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by alexott 5y ago
mostly in Germany...
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by alexott 5y ago
Video ID verification works quite well in many cases.
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by alexott 5y ago
I doubt about PayPal’s anti-fraud capabilities. They allowed to open another account with the same name and address as mine, but with different phone and email, without any confirmation. And that person bought something, and after it wasn’t
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by alexott 5y ago
There was (and still is)a project called Bigloo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigloo ) that was interesting by allowing to get C, JVM and .Net code from scheme programs. We were a Scheme shop and experimented a lot wit
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by alexott 5y ago
I have used it, also as Kawa. from my point of view, the Clojure interface to JVM is more "natural". Plus the concurrency support, etc.
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by alexott 5y ago
Why not just use Clojure? It has good frameworks for web programming, you can even use it for browser apps, etc. There are of course differences, but from my point of view the code will be less ugly. P.S. I programmed in CL, and in Scheme (
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by alexott 5y ago
I'm using Git for a long time, but I'm still get back to the Magit for most of the tasks, except very primitive... Good UI helps a lot, especially for things like selective discard or commit
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by alexott 5y ago
Same in Germany
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by alexott 5y ago
There is a lot - customer support (aka customer 360), fraud detection, some maintenance cases, inventory, recommendations, etc. But it’s heavily dependent on requirements - what should be response time. Most of graph databases are good in f
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by alexott 5y ago
McAfee is a good example when acquisitions didn’t went well…
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by alexott 5y ago
100% - that’s my primary usage of it. It’s easy to encode complex diagram and change it easily.
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by alexott 5y ago
PlantUML & other tools exists for quite a long time
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by alexott 6y ago
Oh, I remember fixing sources for it in Linux kernel right after 2.0.0 release to make one of the clones working. Then it was fixed properly in next release (2.0.1, or something like). But yes, it was widespread, especially in my circles -
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by alexott 6y ago
Depending on location, it could be very radioactive... I studied and worked at lab that did measurements, and it was push for closing a nuclear plant in our city (in Siberia) for coal-based plant, but after evaluation of waste, it was decid
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by alexott 6y ago
Power++ was much easier to use - it was really hiding a lot of internal things, so you worked with handlers only, etc. no need to look into class declarations, etc. https://www.drdobbs.com/powersofts-power-20/184415592
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by alexott 6y ago
Treat notebooks like other code - separate onto staging and production, with defined promotions between them - it’s possible. You can run tests in CI/CD pipelines, etc. You can set permissions so nobody can update production notebooks
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by alexott 6y ago
I’m sorry for delay, will fix ASAP... My point is that you can do that even without jars/wheels - you can do VC and tests of notebooks. For example, https://github.com/alexott/databricks-nutter-projects-demo
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by alexott 6y ago
The last point isn’t so dramatic. There is version control for notebooks, and better version is coming (right now it’s in preview - code name - Projects, it’s in official docs). Tests are possible - either Nutter from Microsoft, or home gro
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by alexott 6y ago
~20 years ago, we developed the commercial software using the MzScheme - it was quite successful project in ex-USSR, I'm not involved into development since 2007, but Scheme was used until at least 2012-2013th, maybe it's still us
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by alexott 6y ago
And if you are on battery only, with Wi-Fi over tethering, try to find relevant issues to solve problems of your customer... Or trying to file new Jira on the same setup... It’s so painful
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by alexott 6y ago
First rule of traveling there is never travel on one car/bus. There are so many stories about that, including a dozens of people frozen when a bus broke in the middle of nowhere
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by alexott 6y ago
When I was doing trainings for customers, I always said that CQL’s syntax similarity to SQL made more harm than useful things because beginners are thinking that they can do SQL-like operations
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by alexott 6y ago
Even in 2019 it was late to use Thrift... And with C* 4.0 it should go away completely
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by alexott 6y ago
Noticed in the NoSQL section that they still call Cassandra as wide column DB. It’s not true for a long time - CQL requires schema definition, and although it’s possible to emulate old behavior, it’s not wide column anymore - people just co
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by alexott 6y ago
I simply separate user/machine specific things into separate files, and don’t commit them to public repository ( https://github.com/alexott/emacs-configs - it wasn’t updated for a long time, and it needs to be rewr
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by alexott 6y ago
libmagic is quite primitive and can't reliably handle the complex data types, like, MS Office documents with embedded objects (especially the versions before 2007), files with common container types (jar/war files are detected jus
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by alexott 6y ago
yes, right now memory is built-in into the motherboard... So you need to buy overpriced memory from Apple (and it makes me think about leaving Apple platform)
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by alexott 6y ago
I upgraded my MacBook in 2012 from 4 to 16gb for 110 euro... Just put new memory even before first booting
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by alexott 6y ago
I’m buying 2 black + 3 color cartridges for Brother for about 40 euro, sometime even less on sale
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by alexott 6y ago
btw, do you have the RSS or Atom feed for your blog? I want to include your Clojure posts into https://twitter.com/planetclojure - drop me email to alexott at gmail, or create a pull request to https://github.com

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