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by donjigweed 11y ago
The "Clojurians don't like testing" meme probably has more to do with Rich Hickey's famous "guard rail programming" [1] comment than anything else. Of course, even at the time, the joke within the community was
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by donjigweed 11y ago
The cool kids are quickly abandoning scalaz for cats [1], in fact the exodus may already essentially be complete, as evidenced by the author's subsequent work [2]. I guess that's what happens when your project just attracts too ma
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by donjigweed 11y ago
Suspension has seen less advancement than tires imo. And the greater the lean angle the less the suspension is actually working. If the bike could lean to 90 degrees the suspension would not work at all. This is why motorcycle handling is s
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by donjigweed 11y ago
Not that tricky if you're Marc Marquez... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQVKWizmJw
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by donjigweed 11y ago
Exactly. Tire technology is unbelievable today. With track temps reaching 50C, the tires are practically molten rubber during the race. This was Rabat's rain tire after finishing 2nd last weekend on a track that was mostly dry by the e
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by donjigweed 11y ago
Very nice guy. He used to work at Azul with Cliff Click.
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by donjigweed 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011102
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by donjigweed 11y ago
<< As far as performance goes, once you commit to a language with no mutable types, you have no recourse once you discover a bottleneck due to immutability. That's a big worry. All of the FP languages I'm familiar with provi
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by donjigweed 12y ago
"Next time hire an accountant." They were disrupting the IRS!
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by donjigweed 13y ago
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." I take Kurzweil with a grain of salt, and generally think he's waaaay too optimistic, and just plain ignorant [1][2] about entire bodies of knowledge intimat
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Much easier to measure cost of floor space than developer productivity.
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Which is why I said "Scala's tradeoffs" would become unacceptable. Java 8 is basically "close enough" to "The Good Parts" of Scala that most people probably won't be willing to tolerate all of Scala&#
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Good to see some love for Scala after all the recent rants. Unfortunately, I think it's going to be short lived. Most shops where Scala would be an option will soon have a production release of JDK8 available to them, at which point Sc
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by donjigweed 13y ago
"because it uses macros, the suspendable constructs are limited to the scope of a single code block, i.e. a function running in a suspendable block cannot call another blocking function; all blocking must be performed at the topmost fu
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Whether or not the driver was carrying a fare at the time of the accident is pretty much irrelevant. The key question is was the driver carrying fares that night, i.e. relatively recently before the accident. I'd tend to believe he w
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Deconstructing Blub(mcohen01.github.io)
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by donjigweed 13y ago
>I'm confused as to why you think data structure literals are part of Clojure's core thesis. I use refs, atoms, and agents very sparingly. You just don't need them very much when you have a suite of performant, immutable d
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Sure, we're in violent agreement. I took pron's statement as if he were referring to the explicit constructs in Clojure for managing state, i.e. refs, atoms, agents, vars. These are in fact about managing state, with or without
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Sort of. But I don't think most people are actually using the concurrency primitives in Clojure all that much. How many systems out there that people are writing make heavy, or even significant, use of concurrency primitives? I'd
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Another classic from Joseph Epstein. The same guy who wrote, "There is much that my four sons can do in their lives that might cause me anguish, that might outrage me, that might make [me] ashamed of them and of myself as their father
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Sheesh, if I were Uber, I'd actually want those numbers to be distributed, far and wide. A $3.5b valuation represents a downright paltry multiple by Silicon Valley standards.
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Yegge said it best 5 years ago. [1] "The... the the the... the language spec... oh, my god. I've gotta blog about this. It's, like, ninety percent [about the type system]. It's the biggest type system you've ever se
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by donjigweed 13y ago
>You provide them with fluent async libraries, you educate them again and again why they shouldn't block on calls to remote clients, you provide sample code, and they ignore your advice because the code is too hard to read. I'm
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Yes, if you are on the younger end of the spectrum, your premiums are likely to go up. If you are on the older end of the spectrum your premiums are likely to go down, or at least, you're now able to afford insurance. If you own a comp
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by donjigweed 13y ago
Same basic concept as the others. Ansible has Playbooks to Chef's Recipes. Ansible has Vars to Chef's data bags, and template files just like Chef or Puppet. For some reason, Ansible just ends up being much simpler to get going wi
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by donjigweed 13y ago
HN just needs a buffer/digest, so you only see posts that spend some time on the front page. http://eplenum.com/news?days=.1 posts that have been on the front page in the last 2.5 hours http://eplenum.com&#x
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by donjigweed 13y ago
> It's worth talking about Clojure as an alternative to Scala. It's probably more accurate to think of each as alternatives to Java. Why the distinction? Frankly, the two seem almost diametrically opposed to each other in their
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by donjigweed 13y ago
"Anytime someone gives you a simple answer to a complex problem, you're being mainpulated." - Michael Nygard Discovering "A players" in the interview process is actually a pretty complex problem. How anyone thinks a
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by donjigweed 13y ago
The dude abides
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by donjigweed 14y ago
Hi Feng, Great work! I know it's quite complicated, but how are the plans for https support coming along? Kudos to you and Peter on a great library!

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