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by brehaut 16y ago
> * a small web app with Compojure perhaps s/Compojure/Ring/ - looking at how the request response cycle works in ring and how you can write raw handlers, or dispatch via compojure or moustache or aleph etc.
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Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand(nzcs.org.nz)
229 points by brehaut 16y ago|28 comments
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by brehaut 16y ago
Based on the content of the article, the code written in the F# examples is a very close mapping to what you would write in JS yourself, but you get the advantage of the F# typechecker.
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by brehaut 16y ago
Anecdotal case: I'm writing a simple vector drawing program for tabletop RPG mapping inspired by Ben Robbin's series of posts about his 'West Marches' campaign which included a game artifact called the 'table map' the conceit being that the
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by brehaut 16y ago
Regarding interaction with designers, I believe the answer is 'It Depends'. As an example, in the Clojure space there are two libraries that are good exemplars of the ends of the spectrum: Hiccup and Enlive. Hiccup ( http://github.com/weav
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by brehaut 16y ago
> Interesting ... can you find technical details on that? ... Unfortunately not; mostly comments in passing on IRC or in videos. That DLR (and invokedynamic) stuff sounds really clever, if you've got any related links i'd be interested
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by brehaut 16y ago
You seem to have a much better handle on things than i so i'll take your word for it. > I have no idea about the hurdles Clojure on top of .NET is facing, but if it isn't ported by now it's more likely because Rich Hickey and the other
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by brehaut 16y ago
[the following is apocryphal, citations needed] The difference in how .net and java implement generics is a big factor; Java implements them with erasure (basicly existing only at compile time), CLR tracks them on the runtime. This makes it
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by brehaut 16y ago
I can't make an informed comparison[1], but check out http://ideolalia.com/performance-in-clojure-and-factor - the author uses penumbra (clojure's gl wrappers) to offload the vectorised computation to the GPU. That plus clojures inherent
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by brehaut 16y ago
I've noticed a curious situation with learning (and configuring) emacs that once i've got it to be mostly[1] working i can remember all the little details that were causing me grief prior but cannot remember how I achieved the current worka
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by brehaut 16y ago
Another possible 'canonical' solution is Technomancy (of leiningen fame)'s http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit . Removed a lot of the futz of installing emacs for me. I still haven't worried about slime or swank yet, and i had
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by brehaut 16y ago
I'm not entirely sure I agree. The data also seems to indicate a significant chunk of users have moved from other dynamic languages. Perhaps they are the gateway drug? I appreciate that clojure is less hardcore about its FP than Haskell, bu
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by brehaut 16y ago
re:1 - No. If the page is primarily content based rather than app based then a fixed width design may well be the best thing for the user; the readability of a design is heavily effected by the interrelationship between factors such as type
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by brehaut 16y ago
No worries, thanks for the apologies. In hindsight it was snarkier than i intended
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by brehaut 17y ago
There is a standard library forming, largely as part of the HTML5 process, however JS-in-a-browser's 'standard' requirements are different to those of a server or desktop application. Whats missing is simple things eg a broad range of colle
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by brehaut 17y ago
That is a straw man argument with a splash of FUD. Point the first: You are making the implication (intentional or otherwise) that closures are backward and that objects are the correct way to structure a program. In any language I have use
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by brehaut 17y ago
which is a pity, because if they had done it properly it would be much stronger than most of the drek they have phoned in this year.
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by brehaut 17y ago
USA are a bit strange with regards to their "democracy". Check out the wiki link for an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States
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Designing with color-blind users in mind(alistapart.com)
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by brehaut 17y ago
The connection between pretty and good posited either in the linked article or one of its links (perhaps http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/7/27/realizations-of-rounde... ?) is that the cognitive workload required to process visual cues is
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by brehaut 17y ago
Correct, it is finickity. I also probably resize my windows more than reach for the menu bar. On the other hand, putting a direct manipulation control in the corner of the screen where it would get maximum fitt's law benefits would mean it
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by brehaut 17y ago
Firstly, I agree that its certainly not a definite signifier of quality, but it is an indication that care has been paid. Secondly, the floor on the data center to me sounds like its closer to the box the software came in than to the interf
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by brehaut 17y ago
You have misunderstood. With regard to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law (a law that tells you how likely you are to successfully 'click' a control on screen based on its size and the distance to travel), the target are for the menu
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by brehaut 17y ago
One factor of pretty that wasn't discussed is that a pretty (rather than just bling-fueled) interface is often one that has a lot of attention to detail paid to it, thus it is an indicator that other aspects may have received equivalent car
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by brehaut 17y ago
Purely anecdotally, i have found that applications that are native to the mac are not as reliant on the menu bar for the most of their tasks than their windows counterparts. As a result i don't find having to switch applications to access a
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by brehaut 17y ago
Your point highlights what i think is one of the biggest features of clojure: it has been assembled according to a philosophy / design criteria such that each feature exists as part of the whole. The features that have been omitted from clo
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by brehaut 17y ago
I was under the impression that an object DB is a subset of a graph/network db. [IANA DB Nerd]
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by brehaut 17y ago
Have you checked out Clojure, the current Lisp de Jour? It brings with it bags of advanced from all over the place and a healthy dollop of pragmatism. The language is very young (2 years) but has a very active community.
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by brehaut 17y ago
If you were talking about general currency i would expect to see it a lot. If you were talking about the subset of data parallel concurrency, I would expect to not see it very much at all.
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by brehaut 17y ago
Agreed. Clear, real examples of abstract ideas are really important, and applies to much more than just monads. RWH's monads stuff (in particular its parsec chapter) is a good example of a concept in action, and its easy to see why you woul

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