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by dasmoth 9y ago
Thanks. I've never really been clear on the relationship between Harlequin and Apple on Dylan stuff -- were they totally separate impls?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The implementation was open-sourced and had a fair amount of work put into modernising it. Things seem to have gone quiet the last couple of years, but it's out there if anyone wants to try it: https://opendylan.org/
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Clojure doesn't do the image-based persistence thing. You can ahead-of-time compile to Java byte code if you want, but that's probably closer to the .fasl files created by some Common Lisp implementations. No old bits of state f
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yes, definitely keen to visit next time I'm in California.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yes, I don't think type systems (or, in general, "computer science-y stuff") are the enemy here. I do at least wonder about some of the stuff that passes for "best practices" nowadays: CI tools sound like a good i
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The Long Now foundation did something along these lines a few years back[1]. I'd probably go for a bit of 60s SF for my "inspirational" choices. Have a soft spot for John Seymour's "Practical Self Sufficiency"
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Thanks for the in-depth reply, a lot here that I agree with, particularly on the homogenisation/monoculture issue (which I wish I could offer a compelling answer to -- telling people not to share their code would clearly be throwing th
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Having at least some knowledge of all the pertainant tiers is pretty helpful when sketching out an architecture for others to follow. When combining specialists, there's a lot of merit in having someone in a senior position who can sp
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by dasmoth 9y ago
"Vibrant urban environments" are great for some things, but not a panacea -- what if your chosen hobby is gardening? Or something that needs a biggish workshop? It's not necessarily impossible, but will certainly cost you.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Something that goes against the grain of the contemporary "reproducibility" mindset but worth keeping in mind: that's always the option of reading the paper, extracting the core ideas (but not necessarily the exact algorithm)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
A bit of a counterpoint: http://yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-scientific-code-beats-code-fo...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
End-to-end tests comparing output to hand-computed results on small examples (or perhaps the output of an earlier, simpler, prototype)? (For predictive models) evaluate the output on a test set? Depending on what you're trying to do,
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The linked Wiki page now says 700 (looks like it was updated fairly shortly after this was posted). I'm curious how this breaks down between developers, customer support, marketing, and admin. My guess is that developers might be a fa
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by dasmoth 9y ago
If "pronouncability" is a good proxy for readability for you, then Python might not be a bad place to look. That said, this is intensely personal, and you'll find a fair few people who find symbol-heavy languages more, rather
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by dasmoth 9y ago
There's some truth in this. The best solution to this is that if you've got something non-urgent that you'd like a colleague to think about at some point , use a truly asynchronous medium (e.g. e-mail, so long as you're
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'd suggest virtually the opposite: a good way to be an outlier is to have reasonably broad knowledge plus being good at learning new stuff, such that when faced with a new problem you can quickly bring the right set of skills/t
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by dasmoth 9y ago
they worked in 2-3 day sprints for ridiculous hours, and then stayed home or might as well have. The other points you make might be big problems depending on the situation, but this? What's wrong with someone taking a day off after
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Not denying that. But those questions are specifically aimed at preventing people "going dark" even for a couple of days. On projects which require some exploration and creativity, I don't see that as a positive.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
There's some truth in this, but I don't think "good agile" is totally innocent. In particular, they always seem to be uncompromisingly team-focussed methodologies (a lot of stress on the "...and interactions")
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Noooo! You still get the chatter and it's harder to ignore if it's familiar people talking about semi-relevant stuff. Also, it cements the idea that things are done by teams, not individuals.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The comments about library etiquette are on to something. But I think it also helps that most of the other people in the library are probably strangers, and if a couple of them are talking it's probably about something quite different
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Buying farmland and working in your fields 12 hours a day, is still an option :) As someone who's looking in that kind of direction at least semi-seriously, don't underestimate the cost of farmland, especially if you're hop
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by dasmoth 9y ago
That's true, but -- especially if you read the 12 principles as well -- it's very clear that the intention is team-based software development with a lot of fine grained interaction (and an explicit rejection of remote work). Stuf
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The flip-side seems to be that if you close Slack for a few hours of focussed work on something tricky, that's counted the same as spending the afternoon at the beach. Sure, communication is important, but there are relatively few thin
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Was a justification given for this? The company doesn't seem to be gaining from keeping the identity of the contributors secret (if they wanted to mask the fact that they were using a particular piece of OSS I could kind-of understand
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Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)(paulgraham.com)
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The return of office music: is it better than silence – or much, much worse?(theguardian.com)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Something Trelloesque is the obvious answer, but I'm curious if anyone's tried whiteboard+webcam.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
1. Know what each other are working on? (progress/blockers) The closest thing I've seen to a nice solution to this is to e-mail a brief report of what you've been up to to the manager at the end of the week, who collates
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Thanks. Ultimately, I think I was referring to the Taylorist aspect. There's also a philosophy that I've seen labelled as "teamism" and which seems to form the basis of methodologies like Scrum. I'm not sure teamis

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