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by codewright 14y ago
>Could you expand on what you think Clojure needs to win over the Common Lisp guys? I don't think it should even try. I think being the 'practical' Lisp is a good place to be. That said, there are a few issues that are going to make som
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by codewright 14y ago
An easy and accessible rule of thumb goes as follows: Could I use this language for: Writing an OS for a PDP-11 that was reasonably close to the assembler in performance albeit not compactness? && Writing hard real-time constrained
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by codewright 14y ago
Kinda weird to see people going through this immense pain to get the whole import-pipeline and efficient search problem solved with OSM and Postgres + PostGIS when it's very much a "solved" problem. Incremental updates and intelligent, flex
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by codewright 14y ago
I might be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure MacRuby takes the sort of shortcuts you're thinking of.
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by codewright 14y ago
I'm sorry to be this blunt, but it's quite apparent that you haven't done any serious systems programming. That you were surprised by the syscall underlying multiprocessing...says a lot although I could point to other indications. Please do
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by codewright 14y ago
>Great comment. Thank you very much. >Do you have any thoughts why it's so hard for Ruby people to create an efficient implementation of Ruby? The most concise way I can put it, and frankly this is just a rephrasing of Nutter's orig
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by codewright 14y ago
C/C++ are necessary for a lot of things, things that Go isn't capable of doing or wouldn't be very good at doing. Go isn't a systems programming language. They called it that because compared to a language like Python it's closer to the h
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by codewright 14y ago
Warning! I made this comment because I thought this was an amazing and informative blog post, but nobody said anything in the last 7 hours it's been posted... :\ As a result, I've decided to toss out some thoughts I've had about Ruby, progr
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by codewright 14y ago
I'm reading Das Kapital, not a pamphlet. Try to lend other people a little more intellectual credit than that . With regards to Ayn Rand, in a similar spirit, I'm not talking about her crappy fiction work (which is similar in purpose to th
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I let philosophy consume my life for a few years to the detriment of everything else. I'm a values/ethics/aesthetic/desert/metaphysics nihilist with a keen interest in epistemology. Most recent relevant read I've enjoyed of late has been Po
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My impression was that SSDs would eventually become unwritable, but that they never become unreadable . Part of that understanding comes from an anecdote related by a contractor I knew that did government work. Supposedly some departments
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>As far as I know, Wittgenstein sort-of influenced the American tradition via Rorty, but he's still not central to modern American academic philosophy. Ahhh, you're coming from the perspective of an analytic philosopher. The part about
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An accurate (but incredibly biased by hindsight) analysis. If this were a matter of ML, I'd say you way over-fitted to the working data. It would've required forseeing the sea-change in the smartphone/mobile market produced by the iPhone in
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It's a good list for cherry-picking a couple reading ideas, but the amateur comments about philosophy weren't well-received by this individual. > I find that it’s thoroughly undervalued by philosophers Doing okay so far... >though,