dustingetz

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   by dustingetz 14y ago

   see "Horrors of Static Typing"[1] the thesis is that there are places where the type system just gets in the way, and there are places where it is invaluable. [1] http://phillyemergingtech.com/2012/system/presentations/Horr...
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   by dustingetz 14y ago

   afaict this is android only. took me about 10 minutes to figure it out, they were super sneaky with the wording of their press release. thanks for wasting my time :(
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   by dustingetz 14y ago

   i think a lot of people like to talk about how they want the best, and it makes everybody feel good, and the 90%ers (already really good, top decile!) can't tell the difference between them and a 99.9er because they haven't seen one before.
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   by dustingetz 15y ago

   Dear 42 Floors: why exactly do you think you need rockstar software talent? Your execution is obviously phenomenal, but it's not like you need a team of <del>haskell/clojure ninjas</del> grizzled enterprise vets who know how
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   Challenge: find a loop that can't be decomposed into filter/map/reduce(dustingetz.com)

   1 points by dustingetz 15y ago|0 comments
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   by dustingetz 15y ago

   there are places where you really need type checking, and there are places where you don't. show me the monads.
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   Smarts vs experience(dustingetz.com)

   1 points by dustingetz 15y ago|0 comments
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   by dustingetz 15y ago

   interesting. how about def head(seq): return seq[0] def rest(seq): return seq[1:] def transpose(mtx): a = map(head, mtx) b = map(rest, mtx) return [a] + ([transpose(b)] if b[0] else []) def zip(xs,
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   by dustingetz 15y ago

   def zip(*seqs): return map(lambda *items: items, *seqs) assert [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')] == zip([1,2,3],['a','b','c']) def count(start=0): while True: yield start start += 1 from itert
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    while > for > foreach - increasingly higher level abstractions. article stops at iteration (foreach) but misses an even higher level abstraction: filter, map, reduce. each of these can be implemented on top of foreach, and i haven't
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    OP is an idiot. Clearly he was hired to be a cog in a machine - a repeatable, bottom-level, commodity. In the current litigious climate of America, a customer could turn around and sue over some stupid detail, and end up with legal costs fa
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    It's worth it when you realize someone else has been logging on as you over the weekend.
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    hi kyro, i would love for you to write in more depth why you feel your designs are better than the originals. as an engineer looking to understand design, one subjective sentence isn't really doing it for me.
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    > Object orientation is great at maintaining an invariant i don't follow, can you say more?
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    > he problem with Java is the sheer amount of 'bad' code written in it java was designed to influence code towards solving all problems with classes. the "bad code" you speak of is idiomatic java code. Jane Street wrote about how th
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    two implications: 1. there's a huge difference between "oh, i can pick up rails in a week" and "7 years of rails experience". being super smart is insufficient for certain employers. you want the guy making foundation technical choices to h
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    "they are paying you to accept a much lower intellectual growth rate"(github.com)

    2 points by dustingetz 15y ago|0 comments
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    i've googled and amazoned and the yale site is down. how do i buy a print version?
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    Smartdrugs in silicon valley: lessons from sports(martinsnyder.net)

    3 points by dustingetz 15y ago|1 comments
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    in which i tell you to take a look around outside your little bubble, posts on coffeescript (and all posts about software) need to be taken in context. This post's context, it seems, is the type of problem where your pain points are, it see
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    ...... if you can link it in clojure, you can link it in java.
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    this has already been all the way up the front page and eventually killed. [dead] Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting (thewebivore.com) 134 points by pselle 3 hours ago | flag | 98 comments http://news.ycombinat
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    better video, 4 minutes, no crappy foreplay, just some guy live-coding with overtone http://vimeo.com/22798433
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    i'm a strong developer located in US. demonstration of competence: [1]. i'd be interested in considering opportunities in chile. if you gave me the time and financial comfort to enjoy chile a bit, I'd totally do six months if i found a team
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    i know a guy running a software shop. he's an active participant in the local meetup community, and he cares about people. it's no surpise that he has all sorts of talented people trying to work with him, and not enough funding to hire the
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    this is an excellent question. i personally know two clojure teams, both use rails for their front-facing website - i believe they feel clojure's offerings aren't mature enough yet. sorry, i can't elaborate because I don't have any personal
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    all of the founders are young. no grizzled veterans. fascinating. i would like to speak to a similar group, except 20 years more mature, running a business like Apple or Boeing.
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    article starts off on fallacious footing: "Let’s face it, doing about 30% better isn’t going to get you anywhere significant. And I’m not even going to start talking about why working 30% longer of course won’t bring anything significant i
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    A related pitfall is insisting on hiring the absolute best designers. If your startup is only a couple months old, what makes you think an established designer will put their freelancing or agency career on hold to join you on your wild ad
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    by dustingetz 15y ago

    and now my osx is like my emacs - nobody can use it except me, and i can't even keep my configuration straight across all my machines.