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by granitepail 13y ago
this should be at the top! most complete option yet, with preservation of the original documents. many thanks!
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by granitepail 14y ago
There's gob ( http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob/ ). Not going to claim it's on the level of node communication in Erlang, but it does make data (de)serializaiton incredibly simple. With only a few lines of code you could have a channel r
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by granitepail 14y ago
So you're assuming they didn't do their due diligence? That they threw $30MM at a company they knew nothing about? Has anyone in this thread gone so far as to even try the product?
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by granitepail 14y ago
This kind of response terrifies me. I'm a man, so maybe I am not in a place to correct you, but I have gotten the impression that the pressure and discomfort wrought by this kind of behavior (whether or not you have a thick enough skin to d
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by granitepail 14y ago
As a group seeking to give women a safe and comfortable entry into tech, I can't imagine any scenario in which supporting PyLadies would add to the problem. It may bring more women into tech who are then the subject of such misogyny, which
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by granitepail 14y ago
Taking away benefits to see which candidates are the "hungriest" seems lazy - and unethical - to me. It's not easy to source good candidates, but it seems completely backwards to find the best, most driven candidates possible through a meth
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Curry function in pure JavaScript(gist.github.com)
4 points by granitepail 14y ago|1 comments
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by granitepail 14y ago
the phrase i see uttered time and time again throughout his posts (i've read three, now) is "then i realized that <library/component> sucks" followed by a self-indulgent pursuit to make a better <library/component> that ends
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by granitepail 14y ago
I'm always a bit shocked at how incestuous this community can be. Many articles that pop up are simply responses to other articles, rarely containing enough content to justify being anything other than a comment. In this case, I saw the c
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by granitepail 14y ago
For those of you who don't know, weavejester is the creator and maintainer of a few of the more prominent (and, in my opinion, production ready) clojure libraries (thanks!), mostly centered around web serving. His code is concise and chunk
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by granitepail 14y ago
I don't think our ideas are mutually exclusive — what you're describing is the notion of abstraction as it is applied to writing code. FP gives programmers incredible power with regards to reusing code (macros, first class functions, etc)
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by granitepail 14y ago
This article serves to fracture the community in a manner disturbingly similar to that in which the 'smug functional programmers' he complains about do. I can't help but sigh. I think the recent rise in popularity of functional programming
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by granitepail 15y ago
I can't help but feel as though this article was a massive waste of time. I know it's certainly not the point of the article to be thorough, but the claims are all utterly baseless and not even remotely applicable to... anything.
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by granitepail 15y ago
I definitely checked the date a few times, but this makes an awful lot of sense given Google's position. At this point it's really just hardware to bridge the accessibility gap.
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by granitepail 15y ago
I definitely agree. This is already a pretty core functionality of OKCupid and, in fact, I implemented this same idea my senior year of school (called it the "senior scramble" -- it got ridiculous). I'm fairly certain this concept has be
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by granitepail 15y ago
I could not agree more. I think they've set a reasonable precedent for dealing with such oversights.
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by granitepail 15y ago
Human rights? If I'm correctly understanding the issue, their software monitored your contact list so they could notify you when one of your contacts joined the service. You seem ready to throw him before the International Court. That the
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by granitepail 15y ago
I, like many others in this thread, think this is a fairly gross over-reaction. As engineers, we're trained to dig up problems and create solutions -- and a big part of this process is understanding what data can be made available to you a
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by granitepail 15y ago
If it were more usable, I'd point towards Freenet. They've been at building a system like this since 2000 -- it's just a shame it runs so slowly.
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by granitepail 15y ago
I can't help but feel as though this article is almost purely sensational. The figures are based on such loose generalizations that they hardly prove a point. Better would have been an article comparing the hard numbers regarding what Hol
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by granitepail 15y ago
My gut has been that it is backed (and would be exploited) by corporations, specifically big media. Combine this with poor IP laws and you've got a scenario in which corporate censorship can thrive.
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by granitepail 15y ago
I completely agree. Mr. Watts was embarrassing to watch -- his slanted opinion and childish domination of the dialogue was less than coy. I grew sick to my stomach listening to him constantly derail Oyama's statements. He kept demanding
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by granitepail 15y ago
Seconded. I'm a bit interested in this, myself. Are there any comparable email services? Or calendar?
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by granitepail 15y ago
Where did you read that? The article would seem to imply it was an eight-core chip they were working with.
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by granitepail 15y ago
Yeah -- it was about as textbook as it gets. I respect the guy to no end, but this "article" was pretty absurd. Four-some-odd paragraphs of the author explaining how flabbergasted she was by Job's presence in _her own neighborhood_ and o
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by granitepail 15y ago
I'm with you. This is more geometry than it is linear algebra. When I think of linear algebra I think of vector spaces and determining their relationships, not simple vector math.
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by granitepail 15y ago
The Art of Assembly is, itself, an immensely useful and dated piece of work. I remember flipping through this years ago. Certainly worth the read, though it's likely not worth pouring one's self into too far, as it isn't so easily applica
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by granitepail 15y ago
I don't have time to look into the actual project, but a few comments on the web site. The logo is quite nice (really, I like it a lot), but the page design is so sparse it's hard to read. One's eyes don't really have anything to focus on
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by granitepail 15y ago
Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I get irked when gender roles sneak their way into things like this.
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by granitepail 15y ago
You see, women love cooking. The article is kind of hilarious in a chauvinistic sense, but it _does_ do a decent job of describing MapReduce. The only problem I see with simple overviews like this is that they leave out the fact that, ofte

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