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by cemerick 15y ago
Strange Loop 2011, "We really don't know how to compute", Gerald Sussman ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T... ). That's not entirely fair though, insofar as I'm a sucker for a Sussman talk. Beyond that, I'd have
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by cemerick 15y ago
"Let's link to the glam version of Groups instead of the old, usable one..." Fixed that for you.
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GitHub's continuous integration server, Janky(github.com)
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by cemerick 15y ago
The "I Point the Finger at You, I Have Already Pointed it At Myself" section calls me out for sure… I personally have to live with the shame of a very clear and vivid memory wherein I circled objects that covered nearly four sheet
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by cemerick 15y ago
As long as you're not AOT-compiling Clojure (i.e. producing class files, which is generally entirely unnecessary in Clojure except perhaps as the last step just prior to application delivery / deployment), you'll generally be very happy. Th
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by cemerick 15y ago
Working on it: http://cemerick.com/2011/10/26/enabling-richer-interactions-... In a heterogeneous mix of tools, getting the channel right is a big part of the challenge. Lots of the interactivity is going to be client-specific (i.e. what
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by cemerick 15y ago
I was hoping for something (more) sane like that, yes. I verified it though — and yes, the original password is returned, clear as day.
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by cemerick 15y ago
I would have thought a domain registry wouldn't do something so egregiously stupid. Oh, wait, a domain registry seems like exactly the sort of org that would do something so egregiously stupid. :-(
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Nic.io stores administrative passwords in plaintext(nic.io)
3 points by cemerick 15y ago|3 comments
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by cemerick 15y ago
I hadn't known about gaug.es before, will have to check that out. Notice that the post says: All Ordered List products are now GitHub products. I take that to mean that gaug.es, speakerdeck, and harmony aren't going anywhere, i.e.
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by cemerick 15y ago
Chas Emerick here; I set up the fundraiser for Anthony in 2010. That rule was mine, and it had nothing to do with "typical America" (whatever that means). If something were to go wrong at any point, I wanted to make sure that someone would
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Flipping out (How Flickr manages features while deploying continuously)(code.flickr.com)
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by cemerick 15y ago
No, I don't take (much) issue with your example's readability, I just thought you were offering a typical snippet for the easy path for "I need to perform a GET". Of course, more involved interactions require an API with more knobs. Clojur
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by cemerick 15y ago
It's been a long time since I touched Scala — and I never used it for web stuff at the time anyway — but is this really typical? It's mostly an absurd comparison (equivalent to Fibonacci or something), and a tangent besides, but in Clojure:
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by cemerick 15y ago
I'm glad you liked it! Of course, it's impossible to satisfy the longer/shorter contingents. I can't say I can promise that the length will be consistent though, so maybe everyone will have something to love/hate soon enough. :-)
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by cemerick 15y ago
Thanks, glad you liked it. This should just be the start of things. :-)
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by cemerick 15y ago
There's a dedicated view editor that provides standard textareas for editing map and reduce view functions, with a set of results shown below. Once you've clicked into a database in Futon, choose a view to inspect/edit using the dropdown in
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by cemerick 15y ago
The interesting thing about CouchDB is that it's actually more like an HTTP storage and query API/protocol than a particular database implementation. As you've noted, there's lots of implementations and variants, platform targets and host
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by cemerick 15y ago
It's sometimes about politics, but when it's about politics, they make the show about politics. In any case, on-the-nose commentary about the legislation involved would be really boring in comparison.
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by cemerick 15y ago
Me too! :-) I think Laurent et al. have some other stuff in the pipeline that will probably go out before this does though. I still need to get the REPL UI up to snuff (at a minimum, a dropdown or something so you can specify which content
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Simple / Complex: Hickey v. Snively(reddit.com)
6 points by cemerick 15y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 15y ago
I agree it's creepy (just another great reason to continue not using Facebook), but I don't agree that it's creepy because people can see you in context. I think it's creepy because people see everything out of context . Those drunken pho
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by cemerick 15y ago
As long as we can help get promising students and community contributors to the Conj that would otherwise not be able to attend — I'll definitely do what I can. I have no idea how other fundraisers will impact the results of this one. I'd
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by cemerick 15y ago
Hi, Chas here — I'm 'admining' the fundraiser for Ambrose. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask.
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by cemerick 15y ago
It's a narrow point, but the coincidence of "make the dynamic language fast enough that you don't need static types" and talk about equivalent perf using boxed math reminds me of the old saw about a sufficiently smart compiler[1]. Yeah, ma
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by cemerick 15y ago
If that weather forecast said it was going to be sunny and warm, you'd be pretty pissed to encounter hailstorms and hurricanes when you arrived at the beach. Similarly, you might not trust it so much when the weatherman was bleating about
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by cemerick 15y ago
Getting some feedback/insight on this topic seemed interesting enough to me that I wrote a slightly-expanded post separately: http://cemerick.com/2011/07/20/at-what-point-does-s3-break/
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by cemerick 15y ago
At what point does S3 break? Very happy user of S3 and much of the rest of AWS here, but I can't help but ask (mostly rhetorically). S3 is presumably the largest system of its kind ever; it's not clear to me what its failure modes, threshol
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by cemerick 15y ago
It's notable that (per the link you provided) Haskell doesn't allow for the Unicode alternatives without specifying an option (-XUnicodeSyntax). It's an interesting approach, and seems like a reasonable middle ground that probably limits t
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by cemerick 15y ago
Author here. Even in languages that allow for them, Unicode chars in identifiers are rarely used. They carry some costs that may matter a great deal: they can make certain tools unusable with a given codebase, they can act as hurdles to co

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