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by dj-wonk 12y ago
After hearing the talk, I certainly was struck by the complexity of TeX and the mental challenge of adapting it. It seems unlikely that doing two ports (first to Go, second to Clojure) would result in less work overall. I would not expect t
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Perhaps Glenn has different goals than you might expect? The video goes into this better than the InfoQ article. In short, I think Glenn embraced the differences and challenges of adapting TeX in Clojure from an educational perspective. I d
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A re-reading suggests that the authors are less concerned by inequalities in income or wealth. See "2. Stop fixating on redistributive policies which will not deliver fairness, and start thinking about reorganising policies which build
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I'm trying to unpack the authors' definition of "fairness". These are the relevant sections I've found: > Fairness is not summed up in Gini coefficients of income inequality, but in access to the foundational goo
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Good personal assistants (e.g. executive assistants) also base their information on information not available in email; e.g. conversations and non-verbal cues. Good ones carefully guard and (implicitly) prioritize their boss' time. I a
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I'd be happy to learn more and meet people from (or using) the project. There do appear to be points of overlap.
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I'm helping out on a project that is a mix of decentralized and distributed. It is "a (nascent) specification for distributed, immutable, derived, addressable data. It defines a layer for addressing data, providing a foundation fo
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I'd be interested to hear what decentralized technology projects HN readers are working on and/or most interested in -- and hopefully that a community could help with. Care to share your favorites below?
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I wish the article would have hit on a key distinction: there is a difference between technically decentralized and economically decentralized. The first is about network topology. The second is about who owns and benefits economica
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
From "Effects of Various Soybean Products on Flatulence in the Adult Man." at http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/121/4/1235.short "Conclusions: In 4 human male subjects, kept on a carefully control
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Speaking of bacteria and beans, if you eat sprouts (uncooked), you might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_sprout#Bacterial_infectio...
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Yes? No? Let's avoid false binary choices. A better question here is "to what degree?" That list's methodology seems somewhat arbitrary, but let's go with it. If you look at many top languages in use by a lot of com
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Well, not all LISPs are considered friendly from our modern context. Just consider my favorite 'love to hate' Emacs Lisp example: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DestructiveOperations Check out the bit where u
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I like the spirit of the article, but in my view, much of the author's writing falls prey to "either-or" thinking. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma . > We can argue about how to version
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Agreed on the hole pattern. Laser drilling is an option too: https://www.ncms.org/wp-content/NCMS_files/CTMA/Symposium200...
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Yes, there is an emphasis (and bias!) towards functional languages and distributed systems. Yes, Fogus' intent is to raise awareness of these concepts. Yes, other people would have different lists. Yes, the list could have more breadth
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> There is very little all programmers should be required to have in common. We don't need to say "all must know X things" in order to convey a notion of a well-rounded programmer. Of course we don't have to agree. St
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I love Emacs. I would have never been tricked into learning Elisp without it. :P (Emacs is also an integrated learning environment for Emacs Lisp!)
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
This comment seems like a non-sequitur. My comment had nothing to do with a particular site, much less "your" site. I was making a general comment about automation and detection. If the detection gets better than the automation, i
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I agree that Hz seems to imply a periodic event. But I disagree that the Bq is appropriate for this example; the becquerel quantifies radioactivity: > The becquerel (symbol Bq) (pronounced: 'be-kə-rel) is the SI derived unit of radi
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Hyphens Make Clojure Macro Names Readable(djwonk.tumblr.com)
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New Dell 4K Monitors (24" P2415Q $599, 27" P2715Q $699)(en.community.dell.com)
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It seems plausible that as more sites adopt this kind of technology, automated web access (e.g. scraping) the web will become harder -- for whatever purpose, good or ill. This has long been an "arms race" between hiding and detect
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Perhaps the person in question was young and female. :) Does the above comment offend you? It was a story, not a generalization, from what I can tell. (It seems to me that people are too easily offended sometimes.)
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Calling these entities "factories" is silly. Factories, as traditionally understood, stamp out identical copies of a product. That is not the purpose of these organizations. Yes, they intend to generate other businesses, but these
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I'm not sure asking here will get you the answers you need. Talk to lots of people, feel their pain, build an MVP. That said, I'm happy to give my opinion. In my experience, there are plenty of excellent software tools, on the sur
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Why did Things and Wunderlist fall apart? (Could it be that you did not schedule and do the weekly review? I've had that problem myself.)
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Interesting point, which I partially sympathize with. The core of it, as I hear it, is that you should focus on the most important things first and not worry about the rest. In any case, I think it is nice to write those "less importan
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Most org-mode documentation I see is painfully long. Can you recommend a short video or document that makes a compelling argument that org mode is worth the trouble? I currently can't get a sense of the learning curve relative to the b
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
This compares pricing of some Apple offerings versus their hackintosh counterparts: http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/05/how-much-money-will-hackin...

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