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CoffeeScript Is Dead. Long Live CoffeeScript(developwithpurpose.com)
7 points by erokar 12y ago|2 comments
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by erokar 12y ago
Subject (2:50): "I can see everything in color." I knew it! Everything really was black and white back then. Except when you took LSD.
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by erokar 12y ago
I wonder to what extent using several programming languages has the same effect. If the hypothesis about language switching as an inhibitory mental exercise is correct, then polyglot programming should have some of the same benefits.
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by erokar 12y ago
The fact that Snowden didn't receive the prize obviously doesn't prove anything one way or the other. The problem is that we all (at least the people of Norway) assumed it would never happen becuase of the political consequences f
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by erokar 12y ago
We should not. It's nation branding and it's politicized (I'm Norwegian btw). The members of the committee are appointed by the Norwegian parliment and are mainly former politicians. We all knew they would never have the ball
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by erokar 12y ago
I appreciated the broad overview and rationale for using Meteor in the introduction. Well laid out, well written. I'm looking forward to the rest of the book -- the best of luck with it.
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by erokar 12y ago
You don't need to sign up. http://manning.com/hochhaus/Meteor_MEAP_CH01.pdf
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by erokar 12y ago
Israeli death toll: 25 soldiers, 2 civilians. Palestinian death toll: Nearing 600, over 150 children killed.
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by erokar 12y ago
I read this as an attempt to de-mystify programming as work. You don’t have to be a stereotypical geek to enjoy it. You don’t have to dream about code in your sleep. It doesn’t take a genus to do it and it doesn’t require more passion than
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by erokar 12y ago
> I’m not sure why, but sometimes a team will applaud a small victory, then more people will start clapping, then suddenly the entire product and engineering area is a din of applause and cheers. Most people don’t know why they’re clappi
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by erokar 12y ago
Looks a lot like Apple's Playgroud for Swift.
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by erokar 12y ago
I suspect Rails the framework is as much to blame here as Ruby, OOP or dynamic typing. The siren song of static typing is loud today. Robert Smallshire has given convincing -- and even evidence based -- arguments that it increases developme
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by erokar 12y ago
JavaZone's summary: "Explore the disconnect between the dire outcomes for dynamic language programs predicted by advocates of static typing, versus the near absence of type errors in real world systems built in Python, Ruby and Cl
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs(vimeo.com)
3 points by erokar 12y ago|1 comments
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by erokar 12y ago
My impression is that Python is much more common now, but Java still dominates.
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by erokar 12y ago
"The language is very JavaScript-like in its design..." Disagree. JavaScript isn't even strongly typed. Swift affords many imperative and functional techniques, but that doesn't make it JavaScript-like. "The real pu
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Swift: A Solid Modern Imperative Language(seshbot.com)
3 points by erokar 12y ago|0 comments
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by erokar 12y ago
Inferred types, first class functions, closures, great speed -- this looks very promising.
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Blaze – Meteor's reactive templating engine(meteor.github.io)
2 points by erokar 12y ago|0 comments
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by erokar 12y ago
Very nice. I did something similar to test out Meteor.js, but it's much less polished than yours. http://mapchat.meteor.com/
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by erokar 12y ago
> They are very prone to getting stuck in local minima. That's quite a generalization. A GA's tendency to get stuck in local minima can be mitigated by adjusting population size, selection method/size and rate of mutation
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by erokar 12y ago
The reason I end up with Python, CoffeeScript or Ruby and not a Lisp is the prefix notation and the parentheses. The parentheses can decrease readability and the prefix math expressions can make the order in which you think up a solution aw
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by erokar 12y ago
"If I'm Margaret you must be Psycho Path."
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by erokar 13y ago
For a gentle introduction to functional programming and Scheme/Racket, check out https://class.coursera.org/programdesign-002 and the How to Design Programs book http://htdp.org/ These can be good prec
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by erokar 13y ago
Not April fools'. The story was published by NRK today, 3. of April.
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by erokar 13y ago
There is mounting evidence Steve Jobs was a sociopath. Corporations select for these traits in their CEOs and Google is no expection. Not surprising, not shocking, but sad.
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by erokar 13y ago
I love this. I'm getting more and more OS/tools agnostic these days and appreciate what OSX, Windows and Linux have to offer me.
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by erokar 13y ago
By design I mean their physcial look and feel, the industrial design. They are starting to look stale.
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by erokar 13y ago
Apple needs to step their game up. The Mac Pro is arguably the most interesting they have produced in the last few years. Macbooks, while still elegant, haven't had a major design update since 2009. iPhone and iPad updates were evoluti
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by erokar 13y ago
I'd say TypeScript and Dart are contenders as well.

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