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by cgag 13y ago
As long as it's not exceedingly difficult to drop down to using mutation, having immutability by default is ridiculously nice. I don't think I appreciated it fully until I used Clojure a significant amount, but using languages wi
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by cgag 13y ago
My understanding is you can just build an uberjar that contains all that, then just drop that jar on your sever and run it (java -jar myuberjar.jar).
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by cgag 13y ago
What's crazy about using an extremely high level language (haskell) for web dev?
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by cgag 13y ago
Clojure gets great performance with its immutable data structures, but no one pretends they're as fast as plain native java arrays or using mutation. It's normal in the Clojure community to drop down to using arrays or transients
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by cgag 13y ago
Am I right in thinking that Haskell servers will likely be winning on these benchmarks after Mio is released in 7.8.1? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6198068
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by cgag 13y ago
What's easier about deploying Go vs with the JVM? Deploying stuff I've written in Clojure has been pretty easy.
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by cgag 13y ago
People who are going to use bad variable names and 800 line functions are probably not even worth thinking about, but if you had a bunch of mediocre programmers working in each language (perl, java, haskell), do you think their code would b
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by cgag 13y ago
Isn't maintainability going to be significantly added by so much being statically checked? Even if people are writing functions that are internally ugly, wouldn't haskell largely enforce that those functions can't really hur
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by cgag 13y ago
13 and already over facebook. I'm glad I at least got to have a childhood largely free of the internet and social media.
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by cgag 13y ago
Same here. I would never call myself fluent in Spanish, but then I've seen people on my level or worse who do and it's frustrating. I've seen plenty of similar arguments online about what it means to be fluent.
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by cgag 13y ago
What it means to be "fluent" in a natural language is probably even more disputed than with programming languages. It is a good metaphor in that sense though.
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by cgag 13y ago
Yeah, pom files are disgusting, but leiningen (the clojure build tool) is built on top of maven and it's wonderful. [enlive "1.1.1"] instead of <dependency> <groupId>enlive</groupId&gt
643.
by cgag 13y ago
Yes, that's why everyone should have at least a few months of saftey net.
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by cgag 13y ago
b) Is me and a lot of people I know, probably most people I'd think, every meal isn't an important part of culture, no one is proposing eating/drinking exclusively soylent.
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by cgag 13y ago
verbing words is perfectly cromulent in english
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by cgag 13y ago
There's a great clojure parser combinator library inspired by parsec as well: https://github.com/blancas/kern
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by cgag 13y ago
Thank you :)
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by cgag 13y ago
I tried sum in GHC and it ate up my 16 gigs of ram and then crashed. I'm a noob so maybe I did something wrong, but my code was: main = do putStrLn $ show $ sum [1..1000000000]
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by cgag 13y ago
I think that was one of the first courses they offered actually.
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by cgag 13y ago
Work isn't bad. Having to work to survive is bad.
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by cgag 13y ago
Yeah, what the hell kind of a question is that. What are we doing building all this technology if not trying to work less?
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by cgag 13y ago
What about this vantage point leads you to say no when Narus asks you to help with their spy software or whatever?
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by cgag 13y ago
To elinks.
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by cgag 13y ago
If you don't want static typing, Clojure is my recommendation. It's a lisp, but it also emphasis functional programming (common lisp doesn't), has amazing immutable data structure, has nice syntax literals for more than just
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by cgag 13y ago
I rarely read the articles at all.
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by cgag 13y ago
Does a strap across the shoulder really warrant a patent? Am I just having good hindsight? I guess I need to think about this more, but the more I read about things that are patentable the less I think I believe patents should exist at al
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by cgag 13y ago
They should update their perception of the police to fit reality.
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by cgag 13y ago
Maybe it's just a matter of perspective but it seems to me to be much more common for people to go around denying stories they don't want to be real (police and government abuses of power).
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by cgag 13y ago
I haven't had any trouble doing mostly pure FP with Clojure, as the general pattern is to wrap Java libraries to present a functional interface, I guess I'm curious if this is the attitude in Scala, or if you're sort of forc
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by cgag 13y ago
I'm not sure, I haven't looked very deeply at the language, I'm not sure if most of the libraries and culture and such make use of OO, or if it's just baggage for Java interop.

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