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by MBlume 12y ago
Grabbing some Clojure code because it's nearest to hand. Look here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju... I want the bindings being declared within that let to li
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by MBlume 12y ago
Very cool that this uses the PyPy toolchain, I hope this becomes a trend because it means we have one make-dynamic-languages-fast effort that will pay dividends across multiple languages.
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by MBlume 12y ago
I think this is much less to do with performance and more to do with safety. If anything can be nil, NPEs are a fact of life. If you're forced to annotate for the compiler which values can be nil, and then forced to handle the nil ca
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by MBlume 12y ago
fn is a macro that knows how to apply destructuring rules, fn* is a primitive read by the clojure compiler and cannot apply destructuring rules. https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj
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by MBlume 12y ago
Is this supposed to be a reductio?
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by MBlume 12y ago
I sincerely hope that you and I never work on the same project =(
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by MBlume 13y ago
Was this announced by Google today, or is this on HN because of the XKCD? If the former, did Google push the announcement because of the XKCD?
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by MBlume 13y ago
Doesn't Go come with an executable that reformats .go files to a canonical format?
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by MBlume 13y ago
They wrote a naive, line-by-line translation of their python code in Go. There's probably still a lot of low-hanging optimization to be had.
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by MBlume 13y ago
Go to meetups. This is fully general advice if you wish you had a job programming $LANGUAGE or $FRAMEWORK or whatever. Go to meetups for the job you want, not the job you have.
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by MBlume 13y ago
I'll second RazvanPanda, this has been lifechanging for me. I tend to have a lot of trouble with ADLs (activities of daily living) and this really helps me keep on top of them. Trivial example: I've been consistently flossing ni
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by MBlume 13y ago
I have had zero luck with the android app, but the webapp is perfectly playable from chrome-on-android
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by MBlume 13y ago
"problems like this" == "ordinary buffer overflow attack" pretty sure Rust does magically solve those, as do most non-C(++)? languages
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by MBlume 13y ago
Related: I don't understand how the "few bad apples" defense always seems to be used to argue for "so ignore it" rather than "and by the way, when we find a bad apple, it goes straight in the garbage disposal w
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by MBlume 13y ago
>These days you need a union card (i.e. a CS degree) to get a job. That's a shame. I've been refused a university position for lack of a PhD - to teach a subject that I largely invented. There's something wrong with that.
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by MBlume 13y ago
I'm confused, has "pending comments" not been fully activated yet?
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by MBlume 13y ago
> The fact that they can come out and say this demonstrates that these employees, the people best able to assess this, don't believe that Eich will retaliate. That Mozilla is and remains a place where any employee can express their
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by MBlume 13y ago
Nope, recruiting doesn't just move employees around, it drives up developer salaries.
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by MBlume 13y ago
The pie grows larger as people enter the economy who were brought there by the desire to get a free income? I support the proposal, but come on
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by MBlume 13y ago
Living in Alaska for a year is a steeper obstacle than living most places.
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by MBlume 13y ago
Python doesn't have language support for the idiom -- trying to evaluate lambda _, _: None gives SyntaxError: duplicate argument '_' in function definition but tools like pylint will silence unused-variable warnings if the va
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by MBlume 13y ago
The question is, what's going on if you do a stack-trace on why people find the joke funny. I think there's a certain amount of "haha, it says sex now" (same as with the [no sex cover]( https://github.com/
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by MBlume 13y ago
The movie was really more of a deconstruction than an adaptation of the books
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by MBlume 13y ago
"It seems kind of ironic that a company whose motto is “Don’t Be Evil” has a flagship product that believes virtually every demographic group should be murdered en masse. I don’t know if this is a weird quirk of the search algorithm or
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by MBlume 13y ago
Packaging Java 8 for debian/ubuntu: http://michaelblume.tumblr.com/post/80003780922/packaging-ja...
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by MBlume 13y ago
You lost me at the broken-window fallacy. If you want to give people handouts, call them handouts. Don't give them a bunch of bullshit to do and pretend it's constructive.
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by MBlume 13y ago
Huh, now I'm wondering how much you'd have to do to make the import keyword a build-time command-line argument
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by MBlume 13y ago
Hmm, Apple does this just fine, but Apple isn't franchising the stores, they just comfortably run them at a loss. The fact that the dealerships have independent owners may make that more complicated. Your system seems reasonably sensib
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by MBlume 13y ago
Let's say I'm in the middle of the method foo, and I do some asynchronous operation. With a promise, I can do two things, I can pass it into some other function, or I can return it to the caller of foo with a callback, I can do tw
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by MBlume 13y ago
Does C have the ability to locally silence warnings in particular sections of code?

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