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by bwanab 11y ago
David Nolan has a very nice introduction with examples using Clojure as the base language: https://github.com/swannodette/logic-tutorial .
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by bwanab 11y ago
Exactly. I want to like these things, but they're just way to painful on the eyes.
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by bwanab 11y ago
I can understand why you'd say that as we have access to unimaginable technological wealth that couldn't be purchased at any price in 1950, but I think you might be seriously underestimating the lifestyle that a $100k salary would
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by bwanab 11y ago
Why would you think there's a possible break in environmental equilibrium due to solar energy. They amount of solar energy entering the atmosphere won't change. The only thing that changes is instead of the energy being wasted, it
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by bwanab 11y ago
He said nothing about productivity. Workers can become more valuable by virtue of worker shortages that lead to higher wages and thus lower productivity which leads to higher prices for goods.
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by bwanab 11y ago
Sorry to say, I'm glad you burned out - otherwise no "Halting State",....
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Apple Wants to Be the Streaming Music Service for Dads(theatlantic.com)
2 points by bwanab 11y ago|0 comments
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by bwanab 11y ago
Really nice sounding. I can't wait to get home and try it with my wx7.
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by bwanab 11y ago
His explanations seemed like current thinking post dated to fit the story. For example, he explains he modified his guitar by adding a pickup because he couldn't afford a distortion pedal - a good pickup can easily cost as much as a di
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by bwanab 11y ago
I don't know what the HN perspective is on linking to your own old comments, but I can't write this any better today than I did last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7374123
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by bwanab 12y ago
While I agree completely with your conclusion about the French participation in the revolution, it had nothing to do with the Seven Years war. I think you're thinking of the French and Indian War which was the American theator of the S
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by bwanab 12y ago
You make a very good point. However, the obsession with economic growth itself isn't the problem - it's how economic growth is measured. As an example, if a hurricane sweeps through Florida doing billions in damage, Florida is sur
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by bwanab 12y ago
The Orange and Blue lines have it also. As far as I know the whole system is wired underground.
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by bwanab 12y ago
Not necessarily. There have been a number of disasters in the last few years caused by errors that have been directly attributed to spreadsheet usage. Many financial firms are reining in excel use by their business users. Prototyping a solu
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by bwanab 12y ago
My point was that the C++ version had been tuned over several years to get as much performance as it could. Replicating the C++ code in java wasn't the optimal strategy for performance in java, but it was the optimal strategy for getti
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by bwanab 12y ago
I think there's a disconnect in our statements. By music, you seem to refer to the artistic, creative, performance oriented activity. My reference, as I thought TFA was about, was to the notational aspect of written music. Listen to Ba
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by bwanab 12y ago
I don't love java. Not at all. All my out of work coding is in other languages - primarily clojure since I can make use of the java I write at work. However, my company has a risk management system that was written in C++. It's a
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by bwanab 12y ago
This doesn't match my personal experience. I learned music at five and have been an active musician all my life, but languages have always bee hard for me. I believe that music is much more related to computer languages - just instruct
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by bwanab 12y ago
My kids are both bilingual. My wife and I are both American, so it was strictly a choice that we made on the basis of having a desire to bring up children that had a less parochial look on the world. Raising children bilingual (i.e. sending
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by bwanab 12y ago
In addition, when tubes are pushed, the distortion comes on gradually and those even harmonics give a pleasant tone. This is why almost all rock guitarists use tube amplifiers despite the fact that they cost multiples over equivalent powere
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by bwanab 12y ago
Not necessarily - it assumes they're more interested in short term profits than long term growth.
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by bwanab 12y ago
Not completely surprising given that two of the authors are also the creators of boot.
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How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market(bostonglobe.com)
74 points by bwanab 12y ago|6 comments
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by bwanab 12y ago
For whatever reason Krugman chose to highlight the article by MacDonald. The part of the article that had the most impact was bringing attention of Michael Harrington's book, "The Other America" to President Kennedy. That boo
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by bwanab 12y ago
For emacs/clojure users I highly recommend Sam Aaron's Emacs Live. It is an "opinionated" emacs setup and while some of the opinions might not be to your liking, it is really easy to set up and get going with clojure usi
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Is ISIS an army of nihilists? Just the opposite(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by bwanab 12y ago|0 comments
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by bwanab 12y ago
I don't sleep well at night. I never have. But, after lunch (and after perusing HN for a few minutes), I start feeling that dull sensation like my brain is trying to shut down. If, at that point, I get into a reasonably comfortable pos
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by bwanab 12y ago
So far, it seems that people have missed the (to my mind) crucial statement that Microsoft is relocating its German headquarters to Munich. Could that have anything to do with the switch?
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by bwanab 12y ago
They mentioned it at the end of the article which was disappointing since I'm sure many readers didn't get that far.
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by bwanab 12y ago
It's changing in France also. I'm old and most of my French friends are old and not one of them smokes. This is obviously anecdotal and selection bias, but in my 20+ years of observing I've noticed that restaurants have gone

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