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1. 601.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Pretty much everything except performance benefits from immutability and persistence, which is why using anything else as the default seems insane to me.
2. 602.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   I don't know what you mean by Clojure being data-centric rather than web centric. Requests are data, responses are data. Plenty of people are doing web-dev in Clojure. Edit: I would also disagree with the language being complex. I
3. 603.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Clojure's data structures are implemented using trees that have a 32-way branching factor, so each node has 32 children, instead of the 2 you'd see in a binary search tree. A lot of things you might expect to be O(1), like checki
4. 604.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   I'm sure there is a difference, I just don't care. They're still damn fast and the semantics of immutability would be worth quite a large speed difference to me. If you do happen to be doing something where the difference is
5. 605.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Can you give some examples of those ways?
6. 606.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Somehow the difference between O(1) and O(log32 n) has never actually been an issue for me in Clojure.
7. 607.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   It's a wonder he decided to stop publishing...
8. 608.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Tiling window managers (i3) and the trackpoint are two things I don't think I can ever give up. I think I'm basically going to be on thinkpads for life, or at least until other companies start adding trackpoints to their laptops.
9. 609.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   I haven't ever had to mess with drivers with Mint and my x230. I did spend time to set up i3 and configure it to suit my workflow. I view these as "sharpening the axe" types of activites, and don't really understand wh
10. 610.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I'm a total noob to haskell and I'm not sure I understand the code well enough to ask an intelligent question about it, but I'd love to see you/someone ask on the haskell mailing list/stackoverflow/reddit-haske
11. 611.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    To be clear, this is benchmarking a go-like channel abstraction, which is nicer than callbacks or promises imo, which is why it's nice to see it's performant.
12. 612.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I just changed the random number bit, not the 10000000 part, and it took ~100x longer. No idea why.
13. 613.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Isn't most of the country obese? And don't we breed crops to look good over being nutritious? Aren't large portions of the population without reasonable access to grocery stores?
14. 614.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/9wr/my_algorithm_for_beating_procras... i found this article and discussion useful
15. 615.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Have you tried using haste or fay? (I haven't, just curious)
16. 616.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I don't really understand the existence of these blog services aimed at developers when so many thousands of static site generators and rsync exist.
17. 617.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    This is a good example of the ways clojurescript improves on javascript: http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html
18. 618.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I really can't imagine what would lead you or anyone else to think that's a good signal. I guess maybe it could possibly be good if you're hiring someone to do cold calls or something.
19. 619.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I want to say yes, but it could just be because I can't imagine having my coding needs satisfied by coding for someone else. I suppose there might be people who are truly satisfied with their jobs out there.
20. 620.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I generally hear the advice write everything you can as functions, then use macros for making things easier to express. Locking functionality up in macros is probably bad, making things convenient with them is fine.
21. 621.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    It sounds to me like you're lumping things like writing for loops and mutating state in with the inherent complexity of the algorithm. I think reducing the ability to create abstractions like generic map/filter increases cogniti
22. 622.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    For clojure, these are good: http://www.clojuresphere.com/ , http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ , http://clojure-doc.org/
23. 623.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    A lot of people just clone their code to the server and do "lein ring server-headless", (lein is the clojure build tool) which starts the server. You can also package all your code and its dependencies into a single jar, then copy
24. 624.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
25. 625.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I really love the dinosaur, and the animations are cool. I'm not a designer in any way, so don't take my opinions very seriously, but here are my thoughts: I found it non-obvious that the homepage wasn't all there is. Maybe
26. 626.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    All roads lead to nowhere.
27. 627.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    As I recall being forced to use the homerow in typing class was just like being circumcised.
28. 628.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Thank god this kid will be spending many years behind bars. How else would he ever realize the mistake he's made? Without charging him with murder, he'd surely continue driving recklessly after gaining a taste for blood.
29. 629.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I agree, I think we should be charging all speeders with attempted murder.
30. 630.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Call it whatever you want, you're still not free.