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by cema 17y ago
Can we have a distributed government outsourced to India to reduce costs?
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by cema 17y ago
I agree. An analogy would be closing a long-term storage facility because someone stored a bomb-making manual in one of its lockers. Well, perhaps they would still close it and search for an actual bomb. But would they also close all of the
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by cema 17y ago
What's a "location"? I have friends who work in: Intel, Haifa, Israel; Google, New York, NY; IBM, Gaithersburg, MD; etc. This "location" is, apparently, the location of the headquarters. Who works at the headquarters? Top management? Or is
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by cema 17y ago
<sarcasm>Or better yet, why don't we try to destroy our nuclear arsenal by dropping it in cyclones? Two birds, one stone.</sarcasm> Now let's see. First, there is a question of what effect it would have. How powerful should
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by cema 17y ago
I think what people do is help with inspiration (in the broad sense). Other than that, we can read books, play with source code etc.
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by cema 17y ago
Aleinikov, though Sergey, is no Brin, that's for sure. More seriously, he obviously did a stupid move. Whether it was malicious or not, I do not know. But the way the whole collection of servers goes down just because a single remote user h
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by cema 17y ago
A memory walk. Recognizable in many ways. Some lessons are applicable to more than one stage in career and life in general ("I didn't need teachers to teach me things; I needed teachers to force me to get out of my comfort zone, and partner
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by cema 17y ago
Actually, a mini-series of articles. Both useful and inspiring.
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by cema 17y ago
I too work for a Microsoft shop. Installed Emacs, perl, MinGW/MSys with bash, cygwin (do not use it, though), python (do not use it), etc. JVM is already installed on all computers except the production servers. So the work that is of a "pe
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by cema 17y ago
Javascript can be used that way, and some of Javascript technologies suggest that, but it can and usually is used in the mainstream imperative way. People who have not been exposed to functional programming before touching Javascript (which
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by cema 17y ago
It may happen, but it would compete with the well established Ruby and Python (in addition to C# and VB). Anyway, I am glad that they will be added to the bunch.
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by cema 17y ago
Good point about the irrational reliance on brand names. You mention Microsoft, I could mention Google too, but as long as it helps to dilute this reliance, I think it is healthy. Let a hundred brand names bloom. The situation with linux dr
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by cema 17y ago
I too settled on SBCL for a while, but then looked around a bit wider. Clojure is an intriguing development. I recommend that you look at it, both the language and the community. It has a good promise, borrowing the best from the older lisp
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by cema 17y ago
Javascript is a great language (and widely misused, alas). However, calling it a functional language is a very big stretch (unlike lisp).
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by cema 17y ago
Well, technically Clojure is a lisp, but it does indeed depart from the heavyweight lisp legacy as represented by Common Lisp. And portability is much easier when all your libraries are in JVM. :-) Scala started earlier than Clojure and has
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by cema 17y ago
Agree on all points.
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by cema 17y ago
Clojure. It's a lisp on JVM.
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by cema 17y ago
Clojure.
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by cema 17y ago
I use Windows, various versions, both at work and at home. Ubuntu only at home, but more and more. Going to try a Mac OS just for fun.
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by cema 17y ago
This was indeed interesting and enriching. (And I am not a fan of MJ!)