babo

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   by babo 18y ago

   I version control system determines the workflow so it has direct impact of the internals of a company.
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   by babo 18y ago

   Is it legal/fair to use a google-group for pay-only content? Is it fair from you to ask in a public list from now on? All of us using a lot of information from public sources and use that bits to solve business/job related problems. Contrib
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   by babo 18y ago

   Clojure is clean and lean while Scala is heavy weight. I'm learning them side by side but enjoying Clojure way more, especially the pragmatism of feature decisions.
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   by babo 18y ago

   There is no silver bullet. It's a nice looking list but pretty useless, it says that you made an original mistake choosing Python, now grab a different technology and rewrite it.
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   by babo 18y ago

   I made that mistake well after college and I'm not alone. HR is a dirty business, it's good to know they practice.
6. 246.▲
   by babo 18y ago

   F1 even works.
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   by babo 18y ago

   :help Just to mention the same for Vim. :-)
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   by babo 18y ago

   Good article, I liked what he wrote about the GNU tools and package management. At my last try a few weeks ago I failed with OpneSolaris again because of they ancient GCC version to compile the necessary software elements, SUN's cc failed o
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   by babo 18y ago

   I should recommend either mercurial or git, but the learning curve of git is steep.
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    by babo 18y ago

    I'm sorry to say but it's starts to get messy when it's used by a team. Darcs suited me fine while worked alone with projects but as others joined we faces serious problems, including loss of data. I gave it up, switched to Mercurial and ne
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    by babo 18y ago

    You are right, it's a compile time argument checking for type equality.
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    by babo 18y ago

    He uses C# as a synonym for .net which is misleading. With F# it's way easier to get a proper .net REPL which is a great feature.
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    by babo 18y ago

    It's not a bug but a feature, that's the base concept of the UI.
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    by babo 18y ago

    To coda that part in a side effect way is a critical part of this approach. It's easy to implement in Haskell where these are handled with trust or you need to do the hard work.
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    by babo 18y ago

    Don Syme's presentation has some nice code comparison, showing FP advantage. I hope that the videos will be published like last years.
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    by babo 18y ago

    I'm sorry to say but for development a Linux machine is way more productive.
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    by babo 18y ago

    It's an amazing book, a rare example of well balanced content. Highly recommended.
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    by babo 18y ago

    Thanks for the softtabstop tip, that was a life saver as I'm forced to used spaces. For the regexps I'm used to search for tabs to distinguish lvalues but two spaces are the same for that patterns.
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    by babo 18y ago

    I prefer tabs way more than spaces. It's faster to indenting back and better for search regexps, quite an important point for me. With Vim it's easy to retab a text if needed anyway.
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    by babo 18y ago

    He even brushing teeth regularly, what's the news about that?
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    by babo 18y ago

    These package managers are a far cry from a decent Linux, dependencies are handled poorly, installing an innocent looking library sometimes takes hours. If you do a search you will find a lot of painful stories or long pages with tons of ma
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    by babo 18y ago

    Hmmm, you mean Haskell? Erlang is not designed for that kind of job, it's far from appropriate for that kind of work.
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    by babo 18y ago

    An eye opener, good read! On the same topic I highly recommend this google techtalk video, Advanced Python or Understanding Python: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549&...
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    by babo 18y ago

    Do you heard about Haskell or F#? They a related to Microsoft research without any marketing crap, I really appreciate that.
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    by babo 18y ago

    Probably looks strange, but it's a perfect match. To implement the core in Erlang is way easier while Python is better suited for the client code. There is no interoperatibilty from the user point of view, Erlang is just a service here.
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    by babo 18y ago

    There are some very interesting technical points in the presentation, it's a good thing to redesign some of the core elements of such an important application as a browser. It's sometimes easier to implement something new then rewrite legac
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    by babo 18y ago

    Hmmm... Am I blind or this link was not present at that time? Anyway, thanks for your help!
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    by babo 18y ago

    It's sad that they removed source code from they website, some time ago I've downloaded it to play with but it's gone now. So much for licensing.
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    by babo 18y ago

    The first 40 Fibonacci numbers are calculated on my laptop under 5 milliseconds using the Erlang code below, i.e. more then 2000 times faster then his measured 10.xxx second on an 8 core server. Erlang has an edge for sure, but you need to
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    by babo 18y ago

    It's quite a naive implementation, nice to blog about but from practical point of view it's just noise.