ericlavigne

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by ericlavigne 17y ago
There is a Berkeley DB wrapper for Clojure. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like the nicest Clojure persistence library I've seen so far. http://github.com/gcv/cupboard
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Just the fact that he links to SEIA would be enough to make this the best post I have read all day. http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ This is the textbook for the MIT course "Software Engineering for Internet Applications" ... The most co
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
Appearance -> Extras -> Enable mShots site previews I am on wordpress now, and just turned mShots off a few minutes ago. I had no idea this feature was causing anyone problems. Open in new tab still worked fine for me.
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
In fact, one of the "latest snippets posted" is a work-around for that problem: Search DjangoSnippets with Firefox http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1730/
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
"The problem with Grooveshark is that I can't seem to find one legal piece of music on it." You're very casually making a serious accusation. Can you offer any evidence that Grooveshark is doing something illegal?
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
I have used two varieties of Lisp: Common Lisp and Clojure. Both have dynamic typing with optional "type hints", which allow you to get the performance of a statically typed language. Type hints are typically used only in small doses, for p
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
"In order for this to occur, however, significant advances must be made in fields outside of technology; e.g. quantum computing will probably be a huge stepping stone, and for that to come to fruition we must first fully prove quantum mecha
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
I just checked the paid links on Google's search page. They do not use nofollow. This fact, combined with your arguments, is consistent with gojomo's hypothesis about Google wanting to monopolize paid links.
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
gruseom was using "zany" as an adjective, rather than as a noun. If I am the person in definition #3, then I am acting like a buffoon and I am very "zany".
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
I was working on a project in Fortran. I recommended OCaml, saying that it had all the same capabilities as Fortran (high performance, portability, compiling to native code, support for similar programming style) but also had additional fea
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
"I've been burned a couple times by portability issues (and the way that "whatever GHC does right now" has become a de-facto standard means that portability issues are probably not a priority)" I am interested in this issue and would love t
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
All of the adoptees were infants. This information is provided in the third comment below the article. The actual comment is worth reading as it provides this and other details about the experiment.
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pg provided that recipe in the footnotes of his most recent article. http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
Unfortunately, downloads are one of the things that broke recently :-( I work on the egonet project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/egonet/ The latest release was on June 25. Yesterday the big "download now" button was offering the May 3
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by ericlavigne 17y ago
avibryant #followfriday
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
"In fact, it wasn't the risky part of our original vision that had to change. It turns out that people really will pay good money for virtual goods. By discovering the other problems with our concept early, we were able to preserve our larg
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
Recorder is an important part of load testing, but it sounds even more useful for functional regression testing. Record common or expensive behaviors for load testing. Record obscure or complicated behaviors so that loadimpact can tell you
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
Submissions can be downmodded. This ability is limited to senior members of the community, as measured by karma score. When you are logged in, your karma score is in parentheses next to your user name, upper right corner of the screen.
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
Compojure was created by James Reeves, who said: "The language I work with from day to day is Ruby, so Compojure has a lot in common with lightweight Ruby frameworks like Sinatra, and less with existing Java frameworks. It's designed for im
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
"I thought it all had to be expressions." This is a common misconception. You are thinking of pure functional programming, not Lisp. Certainly a lot of Lisp programmers, myself included, prefer functional programming. Scheme, especially, le
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
Clojure supports OOP in the same style as Common Lisp. http://clojure.org/multimethods The integration with Java is almost seamless, so of course you can also use Java-style OOP if you're feeling masochistic :-P Clojure is definitely not
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
I have recommended SICP to friends that already have some programming proficiency. I have recommended HtDP to friends that are just getting started with programming. HtDP is easier to study. It is also designed to be used with Dr. Scheme, w
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http://www.pictogame.com/
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
I'm just starting to learn about web development with Clojure. Even though I'm barely beyond the "hello world" stage, I've put my app on Slicehost at http://ericlavigne.net and I'm documenting the learning process on my blog at http://er
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
"What would you do? Would you just support him blindly or would you advise him to do something else?" Regardless of the idea, I would advise setting a squeal point in advance, a condition such as [cash < $20k] that will immediately trig
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by ericlavigne 18y ago
This is one of the advantages of Lisp. It is common for Lisp programmers to map the [] keys to () and vice-versa. Since Lisp requires so few of the keys, such mappings can prevent you from needing to press the less comfortable keys.