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by akmiller 9y ago
Via records (defrecord) and protocols.
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by akmiller 9y ago
I don't understand this line of thinking. The product is outstanding and likely will be, if it is not already, the lifeblood of Cognitect as a company (in conjunction with their consulting services I'm sure). What is wrong with a
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by akmiller 9y ago
Money! He is a former Verizon attorney and despised net neutrality originally. He's bound to get kickbacks in some form or another.
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by akmiller 10y ago
Matt, are you not concerned that the USDS could be removed with the transitioning of President Trump. If I'm not mistaken it's part of the executive office so not only could it be undone, but it could be undone swiftly with the st
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by akmiller 10y ago
...or use ElasticSearch as your store of durable record
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by akmiller 10y ago
If you are a programmer and you are serious in asking this question I'd suggest reevaluating your career. I've hired many developers over the years and seeing a project like this would make me hire you in an instant!
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by akmiller 10y ago
I didn't see him claiming that spec is better than all type systems. Obviously, Haskell has one of the better type systems. Languages like C# and Java are not near as expressive so when he says most type systems, I'd agree...spec
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by akmiller 10y ago
It's not only on Verizon. Verizon is the only carrier that sells it at the store.
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by akmiller 10y ago
Many reasons to this and something has to change at some point. But just a couple of points is that if everyone receives it then nobody can be robbing the system as everyone is entitled to it. Another point that the HN crew should be well a
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by akmiller 10y ago
> where absolutely everything is foisted on the developer and they must hold the entire codebase in their head at once or drown. I don't get that, and if that's how you feel I'd say you are doing functional programming wro
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by akmiller 10y ago
I'm not dinging Rails for that. Like I said I've done some successful applications with Rails. The difference I'd say between Clojure is you learn those from the bottom up, whereas with Rails you learn from the top down. Eith
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by akmiller 10y ago
I've been doing Clojure for the better part of 3 years now and I'm not sure I get why people feel doing web development in Clojure is hard. Our first foray in Clojure was/is an API to manage our users that was built by 2 deve
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by akmiller 11y ago
Last I saw the battery expectation is around 15 years. In 15 years, at the rate of development of EV's and research/development being put into batteries, it would be reasonable to expect that batteries would be significantly cheap
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by akmiller 11y ago
This whole article and discussion is silly. Use whatever you damn well please for your projects communication!
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by akmiller 11y ago
So bend to our will and provide what we demand and we will deliver your content with the same advantages as we do for others. How is that not a net neutrality issue???
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by akmiller 11y ago
He "gets" to do it because he became one of the best at it. I'm certain anyone that becomes the best at something can make money doing it!
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by akmiller 11y ago
Right. Like almost any other subject, there will be a handful of people at the top and below them many more who are likely very good at what they do, but will probably never achieve what the top x% do. I consider myself one that's very
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by akmiller 11y ago
One step in solving it is adding more marginal tax rates. It's silly that they stop at 400k and 39%. I'd also introduce progressive taxing on capital gains as that's a primary way the wealthiest individuals get around income
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by akmiller 11y ago
Not that you can necessarily pinpoint a specific date for release when dealing with hardware but I have to believe, with no hard evidence, that releasing new products right after Christmas and just before tax time has to be one of the worst
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by akmiller 11y ago
Anyone know if the rift would work on the newest high end model iMacs with the AMD M390? Obviously still have to run it via Windows I assume but just wondering if it would even work on them.
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by akmiller 11y ago
Rich Hickey had a talk (not sure which one it is at the moment) about how we used to refer to programmers as data processors as the core of your job was reading data from somewhere, processing that data, then moving that data somewhere else
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by akmiller 11y ago
A bit over the top. Yes, utilizing Amazons devices gives them full power over the content on your device but why do we need to suggest that E-books have to deliver on the same business model as print books?. There are benefits to e-books th
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by akmiller 11y ago
$50 bucks cheaper...but yes if you are completely in Apple ecosystem then probably not great device for you. The only thing you mention above that Amazon won't play is iTunes content (Apples fault not Amazons...no way Apple will ever m
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by akmiller 11y ago
I'm a Clojure developer and I agree that people shouldn't use the argument that other Lisps aren't practical (I'm just happy people are using lisp based languages). The point we should make is that for any shop that&#x27
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by akmiller 11y ago
Not sure what examples the author was thinking of but functional lisps tend to be extremely expressive just because of their nature. If there is expressiveness you are missing the language can be molded in ways that are simply not possible
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by akmiller 12y ago
I'd feel better building complex financial system in Clojure rather than C# (the 2 languages I'm most familiar with at this point). With contractual based programming, pre/post assertions, schema validation, etc... you can ad
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by akmiller 12y ago
I hope that's not the whole point of an ORM given how pervasive they seem to be in every project and how few any given projects ever switch their backend out. Choosing an ORM because it abstracts you away from the storage engine seems
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by akmiller 12y ago
I don't think your comment really deserves a response but here I am anyhow. It doesn't take much research to see the amazing discoveries that originated from NASA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_te
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by akmiller 12y ago
You really need to step back and look at how much Microsoft has already changed under the leadership of Satya Nadella. It does appear that he has a completely different vision of what Microsoft will be in the future compared to what Ballmer
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by akmiller 12y ago
> Programmers don't write things in assembly because today's compilers can write much better assembly than pretty much anyone. I don't buy that statement. In college we'd write a small program in assembler, then writ

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