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by dj-wonk 12y ago
This article is quite informative: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/what-makes-a-fart/ "Did you know that no two farts are exactly alike? It’s true. Farts are sort of like snowflakes in that regard. Little
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After the video, check out this research: http://gut.bmj.com/content/43/1/100.abstract "Conclusion—Sulphur-containing gases are the major, but not the only, malodorous components of human flatus. The cha
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I don't think that "Whatever Rich Hickey feels this year" is a serious pain point. Rich isn't fickle with changes; quite the opposite. Clojure has evolved, but Rich explains himself well. What changes have bothered you?
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It may not answer your question directly, but the following is a nice write-up: http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html "Water waves are an example of waves that involve a combination
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I meant "wish they could forget ".
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What are your use cases, and what formats did you prefer?
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Ok, I haven't felt these pains, but I'd like to learn more. * Have you documented the ambiguities? * Have you open-sourced your non-Clojure EDN parser(s)?
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Great! Do you think my example code (linked above) would be a good fit? It is mostly example-based.
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Cool. One limitation I've seen is a lack of destructuring examples. So, for those who get a little hung up with some of the more complicated destructuring permutations, I made a walkthrough here: https://github.com/xpe&
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Clojure people like EDN instead of JSON. :) When I hire contractors, I ask for an EDN formatted resume, submitted via curl to a quick web app. I validate it on the server side. People enjoyed it (at least the ones who succeeded).
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I bet most people either (a) don't remember the unholy combination of XML and a resume (b) or wish they could.
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According to the article: Doctors, generally, are pretty bad with statistics, though better than most patients. The bottom line? "A physician is someone who can help you but also someone you need to challenge in order to get the best t
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Do doctors understand test results?(bbc.com)
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While we're on the topic of economic cost, I wanted to mention economic value . For example, check out this article, "Accounting for the value of ecosystem services": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x2F
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I wonder if Svbtle thinks visibility of a timestamp is unimportant? (Never let useful content get in the way of a good design!)
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This may not answer your question, but you might enjoy seeing how the 85.4% probability is derived in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.0448v1.pdf and http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.0449v1.pdf
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
About 3/4 of the way down, in response to: "The central idea in all of these protocols is simply to be stingy with the use of randomness. We ask Alice and Bob to play the CHSH game over and over again. However, in almost all of th
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
A meta suggestion: please make the article's date easy to see. (The timestamp is hidden until you mouse over the title: Jun 16, 2014.)
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Another animation from the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, "US Population Growth from 1790 to 1990" tells the story better: http://www.outragegis.com/animations/population-growth.htm
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HN readers, what do you think are Facebook's motivations for announcing Apollo at this point?
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"Currently, Apollo is developed internally at Facebook. No firm claims were made during the talk that it will be opensourced. It was mentioned as a possibility after internal development settles down." from http://java.
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I was looking for a nice visual explanation showing the connection between a maze and a spanning tree. I found this visual to be useful: http://cybertron.cg.tu-berlin.de/rapid_prototyping_11ws/maze...
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I'm saying that using a data interchange language (whether it be XML or YAML) is no substitute for a programming language.
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{Brace} yourself before (and after) reading this.
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As another example, Leiningen is largely declarative, but since Clojure code is also data, it is possible to insert code alongside. See line 211 in the sample project.clj. https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/b
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
What I've watched and read, mostly from ansible.com, but also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible , suggests that Ansible is idempotent. What should I read that makes the opposite claim?
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You'd prefer to allow composability in the middle and bottom layers (the modules) but have a different language on top? I have to admit that I'm a fan of turtles -- the same kind of turtles -- all the way down. Many of the abstrac
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Yes, the post is somewhat ridiculous. I can take the blame for that. Still, I think the choice of language for these tools matters a lot. With so many experiments in configuration tools, my goal was to raise the point in a light-hearted way
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Does this work well in practice? I'm new to Ansible.
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> Both XSL and Ant have standard conditionals, loops, etc available for use. Yes, XSL and Ant got there first, but what fraction of us would like to see the same decision made again? :)

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