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by anonjon 17y ago
lisp flavored Erlang is pretty cute. http://github.com/rvirding/lfe If you like lisp, and you like Erlang, I think that it is the way to go. It compiles to .beam files and runs on the regular VM. I have yet to use it for anything 'serious
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by anonjon 17y ago
Works fine but doesn't work in the same way. On etherpad there is a lag and updates get chunked. With websockets you could do it by the keystroke with little to no overhead.
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by anonjon 17y ago
You've also got to wonder about the extra overhead of running deflate on everything that you send with the XHR version of the code, and why there couldn't be some sort of compression applied to the packets sent through WebSocket if it is a
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by anonjon 17y ago
Reduce /IS/ a loop: (from clojure.core) ([f val coll] (let [s (seq coll)] (if s (if (chunked-seq? s) (recur f (.reduce (chunk-first s) f val) (chunk-next s)) (r
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by anonjon 17y ago
Well I'm sure a lot of clubs open and fail. But one has to assume that if you are opening a club, you have already been successful somewhere else. There is a much greater portrayal of starving musicians than there are starving club owners.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I am shaking my head in dismay. Reduce is a loop. Rewriting all of your loop code as reduce won't get you any performance gains. If anything you will lose performance over looping because you are now passing stuff to a function and it is g
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by anonjon 17y ago
"No, you are not a designer. You are someone that can piece together some stuff in Photoshop or add the right pieces of code in XHTML/CSS. You aren’t the person that creates experiences. You aren’t the translator of ideas that people never
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by anonjon 17y ago
Why can't this just link to the original article? Which is an ok article, and might be better summed up that when you are dealing with an unknown quantity, you should treat them as an unknown quantity and /not/ trust them to do their job pr
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by anonjon 17y ago
This is a bad analogy because if you are the club owner you already own a freaking club . Of course I'd want to be the club owner, making big bucks as a guitar player is a crap-shoot. You'll most likely fail as a musician and end up a comp
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by anonjon 17y ago
I posted this because I was reading a quote of Paul Grahm, essentially saying that HLL's require less skill to implement your ideas in. I was reminded of all of the research and work I did trying to learn to write lisp code that runs reason
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Henry Baker's archive of research papers(home.pipeline.com)
14 points by anonjon 17y ago|3 comments
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by anonjon 17y ago
Clojure has scriptjure: http://github.com/arohner/scriptjure which compiles s-expressions to javascript.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think you are on to something. No one in the nuclear industry thinks Yucca Mountain is anything but an idiotic boondoggle.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I read an article that explained SL pretty well. There were essentially 3 things that drove the second life economy: Gambing, shoes, and porn. I think right when Second Life started to decline, they also had a massive crackdown on gambling
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by anonjon 17y ago
You could just pick a different delimiter for strings within the interpolated string, and do a string-replace-all with \" before parsing. (although then you have to find delimiters that aren't used in the language normally, possibly the | o
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An introduction to building Web Services (2005, pdf)(home.ccil.org)
1 points by anonjon 17y ago|0 comments
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by anonjon 17y ago
1) Lisp isn't exactly a complicated pattern to match (syntax is much more simple/readable than say, Java/Ruby). If you do a lot of macros there are difficult things involved, but then again, macros are an entire level of power greater than
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by anonjon 17y ago
Did you read past the first paragraph? The linear interpolation applied is so that the tree-ring data better matches the actual temperatures that were collected. The actual temperature measurements still indicate exactly what they indicated
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by anonjon 17y ago
That sounds more like being on a bad opium trip to me than programing (not that I've ever been on an opium trip...). I mean, sure I agree, in certain aspects of the job there is a level of concentration and 'state' that you have to maintain
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by anonjon 17y ago
Erlang doesn't make any assumptions about what it is. To Erlang, it is a list of 32 bit integers. There is no difference between a list of integers and a list of characters. The shell will transform this list of 32 bit integers with ASCII e
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by anonjon 17y ago
With regard to Erlang, are you sure? Joe Armstrong seems to think its fine for string manipulation... http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?4:mss:47293:200911:d... (You can either think that he is biased or that he would be an expert on
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by anonjon 17y ago
What exactly is the driving force behind the desire to do everything in Javascript? Is it just because we have a surplus of Javascript programmers? It doesn't seem to me that this task is particularly well suited to Javascript. (I think) So
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by anonjon 17y ago
I read trashy fantasy novels and poetry. To me, the ability to sit down and finish a project is inversely proportional to the amount of urgency that I attribute to its completion. I recognize tension that I feel when trying to finish a proj
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by anonjon 17y ago
I touch type about 100-120 wpm (with lots of caffeine and a tail wind a bit more...), but when i am trying to write code I spend as little time typing as possible. I'll sit there and think about it or write the code down on paper or draw a
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by anonjon 17y ago
"depression" is serious. I would down vote you if I could.
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by anonjon 17y ago
Don't you normally have one person who writes the article and (at least) another person who does the layout and photography for the article in a normal magazine? I'm not saying that this is not a great idea for a new content type, but it se
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by anonjon 17y ago
I always assumed that this was because my brain is part of my body, and doing stuff that is good for my body would be the same stuff that is good for my brain. For some reason we draw this weird metaphysical distinction between the brain an
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by anonjon 17y ago
It needs an index on one side to the pertinent parts of the website, and an index on the other side with links to the different foundations/places to donate. My initial reaction was disorientation because of the lack of navigation and the h
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by anonjon 17y ago
If it is programming is it still a computer or is it a programmer? Computer with a human-like brain seems to be a bit of an oxymoron in that respect.
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by anonjon 17y ago
Hi, my technique to focus on learning a language is: 1.) Think of an interesting program that I would like to write. 2.) Write the program. As I write your program, I grep the documentation for stuff that I don't know. When I can't figure i

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