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by dougws 15y ago
Most well-written functional programs I've seen actually look like your examples--or rather, the very top-level does. The rest of the code is devoted to telling the language enough about your domain that it's possible to express your goals.
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by dougws 15y ago
There seems to be a really heavy bias towards relatively new SF; is this because there are more awards now than there used to be, or because you only have data going so far back?
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What they're "protecting" us from(dashes.com)
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by dougws 15y ago
Yeah I came here to point this out. I'd understand if pip weren't mentioned, but easy_install has been the standard for many years.
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by dougws 15y ago
I'm amazed that an XKCD comic has inspired at least 3 front-page articles on HN. I think passwords are one of those things that, even in the tech world, people know that they should do better at but just haven't gotten around to it yet. Tha
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by dougws 15y ago
There seems to be a really widespread EC2 outage. My company's site is down and we're in multiple availability zones. Foursquare is down as well.
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by dougws 15y ago
The whole point of cross-platform tools is that they run on multiple platforms. One of the platforms they likely run on is the Mac.
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by dougws 15y ago
I'm not sure that this effectively replaces any part of the traditional process (resume--phone interview(s)--onsite interview(s)). I guess it comes closest to replacing the phone screen, but my understanding is that the goal of the phone sc
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by dougws 15y ago
That was my first thought as well. Apparently anything involving server-side code is now Heroku.
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by dougws 15y ago
Not necessarily. A lot of apps (document-based apps, for example) really just need a basic online data store and simple authentication.
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by dougws 15y ago
At my school our intro class was in Python, but an SICP class was required for majors. I think this was a pretty decent compromise, especially since many prospective majors placed out of the intro class anyway. I agree that SICP (really FP
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by dougws 15y ago
I'm about to start work at a New Yrk startup, and I have had no trouble finding a place to live on my probably average salary. Granted, I am single and don't have children, but I imagine that's not uncommon for startup employees.
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by dougws 15y ago
I'm pretty sure my recent comments have been very grumpy. I wish I could get confirmation of this, but the service seems to be down.
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by dougws 15y ago
I spend some of my free time customizing my environment, which for me means basically zsh and emacs. I find this process somewhat enjoyable, and I find that using said environment to get actual work done makes the work much more enjoyable.
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by dougws 15y ago
There is a meaningful distinction to be made between passion about programming and passion about your product. The former is probably a necessity for good programmers, while the latter might not be necessary and might be hard to maintain wi
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by dougws 15y ago
I haven't been in the industry that long, but I've encountered a few "security professionals"--auditors, penetration testers, etc. All of them have been totally incompetent; they could tell you the definition of, say, a SQL injection attack
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by dougws 15y ago
I really don't understand the point of this article. The author seems to be honestly interested in exploring GPU computation, and is clearly reasonably well-read in the field. The sarcasm is just really off-putting, though, and the article
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by dougws 15y ago
I'm surprised Stevey didn't mention that this is not the first time something like this has happened: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/boring-stevey-status... .
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by dougws 15y ago
And of course NYU does nothing to back him up. The spirit of openness and intellectual honesty that universities should be promoting falls by the wayside when it involves a little risk and a little conflict. He did some real research into a
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by dougws 15y ago
Probably because people have been predicting this kind of thing for years. It is also worth pointing out that only 18% of Apple's ridiculous revenue comes from Mac sales.
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by dougws 15y ago
There have been readily available machine learning toolkits available for decades--if you want to use a SVM in your project, you just need to grab an implementation and get going. The trick, as others have described, is getting your data in
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by dougws 15y ago
This is extremely cool. There have been a few other Emacs webserver implementations, but none showing this much promise/active development. I'm really excited to see where this goes!
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by dougws 15y ago
Hermes is also the name of a Greek messenger god so potential users of both products (the Mount Olympus IT department, for instance) are likely to be confused. Seriously, though, it's a really obvious name for a messaging-related project an
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by dougws 15y ago
Serious request: can someone who upvoted this article explain why?
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by dougws 15y ago
Seems like most successful companies of any kind "almost never were." Is there any company that was successful right from the beginning, with no real hurdles?
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by dougws 15y ago
I definitely notice the difference in speed between CLI utilities written in C and those in python or ruby.
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by dougws 15y ago
When I first read the headline, I definitely thought that was a regular expression which could be "optimized" to a+. I guess I'm more inclined to read "*" as the Kleene operator than as multiplication...
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by dougws 15y ago
Using them together does seem ideal, but it turns out it is pretty inefficient in practice: http://groups.google.com/group/enlive-clj/browse_thread/thre...
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by dougws 15y ago
I agree. I have no idea what wordpress is thinking with their "iPad-optimized" version. It is much slower, uglier, and harder to navigate than their default themes.
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by dougws 15y ago
Those all make sense. Thanks!

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