felideon

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by felideon 9y ago
This looks awesome and I can't wait to give it a whirl with my kids. I am, however, a little concerned about one of Dijkstra's "unpleasant truths"[0]: > It is practically impossible to teach good programming to studen
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by felideon 9y ago
I think appreciated if done tactfully, as you've done. The upvotes/downvotes would decide. TIL. https://english.stackexchange.com/a/34794
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by felideon 9y ago
There's a lesson somewhere in there that is applicable in software engineering.
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by felideon 9y ago
Our data scientist left because instead of data science, he ended up doing more ETL and data engineering support than what he originally had signed up for. A full-time data engineer should probably have been hired. I wonder if this leads to
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by felideon 9y ago
I know what you are saying, but that is not what is meant by idiomatic Lisp. Not by Lispers at least. Non-idiomatic Lisp is typically written by beginners whose code looks more like the language they are accustomed to using previously. For
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by felideon 9y ago
A rewrite is always going to take less time to build than the original poorly-specified version when people were trying to figure out what to do. And the original team could have been more junior, or if similarly-experienced than your 2-per
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by felideon 9y ago
> tools randomly losing functionality in an update because the developer felt that it should be removed for whatever reason. More likely a Product Manager, rather than a developer, prioritizing certain "core" features in a rewr
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by felideon 10y ago
Twitter via Bitlbee solves this problem for me: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoTwitter
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by felideon 10y ago
I'm going to guess you live on the west coast of Florida? As a South Floridian, I'm curious.
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by felideon 10y ago
Except the ordination must be done by those claiming Apostolic succession, else your ordination is invalid. An online MBA degree from the University of Phoenix doesn't quite allow you the same benefits as your Ivy League MBA.
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by felideon 10y ago
You can also check out cl-test-grid[1] and its results[2]. It shows every quicklisp library tested against every (?) CL distribution. [1] https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid [2] https://common-lisp.
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by felideon 10y ago
You don't have to type. You choose pre-determined answers.
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by felideon 10y ago
This looks great, can't wait to try it out. I hadn't heard of Plaid until now. It seems like they are stealing Yodlee's thunder. Is there a reason why Yodlee is falling out of favor with the new fintech generation of startups
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by felideon 10y ago
You forget that Mint was pretty successful prior to the Intuit acquisition. Their messaging was validated prior to launch, and it seems like Penny App took a page from that messaging with the use of "bank-grade security". [1] ht
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by felideon 10y ago
Was built on top of Yodlee. Mint transitioned to Intuit's own scraper after they were acquired.
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by felideon 10y ago
For me, the guilt comes from knowing I -could- do more, but never doing as much as I could theoretically do if I did not procrastinate, rather than the self-deception itself. And I don't think the self-deception for me is on purpose. I
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by felideon 10y ago
And apparently Alice looks like Pebbles (Flinstones)! A key in her hair sounds like a good place to keep. Visible yet on her person at all times.
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by felideon 10y ago
Agreed. Point in case, the recent death of nearly the entire Chapecoense football team: > According to the preliminary report, several decisions of the flight crew were incompatible with aviation regulations and rendered the flight unsaf
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by felideon 10y ago
Ah, right. I think down here the problem is that the capacity for normal lanes did get reduced.
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by felideon 10y ago
I-95 in South Florida. Currently it maxes out at $10 but I heard they are increasing it to $20. Not sure if there has been any research, but yes I have heard on the radio how some people are against the express lanes because it does have a
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by felideon 10y ago
Photojournalist
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by felideon 10y ago
Where are you located? It's hard to find people (a) willing to make the jump and (b) making the jump effectively. And when you do, you can maybe tap into x number of devs for your team, but trying grow to 2x devs is much harder.
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by felideon 10y ago
> My brain thinks in terms of editing lines, not s-expressions; I didn't get the hang of paredit, and editing without paredit required really tedious edit operations. In my experience, learning and then working in Common Lisp, start
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by felideon 10y ago
> I understand why the Ruby community has warmed up to Elixir and the Phoenix web-framework? Could you explain why, at least as it pertains to web development? As a (former) Common Lisp developer I find Ruby on Rails suffices for the vas
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by felideon 10y ago
Reminds me of https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip which runs PICO-8.
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by felideon 10y ago
Brain.fm has worked wonders for me, and in a double way: 1) Their sounds waves purport to actually flip some switches in your brain that help you focus. 2) It's an awesome trigger to get into "productive mode" if you start th
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by felideon 10y ago
You should try something like "Baby Mozart"[1] which has with fewer dynamics. Then again you might fall asleep. :) [1] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEEizbmU-hU
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by felideon 10y ago
Closest I've seen has been Brain.fm's stuff: https://brain.fm/app?v=7827#!/learn/BrainFMWhitePaper.pdf
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by felideon 10y ago
While informative your article left me thinking the conclusion was "we don't know what it is", whereas with the OP the conclusion was "nothing to see here, move along".
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by felideon 10y ago
Great series of articles, thanks a ton. I'm trying to understand the relation between the following observations: > Maybe, unsurprisingly, the top 5 choice is relatively constant with Python and JavaScript leading the pack and can b

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