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by adambard 9y ago
Sure, but until you do Firefox comes bundled with an ad for Pocket in the toolbar at all times.
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by adambard 9y ago
Not only this, but also things like `clj myscript.clj` are, I think, useful to beginners.
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by adambard 9y ago
You appear to have invented a hypothetical situation as a counterpoint to some actual, if anecdotal, observations. Do you have any concrete examples of such an evidence-driven test?
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by adambard 9y ago
If you're putting Excel-sized data in Hadoop, something has gone seriously wrong in your IT department's decision-making process. It does make for a nice parable about the dangers of shiny-new-thing-syndrome though.
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by adambard 9y ago
The answer is that for a huge variety of software, performance is not important, or perhaps is only important for a subset of the application. My personal experience is that the dynamic languages you've laid out generally have framew
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by adambard 9y ago
Athena's approximate Roman analogue is Minerva. Doesn't appear to be used by anything in this space.
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(Getting started with) OCaml for the impatient(adambard.com)
3 points by adambard 9y ago|1 comments
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by adambard 9y ago
Feels really nice out of the box, well done! Hope to see development continue on this one.
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Best practices for JavaScript library versioning(adambard.com)
1 points by adambard 9y ago|0 comments
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by adambard 9y ago
> or a surgeon refusing to wash their hands because they're careful never to touch anything contaminated. Fun fact, although perhaps this is specifically what you had in mind: This was pretty much the case until Ignaz Semmelweis [1]
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by adambard 9y ago
Since I haven't seen anyone do so yet, I'll cast my vote for DWAK's app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dwak.holoha...
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by adambard 9y ago
There are strong arguments for either case, but I think it comes down to this: Helmet laws make intuitive sense in situations/jurisdictions where cyclists and cars share the road directly -- i.e., places without dedicated infrastructur
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by adambard 9y ago
I've never turned to LOC directly myself, but I have occasionally had to choose between 2 or 3 lone-wolf Clojure libraries to do a thing, and picked the one that seemed to have the sharpest focus or the most coherent implementation, wh
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by adambard 9y ago
I think this heuristic is using lines-of-code as a proxy for simplicity, in the simple-vs-easy sense. All other things being equal, and presuming the difference is architectural rather than an artifact of a too-clever coding style, I would
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by adambard 9y ago
I for one enthusiastically agree with the author's advice to use the `#()` syntax in place of `partial` and/or `comp`. It's just plain easier to parse, even for those who are familiar with higher-order functions but especiall
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by adambard 9y ago
Note that this is built-in in Opera, which is basically a skin over Chromium at this point. I definitely recommend it.
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by adambard 10y ago
I was also curious, so I did some googling. From https://www.theweedblog.com/how-much-marijuana-does-a-mariju... : > growing four plants using a 600-watt HPS lamp could produce about 150 grams or 5.0 oz per plant Sounds l
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by adambard 10y ago
Not just headers, basically random memory dumps that could contain anything that Cloudflare saw (which is almost everything). Passwords, certificates, you name it.
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by adambard 10y ago
They likely meant both ways takes 4 hours (2 hours each way), which is still ridiculous and in no way invalidates your point.
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by adambard 10y ago
> On the other side of the spectrum, a pilot who flies a Boeing 777 will not be able to easily switch to flying an Airbus 330. This sounds super dubious, I feel like you fell down on this analogy. I mean, they probably have some differen
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by adambard 11y ago
> The people who ended up working remotely are the ones who worked in the office for many years and gained the trust of their employer. Well yes pretty much this. I worked for a year on-premises before switching to remote, and I can imag
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by adambard 11y ago
Do you realize that ours is one of the few jobs that can be conducted entirely remotely? Perhaps the remote-work train is destined to derail at some point in the future, but at the moment it's totally possible to find work that lets yo
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by adambard 11y ago
It may have been intentional or it may not have; I could hardly fault her for subconsciously "performing" given the context.
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by adambard 11y ago
Ironically, if white people were in charge, history suggests we'dve definitely done a better job of subtly excluding the "wrong" people without being explicit about it.
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by adambard 11y ago
I think it speaks to just how lacking the baseline Javascript standard library is. The libraries that come with node help, but all of this stuff seems like it should be built-in, or at least available in some sort of prelude-like standard a
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by adambard 11y ago
Maybe. The other explanation is that men in general and young men in particular tend to have a higher tolerance for risk, which is reflected in everything from crime rates to willingness to ride a bicycle in traffic.
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by adambard 11y ago
I am a big fan of Clojure, but you're definitely overstating its popularity relative to Javascript and Ruby. I would put at very least PHP, and Python ahead of it as well, and Java and C# probably see more web work done with them. Cl
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by adambard 11y ago
The Dragon Dream is "half the size" of the latest model, which may not be a good benchmark. The largest airship aeros is building is quite a lot larger: > And the ML86X will be nine hundred and twenty feet (nearly three footbal
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by adambard 11y ago
Definitely true, although I suspect the actual frequency of such late-night partiers and other terrible guests is exaggerated. A conversation-starter I like to use on my hosts is to ask about their bad experiences with tenants, and most of
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by adambard 11y ago
It is quite possible to find medium-term accomodation on AirBnB, priced by the month. It seems that everything is there but compliance with housing and tenancy laws, which are likely even more complex than the hotel regulations they prefer

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