dirtyvagabond

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by dirtyvagabond 12y ago
I don't think that's the message. The message was, "You said you couldn't imagine a scenario where this goes well. Here's one simple example of it going well, and that was easy to think of."
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by dirtyvagabond 12y ago
Author here. Definitely didn't mean to condescend. I used "like a European" as short-hand for, "this is an employee who regularly chooses to take off far more time than the typical American would generally be expected to
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Using Clojure to Generate Java to Reimplement Clojure(blog.factual.com)
8 points by dirtyvagabond 12y ago|0 comments
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Open-Source Clojure Library for Geospatial Information(blog.factual.com)
82 points by dirtyvagabond 12y ago|7 comments
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Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Program – But Come Back in 10 Years(johnkurkowski.com)
108 points by dirtyvagabond 13y ago|92 comments
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by dirtyvagabond 13y ago
Fantastic article. And nice demo of Drake. ;-)
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New Drake (“Make for Data”) Feature: Asynchronous Step Execution(blog.factual.com)
7 points by dirtyvagabond 13y ago|0 comments
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Nfu: Command-line Numeric Fu(blog.factual.com)
53 points by dirtyvagabond 13y ago|6 comments
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Extend Drake (“Make for data”) with a Simple Clojure Project(blog.factual.com)
14 points by dirtyvagabond 13y ago|1 comments
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by dirtyvagabond 13y ago
nice post! i'd like to make a shameless plug for Drake, a 'make for data' workflow tool. https://github.com/Factual/drake
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Flotsam: Insanely Fast Floating-Point Number Serialization for Java, Javascript(blog.factual.com)
31 points by dirtyvagabond 13y ago|10 comments
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by dirtyvagabond 13y ago
I felt like he was sharing a lot more than that, especially his personal story. So I found it a very worthwhile read. Also: "Make me re-think the “wisdom” of the food pyramid, “low fat” diets, and nutrition vs. exercise" I thought
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by dirtyvagabond 13y ago
Agreed. I found the author's account inspiring, and I immediately recognized his overall outline as a basic paleo diet. I started down a paleo path fairly recently, hoping to lose a few pounds. I surprised myself by realizing after abo
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by dirtyvagabond 14y ago
another way to look at this is: we didn't say to ourselves, "we have to be on the JVM, so which JVM language should we use"? instead we asked, "what would be a great language for this project?" and arrived at Clojure based on the above.
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by dirtyvagabond 14y ago
There is love for R in Drake! As of about an hour ago: https://github.com/Factual/drake/commit/f63dd2630ca3e5e4a6a6...
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by dirtyvagabond 14y ago
Make was a major inspiration for us, and so Drake definitely has similarities to Make. The differences you list were non-trivial to us in usefulness, but of course YMMV. Also, there are a lot of (possibly) interesting future features descri
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Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’(blog.factual.com)
197 points by dirtyvagabond 14y ago|108 comments
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Factual's drivers "Keep on Driving"(blog.factual.com)
4 points by dirtyvagabond 14y ago|0 comments
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Factual’s API: A Good Fit for Node(blog.factual.com)
9 points by dirtyvagabond 14y ago|0 comments
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by dirtyvagabond 14y ago
Thanks jonmarkgo, good point. Not intending to ostracize anyone here, in fact quite the opposite. Working hard to be as inclusive as we possibly can. 8-]
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Python, Clojure, Haskell: Factual Releases Drivers That Matter(blog.factual.com)
53 points by dirtyvagabond 14y ago|10 comments
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Ruby driver released for Factual's data platform(blog.factual.com)
11 points by dirtyvagabond 15y ago|0 comments
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Crosswalk, resolve the Web with Java and Factual(blog.factual.com)
2 points by dirtyvagabond 15y ago|0 comments
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by dirtyvagabond 15y ago
well, i'd agree it's "entertaining"! had fun reading that, thanks.
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Clojure on Hadoop: A New Hope(blog.factual.com)
128 points by dirtyvagabond 15y ago|27 comments
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by dirtyvagabond 15y ago
I'll be there. Would be great to see the group get going again!
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Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers (Part 2 -- Macros FTW)(devblog.factual.com)
29 points by dirtyvagabond 15y ago|0 comments
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Practical Hadoop Streaming -- Dealing with Brittle Code(devblog.factual.com)
34 points by dirtyvagabond 16y ago|2 comments
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Testing code is hard, but testing data is even harder.(devblog.factual.com)
14 points by dirtyvagabond 16y ago|0 comments
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A Practical Guide to Varnish(devblog.factual.com)
13 points by dirtyvagabond 16y ago|0 comments

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