daniel_solano

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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I am an Xmonad user that tried Awesome, and the main thing that didn't work for me is that it seemed that Awesome workspaces (tags) were tied to particular monitors. Perhaps I just didn't take the time to figure out how to do it properly,
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Interoperation with Java from Clojure is generally fairly painless. The largest exception that I can think of is if you are trying to integrate with a library/framework that is heavily object-oriented and requires class inheritance. Cloju
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Link to the submission with the original Groklaw story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233029
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I do all of my personal and business banking at a local credit union. I like the fact that the shareholders of the credit union are the same as the customers. For investments, Vanguard also uses the same approach. This doesn't guarantee
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Two main points: 1. Google is moving the AOSP away from kernel.org servers to Google servers. 2. The source code for Ice Cream Sandwich will be available "once it’s available on devices".
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AOSP source code back online(groups.google.com)
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Empirical Software Engineering(americanscientist.org)
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I keep on hearing the question: is the Fire an iPad killer? Perhaps it's just me, but the two devices seem to have very different purposes. The Fire may sell as well as an iPad, but that doesn't mean it's an iPad killer. Was the iPad a K
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Is it just me or is this a really poorly written article with questionable analysis? For one, the graphs strike me as confusing. There's too much information trying to be packed into the graphs. It also appears that the various "utilizati
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
It's not so much that you cannot renounce your citizenship, but it is severely discouraged. After some high-profile cases of wealthy individual renouncing citizenship, congress passed laws to make sure that if you want to renounce your cit
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
> Nobody can explain why the IRS has suddenly decided to enforce this law, which is aimed at money-launderers with offshore bank accounts. I guess the Americans need the money. I don't think the law is necessarily aimed at criminals. T
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
From the kernel's COPYING file: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the head
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
For my contracting work, I use Toggl to keep track of time. I primarily use their web interface, though they also produce desktop and mobile apps. Last time I looked at the Linux desktop app, it was lacking.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
The primary problem with this type of comparison is that it completely ignores economic mobility. Someone simply isn't born into a given income bracket and stays there for life. Most people's earning potential goes up over time. Speaking
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Well, there is a very good reason for this: Clojure tries to reduce the number of parentheses by substituting other characters, namely square brackets []. For example: ; Common Lisp (defun add (x y) (+ x y)) ; Scheme (de
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Well, it's typical Thinkpad design, and Lenovo doesn't compete based on looks. I suppose if style is the main consideration when purchasing a computer, Apple is hard to beat.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
> Java was designed to run on $1000 SCSI hard-drives and 32Gb of RAM. This is plain wrong. Java was originally developed as a language for embedded devices, not servers. Later, it was targeted for the web (remember applets?). These da
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I use three monitors, all 22" 1920x1200. The centre monitor is in the landscape orientation, while the other two are in portrait orientation. I am not sure what to think of the wide screen aspect ratio. In some cases it can be good, thoug
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
If you're in it for the money, one question is whether or not you have a Mac and iPhone. iOs may gross more revenue, but if you have to spend $1000 just to get the necessary hardware to develop, then that's going to cut into your net reven
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Well, if your interest is to release on Android in the immediate future, you may be best served by sticking to Scala. Clojure code needs to bootstrap itself at start-up which creates a bit of a load delay on the initialisation of your app
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
We could have a freer market and near full-employment if we replaced all our social welfare programs with a single minimum living stipend (you apply if you make below it, and if you qualify, get a check for the difference), and abolished m
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
The only problem with this advice is that as the amount of memory available to the JVM increases, whenever a full stop-the-world GC occurs it will be longer. Granted, this generally doesn't become a problem until you're talking heap sizes
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I think that the general argument goes that something like "the economy" is something so immensely complex that any effort to manage it top-down down is likely to fail, regardless of how brilliant, talented, or well-meaning such efforts wou
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Perhaps I'm just overly cynical, but I'm under the impression that the stimulus funds have been primarily used to stimulate the politically well-connected rather than truly stimulate the economy as a whole.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Some people would argue that's a good thing: that a government that does nothing is less harmful than a government that does too much.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
To me, the odd thing is that it doesn't mention the one thing Scala drops for which I haven't a workaround: static final fields. Now, from a pure coding standpoint, I don't actually need a static final field. However, Android requires suc
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
When the government is running up billions of dollars of additional debt per day, really there is nothing that individuals can do to make a significant fiscal impact. Honestly, I believe that the best dollar spent to get the debt under cont
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
While I agree that there is a fundamental division of ideologies of what precisely the federal government ought to be amongst the American people, I disagree that it is a division between the two parties. In my opinion, the establishment in
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Most of the good advice I have read or heard generally says to go with a local bank or a credit union. With the major banks, like Bank of America or Citi, you're just a number (unless you've lots of money). Working with a local institutio
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
There's actually more than one such library; just about a week and half ago I announced my own effort: Announcement: http://www.deepbluelambda.org/programs/baitha/announcing-bai... GitHub: https://github.com/sattvik/baitha The good news

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