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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> it's not a great modern language for a lot of internet or IO stuff I think Clojure is a great language for internet stuff and possibly great even for IO stuff too, depending on what you mean by that. The LISP-iness is probably b
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
No, even the original language was pretty LISP-y.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I'm not sure there's anything now that 'LISP' could refer to beyond the family of languages, of which Clojure, Common Lisp, and even Scheme are all 'modern' dialects.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
JavaScript is, probably somewhat surprisingly, a pretty LISP-y language, tho without the parentheses.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
It's elegant. It's (relatively) easy to write a basic parser. LISP code is readily expressible in the same basic data structures provided in the language so you get meta programming almost for free and thus extending LISP is (rela
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I can only understand [3] based on what the author wrote. But it certainly seemed like it really was the case that generally limiting the number of items to 10 was fine. And, based on their subsequent observations, there was no practica
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> Spatial expansion doesn't move anything, so it can't propagate information. It certainly moves matter-energy in different regions of space with respect to one another.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> It doesn't cost any more to have equipment sending packets as it does to have the equipment idle. I'm not sure that's even true. I'd expect power consumption as well as 'wear and tear' to be less, and poss
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
For [3], it seemed pretty clear in the post that the limit was 'arbitrary' in that there was business reason to impose some limit, but no specific limit was motivated by any reasonable "intentional" or "clear&quot
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I think it's pretty clear that there are often, clearly, no right answers to a lot of questions. The answer to "Does my system need to handle 1M concurrent users?" could be "Yes", "No", "Not for the f
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
An unexpected tech debt jubilee!
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Not all spending is wasteful, even when, in an ideal scenario, it could be avoided.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I'm curious what you think is better. Any links you could share? I suspect you're wrong, or not quite right, tho. Technical debt is a great analogy and even if it's fuzzy, being able to think about the relevant tradeoffs in a
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Based on the man page it captures the 'screen' for all monitors unless otherwise constrained by options.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
The sentence you quoted would make more sense if you interpret "is really just" like a mathematician, i.e. they're 'equivalent' in the sense that you can 'map' everything important about either in both dir
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I've been programming in Elixir for a few months now, and I like it a lot, but I found your comment amusing because a lot of Elixir's 'macro expressivity' seems to be due to Erlang using a data structure for its own pars
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Nah, blame the regulators too for thinking that filling out paperwork is likely to meaningfully dissuade someone from using human remains to make dog food. It was probably sufficient to explain to that one guy why that was bad.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I think this describes a lot of reasons why 'classical classical' music 'sounds' very flat, emotionally, to me, compared to modern music. I do generally enjoy a lot of 'neo-classical' music tho, so I think you&
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
It would probably be only marginally more expensive (for Twitter specifically) for them to add changes in a way that's backwards compatible with older clients, so I don't think this argument is particularly convincing. I think, be
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Of course it depends on the nature of the specific change. I'm sure lots of developers really appreciate bug fixes, especially for bugs they've encountered, let alone developed workarounds or patches. But there's a reason (re
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Yes, and customers do very much vote with their wallets, even when the costs of switching exceed the benefits of switching! What kind of bike, or most other physical products, get updates or upgrades for free whether one wants them or not
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> You're not being honest here. If you can't imagine it, it is because you're not trying. I was being honest. Please don't tell me I'm lying; assume good faith. I still claim that his wording 'Wolfram Langua
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
You 'sell' or 'gift' the rights to all groundwater in a suitably defined watershed and that controlling entity sets prices (and at least partially enforces their rights). The controlling entity could be a government orga
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
The key is to 'sell' or 'gift' the property rights to the resources that were previously part of the commons (and to a party that can economically protect their new asset). I'm hoping one day something like that wil
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
The advice seemed to be to, first, support (i.e. correctly ignore) any possibly new value in both the client and server (i.e. any client of the 'schema').
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Skeema looks cool, and I've long been a fan of a similar tool that's specific to SQL Server – DB Ghost. I even implemented some pretty handy additional automation on top of it at various companies at which I worked. There were tho
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
If they're in anything like the last situation I was in that seems similar, continuous deployment may not be possible – not technically, but with respect to other considerations, e.g. management or even the business's finances. Th
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I'd hope so! It's $795 MSRP in 1974 'is' roughly $4,100 in 2019.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
There were several references to fish populations and and even "population biology". I wouldn't have thought 'population ecology' was that different but a cursory Google search leads me to believe I was wrong. That&

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