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   by ddellacosta 13y ago

   I write Clojure code professionally and am deeply interested in all Clojure subjects that pass through HN (as well as Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, Scala, general CS, etc. -related posts on HN). But, I probably comment on only a small percentage of t
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   by ddellacosta 13y ago

   I don't particularly love Java itself, but it is quite impressive how Java and other JVM languages are pretty much ass-kicking at the top of the list. That seems to go for heavyweight stuff as well as simpler "micro" frameworks. I guess if
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   w1ntermute, I have to disagree with you here. If we are going to generalize, the Japanese are most definitely clued-in to the Internet. They may not use Facebook as much, but they have one of the highest usages of Twitter in the world (a
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   What a fool. He should instead spend a fraction of that amount and get himself some therapy to figure out why he is so obsessed with other peoples' sex lives.
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   These days more and more Japanese are using applications like Line to exchange short messages with each other. This is increasing in part because smartphone numbers are increasing rapidly and the "gala-kei" phones are dying out. In my expe
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   I'm a man. We (male) developers don't have to be like this, and many of us aren't. But, I've said it before and I'll say it again: men have even more of a responsibility than women to speak up and combat this kind of sexism. We (men) have
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   I was a Drupal developer for a year or so. That was at the end of my stint as a PHP developer, and presaged the end of my use of PHP as a language, and my introduction to the larger world of software engineering. Thinking about it now, I'm
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   Yeah, I've got to agree. Reading the original article ("Escape from Callback Hell" with the subtitle "Callbacks are the modern goto"), it starts with this: Callbacks are used to structure programs. They let us say, “When this value is rea
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   by ddellacosta 14y ago

   I think it is always an error to talk about sexism, even when the root cause is some asshole not respecting you because you are a woman. This is backwards. The thing that we absolutely have to do--especially those of us who are white mal
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    Yeah, I mean, assuming they are on FB is silly, but having them at all is an important thing, I think, which is what she is saying I believe.
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    touché
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    Yes, I have to agree: this is a creep filter, basically. Showing that you have strong relationships both maintained from your past relationships as well as currently, is incredibly important for those things that matter in the long run to
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    > 7.野菜と納豆が好きな人 この条件が納得できない（笑）
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    I think that sums it up pretty well. The citizen reporter Wu Gan ("The Butcher") who the author interviewed for the piece put it thusly: "Some innocent people have been hurt, [and] personal privacy has not been protected, especially when
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    And did you let them know privately before you posted this comment? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619411
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    I'm curious, did you let them know that this vulnerability exists before you wrote an article and posted it to HN? If you let them know and they ignored you, then I understand that you'd want to write an article and spread it around. It's
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    There's a great interview with Patrick Stewart where he talks about his experience acclimating to baldness, I highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    What does that even mean? Sorry, I guess I didn't express my point well. What I'm trying to say is that it is problematic for a community to have these kinds of overarching statements about their communal philosophy, when that communal p
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    ...and stuff like the Zen of Python is interpreted differently by each individual (ie: your friend's interpretation is much different than mine). And this is exactly my point about why having the Zen of Python is problematic: it is not in
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    I've used Ruby as a sysadmin tool a lot--actually, it replaced Perl ( sniff ) for me in that role. So I think it's generally pretty useful. But I can't speak to its application to, say, writing games, or applications using an OS's windowi
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    Yeah, I mean, I've been reading a lot, and watching talks from conferences and whatnot online, so it's pretty clear to me that this person does not represent the Python community. I've definitely learned some things about programming fro
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    by ddellacosta 14y ago

    I've been a Ruby (Rails) developer for about 4-5 years now, I guess. After a job change about a year ago, I've been thrown around to various different projects--I was mostly doing Sinatra stuff until earlier this year, but about four month