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by gcv 12y ago
I wrote something similar for Clojure: https://github.com/gcv/dgraph
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by gcv 12y ago
Having dealt with trying to make Java run within some reasonable margin of C++11, I'm not surprised at these results at all. It's really hard to make Java go that fast. I'm instead shocked that the C++ version beat Fortran.
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by gcv 12y ago
Based on my skimming of the Swift documentation, Dylan is a much nicer language (both in its original form and in its modern OpenDylan incarnation). That said, Swift just needs to improve on Objective C, which does not set the bar high.
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by gcv 12y ago
I mostly use TrueCrypt for cross-platform directory encryption. With all the uncertainty about its future, I started thinking about how to replace it with a more trusted encryption utility. GPG works well for individual files (in Emacs, enc
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Show HN: User-friendly full directory encryption with GnuPG(gist.github.com)
4 points by gcv 12y ago|1 comments
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by gcv 12y ago
Take a look at Racket.
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by gcv 12y ago
Now that this party is over, does anyone know any wrappers for using gpg-zip with some of the degree of convenience of TrueCrypt — at least, for the limited case of keeping directories conveniently encrypted and useable?
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by gcv 12y ago
If you're interested in the training the speaker mentioned, watch the Class 234 documentary made by Discovery in the late 1990s. It's typically up on YouTube (not entirely legally).
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by gcv 12y ago
This is misleading. Learning to "code" or do the work horrifically called "software engineering" is definitely a huge pain in the ass. It's all about half-working fragile dependencies and outdated documentation. Don
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Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin (1987) [pdf](cs.northwestern.edu)
47 points by gcv 12y ago|15 comments
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by gcv 12y ago
As far as "classical" music goes, I can definitely live without the synchronized audience coughing between movements. Or the fact that you can only applaud at the end of the piece, no matter that a prior movement might have ende
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by gcv 12y ago
Since you discovered Gould and the Goldbergs, I have two comments. First, I personally find the original 1955 version almost unbearable. I love his playing, but the mono sound is exhausting. Then I discovered the Zenph Re-Performance record
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by gcv 12y ago
I don't know anything about build quality or customer satisfaction, but this video gives you an excellent idea how they sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pK7QbLNjno — try to listen to the demo with relatively neu
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by gcv 12y ago
Your code is always one new feature request away from needing "just a little more" from your front end. Before you know it, your nice and simple JS has to keep a lot more state than you anticipated. jQuery helps, but I eventually
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by gcv 12y ago
Don't worry about it. Programming is easier for an adult to pick up than, say, music or math. Definitely don't waste your time chasing the latest and greatest. Most frameworks are fads — that's why they go in and out of fashi
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by gcv 12y ago
I saw him perform a few years ago. It was off-putting: he spent a bunch of time during the show complaining about other people "stealing" his tricks, specifically contact juggling itself.
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by gcv 12y ago
Speaking as a juggler: I've seen Gatto in performance (in Kooza in 2008); he's every bit as good as the article says. I've also seen (and met) many other top jugglers. And yet, to be honest, while I appreciate the talent and
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by gcv 12y ago
> software [is] an order of magnitude more complex to reason about than e.g. a bridge I think you're trying to flatter our profession. Software is not more complex; it's just that we don't know what we're doing well e
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by gcv 12y ago
> We have the usual engineering principles No. We don't. As Alan Kay said, programmers don't have a solid concept like an arch to build on. In real engineering, when you build a bridge, a single rusty rivet won't cause it
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by gcv 12y ago
Isn't your work released under a less restrictive license than main Datomic?
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by gcv 12y ago
Oracle RAC does scale horizontally. Sort of: it requires putting your data in a SAN, but that is mostly horizontally-scalable as well.
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by gcv 12y ago
Curious: why is this limited to ClojureScript? I can see this being useful in JVM Clojure in projects which do not need real or full Datomic.
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by gcv 12y ago
It seems to me that Rails' main advantage over Clojure+microframeworks for web development is the ability to use mature libraries to handle common tasks: user management with devise, for example.
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by gcv 12y ago
redo is pretty cool, but I ran into trouble with apenwarr's implementation ( https://github.com/apenwarr/redo , see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redo-list/GL5z8eEqT90/tk_vLZ...
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by gcv 12y ago
That sounds amazing. Are boats and beach houses that much cheaper in NZ? In the US, you have to be quite wealthy, or quite an avid sailor, to own anything more substantial than a dinghy. Houses anywhere near a semi-desirable beach community
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by gcv 12y ago
Try Guy Gavriel Kay. He is generally considered a fantasy writer, but I'd say "alternative-historical magical realism" is a more accurate description. I see a lot of more recent Rushdie in his style. Start with Under Heaven
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Using Meteor and AngularJS Together(medium.com)
2 points by gcv 12y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
The TeX boxes-and-glue model works well. It differs from the brain-damaged CSS model by allowing you to describe what happens between boxes (the glue). I don't see why it can't be adapted to the web browser.
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by gcv 13y ago
How do you suggest going about finding out if a bank updated the OpenSSL version in its DMZ?
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Why Bother With Cucumber Testing?(jackkinsella.ie)
80 points by gcv 13y ago|29 comments

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