Estragon

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   by Estragon 14y ago

   It'd be great to know what the other company was.
2. 392.▲
   by Estragon 14y ago

   Thanks for taking the trouble to come over here and correct me. Monkeybagel was great. I laughed pretty hard at it when it came out.
3. 393.▲
   by Estragon 14y ago

   Easy solution. I simply deleted my LinkedIn account. :-) Not sure how that would have affected existing sessions.
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   by Estragon 14y ago

   It was vacuous, basically an extended resume for the presenter, mixed with empty platitudes about principles for clojure evangelism. And worst of all in terms of wasting my time, it was misrepresented. It comes across in the blurb as a ta
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   by Estragon 14y ago

   Datomic is super cool design-wise. It'd be great to see some apps actually using it.
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   by Estragon 14y ago

   My information is a few years old, and hearsay, but I gather that research focuses on locomotion because the worm moves differently than the wiring would imply. Which suggests that this mouse brain wiring will have less immediate utility t
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   by Estragon 14y ago

   It goes deeper than that. They've been working on Service-Oriented Architecture for over a decade. I think I heard that Monkeybagel was a satire of Amazon's SOA push. http://monkeybagel.com/monkeybagel.html
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   by Estragon 14y ago

   You seem to be implying that the forums which don't directly contribute revenue have no impact on the network effect which makes their job advertisements valuable. That doesn't really make sense to me.
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   by Estragon 14y ago

   Exactly. The thing is, if some app becomes the way to access a Craigslist forum, Craigslist effectively loses its network advantage. If Padmapper really takes off, do you think it will hesitate to start offering rental advertising itsel
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    Thanks for the correction, good to know. In the example you describe, the main mismatch seems to have been getting the two Ruby runtimes to communicate effectively. Was that a common theme?
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    That was embarassing, and 20 minutes of my life I regret losing. Even the speaker appeared to be embarassed at times. It's interesting that this thread has stayed on the front page of HN all day. I wonder how many people upvoted/participa
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    It should interact pretty well with JRuby on Rails, but I'm not sure you would get any benefit from using rails over a Clojure web framework like Noir.
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    You'd probably find Harry Markopolous's No One Would Listen interesting. He's a bit of a nut, but he's the one who dobbed Madoff in repeatedly, to no effect, and he goes into great detail about the brokenness which makes this possible.
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    What kind of money do people pull out of a startup, assuming VC funding? How big a salary are founders allowed to pay themselves?
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    I'm curious, is the name "ZombiePlatypus" a reference to any specific recently acquired startups with monsters and animals in their names?
16. 406.▲
    by Estragon 14y ago

    Earlier in the year, you could get a 12 month CD in Australia for almost 6%.
17. 407.▲
    by Estragon 14y ago

    The kids are probably in even greater need of compassion than the lady they were harassing is, because they probably learned this attitude at the core of this behavior from their parents.
18. 408.▲
    by Estragon 14y ago

    How do you DoS chrome?
19. 409.▲
    by Estragon 14y ago

    Perhaps you should just switch to the ratpoison window manager. :-) http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
20. 410.▲
    by Estragon 14y ago

    Judge for yourself. I think you understand what I was saying.
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    Then what was your basis for claiming it's "the current state of the art in language origin theories?"
22. 412.▲
    by Estragon 14y ago

    The moderators have struck again. The title used to be "What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest prime number no one else will pick. "
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    You could check out the first few pages of google scholar for "evolution of language" restricted to "since 2011" for a start. E.g. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-...
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    If you want to refer to a populist pejoratively, you call them a demagogue.
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    Are you kidding? The book is 15 years old. I did enjoy it very much in 1997, though.
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    It would be great to read some war stories about small companies which started with a "just ship it" mentality and ended up adopting these practices. Designing with the practices in mind would be the best approach, but that's a lot of extr
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    The arrangement at 4clojure.com seems to work well for this.
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    Yeah, it's like a plot line from Catch-22
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    I've been to a few talks about the analysis of the LHC data, and the methods they are using are worryingly reminiscent of high-throughput biology: a search for statistically significant outliers in oodles of data. From a statistical point
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    by Estragon 14y ago

    Thanks. Great advice.