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by fmjrey 8y ago
The problem is that FB is a business, not a public service providing proof of identity. It is wrong to force people to get into a commercial agreement with a private company to carry out civic duties. Same issue as authorities publishing on
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by fmjrey 8y ago
And how are we supposed to trust the results and privacy? Also I'm not on fecebook and don't want to create a user account, please don't force me to create one.
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by fmjrey 8y ago
Yes, he's rather explicit in saying Maybe is a poor tool. I'll have to watch the talk a second time to be sure, but I'm not sure he proposes any solution at the level of type systems. Not using Maybe or using Union is not wha
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by fmjrey 8y ago
Yes I was going to mention that video in which Rich makes an important point in my opinion: database tables, or objects, or structs, still live within the Place Oriented Programming (PLOP) mindset. That mindset was born in a time where disk
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by fmjrey 8y ago
Funny this is being posted as I just started to use specter for extracting entities from XML documents we receive. I never used it before but now I see the value of: - paths as data - navigators as transducers First I started using plain cl
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by fmjrey 8y ago
> The thing about Lisp's power is it allows the production of complex program quickly but doesn't particularly have a standard way of gluing these programs together. I'd argue Clojure is setting some new standard here with
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by fmjrey 9y ago
I have to agree, the key question here is where would the power go if nation states give it away. I can relate to the candidness in the article, but there is an equal amount of naivety. It's not because nation states exist that nations
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by fmjrey 10y ago
To me the most important contribution of Clojure is to not focus on OO or FP at all, but instead on data. Data is a first class citizen of the language: data literal is part of its syntax, and it uses powerful persistent data structures beh
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by fmjrey 10y ago
Can't help but mention this great video where an enthusiast woodworking engineer makes a parallel between tools in the real world and tools in computing: https://youtu.be/ShEez0JkOFw
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by fmjrey 11y ago
I'm assuming half of your point is humour and the other is the fact you don't like his glasses. It is on this second half I'd like to comment. It shifts the focus on form rather than content. Sure form has its non-negligible