francoisdevlin

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by francoisdevlin 13y ago
Personally, I think ageism in the industry is great. Let my competitors ignore the large pool of experienced engineers out there, and hire some young kid who is "cheaper". While he's fixing his design for the tenth time, I
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by francoisdevlin 13y ago
When you are used to having money, you're more likely to think that material things can be replaced. A bag of candy is a much smaller deal when you make 100k a year as opposed to 20k, so you don't think as much of it. Just one th
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by francoisdevlin 13y ago
Take a moment to compare this with the age distribution of HN, and you'll start to put it all together.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
I use Vundle to take this a step further https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
What you didn't take into account is that getting .1% control of anything would be a major coup for us in the lisp world :-p
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
The only potential catch is that this is a lot MORE targets for espionage. You only need to find one person with some life circumstances (new kid, long commute, conflict of interests, etc) and spearfish/blackmail/torture/teach scala accord
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
Looks cool. My one thought is replace @when with @if, to make life easier for every programmer ever.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
As my numerics professor said, "The more dimensions, the more you curse" :) This has to do with trying to get a finer estimate of a problem. Suppose you have a one dimensional problem you're trying to solve. You take the line segment, bre
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
wrexsoul? Is that you?
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
There's another way of looking at this. Do you want to work with smart colleagues and good management? Work for a company that pays you & the other developers well. It'll be much more enjoyable to go to work each day.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
No. Just no. The JVM is the only redeeming feature of Java (the language). You're nerfing the high performance features for what, exactly? A half assed tracing ability? "Write once, run anywhere"? Javascript won in the browser, move on.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
It sounds to me like you need an email list server.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
He WANTS the DHS involved? I'm not sure that's a trade off I'm willing to make. Let's hope the thing just dies.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
It's funny because it's hard to understand the value of experience until you have some.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
Because of non local returns. People abuse them when instead they should be using an exception, or preprocessing their data better.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
This is a terrible idea, and ruby used the wrong implementation. If you want this behaviour, you should just define a higher order function/decorator, and put your "block" in its own function. This is a case where there should be only one
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
It's a firefly reference.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
> accounting firms operate more like law firms in that they help you figure out how to meet the bare minimum to legally qualify for various returns My wife is a CPA, and many dinner conversations sound just like this.
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by francoisdevlin 14y ago
As a developer who's married to a CPA, here are my thoughts: 1. Taxes are a hard problem. Besides basic W2s, There are a lot of deductions to know about, and it's hard to keep track of all of them. 2. Depreciation schedules. They vary fro
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
Because they learned from netscape's mistake, that's why. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
There's also slimv, another swank client in VIM. Here's a video using it with Clojure https://vimeo.com/38372260
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
So true. I've been "That guy", and it cost me my job. I didn't get it until then.
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
Wouldn't a sniper rifle "remove the mine" from the MPAA's perspective?
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/323/
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
Very, very cool. Would love to see this implemented somehow. Would save me from lots of "mouse goofs"
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Screencast - Higher Order Decorators(vimeo.com)
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
Okay, I'm one of those devs. What is this virtual/resident set size thing you're talking about? EDIT: Thank you for all the helpful responses!
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
Well, Heroku certainly seems to be a major leader in the "Coolness" factor here. How good are they from a business perspective? Is their uptime good? How much do they cost? Would love to hear from the community.
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
And this is why I use noir.
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by francoisdevlin 15y ago
I can feel a bit of his pain, though. I think some of the trouble is that there are things that should be closable, but the (.close x) isn't enough. A Closable protocol could help with some of this. Granted, laziness still makes this issu

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