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by arohner 16y ago
We built our own .deb containing all our bits, that depends on external dependencies. The .deb recipe is checked into source. Our deploy process is 1) compile the .deb. 2) spawn a new, empty EC2 3) apt-get the .deb 4) lein
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by arohner 16y ago
Has anyone tried the game? It's almost completely unplayable. I get about ~1 FPS. (OSX 10.6, Chrome) EDIT: appears to work fine in FF
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by arohner 16y ago
To make the argument more clear: Kurzweil says "The genome can be compressed into X bytes, so that's an upper limit on the complexity needed to simulate the human brain." Meyers says: "No. The genome says 'make a protein with this shape'. W
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Clojure has that. Clojure is built on abstractions. Most operations in clojure source code convert to calls to java interfaces. For example, a simple function call (map foo bar) compiles to a call to .invoke() method on map, a java object t
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by arohner 16y ago
No. In most countries, an increase in productivity / GDP / quality of life is strongly correlated with a lowering in fertility rate: http://geocurrentevents.blogspot.com/2010/07/misconceptions-...
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Clojure has tools to make it easy to bypass private/protected : http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/java-utils-api....
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by arohner 16y ago
It is a problem. Things like MFA spam and Google's recent trend of being less useful as a Search Engine for Programmers (ignoring quotes, ignoring punctuation like ? and !) are enough to make me switch, if I find something better. This arti
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by arohner 16y ago
I started using F.lux a month or so ago to help with insomnia. It's helped a lot, thank you for writing it. I've been holding out on buying an iPad to read in bed, precisely because F.lux has helped me so much on OSX. Is there a flux equiva
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by arohner 16y ago
Good article, but I have to nitpick here: Any well-versed programming language person can tell you about both recursive-descent parsers and generated parsers. They’ll also tell that generated parsers are the “right” way to do that. Most of
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Some IPO Speculation(startuplessonslearned.com)
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by arohner 16y ago
Exactly. Linux is also useful enough to run the laptop Tannenbaum's presentation is running on while no version of Minix is. (He's running windows, but it could have been Linux) Minix drivers would still have to exist, and to be usable, the
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by arohner 16y ago
> It's hard to judge predictions from so long ago because they were used to influence policy. That policy then influenced what actually happened No. The author's point is that the model used to predict climate change was terribly broken
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by arohner 16y ago
I agree with your sentiment (I upvoted you), but I see noobs in #clojure ask about IDEs almost daily. You can pry my preferred text editor from my cold dead hands, but not all developers think that way.
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by arohner 16y ago
We're not even trying to build a non-js site for my startup.
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Does the FF extension click-to-flash mitigate this?
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by arohner 16y ago
At my last corporate job (in Austin), we interviewed an engineer currently at Apple. We asked him why he was moving. He answered "I can work at Apple for $120k/year, and pay $1m for a house, or I can work in Austin for $100k/year, and pay
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by arohner 16y ago
From the "What to write" article: This means you need to playtest the tutorial under all sorts of different circumstances, making sure that it always works (even on Windows) Just a little offhand comment. MSFT is totally screwed when this
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by arohner 16y ago
> If the government starts intentionally causing problems for them with the intent of forcing them to increase their lobbying budget, well... that's a scary future for my country. I think that's already the case. The article demonstrate
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"We will be updating the TOS to require you to check t.co and register the click." Damn. Looks like URL shorteners are here to stay, permanently, and twitter is crowding out all existing link shorteners.
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by arohner 16y ago
Things like http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10763042 make me not convinced the BP was just an accident that could have happened to any of the oil companies.
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by arohner 16y ago
What are the fixes for this kind of failure scenario? (Bad CEO, and bad board)? IMO, a previous employer was in this scenario. The CEO was not effective, and the board didn't replace him because of a combination of apathy and personal rel
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by arohner 16y ago
recur does two things: it checks that the call is in the tail position, and calls the JVM bytecode to GOTO the top of the function. The JVM has the bytecode to goto inside the current function, but doesn't have the instruction to jump to an
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by arohner 16y ago
My sibling poster is dead on that 'normals' don't care about URLs. Often, I don't either. In my app, I have a bunch of "real" web pages, and then a bunch of "accidental" URLs that only exist to handle ajax requests. These aren't real pages,
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by arohner 16y ago
Yeah, so did Larry Ellison. Iron Man 2 gave me a new motivation for making my startup successful. "I want my startup to be successful so I can be in the movies some day!"
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by arohner 16y ago
Yes, but the stakes are higher. A movie takes $10 and 2 hours of your time. (New) Games cost $60, and occupy a variable amount of time. Since I'm bootstrapping my startup i.e. poor, I only buy games with a high expected value. I typically l
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by arohner 16y ago
For context to "outsiders": Bagwell wrote the papers that the Clojure datastructures are based on.
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by arohner 16y ago
>Where are the articles showing the flaws in lisp? Easy. Worse is better: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by arohner 16y ago
(vist zombo.com, Inspect Element) Flash.
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by arohner 16y ago
We do this too. Another nice advantage is changes to the production machine state are all in source control. We deploy on EC2 + our own .deb. The entire .deb recipe is checked into source, right next to the rest of our source code. There's
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by arohner 16y ago
Anecdote: I've been regarded as a good programmer, and my sister is schizoaffective.

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