Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 12y ago
No, I still think there's a sexist tone, but I will concede that it's more crass than sexist.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
I'm not supporting the idea that we should police what people are saying or limit their freedom, I don't condone that. However I do think there's a place for civil discussion and the idea that we're a social species atte
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
It's a sexist statement because personal taste is implied rather than stated, the question is totally valid but should be phrased in a socially friendlier way. This is the only way for men to overcome the wave of sexism finger-pointing
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
It's a great question but a terribly sexist way of asking it.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
http://plumlife.com , Austin Texas, iOS/Android Fulltime. Plum is replacing light switches with Lightpads; a capacitive touch dimmer that is internet connected, clusters with other Lightpads in the home for group control (yo
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
I use org-mode for occasional journaling and have it configured to automatically encrypt the entry with my gpg key on save.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
An interesting thought, I'll bet that many companies if they had published papers or OSS for the technology they built would have advanced the state of the art today by five to ten years...
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Not a Mathematician and one should chime in. The relationship you're sensing appears very general, in the sense that "is there a relationship between Category Theory and Linguistics?" I definitely think there's a relatio
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Yes, the general rule of thumb is to always place the state argument in commands so you are explicitly defining what the state should be. That's how I remove / add users or packages or configuration files. It also gives you a re
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
I do use a password manager, LastPass, but my mother doesn't. My father does because I set it up for him and he's the partner of a really big lawfirm in LA! Password Managers are not the solution to the problem, they are a banda
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Passwords are clearly a badly broken model. Even if each entity handles your password safely (you can easily argue that most don't) the weakest link in the chain is still the human being .
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Not quite. Chef/puppet/ansible are configuration management and server automation tools. While you could design a .nix package that describes the state of the whole sever that would be tedious. Ansible and nix compliment each othe
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
He even said the developers were competent...at developing. They'd released some not-so-good software towards the end of the project due to "manager pressure". It sounds like they didn't have a good systems person thou
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Org-mode with mobile app, and a grimoire file. It holds all snippets, captured thoughts, bookmarks, to-read, etc... It's also responsible for my spaced repetition system, my work agenda, my personal agenda, blog post ideas, project ide
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Or use org-mode?
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Caveat before reading my comment: this article is from 2007 and the scene 8 years later is pretty different but the spirit still holds, I think. The author also specifically placed "pet programming language" in the article's
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
You're being downvoted but you're right.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
I will [subjectively] confirm it. I've rebuilt two startups from Scala / Python messes with Haskell. Turn around time was counted in weeks (original build time was > 6 months), code is clearer, many unhandled edge cases were il
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
I think the only languages that are "statically safer" than Haskell are the theorem provers... (agda and coq come to mind) Disclaimer: I do not have enough PL type theory under my belt to confidently make this argument.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
It's an incorrect conclusion that requires further education and experience before you can be sure your subjective experience of productivity truly is that poor.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
We use Haskell heavily at my startup and it's definitely a competitive edge and well suited to the many general programming problems we solve with it (amqp processing client, rest api, javascript heavy webapp w/ haskell web framew
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
You're being downvoted heavily but I actually agree with you - diversity shouldn't be pigeonholed into just physical diversity . Diversity for the sake of diversity smells funny to me too but it's also near impossible to kno
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
The social ladder is definitely different from the economic ladder; though often seen together. You also don't need to climb the social ladder unless you desire to. The social ladder (also depending on which one you are climbing) can l
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
What's more fascinating is that erlang underpins many more staples of the internet than most geeks even know. WhatsApp is just one 19B example.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
He means pattern matching functions, which are idiomatic in Erlang but "dirty" in Haskell (where you would want to solve it better with a type class, or something else more general). Erlang myfun({duck, "My Duck'
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Monads, modules, and type classes (the bare essentials) make me never want to go back to Object Oriented Programming. That's not to mention all of the really clean and elegant software now blossoming in the Haskell community (Lens, App
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
It worked particularly well for Pyramid with it's resource hierarchy object-model. The ACL would cascade down the tree and as it was traversed it could pattern match the permissions against the tree-node acl. I actually think the model
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
What Python's Pyramid web-framework did well in that area was to provide the scaffolding around Access Control Lists in the application. You figured out authentication and provided a really simple function and DB table for resolving
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
I like the design. I'm working on a similar service to bring org-mode to more people other than Emacs geeks (similar to how Slack brought IRC to a wider audience). Current productivity tools fall quite short in comparison.
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by Ixiaus 12y ago
Using it for code auditing is a great idea. I use it heavily as my "issue tracker / task manager" for projects tool w/ bookmark capturing for issues (that combined with git-blame-mode is pretty amazing).

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