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by dreish 17y ago
If that's what you want, why not use one of the many fine languages available that target the JVM? May I recommend a lovely Clojure -- dynamic but type hintable, with ridiculously easy Java interop?
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by dreish 17y ago
(Also, sorry to complain about getting downvoted.)
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by dreish 17y ago
I'm not sure how a source from 2002 proves false a citation of a source from 2007. Edit: Look, whoever keeps downvoting this, would you PLEASE read the sources? Is that too much to ask? See my other comment below, explaining how the artic
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by dreish 17y ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does pretty good work compiling statistics, but that isn't a guarantee that journalists will do a good job of reading them.
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by dreish 17y ago
That depends on how determined you are to exaggerate the point, I guess. In the latest stats from the BLS: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/table1.pdf there is a line item labeled "computer programmers" giving the number so employed as 394
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by dreish 18y ago
Yes, it's entirely possible that the divorce flowed backward through time and wiped the smiles off the future divorcees faces while they were posing for yearbook photos. Thank you for the knee-jerk causation/correlation comment.
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by dreish 18y ago
The second paragraph was meant to refer to laws, not a programming language.
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by dreish 18y ago
Since that's Clojure's motto, let's see how it does: user=> (def fs (vec (for [i (range 10)] #(+ i %)))) #'user/fs user=> ((fs 3) 4) 7 Looks good.
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by dreish 18y ago
Right, and what does that have to do with this article about lists obtained by phishing and the like?
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by dreish 18y ago
Where did you get that impression? Not from the linked-to article, from my reading of it.
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by dreish 18y ago
As much as imaging has advanced over the last few decades, it still seems primitive and barbaric. How could they have missed a chunk of tissue the size of a finger? If out of neglect, that would point to the need for an automated system th
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by dreish 18y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=flat+earth&l=1
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by dreish 18y ago
I think you're missing how clever this is. #skittles is the #1 trending topic on search.twitter.com. If you're at all plugged in, you can't get away from this. Just how many bags of candy do you think they'll have to sell for this idea to
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by dreish 18y ago
This is cheating but it works, in Arc: [let f nil (= f (_ [f _])) f]
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by dreish 18y ago
A better question is: Where would it have come from? Most of the assets backing money market funds are short-term obligations to repay from a broadly diversified range of borrowers, usually corporate or municipal, with a small amount of ca
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by dreish 18y ago
I think this would be considered a clever real-world hack.
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by dreish 18y ago
Yes, but it once was the case that noise comments were given a single downvote and left alone by everyone else. Negative numbers here are like a slap in the face, and when overused they will be even more corrosive to the community than a fl
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by dreish 18y ago
It is -- it's a thoughtful and thorough investigation of a perfectly legitimate area of scientific study -- but it also smells like the sort of thing the hormone-drunk adolescents that rule Reddit go nuts for, so surely some people can be f
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by dreish 18y ago
Most of you who are punishing jrockway for his mild and inoffensive joke could take lessons from him on how to behave here. He has been an active member of the news.yc community for a couple of years now.
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by dreish 18y ago
I can remember when -23 points would be reserved for something like a string of racial epithets, not merely a lame but inoffensive attempt at humor.
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by dreish 18y ago
If only there were some way for people around the world to communicate with each other as they watched these lectures ... Not trying to be snarky. I just wonder whether there's an opportunity there.
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by dreish 18y ago
My understanding was that the second-system effect refers specifically to a junior programmer's second project, not the second iteration of any given project. In any case, the solution proposed was not to avoid ever designing a second syste
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by dreish 18y ago
Upgrading to Flash 10 helps a lot, actually.
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by dreish 18y ago
In this thread: http://markmail.org/message/axarlob7wwmnm2xe#query:clojure%2... Rich Hickey claims that the PermGen issue alleged in this article doesn't actually exist. A new class is created every time a (fn) is compiled, but only a ne
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by dreish 18y ago
Yeah, I had never heard of them before I read this. Apparently they ship, like, physical objects through meatspace. Does anyone know why you'd want to do that?
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by dreish 18y ago
Or the problem is that they chose to do it in such a ham-handed way. I've seen MacBook Pros used in advertising before, and I think the usual method is to just paint over the logo, covering it with the same sort of metallic texture the res
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by dreish 18y ago
I disagree. They had style and vision in the 80s, and in the 90s they were just selling fungible beige boxes. If the person at the top doesn't care passionately about design, it isn't going to just well up from below. Employees who care
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by dreish 18y ago
You seem to be approaching this article, and the comments about it, as some sort of effete referendum on whether American Apparel is a good company. Nobody here cares about American Apparel. In the context of news.yc, this article is only
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by dreish 18y ago
I think if the boarding area contained a large vacuum chamber, and the plane cabin were heavily pressurized before docking, explosive decompression could be used to remove all passengers, or their remains, from the cabin in a fraction of a
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by dreish 18y ago
Unfortunately, this broad and absurdly obvious patent was filed in 1995. It wasn't granted until 2007.

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