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Javascript is modeled on Scheme. Can you create DSL's in JS? (Legitimate question, I'm not familiar enough with JS to know for sure. Theoretically, it seems possible.)
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The work week in my organization is M-Su. I'm not particularly awake on Monday mornings, so I fill out and submit my time sheet for the previous week, which may include support hours over the weekend. Due to my brain core dumping over
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Really fantastic point. I'm not a heavy user of Python. But, when I need to quickly prototype something its simplicity - i.e. one good way to do something, although this is a little exaggerated - makes the development very quick. Given
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A key point comes from the linked post entitled, "Why don't software methodologies work?" People are the greatest factor in a software project's success, not tools or methodology. Good tools and methodology are part of s
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lvoudour didn't seem to be arguing against the research so much as agreeing with cjsuk that the lecture model of teaching is ineffective for some population regardless of note-taking medium. The research shows that, of people who learn
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I'm of the same opinion. I realized in college that I can write or think about the material being presented, but I can't do them simultaneously. So, I stopped taking notes and relied much more on memory and text books. I'm st
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Speaking of larger e-readers, does anyone have experience with the Remarkable product? At some point, I'm going to have to replace my 1st gen Nook and would love to have a device that I can write on as well. So, the Remarkable product
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The US market presents a bit of a challenge in that the country is so large with distinctly different cultures. Some parts may as well be called Puritanical while others are more to the Western European mindset. The parents around my area h
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F# was the only reason I wanted to dip into .NET. I really expected it to take the development world by storm because it was introduced when FP was getting a lot of attention.
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Actress Gal Gadot talked about serving in the Israeli military. I'm paraphrasing, but she said it taught her that there are bigger things in life than herself. It sounds like you had a similar experience as a volunteer firefighter.
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Your comment reminded me of an essay Paul Graham wrote. (See the link below.) He argues that modern society has taken kids, isolated them from participating in greater society, and made school a "job" to them. The consequence is t
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As my brother-in-law in Maine says, "There's no bad weather, just bad clothing."
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Watching the video in full, it was not clear that the two parties played together. They seemed to head that way until the guy with the permit arrived. Then it became a territorial standoff again. What would be truly interesting is how the D
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As a kid, the neighborhood basketball court had norms for use that developed over generations. If you wanted to play and a game was in progress, you’d call out, “Got next!” (If someone else on the sidelines had already called it, they’d let
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Documentation, the thing most agree is a good idea, but nobody wants to do. It's a nuanced subject. TOOLS Until recently, we used a combination of Documentum and EPM (Enterprise Project Manager). The intended workflow was to have all d
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Props for accepting feedback! A decent number of people's brains just don't assign meaning to images. I'm one of them. As an example, I've been using an iPhone for several years. I still routinely click on the Notes icon
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I'm 50, still on HN, and still an engineer (although I do a lot more ops and analysis nowadays). As far as stacks go, I use whatever suits the application I want to write. I use: - PL/SQL (mandated by my employer) for generating l
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That's exactly my evolution as an app dev as well. I understand some people write applications in which they have to wring every bit of inefficiency out of it, but the apps my employer wants don't require that kind of speed.
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This question leaves me with more questions. The post looks at a few alternatives without giving context. 1. How does the course fit the overall curriculum? 2. What is the experience and maturity of the people taking the course? 3. How stro
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Perhaps the goal is to purchase the homes, which are too low-valued for the homeowner to get a fair price, and turn them over to commercial development - i.e. bulldoze them - for new office space, for example. Then the tax base goes up when
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Even following the rules you still save time because you're at the top of the queue with the lead car every time. When I bike into work I never have to wait 3-4 turns of the light to proceed. Yes, I do follow the rules: lights, stop si
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"But when it comes to Phoenix, Aylward isn't focusing his blame on IBM. Like the procurement experts, he faults the scope of the initial contract for the resulting failure." Twenty-six years of developing software, I haven&#x
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Our Banner student information system is tied to Oracle. My applications all go against Banner data. Given the licensing cost for Oracle and our current round of cost-cutting, if Postgres was an option, we'd probably take it.
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The answer is almost never because the cost in time is too high for such a switch. It's the same question I posed 10 years ago. My view changed since coming to my current employer. I work for a moderate-sized university. The applicatio
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Amen to everything you and arnarbi wrote. However, I've come to dislike building business rules using the proprietary languages of the RDBMS vendors. In particular, I use Oracle and have been making a case with my employer to stop crea
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Paragraph 2 is worth more discussion. I work for a moderate-sized private university in an urban environment. Beyond the startup and labor (staffing, administration) costs of the amenities, they require real estate as well. While suburban&#
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Around my area in the Northeast of the US, Apple Pay is becoming ubiquitous. I just put my iPhone near the reader and use touch id. It takes seconds at most and I don't have to expose my wallet to would-be muggers.
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The team described may exhibit an extreme behavior. But, I think it's fair to say that women experience "death by a thousand cuts" in male-dominated fields, not just Tech. I also think that young men learn the lesson of disre
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Personal - Elixir/Phoenix for a web project (just an excuse to mess with these technologies) - Racket to explore an idea for a large rule-based application for higher ed - OCaml to try out its programming language design set - Swift to
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No intrinsic quality makes you a good programmer. If you enjoy it, you'll develop solutions to problems that computers can solve. As you develop more, you'll become better. Along the way, you'll develop a curiosity about solu

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