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by beders 4y ago
Lisp has ruined me forever. I'm not sure how I can go back to other languages. I basically started out with Allegro Common Lisp on Sparc's, went to Java because it was the shiny new thing, and then in 2017 finally took the plunge
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by beders 4y ago
Can't wait to try this. Congratulations on the release! A great showcase for the flexibility of Lisp. Others invent whole programming languages around a paradigm, while Lisp just marches on with s-expressions. Well done!
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by beders 4y ago
Culture eats processes for lunch. It is incredibly frustrating to join a new team, point out the very obvious misalignment between agile and what they are doing... and then become assimilated and just march on becoming part of that same cul
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by beders 4y ago
There has always been a limit. Especially with replies. I recall the XBox support team having to juggle 8 or more different handles to get around that limitation.
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by beders 4y ago
Typically people who are being laid off already know and have been locked out of enterprise systems to minimize risk. So the answer to "when" people are impacted usually is: before this call/email.
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by beders 4y ago
I'm not convinced this will solve anything. According to this: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/18/the-nuclear-fallacy-why... building intentionally small is not a good idea if you need to convert heat
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by beders 4y ago
> However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eligible organizations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin. What
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by beders 4y ago
It certainly helped me formulate problems as data transformation problems which are solved very neatly with functional programming. It is much more enjoyable working with immutable data structures which tends to remove long distance depende
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by beders 4y ago
No one likes to maintain diagrams. We should turn this around somehow: the code should "be" architecture diagrams. i.e. existing code should be analyzed to deduct the desired architecture diagram. It's not like the dependenci
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by beders 4y ago
Aaaand here we are, still bound to the atrocity that is the DOM. With still limited interactivity and terrible work-arounds (canvas). And still with a data silo problem - (but not quite as bad as the data silos created by 'apps' o
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by beders 4y ago
I can't find any reliable information on how they would perform going down a hill. Take San Fran: If you'd be on roller skates going down - say - Oak St: you'd have to continuously break. Surprised Wired hasn't tested so
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by beders 4y ago
No it doesn't, but that is essentially what a coding AI would have to do for correctness. Unless we are not talking about correctness. And we are not talking about trivial cases either.
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by beders 4y ago
The author seems to forget that while an AI can create text that looks like code, it can never prove the code is working correctly (see halting problem). As with many things, AI will excel at the simple tasks that just require pattern match
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by beders 4y ago
Maybe it is you :) But I understand where you are coming from. Understanding an existing clojure code base is exploratory in nature. You'll REPL into it and run the functions you have difficulties with. This is a very different activi
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by beders 4y ago
This approach is not simple. It complects a business process state with multi-methods. Don't do it. Model state where it belongs: in a database.
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by beders 4y ago
Keep falling for the narrative of the nuclear power industry. Denying the basic problems with recycling, TRANSPORTATION and storage is not helping.
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by beders 4y ago
It's cheatcode with a 1% catastrophic failure rate we rightfully are not using. The article is neglecting a few critical details, to say the least.
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by beders 4y ago
I must be getting old. Neither the prospect of spending time in the "metaverse" for "social interactions" nor a language design that requires you to keep in your head not just simple bindings to names but sequences of va
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by beders 4y ago
Lomborg is not taken seriously by other climate scientists. For good reason. Here's just a few counter-arguments: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-closer-examin...
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by beders 4y ago
I've built a plugin-system back in 2003 or so based on the JVM which can load/re-load bytecode relatively easily. (the concept became popular in the JVM world and lead to abominations like OSGi) The problems that arose quickly wer
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by beders 4y ago
I really don't get the outrage. I assumed that by stepping into Apple's walled garden, they would know and store: - where my devices are - what I'm doing with them (i.e. apps downloaded and started, which features I use yadda
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by beders 4y ago
Happy to be tracked. Whatever that means. This is a for-profit organization, so I expect it to behave that way. Which includes maximizing profits made by showing ads to end-users. I really don't care. The benefits I derive from being i
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by beders 4y ago
We use LogRocket to record all interactions with our front-ends and it's awesome for trouble shooting and also invaluable for our product managers. They can see where users are struggling with the app and where extra-guidance is necess
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by beders 4y ago
Not on phones. You have 0 guarantee that the open source code is actually the code that runs on your device. And you have 0 guarantee that the device itself is not compromised. And you have 0 guarantee that the OS is not storing your data.
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by beders 4y ago
My family and a few friends are on Facebook and I don't see a reason why I should ask them to switch to ... what exactly? They found old friends on the platform and they keep sharing pictures and stories and seem to be having fun. That
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by beders 4y ago
I like that aspect because it gives you a hint that your call tree is not how it should be. Lifting out side-effects and passing the data back in is one approach, but not the only one. Turning a deep call tree into a flat pipeline is a pop
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by beders 4y ago
Apple maps finally good? ;) To be fair, it has become much better and AFAIK it uses TomTom data. This announcement is a master class of marketing blurp with nuggets like "accelerated innovation" and low on actual content. Seems li
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by beders 4y ago
Is the human brain a Turing machine? Do we know?
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by beders 4y ago
How much money have you lost from your private bank account...?
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by beders 4y ago
and you can learn a few basic moves and go from there: barf forward/backward is already a great improvement.

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