axelrosen

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by axelrosen 7y ago
Interesting how most of the issues cased by dyslexia he describes have a strong social component. Seems like having people be more aware and tolerant of its symptoms would help a lot.
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by axelrosen 8y ago
I'll just add two more systemctl aliases I got alias scs='systemctl status' alias jc='journalctl --unit'
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Yes, you could call both of them subsets. But one is so small that for most purposes is incompatible for anything but the simplest uses. While the other lets you run an almost identical codebase on two platforms. There are plenty of people
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Well, Clojure doesn't have programmable reader macros either way. As long as you're not dead set on specific characters you could do: (defun extract-from-objc (obj) (objc-typecase obj (%@NSDate [[[[%@NSISO860
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Yea, it looks like js-cl is more like it. You'd want to implement some reasonable subset of CL. And ClojureScript really didn't have to compromise on much, which is why it's been embraced so easily. Most of the time you just
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Never heard of js-cl, but Parenscript definitely isn't. It's a glorified s-exp notation for javascript. ClojureScript doesn't compile to plain js. It maintains a lot of it's characteristics at run-time. And this is possi
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by axelrosen 8y ago
As a Lisp dialect it isn't that innovative besides a few syntactic improvements [0]. I'd gladly use Common Lisp instead if it could do something like ClojureScript. But by design it'd be hard to pull off. Like a good politici
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Chrome, Gmail, Phone and Telegram in my bottom drawer. That's it.
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Both points are very important. One tells you that there's a systemic issue, while the other reminds you that you can adapt and be better off at the end of the day. I find the discussion around sugar very similar, where some stress how
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by axelrosen 8y ago
I'm still bullish on Snapchat, but it needs to keep adding new features. It's the only social network that gets ephemerality. I don't really see a reason to delete Facebook over the privacy drama, I fail to see how it has muc
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Might be wrong as I haven't followed this too much. But, my impression was that he mostly played a clueless person caught in a grotesque situation. Doubling down would mean going after his accusers directly. He's in a tough spot g
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Generally going to face a similar fate as Americans. With exception of a few sanctioned countries everyone can participate economically and legally in the US subject to the same laws.
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by axelrosen 8y ago
IB is the easiest American one to get for Europeans. It's been around for a while and plenty of respectable finance people have been using it (for personal trading). If you travel to the US most major ones should open an account for yo
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by axelrosen 8y ago
As someone who's pretty idle, the worst (and only bad) part is everybody telling you how something must be wrong. Like people can get outright hostile and say pretty mean things. Everybody's completely fine with you not doing much
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by axelrosen 8y ago
It's just my impression, but for the new generation of developers "born" into a js-first world it's pretty much the primary choice. And again I don't have numbers but it does seem like the new generation is MUUCH la
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Blockchains are really unimpressive technologically. I think this is why so many in tech are pretty negative towards them. It's a crappy database, it's an inefficient payment system and so on... However the few interesting propert
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Used to be really into language learning, this topic comes up a lot there. I'm of the opinion that while the intrinsic ability to learn does drop in some ways [0], a larger part of the difference is simply the fact that we don't p
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by axelrosen 8y ago
I think to some degree you have to accept the disposable nature of consulting. If you want to be responsible for satisfaction years down the road, you could do a product-consulting hybrid, where you do quite a lot of customer-specific dev u
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by axelrosen 8y ago
Emacs has a great rx macro that does something like that and is widely used in elisp projects. https://github.com/typester/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs-lis... Though then again the nice (best?) thin
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by axelrosen 8y ago
I tried many times, I thought my odds were better being a technical founder, yet it didn't ever quite work out. It's not just about the abilities or whatnot. The relationship between you and a contractor is just so different than