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by cconstantine 18y ago
I agree. It's easy to find people who kinda know how to program. It's really hard to find talented programmers. Why tell employer's they can't hire someone because they happen to have citizenship somewhere else? Besides, one of the bas
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I see no reason for this. If someone from <not-USA> is interviewing for a development position, and quite simply isn't as good why not pay them less? They may even be technically talented, but if they have a hard time communicating
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I recommend reading the article before discarding it for being junk science or borderline racist. You may discard it for those reasons after reading it if you wish... but I doubt you will. Blacks are poorer (on average) than whites. That'
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by cconstantine 18y ago
The main problem I've had has been distribution. To distribute a lisp program I need to either: 1) Create an executable image that is HUGE, even for small/simple applications 2) Distribute a loadable image and force the users to make sure
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I have excuses also.. but I'd really rather not eliminate this excuse (getting married, and need the money to pay for it) :)
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by cconstantine 18y ago
http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I'm kind of in the same boat, but I think we should define what we want better. The first thing you are going to want is a learning-python type book. Don't expect this to be a good desk reference. After you've "learned" python you're goin
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Absolutely. The only real difference I could see is that object methods belong to classes in java, but methods happen to possibly work with objects in CLOS. I prefer CLOS over Java because of the list of features, but the point I was tryin
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by cconstantine 18y ago
But But But.... multiple dispatch or multimethods will save us all! Ahem.... right. Your response sounds more complete than mine below. :)
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by cconstantine 18y ago
My first OO language was Java; I learned it in college. After learning Java I thought I'd mastered OO. Last year I learned Lisp, now I understand that I've only now mastered OO and that Java has some major limits (such as single-dispatch).
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by cconstantine 18y ago
The draw is that there is an assumption that 'large monitor' == good, and tv == 'large monitor'. The problem is that what people really want is more pixels, and HDTVs actually have fewer than most monitors. Monitors as TVs don't work for me
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by cconstantine 18y ago
This sounds less like a second monitor, and more like a test environment that is meant to mimic real life usage. I've found TVs to not be very effective second monitors.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I also highly recommend Practical Common Lisp.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Well put. I'm still a lisp newbie (I've only made one useful thing with lisp), and I still end up trying to do [[x]] :/
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Yeah, you're probably right ;) I'll take a look at the learning-javascript-stuffs, thanks
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I was afraid of that... I'm trying to get into web developement; I've been deep in compilers and local apps for too long :(
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GWT for Java to AJAX compilation(code.google.com)
9 points by cconstantine 18y ago|18 comments
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by cconstantine 18y ago
/agree with most of the people here. Coding questions have a purpose. You need to consider what you are trying to determine by asking any question. Really, what is it about the candidate you want to know? After pinning down precisely wha
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by cconstantine 18y ago
In general I agree with the author; arrays should be a core type. They are simple to implement in the compiler, and a significant number of types can be created on top of arrays. On the other hand, I think the author got at his conclusion