diminishedprime

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by diminishedprime 10y ago
While the "BBM" tends to work alone and be frustrated at artiface at every corner, when you get a few or more working together, some really great things can come together. I've experienced that firsthand.
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by diminishedprime 10y ago
I might be in the minority here, but "fighting unfamiliar syntax" seems like a lazy argument to me. I've played around with many languages, and after getting used to the first non-c family syntax (in my case, Scheme) it never
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by diminishedprime 10y ago
well for one, it's being used in the industry quite a lot. Citi, Walmart, Amazon, CapitalOne, Facebook, and Spotify are just some of the names from this list. http://clojure.org/community/companies
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by diminishedprime 10y ago
I'll agree that clojure doesn't enforce control of side-effects. But with the recent work on clojure.spec, your first complaint has become (even more of) an asset.
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
> Other Nevada solar companies with higher cost structures than SolarCity are expected to collectively lay off thousands of additional Nevadans in the coming months.
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
One thing I've noticed is depending on how your code is being compiled/transpiled, having smaller defn's over them being nested in a let can lead to better performance since inlining becomes an easier problem. This is particu
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
I've noticed the complete opposite. There's less of an emphasis on unit tests, but that's because the nature of FP enables you to need less of them. Instead of needing to check (at least as often) if objects behave correctly,
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
Have you tried Solarized Dark for Eclipse? That's the one I like best when I'm working in there.
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
As someone that suffers from mental illness (depression), it's not completely off to mark to say that it isn't all bad--I seem to do better than peers in many creative endeavors--but I would immediately give up the benefit it give
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
I couldn't help but notice that quote, either. I wonder why the author found it necessary to put that in on an article about the pixels of the Apple Watch? I don't see that information doing much besides inciting a flame war.
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. I (sometimes) follow TDD, and I applied it to this problem. I made sure to include negatives, 0, positives, and include primes here or there to help avoid issues with multiplication/exponentiati
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
> Google servers run "a non standard concept of time" (what does that even mean?). I know that one way they do this is through using what they call a leap smear instead of a leap second. Yesterday, instead of having 11:59:59 tw
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Why knowing compilers matters(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
Interesting. I'll have to give both of those a try.
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by diminishedprime 11y ago
>There is no place for bash. Just curious, why do you say this? I've used bash for years for basic command line things and now it sounds like I've been missing out on great features that other shells have.