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by babarock 13y ago
I'm a bit confused. I always thought that FP and OO were orthogonal concepts and never considered them mutually exclusive. To me, the antitheses of FP would be imperative programming. Maybe I'm missing something? CLOS, OCaml, Scal
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by babarock 13y ago
Technically, in Python nothing prevents you from writing something like: foo = lambda x: x*2 If only that lambda statements are limited (by design?) to only a single return expression. As far as Hy goes, lambdas won't have th
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First steps with Hy, the Pythonic Lisp(tech-thoughts-blog.com)
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by babarock 13y ago
FWIW, I've only tested emacs support. It's definitely sub-par. Barely indentation and syntax highlighting, we're still in need of a real typescript-mode for emacs. I appreciate the effort, (I can't say the same for other
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by babarock 13y ago
I'm "relatively" new to the web. I started using it around 2004. To me, the only way to browse the web goes through Google. I don't think there's a single day I spent in front of the computer without me hitting Goog
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by babarock 13y ago
His lack of education is relevant because when you have at least some understanding of the depth of complex systems, it becomes very hard to imagine that a self-taught person has enough knowledge to speak competently about multiple s
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by babarock 13y ago
Yes, a thousand times yes. Whether it's a choice or not should be irrelevant. However, used as it is in the modern political context of "gay harassment issues", I believe we're actually doing a great disservice to the ga
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by babarock 13y ago
About the whole "machines can think" debate, I love this quote by EWD: "Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant
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by babarock 13y ago
So unfair. Even a "well balanced person" can commit a cri me. Actually, human beings are notoriously bad at avoiding future harm. We're wired to survive immediate dangers, but it takes a lot of mental effort to realize long term dangers. H
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by babarock 13y ago
It's also worth noting that Ceph can also be integrated in OpenStack as an object store. The RADOS Gateway present both Swift and S3 APIs.
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OpenStack is packaged for Debian. You just won't find them in the official repos. This guide may help: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/cont... devstack will work on Debian as well, although it is not officially sup
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by babarock 13y ago
"Welcome to how it feels to be a woman, or a person of color, or gay, or any other person who his regularly discriminated against by society and a culture that elevates the white male simply for being white and male." I'm not white. At all.
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by babarock 13y ago
Aren't you curious why the majority of programmers have dark hair or brown eyes? Sometimes it doesn't matter. I do not necessarily agree with my grandparent comment, but are you advocating going out of your ways to find a problem out of sta
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by babarock 13y ago
I've been using #! exclusively on my home laptops for over 2 years now. Here's what I like about it: - It's a minimal Debian. I have a good idea of the installed packages on my system. Very few surprises. - Openbox is great. I cannot ever i
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by babarock 13y ago
I can't help but shake my head in disagreement when I hear things like "we need a red LED or a shutter sound on this camera". It's not that I encourage people to be sneaky about spying with their pictures. It's that it will be inevitable .
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by babarock 13y ago
That's about 2% of the total amount of desktops. I don't know the exact numbers, but I assume that it amounts to several dozens of million sales. Are we getting so disillusioned that we consider to be "such a small potential userbase"?
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by babarock 13y ago
Linux and BSD are not nearly the same thing. And I'm not even being overly pedantic here. They have 2 things in common: * They try (and arguably succeed at) cloning Unix. * The adopt a permissive license for sharing and copying. Beyond this
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by babarock 13y ago
To me, the most important thing is that he's closing the "040" indicator used by the banks to index the entrepreneurs who previously failed. It's virtually impossible to get help from a bank if your previous startup has failed. There's a bi
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by babarock 13y ago
Yes, thank you for mentioning Plan9, it's a wonderful example of the limits on current OS research. The arguments you give are spot on, I would only add the need for backwards compatibility, or at least the possibility of maintaining the hu
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by babarock 13y ago
It seems to me that this letter seems to care about everyone ("ad-supported small businesses", "advertisers", "website owners", "Ad networks", "small publishers") except for the one who matters the most: The User. I'm not going to say what
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by babarock 13y ago
You make very good points. It's obviously very difficult to quantify the differences between programming languages. And yes, I agree, it leads to imprecision which in turn leads to biased results. I still think it shouldn't stop us from doi
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by babarock 13y ago
The core of the argument has nothing to do with popularity. You're right about everything you say (if only you glossed over notable exceptions like Java or C++), but we're discussing "power", not popularity. Unfortunately, power has a very
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by babarock 14y ago
Personal pet peeve: It's 2013, and we're still calling these cyber criminals "hackers". This story is shared on ... HACKER News. Are we all criminals aficionados here?
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by babarock 14y ago
You're not wrong, but what you're stating is completely misleading. The problem has nothing to do with the fact that material may be classified or not. It has nothing to do with the fact that authorities are demanding to take down the mater
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by babarock 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not an "agile guru". I've worked for years in an old-school corporate environment and just recently switched job and joined a small agile team. My views on agile don't come from reading or theory, they come from my one month
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by babarock 14y ago
Regardless of how you feel about the man, it's very difficult to predict when he's willing to compromise. LGPL is another common example of unexpected (at least for me) compromise.
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by babarock 14y ago
Not exactly, it doesn't have the same goal at all. From the first line of the script: "stack.sh is an opinionated OpenStack developer installation". It doesn't provide nearly the flexibility of Puppet (or Chef). Devstack does one thing, and
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by babarock 14y ago
Slightly relevant: If you're interested in discovering OpenStack, you should check out devstack[1]. It's a bash script that (git) pulls different projects of openstack into a machine and install them. The script itself is very readable, tho
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by babarock 14y ago
Thanks! You say "Schema migration with Django has had a long and complex history". Can you explain, even briefly, why migrations haven't been a part of Django's core so far? I was under the impression that it was a deliberate design choice.
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by babarock 14y ago
I'm going to go on a small tangent here and warn strongly against parsing the output of `ls` (cf. the examples given in the README). Parsing `ls` is inherently fragile[1] and it will break at some point. Please don't do it. [1]: http://m

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