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by agentgt 10y ago
I thought about using Crystal for some roguelike game I wanted to program (but alas with a new baby do not have the time for anymore). The reason being that it is OOP. I eschew OOP (particularly for biz software which is my day job) but hav
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by agentgt 10y ago
I while ago I was thinking about Leonardo da Vinci and how today there really aren't any "renaissance" individuals. By "renaissance" individual I mean multidisciplinary prolific geniuses. I sort of came to the concl
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by agentgt 10y ago
> Well, in Akka you can use journaling and persistence to prevent important messages from being lost in case of error. That is not a problem. [1] No it is more complicated than just one step guaranteeing. Lots of things do that includi
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by agentgt 10y ago
The actor model is not far from the AMQP pub/sub model. I have talked about this on Stackoverflow [1]. The real advantage for Akka would be not having to go over the wire when forking (aka recursing on a problem). That being said AMQP
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by agentgt 10y ago
My biz partner and I have a recruiting software company that makes career portals for corp HR and staffing firms (SnapHop). We power many many branded niche staffing firm career portals. There are basically niche job boards but with recruit
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by agentgt 10y ago
It is the same story with Java Swing apps. Sure they are hideous and can be slow if poorly coded but man once they worked they worked reliable well and porting becomes this sunken cost that you never finish and just abandon. The real story
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by agentgt 10y ago
This reminds me of the show "How It's Made" which I watch religiously. One take away I always get from the show is how much is automated and how much isn't. Metal work always seems to requires a tremendous amount of skil
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by agentgt 10y ago
Almost all FP languages typically have a solutions for this... it is called a tuple. With Lisp it is a list or cons cell. ML languages have true tuples and I have to say is superior to output function variables and allows pattern matching.
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by agentgt 10y ago
Yep I know. Rust although syntactically looks like an Algol [1] like language it actually barely is one :) . It is more akin to a ML language [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programmi... [2
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by agentgt 10y ago
This is a serious problem. My concern is people seem to think it only happens in previously (and still) male dominated fields. It happens everywhere. I think the woman that voice their concerns and challenges are more abundant in the tech i
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by agentgt 10y ago
The conditional expression or more specifically everything being an expression is my favorite thing about Lisp. I did not know that McCarthy pushed to add it to Algol which apparently today is the ternary operator for most languages. It is
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by agentgt 10y ago
> It might be more code, and it surely has a lot of tricky code and shit-to-maintain code (.doc import?!), but I very much doubt it's more complicated. There are some articles of Joel Spolsky explaning why office document formats
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by agentgt 10y ago
> "Look, I already know we don't have anything in common. Don't bring it up later as a reason to leave." I can vouch that you do not have to have much in common with your significant other despite what all the datin
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm not in the industry but I would really love a better way of growing your own food indoors while minimizing as much space but growing enough to support two people a day. Basically it is either build your own large messy setup or buy
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm the founder of a recruiting software company (SnapHop) and I will tell the recruiting industry like the real estate industry is actually shockingly difficult to disrupt. This is in part because recruiting is basically sales. Except
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by agentgt 10y ago
Funny thing is you don't even need a compiler to do what the project is ostensibly doing which is just stub generation aka struct type mapping (i.e. data objects). You can use reflection (you only have to do it once so its not slow). I
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by agentgt 10y ago
What would you like me to call it or him? Believe me I know his behavior was most likely inappropriate I'm just not sure what label should be applied. If you think I misrepresented the labeling of him I might agree with it some more re
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by agentgt 10y ago
As a child of the very early 80's besides my father Arnold was one of my role models growing up. Given that I'm not at all a bodybuilder and prefer academic things I have generally avoided admitting that but the 80s were a differe
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by agentgt 10y ago
I actually was curious and not trying to be snide. For example I wasn't sure if Carmack or whoever might be using Racket for code generation (ie multi-stage programming) which in theory would avoid GC. I wasn't sure how he was usi
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm exceedingly open minded that GMOs are good but you might very well be closed minded that there are some negatives particularly since I linked to a scientific article (albeit slightly pop sci journal) and you gave me link to an orga
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by agentgt 10y ago
Because I don't know how modern Lisps can do it (I believe there was hardware like lisp machines made specifically for Lisp that would deal or help with memory allocation/reuse as well as some code generation). I honestly was cu
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by agentgt 10y ago
> You say that like if it's a bad thing, you might want to better inform yourself on GMOs as there are A LOT of myths and misconceptions out there. And you might not want to assume what I know and don't :) I say it because GMOs
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by agentgt 10y ago
I was a long time user many many years ago of Ivy. I will say Ivy is one of the most sophisticated dependency management libraries/tools. It has things I have yet to see other dependency managers do (and probably should not do anyway).
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by agentgt 10y ago
I too find with Java (most of my career I worked with it) if you change hardware just slightly you can also get wildly different results making other users benchmark conclusions on GC and JIT not very helpful. Like your armpits the only ben
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by agentgt 10y ago
> Well, Today I Learned that Racket is GCed I'm curious how did you expect Racket to work without a GC or any Lisp like language for that matter or did you just assume because of video game usage? > - And regarding Haskell and
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by agentgt 10y ago
I know this is fairly impossible in urban areas but I find myself shopping much more frequently in what I call grocery farms. If you live in affluent suburbias I'm sure you have seen them. They are basically high end grocery stores tha
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by agentgt 10y ago
There was a Scientific America article that discussed something similar but the major point of the article was that there will more likely be habitable planets in the future. That is the universe is still in its early days of habitable plan
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by agentgt 10y ago
I read an interesting article a while back on making reactors safe using helium gas: https://www.cfact.org/2011/03/17/nuclear-safety-reactors-tha... Personally I'm not terribly worried about meltdowns bu
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by agentgt 10y ago
We are about 3-4 days (due the 7th) away from having our first child and this article is a terrifying reminder of what is to come. I have a rather good temperament and equanimity (ironic given the above) but my wife despite being brilliant
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by agentgt 10y ago
Nice... but why is it faster/memory is more important to me. I suppose I could look at the changelog but it would have been nice if the post guessed why.

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