arohner

57 ms·

541.
by arohner 17y ago
Speaking as student in kung fu of 10 years and a teacher for 5, I can say this does happen, and it does work. When sparring, I had several instructors find a weakness in me, and exploit that weakness until it went way. They never abused me,
542.
Brian's function brain (translated from Clojure to CL)(ryepup.unwashedmeme.com)
1 points by arohner 17y ago|0 comments
543.
by arohner 17y ago
Invoke dynamic is a nice start, but it too is geared towards Ruby/Python style dynamism. It does almost nothing for Clojure.
544.
by arohner 17y ago
While we're at it, we really need the blame command present in version control systems to show who added particular text to a bill.
545.
by arohner 17y ago
Linux (the kernel) has been aware of this result for a long time. Here's a thread from 2001, where Linus says "I would, for example, suspect that a "correct" optimization strategy for 99% of all real-world cases (not benchmarks) is: if it
546.
by arohner 17y ago
I love Reg's writing. It's consistently good and well thought out. But man do I cringe every time I see him do backflips to hack around the warts in Ruby. I don't understand why he spends so much effort trying to work around fundamental p
547.
by arohner 17y ago
Maybe it saves time on the reviewer's part, but increases developer frustration. Which is more valuable to Apple?
548.
by arohner 17y ago
The author is comparing Java to C#, not C.
549.
by arohner 17y ago
> Continue to use brown bottles for all homebrew! This is good advice if you're going to bottle your home brew. I much prefer kegging. Sanitizing + bottling 50-60 bottles is a huge pain. Now that I think of it, I don't think my local ho
550.
by arohner 17y ago
My startup is using Clojure, for a webapp that is heavy in AI/statistics. Yes, compojure is early, but for us it has been totally worthwhile. A lisp that has 1) a fast implementation 2) excellent support for parallelization and 3) well supp
551.
by arohner 17y ago
"Just lay down on that table, and hold still while we orient the polarization of all the water in your head. It'll be just fine." CTs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography ) and PETs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positr
552.
by arohner 17y ago
Good job on the presentation. I had a lot of fun reading the GEB-inspired description.
553.
by arohner 17y ago
Competing with Visa and Paypal, by using digital certificates, public keys, etc to cut down on fraud. In the right mood, sometimes I think my current project is crazy, but I'm sticking with it!
554.
by arohner 17y ago
>For all program aspects investigated, the performance variability due to different programmers (as described by the bad/good ratios) is on average about as large or even larger than the variability due to different languages. Yes, but
555.
by arohner 17y ago
PAIP is a good book, but personally, my mind was blown more by SICP and On Lisp. Both of those had more unique content and "lisp magic". When I can find the time, I want to read Purely Functional Datastructures. Clojure and PFD are the firs
556.
by arohner 17y ago
I'm using Clojure to solve real problems.
557.
by arohner 17y ago
> if you are a good cook, a sharp knife will be very useful. Others might only hurt themselves with it. Therefore inexperienced cooks should prepare food with butter knives?
558.
by arohner 17y ago
My hack: run bittorrent during work time. Every site gets a lot slower. For me, the increase in latency makes distractions less enjoyable, but full access is still there if I really need it. On a few occasions, I've found important work-rel
559.
by arohner 17y ago
The war file and swank shouldn't be mutually exclusive, I just haven't bothered with a .war because by default Compojure starts Jetty itself, and I didn't want to bother with compiling the .war and restarting the server to test changes. Onc
560.
by arohner 17y ago
"just leave a screen with slime and emacs running on your server" Another way to do it is just load the swank jar on your server (the server side of slime). In your server startup, include a call to (start-swank). Then you can connect via s
561.
by arohner 17y ago
Sure, good coverage helps, but with a good product and good execution, they'll get it from anyone. If the formula is good idea + hard work + good execution + coverage from TC, you can easily replace "coverage from TC" with "coverage from NY
562.
by arohner 17y ago
Maybe Microsoft's code doesn't cause crashes any more, but 3rd party drivers and shoddy OEM hardware are definitely still to blame. Users don't care why their stuff crashes, only that it does. And first hand, I see XP-era machines crash l
563.
by arohner 17y ago
Wow, one line out of the whole story mentions TechCrunch, and they run that as the headline. And it's slimy how TC implies that because Mint launched at TC50, it caused Mint to be acquired.
564.
by arohner 17y ago
Some of the other seed stage groups, esp YC, assume their program is just the first step on the way to more funding. Capital Factory doesn't seem to have this mindset, so they're aiming lower. I agree with the GP, I wasn't impressed by thei
565.
by arohner 17y ago
There's a huge problem with this though. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem : "There are n applicants for the position, and the value of n is known." That is categorically false when talking about marriage. How do you d
566.
by arohner 17y ago
There's one other benefit of Ubuntu that is worth pointing out: there's only one source of automatic updates . The auto updates on OSX and windows drive me nuts because every app has their own updater with their own UI and their own prefer
567.
by arohner 17y ago
Yeah, but it's a lot easier to be the "I know it when I see it" type with UI than software. I'm certainly not a graphic designer, but I like to think I know enough about UI to recognize a good one.
568.
by arohner 17y ago
> And if you're not the NY Times or Amazon I'm surprised you put those in the same sentence. I've always found the Amazon UI to be terrible . Very inconsistent and poorly laid out.
569.
by arohner 17y ago
A DVD holds its value a lot more value than say, a used mattress. For example, GameStop sells new xbox & PS3 games for $60, and used for $55. When the consumer buys the used game, the publisher doesn't see any money. Yes, they're still
570.
by arohner 17y ago
Warning: my last corporate job was very heavyweight on the bug tracking Things that are required at places I've worked: Configurable workflows. An admin should be able to specify the allowed states in a bug, and the allowed transitions betw

More ›