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by eigenhombre 8y ago
How fortune the author was to have had these interactions with him. Feynman was my greatest hero as an undergrad physics student (largely because of "Surely...", and the Feynman Lectures) and I was heartbroken when he died before
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by eigenhombre 8y ago
If you are interested in color, pigments and paint from an artist's standpoint, I strongly recommend Tad Spurgeon's blog and his book "Living Craft"[1]. The book delves into not just classic and modern pigments and thei
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by eigenhombre 8y ago
> Unless you ingest it, I'm pretty sure the toxicity is a minor point. Inhalation is also a risk: i.e., no sanding or spray application, unless you have a good filter mask and spray hood. When in doubt, the MSDS for the material in
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by eigenhombre 8y ago
It is amazing how much the manual has to explain to a 1980s user, for a device that, for me at least, exuded a sense of magic, especially compared to the competition. The office at my first technical job had both an Apple Lisa and a Macinto
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by eigenhombre 8y ago
Former Polie (10x; IceCube) - I also noticed this there. I wouldn't trust it 100%, but it was pretty reliable. I expect that if you knew that the cameras were watching, you could trick their AI's pretty easily (e.g., by faking a
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by eigenhombre 8y ago
I've been doing Clojure professionally happily for five years. My company/team in Chicago uses Clojure and is hiring (onsite). https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/opploanscom/view/P_A...
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by eigenhombre 8y ago
In the job I just left, we were asked to define metrics upon which we'd be evaluated at our yearly reviews, and in my last two years there I chose, for one of the metrics, Lines of Code Deleted [without negative business impact, e.g. b
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by eigenhombre 9y ago
Clojure is an opinionated Lisp whose focus on simplicity, and orientation around data, may draw people away from the nested language approach. You certainly can use macros to build DSLs in Clojure (the Midje and Korma libraries make heavy u
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by eigenhombre 9y ago
The mass measurement is good to know; however, the lighter bags also take to the air and land in trees, the water, etc., a surprisingly large effect in the Windy City (yes I know it's not called that because of actual wind :-) ). This
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by eigenhombre 9y ago
I want this for movie theaters too.
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by eigenhombre 9y ago
I was a bit nonplussed reading this as well. If I'm interviewing a future colleague I am especially curious about their side projects on GitHub ... but I don't care how well what they have done dovetails with my current technical
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by eigenhombre 9y ago
OpinionLab has used Clojure in production since early 2014 for microservices, ETL processes, analysis tasks and machine learning projects. We have a small and enthusiastic team of polyglot Clojure developers and a weekly Clojure study grou