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by auvrw 12y ago
> it had completely slipped by me that as late as the early 80's programmers were just still using pen and paper. Somehow, I have tended to imagine the days were thats what it meant to be a programmer to have existed in the same con
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by auvrw 12y ago
wouldn't it make more sense to implement the clojurescript compiler in clojurescript so it can run on node? i get disliking having to fire up the jvm versus a light runtime like python or node if that's where you're coming fr
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by auvrw 12y ago
looking at the plot, i wonder what the heck is up with healthcare.gov... what on earth does the site do that really requires 5e8 loc?
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by auvrw 13y ago
upvoted based on the sentiment of the title (because what to do with things that suck? make them better.) and domain name alone. there are similar listings at http://suckless.org/sucks and http://suckless.org&#
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by auvrw 13y ago
> the thinking is that any behavior that can be implemented with ordinary functions should be this is what i was trying to say.
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by auvrw 13y ago
oh, yes, indeed, the ->> macro is slick. reminds me of the bind operator in haskell. i don't know why i haven't seen something like it in other lisps. but as you said, that's part of the language. anyway, should clar
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by auvrw 13y ago
i half disagree. even informal proofs are often very long, but while they may omit some steps omitted, i wouldn't say they're ambiguous. it's just that writing something for a human who can (and in fact will find it easier
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by auvrw 13y ago
i don't fear macros, but i am wary of them: when there are only a few macros, it seems as though replacing them with functions makes more sense, even if the syntax is slightly messier. when there are so many macros that you've e
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by auvrw 13y ago
perhaps the GTM series has some bad titles; i haven't read them all. but it has some good titles, and from the description original poster's background, it's probably as far as the person wants to stretch right now. sure, t
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by auvrw 13y ago
> "that yellow mathematics book" replace "that" with "those" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Texts_in_Mathematics ). the dover books are also a good series, and pretty much anyt
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by auvrw 13y ago
yeah, it's a difficult topic. probably shouldn't have put forward that "theory." should've just been like this guy ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/culture-hacking-singapore ) and said, &
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by auvrw 13y ago
from the title of the article, i thought this was going to be about the fact that there are a lot of tech jobs to distribute among a small number of people (male and female) compared to some other industries... ... immediately realizing tha
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by auvrw 13y ago
> Though it's not really clear to me why this actually results in an efficiency win over maxing out a single core. i heard the whole multiple core thing is spurred in part by manufacturers trying to increase fab yield: if one of th
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by auvrw 13y ago
i'd like to hear more about employers' perspectives on hiring for "an uncommon language without a comparatively sparse industrial track record." there was some debate about it in the clojure 1.6 release announcement. t
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by auvrw 13y ago
sorry, not well-phrased: i meant to say that, taken together, clojure's datatypes and protocols look somewhat similar to haskell's typeclasses, not that datatypes and protocols are similar.
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by auvrw 13y ago
but just in case someone considering clojure is worried about missing something like haskell's typeclasses (or whatever they're called in scala), it's worth mentioning that clojure does have some notions of "protocols&qu
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by auvrw 13y ago
i was going to say something in response to the article about dependencies from a positive standpoint for grunt, but i think it makes sense to put it here. rather than having a unix development environment for the browser platform, thanks t
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by auvrw 13y ago
thanks for the links. i hadn't read the paper. it seems like the design patterns book in that it's a good reference to, um, refer back to when looking at the latest "new" thing. going back to the parent comment, > I
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by auvrw 13y ago
> Does this architecture have an official name? the article is describing a "service oriented architecture," i think.
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by auvrw 13y ago
> 90% JS/HTML/CSS and 10% native code. this was going to be my comment on the original comment: it's not like you have to do only HTML5 or only native, or so i'm given to understand... i'd be interested to h
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by auvrw 13y ago
i don't find it "wrong." i just find it "wrong for me." the real (and very subjective) answer is that all the spreadsheet uis i'm familiar with are very clicky (as in you wind up using the mouse a lot). when
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by auvrw 13y ago
of course, when there are two or three items left, choosing between left and right is the same as choosing an arbitrary index. that's nomenclature. whether you follow the rote textbook definition and do that indexing up front or dela
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by auvrw 13y ago
i wish people would comment when they downvote. i made the final comment already knowing (and stating!) that it might rub someone the wrong way but hoping that it might provoke discussion. it's a reasoned and reasonably-informed comm
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by auvrw 13y ago
first of all, it's all nomenclature, and i don't want to make a whole thing out of this, but binary search requires that you can randomly go left or right every time you subdivide the (linear) ordering, not that you can randomly i
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by auvrw 13y ago
nice... i recoil at spreadsheets for similar tasks too but must confess that i usually find a text file with a couple special delimiters sufficient / am lazy enough to convince myself that such a text file is sufficient. both could
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by auvrw 13y ago
most of my side projects are for personal use with the goal of reducing the total amount of my life i spend sedentary at a screen. if time is money, then i guess that's something i hope to make money from, but... well, i guess there a
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by auvrw 13y ago
you omitted a pretty key clause with those ellipses. in its entirety, the quote from the article is clearly targeted at api churn and similar things thrashing everyone's personal caches, not practicing programming in general.
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by auvrw 13y ago
> What distinguishes American science, and why is this distinction important? this isn't one of the article's complaints, but one distinguishing characteristics of american science funding -- indeed, of the u.s. govt's e
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by auvrw 13y ago
> Then I hope they don't intend on supporting any 32-bit platform. this type of thinking is so negative... why would you ever make not supporting/doing something to be a project's goal? the servo devs might make speed of
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by auvrw 13y ago
or just view things as a spectrum rather than a two-state decision. even tibetan people who have to live in remote areas in order to farm can still get together with friends and race horses and so on every year. similarly, software develo

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