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by ataggart 15y ago
This is precisely what I pictured for clojure when reading fogus' post on scala. Coming from a java background with no lisp experience I did not find clojure syntax "difficult". Any difficulty was, as Alex noted, in not doing things
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by ataggart 15y ago
Well, that's a novel way of harvesting associated email address, names, and phone numbers.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Interesting visual side-effect: watch the spiraling to completion, then flip back to HN and watch the text swirl.
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by ataggart 15y ago
If "another provider" is not marginally more beneficial, why would you switch? Or put another way, how would "another provider" compete for market share if it is not marginally more beneficial? Granted, the competitive process is, sadly,
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by ataggart 15y ago
Sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze.
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by ataggart 15y ago
A Forced interaction generally requires one be deprived of not interacting. E.g., when a mugger says "your money or your life" you are being deprived of saying "no thanks" and walking away (getting shot counts as an interaction).
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by ataggart 15y ago
You're doing an admirable job of channelling F.A. Hayek. I am reminded of one of his pithier lines: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
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by ataggart 15y ago
It's not clear to me why, if someone has a vastly incorrect notion about the actual state of the world, we should put much stock in their opinion of how the world ought to be. The best you could hope for is to infer some directionality.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Or the one provided by the spec: Cache-Control: no-store
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by ataggart 15y ago
>Ideas are cheap. As a reasonably competent programmer with no good ideas for a startup, I look forward to your forthcoming list.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Part of the problem stems from the calling semantics of the language, namely when the operation hangs off of an object. Broadly speaking, functional languages avoid that manifestation. The other part of the problem stems from handling nils
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by ataggart 15y ago
Rich's talk at the JVM language summit, "Are We There Yet?", gives a really good look into some of the ideas that underlie clojure. It's worth viewing even if one never uses clojure. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Ric
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by ataggart 15y ago
In the a whirlwind of broken analogies and broken precedent, one question seems to be largely missing: what grants the federal government the power to compel someone to assist in their own prosecution? The 4th Amendment, via the warrant pro
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by ataggart 15y ago
As a reasonably competent programmer with no good ideas for a start-up, these sorts of articles piss me off.
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by ataggart 15y ago
As just a trivial example, compare the following: order.getLineItem(2).getQuantity(); (get-in order [:lineitems 2 :quantity] 1) The first is simple enough, but it's essentially a DSL. No code that doesn't know about that
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by ataggart 15y ago
You can also avoid the duplicated key/sym names: (fn [stats request] (let [{:keys [statuses total]} stats {:keys [state status]} @request] ...))
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by ataggart 15y ago
If you know it's a fake, then why does it matter what the label says?
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by ataggart 15y ago
As one of the (apparently rare) programmers-sans-ideas, I look forward to such a post.
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by ataggart 15y ago
>Rephrased, if I define classes Foo and Bar, and I write generic method foobar (accepts as params instances of Foo and Bar), where do I put foobar? This sounds similar to the expression problem. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Cloju
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by ataggart 15y ago
It's not clear to me what problem taxpayer-subsidized broadband is intended to solve.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Alleged drug dealers will get due process for drug charges. That is not quite the case for the seized assets since "proceedings are brought against the property itself, not the owner. Hence they often have odd case titles, such as U.S. v.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Those who purchased a kindle have gained based on the only meaningful metric: they valued the benefits of an exchange over its costs. Freedom was not "lost".
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by ataggart 15y ago
There are a few fundamental differences the author doesn't take into account: 1. There is nothing stopping you from lending out your kindle . 2. The notion of "lending" doesn't really apply to electronic books. Absent copy protection, you
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by ataggart 15y ago
I'm looking forward to buying some put options.
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by ataggart 15y ago
One need not exclusively describe every sublist as a separate resource. Sorting and filtering can correctly be implemented as query params on the full list resource. Perhaps the shunning of query params (rightfully so when used as verbs)
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by ataggart 15y ago
One approach I've seen regarding auth is to use a faux-resource: Login: PUT https://example.com/credentials {"username":"foo", "password":"bar"} Check if user is logged in: HEAD http://example.com/credentials Cookie:
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by ataggart 15y ago
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) disagrees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BH43LVm_m0
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by ataggart 15y ago
>The one thing new legislation should do is... This puzzles me. You correctly note how absolutely abysmal the political arena is for crafting well-defined rules regarding technical issues, and yet you immediately start agitating for mo
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by ataggart 15y ago
>PayPal has a shocking record of abusing it's customers, and it can only do so because it isn't bound by the same laws as banks are. Some might argue that they can only continue to do so due to a lack of competition, competition which
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by ataggart 15y ago
Which, if true, only further demonstrates the nonsense that is modern accounting practice.

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