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by arohner 15y ago
The real issue is verifying that the person has a CA at all. You don't want to scan a list for a person's name on every merge. In JIRA, it's easier for the committer, because only contributors have the correct permissions to submit a patch
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by arohner 15y ago
The standard argument here is that the project requires all contributors to sign some form of document granting rights to the project. The project uses JIRA's permissions to whitelist people who have signed the doc. i.e. in Clojure's case,
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by arohner 15y ago
Ok. Assume for a second the author is right. Now what? Where would we go? I recently moved from Austin, TX, to SF. Austin is a better place to live and work, in terms of business friendliness and cost, but is a significantly worse place to
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by arohner 15y ago
I really wish they would have made the feds call that bluff. Dallas and Houston are the #8 and #23 airports in the world by traffic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_busiest_airports_by_pass...
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by arohner 15y ago
Yes, and the worst lunch options Sat & Sun.
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by arohner 15y ago
Exactly. The important part isn't that Clojure has implementations of concurrency primitives, but that it has language semantics for defining when/how state may change.
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by arohner 15y ago
The paper was about several things: 1) accidental complexity is the source of a large number of bugs 2) implicit, unnecessary, tightly-coupled state is the cause of a significant number of bugs. 3) mostly-functional programming reduces the
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by arohner 15y ago
Clojure. Clojure's lispy (simple implementation, syntax), FP (reduced state), easier concurrency, agents + stm are all influenced by this paper.
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by arohner 15y ago
Calling Clojure from Java is ugly, but calling Clojure from JRuby is quite pleasant, and I'm pretty sure a nice Clojure library could be written for calling JRuby from Clojure. Calling Clojure from Java is difficult because Java is inflexib
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by arohner 15y ago
You can do that, with gen-class: http://clojure.org/compilation The result is a completely "normal" non-dynamic java class. There's still a dependency on clojure.jar though.
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Clojure Conj Slides(github.com)
49 points by arohner 15y ago|10 comments
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by arohner 15y ago
Having supported python & rails webapps running on postgres, the biggest problem is not the OS, but the DB and programming language. Postgres for example, can't change timezones without rebooting. Python & Ruby/Rails both have poor
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by arohner 15y ago
Yes. The other thing Scheme got right is explicit variable scope (define x 42) ;; global (let ((x 42)) ;; local, only defined inside the enclosing parenthesis. (+ x x))
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by arohner 15y ago
The cheaper your weapon, the more effective the countermeasures have to be. These things could just as easily carry a grenade (or several), and a dead man's switch. When it can't fly anymore, self-destruct.
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by arohner 15y ago
A helicopter's rotors rotate in two ways that are different from airplanes. 1) the whole rotor can tilt in a specific direction, called Collective. If you want helicopter to move left, the entire rotor assembly tilts left, changing the angl
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by arohner 15y ago
I'm being serious, but also snarky: Don't do schema migrations. I saw a talk by Brett Durrett, VP Dev & Ops at IMVU last week. They don't make backwards incompatible schema changes. Ever. Also, on big tables, they don't use alter statem
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by arohner 15y ago
My edition is copyright 1993. In Chapter 21.3, they cite Capers Jones 1977 "Program Quality and Programmer Productivity". (Couldn't find a handy link online, appears to be http://www.amazon.com/Program-quality-programmer-productivit... ) T
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by arohner 15y ago
1) Because programming in a suit is uncomfortable. 2) Because companies that have dress codes tend to produce bad software. This correlation turned into "I am not dressed well, therefore I write good software." Sayth PG: "Dressing up is not
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by arohner 15y ago
Why? What are the costs, aside from an http server that hosts PDFs?
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by arohner 15y ago
What are the (non-spoiled) contents of my refrigerator?
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by arohner 15y ago
Google Maps for retail stores. (Standing in a store): "Is X in stock?" "on which isle is X located?"
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by arohner 15y ago
>There are licensing and board requirements, but conspiracy theories aside they are not designed to create artificial scarcity, they're supposed to keep dangerously ignorant doctors from practicing. Thanks for the comments in this threa
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by arohner 15y ago
Nathan Marz is a Clojurian, large chunks of Storm are written in Clojure. I think the examples are in Java just to not scare off potential users.
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by arohner 15y ago
> I just want to have a decent selection in Canada. As an American, don't worry, the selection isn't very good here either.
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by arohner 15y ago
Nope, I'm waiting for the page to refresh on its own. My username stays in the upper right corner the whole time. I "logged out" between viewing this comment and replying to it. It's also broken for me on OSX Safari. I don't understand how
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Tell PG: Logout is broken
13 points by arohner 15y ago|11 comments
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by arohner 15y ago
"the value of so-called "social search" is limited to nonexistent because most people in your circle won't review anything." I completely agree. The other huge problem with social search is I don't have 100% overlap with all of my friends.
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by arohner 15y ago
Thanks for posting this, it's been a while since I've read it. One of the best things he's written. IMO, this is the real solution to the slashdot / digg / reddit /HN problem.
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by arohner 15y ago
Out of curiosity, as a Madison ave ad exec, what do you get out of HN? Are you technical? Are you here for business or pleasure? What does the HN crowd need to learn about advertising?
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by arohner 15y ago
Sigh. Maybe I wasn't clear, but two clues in what I said, "straight SQL isn't a good interface for programmers", and "let's build a relational database" Every time I bring this up, someone misunderstands me. I'll explain it again: I want

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