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by goldfeld 12y ago
Given that the functional programming story in JavaScript is much more developed, "vastly better language" may be true as long as you only consider the object-oriented side of it.
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by goldfeld 12y ago
So is that a name doctors, after much painstaking research, slapped on top of what has been known for millenia as meditation? Because that's exactly describing something like vipassana, or mindfulness meditation. Sometimes it's fu
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by goldfeld 12y ago
Most welcome! I wrote that wall of text more in wanting to get my reasons out of my head, like you did, than in trying to wrestle you over to my side of the field. But if you want to be really tempted now, reconsider, like someone else comm
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by goldfeld 12y ago
I was really drawn to the title of your post because that's just what I have done--well, over the last few months--and I went with Clojure. I want to absolutely focus now and I can see the momentum is gonna take me for at least the nex
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by goldfeld 12y ago
That code can't be taken down for "copyright reasons" is a feature in my eyes, not a flaw. The best way to stand up to censorship and legal threats is to really not be able to comply, just like the best defense against tortur
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by goldfeld 12y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how many americans completely overlook this in their blind patriotism. Baidu today may well be the only company able to challenge Google's strength on the search engine land, and an effective monopoly (i.e.
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by goldfeld 12y ago
They also have an order of magnitude more software to choose from, which tends to drive cost of software down through competition (though I'll grant it that most free models we're stuck with today suck, and I wish paying at least
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by goldfeld 12y ago
Hey, libertarianism is great! Down with the state! I get actually more pissed off with libertarian cargo-culting than with current government regulation. As much as government is in bed with big corps, it's so much easier to get to an
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by goldfeld 12y ago
Oh I guess also for checking plant, soil and water, possibly also for rock formations. Seemingly those are not interesting subjects to you, so it may be remarkably useless to you. In any case, it's expected that a "molecular senso
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Well since you mentioned long lines let me plug my own, because I find it a genuinely elegant solution to one related problem: http://github.com/goldfeld/vim-seek , it's a motion I created mostly to move around lon
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Reading about the peasants' life during the Cultural Revolution plays out a very similar narrative, down to Mao's very corny propaganda.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Do men have to be effeminate to identify with isolated feminine characteristics?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I completely agree, while at the same time I wonder if they're not being too ambitious--are there simulations like this but for simpler organisms, preferably that is open source as well? I would love to be able to just inspect and toy
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Interesting, that's a domain I'm just getting into, can you point me towards projects and research at the intersection of political science and data science/programming?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
This is beyond my wildest wishes. Meaning I have wished, as a formerly active Vim plugin author now fully switched over to Emacs/evil, exactly for Clojure compiling down to VimL so that I could maintain my plugins as Clojure/Lisp
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think when they say MVP they might really mean AFJ, which would make the behavior you observed more understandable. Some AFJ purists would even claim it's the right way to do it under the methodology, which is arguably one of its maj
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by goldfeld 13y ago
For another thing you might or might not have overlooked: doesn't a person endorse a comment for the same reasons she would upvote it? If so, upvoting would endorse it, and you don't need a dedicated 'endorse' button. Th
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by goldfeld 13y ago
So I suppose you were a founder of the startup, or at least an early employee with the expected benefits. It sure is great! Like this dear CEO of Meta, he wakes up with a big smile on his face thinking of his equity and all these employees
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Given the list's modus operandi and goals, wouldn't it work well under a format such as the blockchain? No moderation and no chance to delete what's been posted, since the decentralization means it would by then be replicated
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think you miss a major thing here: if you put vim with just it's top 100 plugins up against Sublime Text, I think it will easily lose. Why would I even use that? It's because of the long tail of thousands of plugins (your 1% usa
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I haven't been following Meteor too closely lately, but from the start it implemented minimongo on the client side, which is a good subset of the Meteor+MongoDB integration. This allows Meteor apps to mostly be 'offline by default
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Wherein Mozilla starts to look like Canonical.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Unfortunately, not every place in the world allows no-questions-asked returns like in the US. Even at an intl' chain store like Walmart (where I bought it.)
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Way I see it, Lenovo makes rugged, durable and dependable machines, but they lack the finish/style in VAIO or MacBooks (then again I haven't seen what Lenovo has been up to lately, so might be completely off.) So when people say t
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by goldfeld 13y ago
It had been north of 5 years since I had last bought a laptop. It was a VAIO. I loved that computer as a man can love his bread-winner. Nowadays I work on an old trusty Acer (which feels close to a VAIO in finish, build quality and even sty
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Angular, Ember and Backbone are all MVCs. They're more or less different shapes and sizes of a hammer. You'd be missing saws, which can cut through all this, ahem, object oriented crap. And don't forget the simple tools, whic
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Exactly. When SOPA came looming around, I realized my digital buying habits had in effect been indirectly funding lobby activities to make the internet and my life worse. That's when I decided to stop giving them money.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I've completely moved on to C-m instead of RET and C-h instead of Backspace. I did this after feeling some stress on my right pinky (it would twitch involuntary when I laid in bed after a long coding day,) on which occasion I also swit
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by goldfeld 13y ago
When you host a solid project like CodeMirror on a local Node.js instance, which fortunately has a heavy focus on I/O, you start to get those capabilities back. See something like Lighttable, which is essentially ClojureScript on top o
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Since "Ray Bradbury" is the only hint as to what this could be (unless you're familiar with the mentioned challenge), and since I often look to comments to get a feel for the link's subject before even following it, I&#x

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