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   by dcotter 16y ago

   Personally, I lean toward thinking that sort of thing is too complex and unpredictable to determine algorithmically, but then again, dating sites have evidently done well in the last 10 years, and analog matchmaking sites did well before th
2. 32.▲
   by dcotter 16y ago

   Clojure is a Lisp for the JVM, so in a sense they are using Java. Besides, Clojure has been used in several high-throughput data analysis applications (FlightCaster for one), so it's not exactly an "unproven second-class language".
3. 33.▲
   by dcotter 16y ago

   Awesome post and very interesting perspective.
4. 34.▲
   by dcotter 16y ago

   I'm a big fan of JavaScript: The Good Parts, but it doesn't appear on the list of books for sale.
5. 35.▲
   by dcotter 16y ago

   Not to get us off track, but has anyone ever asked a prospective employer to see a sample of their code? Taking a job is a big risk, and I'd certainly want to know what I was getting myself into code-wise.
6. 36.▲
   by dcotter 16y ago

   Learn how to cook and learn enough about nutrition that you can cook relatively healthily. Goes a long way toward improving your diet.
7. 37.▲
   by dcotter 16y ago

   No, it isn't: You can't call something a modern equivalent of something else if the something else still exists in modern times (i.e. kids on lawns). More substantively, the guy's got a point: digital distractions are pervasive and lead to