r...

March 31 from Reddit - Comment - Like

"When people delete a key like this, is the money destroyed from the bitcoin economy? Is the asymptotic size now 21 million less 90 BTC?" - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

18 months ago, TermKit, a next-generation terminal, was revealed to the world. It got 977 upvotes here and over 3,500 stars on GitHub. Yet the last activity was over a year ago. Is the project dead? Why? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

March 31 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Re: Backup theory for startups - http://akkartik.name/blog...

March 23 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"Case study: http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24..." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Silence: What is it, where do you find it and is it attainable? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

February 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

akkartik on Building a social aggregator in the post-reddit world - http://www.reddit.com/r...

February 14 from Reddit - Comment - Like

"That's a good question. I'm not sure, but I just thought of the idea of giving tags profiles like wiki pages, so the community could arrive at a consensus on what each tag is suitable for." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Re: Libraries suck - http://akkartik.name/blog...

February 14 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"Thanks! You raise an interesting point about coupling. Codebases without information hiding are paradoxically more likely to be loosely coupled than going through contortions to play to a fixed interface. Another way to look at it: designing and software organizing software is hard enough to do right. Minimizing impedance mismatch between pieces gives us half a chance of focussing on the actual problem of loose coupling." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Running Sucks! ....and then it doesn't. a video-cast chronicling this journey. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

February 14 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Building a social aggregator in the post-reddit world - http://www.reddit.com/r...

February 14 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Re: Tyranny of the majority, or regulatory capture? Just be more agile - http://akkartik.name/blog...

February 14 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"A similar map: http://fakeisthenewreal.org/re..." - Kartik Agaram

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akkartik on Building a social aggregator in the post-reddit world - http://www.reddit.com/r...

February 13 from Reddit - Comment - Like

"Me too, but that's because of the size of the 'community' at the frontpage. Back when reddit was far smaller we didn't need subreddits because the community at the frontpage was cohesive enough to provide a nice experience. Hubski's still in that phase, but with one difference: as it grows it would like to keep the frontpage as useful as ever. With subreddits we try to recreate that sense of cohesion. But they're just one possible solution. When communities grow too unwieldy somebody has to make the explicit choice to fork a new subreddit. What if members could instead continually refine what their community was? Then you wouldn't need a centralized decision to bud off a new subreddit. You'd also be able to adapt to shrinking numbers by coalescing communities when it turns out a subreddit wasn't actually large enough to be viable in the long term. The implementation of subreddits makes these kinds of group action less convenient. *(Disclosure: I help build hubski.)*" - Kartik Agaram

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Re: 9400292 - http://akkartik.name/blog...

February 5 from Disqus - Comment - Like

""Dull and safe may not be the same thing, but they sure feel like it after a while." -- https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispa..." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Why space fascinates us - http://www.reddit.com/r...

February 2 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

That's my immediate reaction watching these programmers argue about what color their comments should be when reading co http://akkartik.name/blog...

January 24 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Why did the walrus go to the tupperware party? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

January 18 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Namespaced anaphors in Clojure? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

January 7 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Maui -- A custom graphical extension builder for the Smalltalk IDE. Blurs the distinction between GUI design and programming - http://www.reddit.com/r...

January 7 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Cliff Deal - Winners and Losers - http://www.reddit.com/r...

January 7 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Orangutans Memetic Tool Use - http://www.reddit.com/r...

January 7 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

New LLVM Loop Vectorizer - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

program imperatively when needed, and functionally when possible - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Why Lisp? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Plumbing++ : small library that automatically makes your function pipelines concurrent (seeking feedback) - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

PolitiFact Blames Obama for GOP Failure to Ratify UN Disability Treaty - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Private-equity firms are adding debt to the companies they own in order to fund payouts to themselves, a controversial practice now reaching a record pace. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Scheme 9 now has an own editor with Scheme interaction environment - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

The myth of the lone hacker - http://www.reddit.com/r...

December 28 from Reddit - Comment - Like