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   by Adrock 13y ago

   Hi tom_b, I'm one of the co-organizers of the NYC Clojure meetup. I don't know if that's the one you attend, but I'm definitely interested in any specific ideas you might have for better introductions and ice breakers.
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   Inside the World's Most Dangerous Amusement Park(mashable.com)

   1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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   by Adrock 13y ago

   I've experienced this to different degrees in my travels. One time it felt like I was being stabbed in the brain with an ice pick for the entire 6 hour cross country flight and no amount of blowing/swallowing/yawning would h
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   Visualizing Our Place in the Milky Way Galaxy with Mathematica(blog.wolfram.com)

   1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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   A Frequentist Approach to Probability(jliszka.github.io)

   3 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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   by Adrock 13y ago

   > Once in a while, I have felt the need to find out exactly what was going on at a certain point, and had to awkwardly put in (do (pprint x) x) statements everywhere. Use this: https://github.com/dgrnbrg/spyscope Le
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   by Adrock 13y ago

   At work, I use the LF (reds). At home, I use the browns with O-rings (40A hardness, 0.2mm travel reduction): http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/cherry-mx-rubber-swit... I think the LF with no O-ring modification
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   by Adrock 13y ago

   I tried almost everything listed on that page. Far and away, the most effective thing was to just buy a keyboard that puts CTRL and ALT under my thumb instead. The Kinesis Advantage is the most popular and I love mine: http://w
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   How to choose the right design agency for your startup(designstaff.org)

   1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    > The order of the data patterns does not matter (aside from performance considerations) I just started using Datomic for a little project. The performance implications of the order of the data patterns matters a lot . It's not a
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    Will the symbol ‘Ћ’ replace the word ‘the?’(deathandtaxesmag.com)

    1 points by Adrock 13y ago|1 comments
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    I was there and a lot of the talks were great, but Dr. Seltzer's Automatically Scalable Computing was my favorite by far: http://ricon.io/archive/2013/east.html%23automatically-scala... It's a crazy appr
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    Clojure versus Java: Why use Clojure?(rrees.me)

    1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    Adventures in Multi Paradigm Programming(wilfred.me.uk)

    1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    I generated one programmatic comparisons of a bunch if fixed width fonts a couple years ago: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis... I should update it with this list...
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    My name is cleared(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

    22 points by Adrock 13y ago|4 comments
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    http://clojure.org/
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    Gerard Holzmann on The Setup(gerard.holzmann.usesthis.com)

    1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    Why “Just let it happen, it’ll be over soon” is a rape joke(gamersagainstbigotry.org)

    8 points by Adrock 13y ago|13 comments
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    Experimenting with a 7 day work week(joel.is)

    1 points by Adrock 13y ago|1 comments
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    Tails: The Amnesic Ingcognito Live System(tails.boum.org)

    2 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    PrettyTime: NLP - Natural Language Parsing for Java Date and Timestamps(ocpsoft.org)

    2 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design(spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu)

    1 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    Two Sigma - SoHo, NY http://twosigma.com We're building our next generation research environment, and we're looking for a functional programmer with a passion for distributed computing. We're scaling machine learning and operations resear
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    If you're talking about degrees of "good," I like michaelochurch's breakdown in this post: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/gervais-macle... Exemplary > Heroic > Virtuous > Humane > Natural > Pliable &#62
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    Thanks for the detailed perspective. I've never been a part of an acquisition and I wasn't thinking about it that way.
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    I think I'm missing something. Why will they call you in a panic?
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    Some people, when confronted with a problem say, "I know. I'll use Banach-Tarski!" Now they have two problems.
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    by Adrock 13y ago

    There are programmer jobs in finance that don't entail abuse.
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    How Half a Second of High Frequency Stock Trading Looks Like(infosthetics.com)

    2 points by Adrock 13y ago|0 comments