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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I see the points you are making. Here's another way to look at it. If you care about an open source project, you don't want it to fail if you get run over or pulled away from it.
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
If twisty mountain roads work "magic" for the Startup Bus, maybe it is time for the Start Up Vomit Comet. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft )
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Fun. This looks like a systems dynamics model. Many useful models use differential equations, and there are many substrates to provide that kind of computation (springs, hydraulics, analog electronics, digital electronics). And now a slight
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
Transducers are part of cultural drive of the Clojure community to identify common patterns and simplify design. Rich's presentations do a nice job of explaining how a transducer is about separating [how to do the work] from [where the
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
There are interesting parts to the article, but the headline doesn't do it justice. > “Daddy? Why is water wet?” And the proper answer is: strong tetrahedral hydrogen bonding, which they then related to their teachers for years afte
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I'm not sure how one writes an upbeat article about cleaning out an office. :) A career is (or at least should be) much more than artifacts left behind.
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
> Joxa is a small semantically clean, functional lisp. What does "semantically clean" mean?
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
In the article: > This little change ["track by"] invalidates 95% of comparisons between ReactJS and AngularJS. Please, let's stop using arbitrarily specific numbers with data to back it up.
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
To modify the Fight Club rules to ensure X (whatever topic you mention) does not get discussed: 1. There is no X. 2. There are no comments about X. 3. There are no comments about comments about X. 4. (recur away) Oh, wait. This
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
As mentioned in https://www.plos.org/open-access/ > There are many other organizations, such as SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Institute) and the Open Society Foundations, that work tirelessl
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I'm concerned that the study may use "out of sample" reasoning in arriving at its virus population count estimate. Here is a snippet from the Quanta article showing some limitations of the sampling / collection methodolo
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> "In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has uncovered nearly all the rest." My first reaction was "What does 'n
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
Another thread mentions it was done at the transistor-level. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/169434-6502-fully-simulated...
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If the author says "transistor-level simulation" I would expect that to mean all transistors in the simulation are modeled. Is that true? Since they are nonlinear devices, doing so is relatively expensive computationally. If so, I
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
"Elixir isn't homoiconic, it never was, and they no longer make that claim." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622746 . See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HomoiconicLanguages "Languages
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
This article, like many, mentions the idea of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) but does not convincingly connect it to the particular nature of police corruption. An interesting article; still, I tire of seeing so many articles introduce an
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I'm also a disappointed customer because my first payroll cycle was two weeks late. This (or worse) happened for my colleagues as well. Apparently the integration between Zenefits and ZenPayroll is not ironed out.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Re: "HTMs are biologically accurate": It depends on what you mean by accurate. Hawkins argues that HTMs capture the systems-level effect of a brain, even if software models of neurons are not the same as biological neurons. I can&
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I wonder if people see "Good interview question." and think that also was intended to mean "This is a good interview question that would work well consistently for a broad swath of candidates and should be given a high weight
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
All I can say is that when I write code in Clojure (with higher-order functions), I reorganize code fairly often in these sorts of ways without thinking about the "name" for it (e.g. dependency injection or inversion of control).
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
There are some gems in here, mixed with some highly-specific and perhaps contingent observations. I wish everything on the web, especially this, could be split apart and commented on it a sane way.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
So many HN posts (and discussions in general), including this one, would benefit from avoiding the "false dichotomy" fallacy; e.g. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/False_dilemma . Life isn't either/or. M
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
As of about 20 minutes ago: > 4/1/2015 Development for streamtools has waned as our attention has turned towards developing a language paradigm that embraces blocking, types, and more reasonable semantics. Stay tuned. https:&#
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
"democracy reminisces a 2000 year old system" ... you have something better in mind? In my opinion, democracy is probably the best we've got. The challenges have to do largely with engaging people in the realities of the proc
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Medley: lightweight Clojure/ClojureScript library “missing” from clojure.core(weavejester.github.io)
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
TS;DGP (too short; didn't get paid)
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I agree. The best book is no book. The author could have made his point with a paragraph or perhaps a page; no book needed.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
While the BMW example is easy to pick on, I am skeptical that the book deserves to be a book. In my opinion, the best book is no book. I'm quite tired of books that are overgrown 1 page essays.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
How would one go about learning this convention (and others like it), in the off chance that it was not completely obvious to the reader?

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