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by auvrw 13y ago
ditto. lisp will never die, but to see that a lisp is the fastest growing language on the list is heartwarming.
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by auvrw 13y ago
yeah, i'm aware that perl is used by biologists, but the question is more like, " should perl be used by biologists?" no question that c is not a great choice, but what about python? or, hell, javascript, even? for the ki
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by auvrw 13y ago
just b/c it's not a language feature doesn't mean that you can't make your own sort of thing. for instance, the play framework has a TODO result object that is indeed quite handy for stubbing out api endpoints and the l
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by auvrw 13y ago
yeah, that's pretty f'd up, but it's good that the guy's moving on with his life. i wonder how much time it'll take until we get to a star-trek-like economic system where people do the things they want to do to the
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by auvrw 13y ago
"The trains are not only running on time, they're running on metric time."
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by auvrw 13y ago
yes, china's growth is in large part a brute-force effect. because it encapsulates growth, the size of the economy, and our existing knowledge (i.e. korea and japan are waaay smaller than china), this (d3) graph http://www.
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by auvrw 13y ago
> In what freezing fucking hell is a dual-core, 1 GHz computer with gigabytes of RAM and tens of gigabytes of storage and 3D acceleration that can fit in my pocket memory-starved and CPU-starved? lol, sir, lol.
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by auvrw 13y ago
as much as i admire the guy, i don't think a quote from a theoretical physicist is the most relevant to the article. consider this portion from the Perlis quote in intro to SICP: "Above all, I hope we don't become missionari
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by auvrw 13y ago
yeah, making things complicated just for the sake of making things complicated sucks. that said, model forms are one of the most useful parts of django, and they use metaclasses, although for all i know, ModelForm could have been implement
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by auvrw 13y ago
of course, but as the article says, tesseract, which was developed at HP in the 80's and more recently adopted by google, is really the engine of choice. you might check out https://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two
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by auvrw 13y ago
> I wished people would use software based on merits, not on popularity. this. so much. but "social and signaling effects" and "mindshare war" instead. sigh . what /is/ true, though, is the quote from t
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by auvrw 13y ago
a really solid, perhaps unique, library that, as far as i can tell, completely addresses the "impedence mismatch" argument. if you're directly using a database api in a structured way, you've probably already reimplemen
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Jsonschema2pojo(github.com)
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by auvrw 13y ago
correct on both counts. that particular dorm is called fleming. to the best of my recollection, their neighbors, the darbs, who couldn't have cared less, continued apace doing math, negotiating (only) with terrorists, wondering wheth
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by auvrw 13y ago
i suspect the latter. i was unaware of the his early life story before watching this video. there is necessarily some kind of eccentricity embedded in that kind of experience. anyway, really inspiring video. it seems that upon hearing &q
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by auvrw 13y ago
one summer in college, i had a research-y project at a respected state school (which shall remain nameless except to say not a UC), wherein one of the program organizers publicly admitted to falsifying data. now this wasn't data that
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by auvrw 13y ago
oh, right. this is also really good advice. after learning how to write a yacc grammar, it's really easy to trick "non-technical" people into doing their own programming with with domain-specific languages. JBehave also lo
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by auvrw 13y ago
upvote, because while i don't know if it's ethical or not either, that's my situation, although i didn't recognize it as such when i first started. i've used the "variable workload," justification before (
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by auvrw 13y ago
> Even the suburban desert of Mountain View is better. haha, i think mountain view is actually quite a quaint little town compared to sun-beat santa clara, which really isn't so bad either. (aaah, i miss the weather, i do.) but hec
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by auvrw 13y ago
ever since watching sussman's talk http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T... i've been curious to see these details. really good post. the jibe about, "our competitors," at th
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by auvrw 13y ago
whoop, whoop! true fact: among the 100 best-selling books on earth (circa late 2011), there was only one book related to programming. unsurprisingly, the machine language was C. the human language? 中文. EDIT: 不少得, slangin it 从 the, uh, 那个,
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by auvrw 13y ago
yep. the guy funding the project has an android, so we're doing that first. edit: also, i think this is one of those questions where the answer really depends on the circumstances. the investor's preference is a pretty important
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by auvrw 13y ago
> The thing I most remember about having to program with Qt was having to convert all my standard C++ types back and forth to QStrings and QLists and QFiles in order to work with the library's APIs same think can happen with gtk or
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by auvrw 13y ago
concurrency --- albeit not at this scale --- is something that that you sometimes have to deal at a low level with when writing android apps. animating custom views, for example, often winds up involving direct use of Runnable s rather tha
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by auvrw 13y ago
niiice. perhaps make some edits at the emacs wiki so more people will know there's an alternative to mmm &/or nxhtml?
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by auvrw 13y ago
> The article is wasting our time. indeed. here's a better link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program > Fuck I hate math. this is the only other sentence of your post i had time for, and all i hav
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by auvrw 13y ago
it's a really good book, no doubt, but comparing it to sicp is a bit much. if you don't program in perl already, it might be more beneficial to just learn haskell, and writing some functional perl could be a first step toward t
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by auvrw 13y ago
yeah, i was doing the high-school thing at that time. and plenty of kids who -- with or without formal training -- are solid hackers. there are def more foreign businessmen than 老外 devs, and not without some cause: i'd definitely get m
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by auvrw 13y ago
or you can take university classes, a win for both the visa and language situations. the random foreigner who replies to a couple of job listings, has industry experience, and can crank out more than php or javascript spaghetti (because the
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by auvrw 13y ago
messagepack+redis looks /very/ useful. thanks for the comment!

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