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811.
by cgag 14y ago
Doing drugs doesn't necessarily damage your brain. Why don't you think seeing the world from a different perspective could lead to a deeper understanding of it?
812.
by cgag 14y ago
Clojure is my favorite language, and I love Rich Hickey, but I don't think I would have sought out something like Clojure if not for PG's essays. There was a tweet from Nathan Marz that I felt summed it up nicely a while back "Paul Graham s
813.
by cgag 14y ago
Would you rather have the JVM as your ecosystem or no ecosystem at all?
814.
by cgag 14y ago
I love hearing that as someone heavily considering moving to Austin.
815.
by cgag 14y ago
After using a T410 for a couple of years, I don't know if I would ever buy another laptop without a trackpoint.
816.
by cgag 14y ago
We attempted to make something very similar at a hackathon. It's cool to see a more polished, complete version. Ours was more of an attempt to make a version of typeracer ( http://play.typeracer.com/ ) using code samples from rosetta code
817.
by cgag 14y ago
I think it's like 99% of the time for me.
818.
by cgag 14y ago
You could just tell him you're going to choose steal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8
819.
by cgag 14y ago
I'm sure it puts you on a list, but I'd rather leave the US if any consequences come from it than just not donate.
820.
by cgag 14y ago
T410 here and no issues.
821.
by cgag 14y ago
Less generous is most definitely the norm.
822.
by cgag 14y ago
Sivers did a ted lighting talk about this: http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
823.
by cgag 14y ago
I haven't read Halloway's, but I found the O'reilly book much more helpful for learning Clojure than The Joy of Clojure. They're both great, but I'd definitely read the O'Reilly book before Joy.
824.
by cgag 14y ago
I actually very recently searched HN for "hacker commune", I'm definitely open to it. Unfortunately I don't have many friends who I think would be interested, though it sounds pretty affordable even alone. One of my major concerns is findin
825.
by cgag 14y ago
This is why I'm interested in starting freelancing/consulting. I think I'd enjoy being location independent more than I'd enjoy working at someone else's startup. Living somewhere cheap and only working part time while spending the rest of
826.
by cgag 14y ago
Do you have a blog post or something I can read about your living situation? How do you manage to keep costs so low?
827.
by cgag 14y ago
I'm kind of surprised that a company based around scraping CL would get into YC. I know a lot of people do it, but it wasn't exactly unknown that it was against craigslist's TOS.
828.
by cgag 14y ago
I don't know much about Erlang, can you expand on why you think it'd be a better fit? Is it just memory usage?
829.
by cgag 14y ago
Strange to see people being so hard on the presentation. I can't tell if I have low standards or I'm blinded by really liking Rich Hickey and his work, but I thought it was fine, and I love the concept.
830.
by cgag 14y ago
Do you have a recommendation for a nice cheap IPS? I'm in the market for a monitor, I'd be interested to see what other developers recommend.
831.
by cgag 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "serious developer", but I went to my first hackathon about 2 weeks ago, and I had a good time. I met a lot of cool people, as well as learned a lot. It was nice to set aside the time and really focus on gett
832.
by cgag 14y ago
You might be interested in vim janus. https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
833.
by cgag 14y ago
Yeah, I wear jeans, sneakers, a tshirt, and an optional hoodie every day and hadn't considered that wearing the same thing every day. I expected this to be more like a uniform.
834.
by cgag 14y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. Why couldn't you work on the stuff you love instead of sitting on the beach?
835.
by cgag 14y ago
After writing a decent amount of Clojure recently, underscores do seem ugly, but I think I find commas even more annoying. I can accept underscores for the reasons raganwald mentioned, but having to write [1, 2, 3] instead of just [1 2 3]
836.
by cgag 14y ago
I'm happy to see you name names. I've seen too many posts where people mention being wronged but then let the guilty parties of the hook. I can't imagine any company wouldn't hire you because of this is a company you'd want to work for .
837.
by cgag 14y ago
I also imagine gaining 40+ hours a week of free time would really improve my life even if I'm not struggling.
838.
by cgag 14y ago
Do you have any recommended resources?
839.
by cgag 14y ago
This is what I imagine is actually going on. I also imagine there's plenty of talent in places in the US besides SV and NYC.
840.
by cgag 15y ago
I'd like to also throw i3 into the ring: http://i3wm.org/

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