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by dmansen 14y ago
Hey Brett! Nice post. I had a BLAST mentoring at PennApps - these kids could teach everybody a lot about enthusiasm and hard work. It's always inspiring when you have so many great minds in one place. Look for my post about it as well, comi
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by dmansen 14y ago
Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what he meant. Ugh.
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by dmansen 14y ago
Have you tried it? I had the same opinion for a while, but after I wrote some code, I found the translated code easy to understand - and the language itself helpful and consistent.
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by dmansen 14y ago
I'm mostly dismissing you because of the annoying title and subtitle of your blog.
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by dmansen 14y ago
The first paragraph pretty much nails why I'm getting really sick of the startup / SV culture. "The Art of Ass-Kicking." These don't sound like people I'm interested in talking to or working with.
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by dmansen 14y ago
I see the gimmick culture stuff as more of a way for employees to brag about where they are. It's harder to explain to somebody without a software background why the company culture where you work is great when you can just say "Oh, and we
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by dmansen 14y ago
4) Have real products that people can play with in stores (last time I was at Best Buy, not a single phone worked) 5) Support products long after they are released
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by dmansen 14y ago
Same story as the Lisp folks. Good ideas need to be wrapped up in easy-to-understand, small packages for them to be picked up by the more mainstream languages.
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by dmansen 14y ago
Great stuff. Bought myself a copy after reading that you're strongly influenced by SICP - good enough for me :) Edit: Forgot to mention, I spent a weekend writing a bunch of similar music manipulation tools in clojure if anybody is interest
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Storing Private User Data with the CloudMine JavaScript SDK(blog.cloudmine.me)
1 points by dmansen 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmansen 14y ago
I wrote the same program in Clojure somewhat recently. Boggle seems to be a popular problem. https://github.com/dmansen/boggle
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User Account Management For Mobile Apps with CloudMine(blog.cloudmine.me)
6 points by dmansen 14y ago|0 comments
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Security concerns keeping you from using BaaS providers? We got your back.(blog.cloudmine.me)
13 points by dmansen 14y ago|1 comments
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by dmansen 15y ago
"...after years of using it I rarely have to check the documentation for function behavior (such as array_merge)." This should not be something that takes years. I rarely have to check the documentation for similar Ruby functions after usin
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Tutorial: Sending intelligent push notifications without a server(blog.cloudmine.me)
34 points by dmansen 15y ago|2 comments
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by dmansen 15y ago
If there were jokes formed around the nonsensical behavior of these languages, then it might be funny. But I don't find it very entertaining to just point them out.
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by dmansen 15y ago
Yeah count me in the "not a hacker, I guess" crowd, this stuff isn't very funny.
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Language-Oriented API Design(info.rjmetrics.com)
14 points by dmansen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dmansen 15y ago
Great points. I would also contrast the Black Flag with Ian MacKaye's body of work: start off with fast and simple (Minor Threat), but move on when it becomes trite (Embrace, then Fugazi). Fugazi created some of the most interesting, comple
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by dmansen 15y ago
I do this at home, but my items are geared towards musicmaking. Every guitarist knows picks always go missing - buy hundreds and leave them around the house. Same goes for instrument cables: why should you EVER have to deal with running out
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by dmansen 15y ago
Great talk, thanks for the link. The power of emacs isn't immediately obvious, until you try to use it for something it wasn't explicitly designed for.
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by dmansen 15y ago
I think something that forces me, almost daily, to waste my time dealing with problems that are simply nonexistent in more sane languages deserves my hatred. (And I have a LOT of hatred for it!)