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by cemerick 16y ago
Yes; insofar as maximal perf is a desirable default characteristic, `0.2` must continue to be a regular decimal value (technically, a double in Clojure). We've already been down the path of having to extensively hint Clojure code to get th
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by cemerick 16y ago
Things get a lot easier when you're working with tools that help you out, even just a little. Clojure here, FWIW: (+ 0.1M 0.2M) => 0.3M That 'M' suffix denotes a BigDecimal, which provides for arbitrary-precision decimal math (which Clo
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by cemerick 16y ago
Saying you're lazy seems absurd on the face of it. :-) But: ideas mean nothing without execution. What if the great ideas are only offered as git pull requests? Or are based on Clojure 1.1.0, but the author is too lazy to do the work to reb
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by cemerick 16y ago
My rant on this is here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/25d7dd5b59c77899 Perhaps particularly relevant to your sentiment. shrug
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by cemerick 16y ago
And Clojure :-)
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by cemerick 16y ago
Fair enough re: #2. Given that, it's not at all surprising that the ruby and python folk have done rvm and pip (which, in a faux-spectrum, is a big shift towards what maven et al. provide in the java world). Of course, it's the debian maint
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by cemerick 16y ago
s/Ruby/Ruby, Perl, Java, Python If everyone thinks you're off in the wilderness, you might want to check yourself, maybe just a bit.
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by cemerick 16y ago
That's hilarious. Users of Maven and CPAN represent a "critical mass of small-scale developers"? Holy shit. A similar idea was voiced a few days ago, specifically regarding Java libraries ( http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/the-real-pr
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The real problem with java in linux distros(fnords.wordpress.com)
3 points by cemerick 16y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 16y ago
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tumblr.com+posterous.com+wo... ahem I know people get worked up about new stuff, but that doesn't mean the new stuff is better than the old (often far more reliable, featureful, etc. etc). I went with w
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by cemerick 16y ago
Thank you to everyone who donated, and thank you again to Relevance for covering Raynes' lodging and conference admission. Numbers, more thank-you's, and more here: http://bit.ly/aj0XPr
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by cemerick 16y ago
Well, maybe not, but I wouldn't ask him to travel alone, anyway – if anything unfortunate happened, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself. In any case, I've never done anything like this before, so I was trying to be careful. Of course, IA
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by cemerick 16y ago
Heh, and most LLCs/S-Corps won't bother looking for Angel/VC investment. ;-) That said, AFAIK converts (which seem to be getting popular these days, at least among sensible angels) are perfectly compatible with typical S corp structure.
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by cemerick 16y ago
Off-topic from the OP's question, but if you're incorporating as an S (for example, although other pass-through entities are similar), you need to pay yourself a "reasonable and appropriate" amount as salary. That is, you can't just pay yo
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by cemerick 16y ago
Others have mentioned PDFTextStream ( http://snowtide.com ), which is our Java and .NET product. Our RegionOutputTarget class ( http://snowtide.com/docframe.php/com.snowtide.pdf.RegionOutp... ) allows you do to selective text extraction ba
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by cemerick 16y ago
There's a lot of reasons why Palm didn't make it as an independent company, and as much as hipster-geeks enjoy the web standards love and other hackery, WebOS is one of those reasons. I'm a geek, but when it comes to mobile stuff I'm fundam
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by cemerick 16y ago
Remarkably asinine coming from Adobe. In any case, it would behoove those in the FOSS communities to not adopt incendiary language like this (except, perhaps, if you happen to be the target of litigation ;-). It instantly tarnishes any rea
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by cemerick 16y ago
The github-hosted Maven repo process I described works, but it's far from the ideal of just having a proper repo . I'd like to see Sonatype's OSS repo become the obvious choice (they certainly know what they're doing in that arena, and ha
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by cemerick 16y ago
Massachusetts is quite sane about this sort of thing. Only those that "[are] conducting business in the commonwealth under any title other than the real name of the person [or corporation]" ( http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/110-5.htm )
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by cemerick 16y ago
Found via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616045 Definitely a niche topic, but interesting to see what RMS in action away from the spotlight of more typical issues.
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The Tcl War(vanderburg.org)
2 points by cemerick 16y ago|1 comments
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by cemerick 16y ago
Note that, unless I'm mistaken, this is from when Clojure emitted Java and C# source . Check out the * host* variable. AFAIK, CL never "hosted" a Clojure runtime.
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by cemerick 16y ago
Stunning and just a little bit sad that something like this hits #2 (almost surely #1 soon).
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Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX command(detexify.kirelabs.org)
22 points by cemerick 16y ago|7 comments
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by cemerick 16y ago
Bollocks. People in the alternative JVM language space have been hankering for all sorts of VM changes/additions for years , including TCO, fixnums, method handles, continuations, etc etc etc. How many openJVM+ implementations have ever
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by cemerick 16y ago
Why, exactly? Will the impact (if any) on android change those languages? I can't see how. Those fretting about "Oracle's stewardship of Java" all need to take a breath. Honestly, things can't be worse than they were under Sun -- except
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by cemerick 16y ago
I agree that that's how things are now . My argument is that software development today is not an engineering discipline. You're right that I know almost nothing about "real" engineering. However, what I do know seems to suggest that co
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by cemerick 16y ago
See my reply to zb here, that addresses this more. Associating general-purpose programming languages with materials science seems reasonable. Building the systems that are used to build systems, etc. Though DSLs are the most common manifes
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by cemerick 16y ago
What I was driving at with the "it depends" part is that, in the real (commercial) world, there's only so many reasonable ways to get something done. There will always be a variety of important details, but the fundamentals don't change mu
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by cemerick 16y ago
I don't care about my FB account either, which is why I don't use FB Connect. If I start caring about a site that I access using connect, then I end up having to care about FB -- which I want to avoid more than I care to try various web ap

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