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541.
by cgag 13y ago
But then the people you do hire are super into it. I can't imagine there are many people using a lisp at work begrudgingly when there are so many people who'd love to get to use it professionally.
542.
by cgag 13y ago
This guy does some nice clojure screencasts in light table and I think they show it if off pretty well, for people who are curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxE5wDbt964#t=3m00s (I don't have my headphones on me s
543.
by cgag 13y ago
Why not use Clojure or another JMV language and get the same ecosystem at similar or less characters? (map (juxt :name :address) people)
544.
by cgag 13y ago
Who cares, it's interesting. It's cool to just to gauge the general sentiment of the languages on HN.
545.
by cgag 13y ago
What do you find conceptually impure about Clojure?
546.
by cgag 13y ago
World gym has 3 combo cages/deadlift platforms and rubber plates that people drop from above their heads all time. I see people use chalk as well.
547.
by cgag 13y ago
To me, expressiveness is about expressing an idea with as little incidental complexity as possible, which is definitely different from as in as few characters as possible.
548.
by cgag 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's because the JVM has a bad rep or people like the familiar feeling of Go (smaller learning curve) or some other reason, but it surprises me so many people jump to Go for performance similar to what you'd g
549.
by cgag 13y ago
What exactly does "near WM" mean? Does this improve working memory on a long term basis or does near mean near in time? I feel like that might make it worth doing for me as a programmer as WM feels like a useful thing to improve
550.
by cgag 13y ago
I just want to second that this book is great. Ignore any negative inclination you feel because it's called fan fiction. It's fanfiction the way John Gardner's Grendel is Beowulf fanfiction.
551.
by cgag 13y ago
This sums it up well for me: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index-mobile.php?date=062...
552.
by cgag 13y ago
Backed. Optional typing seems really promising, I'd like to hear more about what kinds of things it can't do though. If you hypothetically do annotate all your code, what are you missing out on by not having pervasive static typi
553.
by cgag 13y ago
Unfortunately most people seem to think OO happens to be best at the things they're already used to using OO with for historical reason.
554.
by cgag 13y ago
I feel like people ignore the fact that many of us find Clojure and Scala more expressive and fun than ruby, not just much more performant.
555.
by cgag 13y ago
"If they really need to" and by default is a pretty big gap imo.
556.
by cgag 13y ago
I find why's book really obnoxious, but I think learn you a haskell is excellent, so I don't really know if there's just a point where it's too much, or if sometime it's just done terribly.
557.
by cgag 13y ago
I don't get it either, it's impossible to not lookup real workouts and find stuff like starting strength and good basic lifting routines. Maybe it's less intimidating or something since there are classes for it.
558.
by cgag 13y ago
Yes, Clojure Programming is amazing.
559.
by cgag 13y ago
That's sort of how the SomethingAwful forums work. You spend 5 bucks to buy someone an insulting avatar, they pay 5 bucks to remove it.
560.
by cgag 13y ago
Is locking people in a cage not enough for you?
561.
by cgag 13y ago
Or Clojure, which has a good concurrency story as well as compiles to javascript.
562.
by cgag 13y ago
In process queues are a good abstraction, but that doesn't really protect you in case of your app crashing, which I think is the concern more than being distributed. I may be misunderstanding though. Edit: I was already a big fan of
563.
by cgag 13y ago
This isn't exactly what I meant, but it's not infeasible either. I have a friend whos working on a charity to help people give conditional donations to political campaigns, like only giving money to a politician on the condition
564.
by cgag 13y ago
I'm not necessarily talking about solving underlying problems like lack of good healthcare, I was actually just thinking about the idea that if you have 1000 dollars to give, it's worth considering the trade offs between giving it
565.
by cgag 13y ago
It's more like "with the same effort you could save thousands of starfish, just not the ones right in front of you" than "what difference can you make". Which is certainly something worth considering.
566.
by cgag 13y ago
Not everywhere, but most of the sequence functions like map/filter return lazy sequences.
567.
by cgag 13y ago
Use fireplace from tpope. All you need to do is go to your project dir and run lein repl, then when you're in vim it will automatically connect to the repl and you can do stuff like :%Eval to eval the file, or cpp to eval the expressi
568.
by cgag 13y ago
If working in porn and for the NSA are in the same category of morality for you, you've got problems. Same if you think destroying consitutional/human rights is preferable to making money in a questionable way.
569.
by cgag 13y ago
I think inverted callbacks is a strange way to describe just standard function calls. Unless you also call 'a.b' a callback, I don't think 'f a' could be called an inverted callback. It's just a standard func
570.
by cgag 13y ago
There has to be some science behind exercising during the day and reading / reading at night.

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