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by brehaut 16y ago
I think that is exactly his point; if those features (the interestingly academic or algorithmic but very tricky) are the ones that are most likely to make the workflow lumpy or weird. My interpretation (based on the actual text, not the abb
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by brehaut 16y ago
To summarize your posts in this thread, if you have a representation (R) and you discover a new representation (R') where R' is provably better than R. R' however has a cost associated with converting to it, lets call it the impedance. My r
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by brehaut 16y ago
I think using defn as an example here is a poor choice for this argument. defn is not an abbreviation of `define` or 'defun', instead it is a fusion of `def` and `fn`. fn is clojure's anonymous function form and def binds a var to a value.
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by brehaut 16y ago
That holds water only at the most sugary syntactic level. At the most simplistic semantic level a binary addition operator is a simple mapping of what the machine wants to do (take 2 registers and put their sum in an accumulator register).
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by brehaut 16y ago
Please justify your claim: In what way is Lisp (in contrast to Python) better suited for computers than for humans?
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by brehaut 16y ago
I've not looked into that at all. Thanks for the pointer
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by brehaut 16y ago
That requires date information to be in the keys of all the views. Some of my views are not chronologically keyed, but i would still like them to have items that i intend to have be published in the future not accessible. I would like to av
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by brehaut 16y ago
clojure package management is built on top of maven typically. There are two main approaches here: 1. Use Maven as Maven with https://github.com/talios/clojure-maven-plugin - My impression is that this option is often more popular with pe
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by brehaut 16y ago
Pity too, it looks like a great site.
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by brehaut 16y ago
Everybody makes bad choices in life, the important thing is to learn from them.
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by brehaut 16y ago
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=... You may also want to check out http://shapeshed.com/journal/testing_with_ie6_ie7_and_ie8_on... if you wish to use virtualbox rather than paying for virtual PC
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by brehaut 16y ago
If you go by these links, Java programmers (87k) equally well off as Cobol programmers (87k) and both are better off than Ruby programmers (84k). If you really want the dollars, ocaml is apparently where its at (149k) http://www.indeed.co
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by brehaut 16y ago
Aside from just the port itself is the following quote from the project's readme: "BankSimple's stack is also multi-lingual, using Scala, Clojure, and JRuby. It's important for our development efforts to have a plays-well-with-others projec
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by brehaut 16y ago
I would agree. Also, the LINQ interface is the monadic interface with Bind / >>= renamed to SelectMany and return renamed to ToIdentity. You can use these directly or with syntax sugar, so i would suggest that they have already turn
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by brehaut 16y ago
I think this line of reasoning is why the C# team avoided the M word and introduced Linq for a range of things (sequence comprehensions, reactive programming etc) and is introducing the async syntax for more stuff in 5, even though they cou
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by brehaut 16y ago
First up, i'm using CouchDB, so my data is pretty fluid. Everything is organized as a set of 'fragments' which have a variety shapes; its duck-typed data basically. I havent looked at clojure's SQL stuff at all so i cant answer there. Worki
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by brehaut 16y ago
Nah, id need mongo or dev null for that. i havent got to those yet
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by brehaut 16y ago
I recently rebuilt my site[1] in Clojure. Ring at the bottom layer (basically a given). Beyond that I'm using Moustache[2] for routing, Enlive[3] for templating and Clutch[3] to talk to CouchDB. I had previously tried with Compojure and Hic
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by brehaut 16y ago
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/logo/
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by brehaut 16y ago
Is that the theme designers fault, or the person deploying their theme?
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Unifycle - a syntactic unification API for Clojure(fogus.me)
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by brehaut 16y ago
also relevant is http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/ which plots quakes over time based on GNS data
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by brehaut 16y ago
What roleplaying game should we play? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb_R1q8PEnM
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by brehaut 16y ago
It's a meme, where you make your two parties talk across each other as bears on the Paws theme for xtranormal. xtranormal lets you make a movie by typing the dialog. Others include iPhone vs Android, MongoDB is Web Scale, orthopedic vs anes
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by brehaut 16y ago
It could be that much of the discussion regarding 1.2 has happened on the RCs that have come out of the last month or so?
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by brehaut 16y ago
Seeing how im advocating that everyone should know when to be using parsing tools rather than cobbling together a regexp cludge, here are some links to some relevant tools in a variety of languages. Note that these are not parser generator
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by brehaut 16y ago
Agreed, the impedance of parsers has traditionally been much higher than for regexps. However, a lot of languages now have some sort of parse combinator library which dramatically increases the ease of writing a parser. I'm thinking specifi
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by brehaut 16y ago
I prefer fishbowl's law Every regexp that you apply to a particular block of text reduces the applicability of regular expressions by an order of magnitude. - http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/08/18/beware_regular_expre... The
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by brehaut 16y ago
But the one battery that is included in JS makes it unavoidable, and most programmers (the kind that don't read HN or proggit) are the kind to not want to learn another language. If you have the choice between using the quirky thing you kno
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by brehaut 16y ago
Smarter people than me have commented on this before: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/Fallacies.html

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