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by greghendershott 10y ago
You can try various ETOPS (Engines Turn On or Passengers Swim) times on the Great Circle Mapper: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=DEL-SFO&MS=wls&DU=mi&E=90
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by greghendershott 10y ago
> In fact, I've even heard some Forth fans themselves say that the point of using Forth is to write yourself something as quickly as possible that lets you program in a higher level language. That was the main point for someone I kn
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by greghendershott 10y ago
It's not necessarily 1:1 file:module. `#lang foo ....` in name.rkt is (in part) a shorthand for `(module name foo ....)`. A single Racket file can have 1 or more modules. Each module can also have sub-modules. Modules generalize runtim
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Racket provides delimited continuations. The page you linked to is criticizing undelimited continuations -- including quoting Matthias Felleisen -- and contains a link to the following: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuation
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by greghendershott 10y ago
I agree. Not just lots of companies. Most companies die. ("Hustle" or no.) However I think that's actually a point in favor of starting small: If you're going to fail? At least fail fast. While you have time to "piv
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by greghendershott 10y ago
This reminds me of what Richard Branson supposedly said: If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. (To be fair, airlines pay humans... as employees... unionized.) I understand the rationale for
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Although the "death of distance" hasn't happened as fast as expected/hoped, maybe it's too soon to give up on it. Trying to kill distance might be crazy. But is it crazier than trying to cram even more jobs, people,
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Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing(nytimes.com)
215 points by greghendershott 10y ago|188 comments
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Some people ignore these. Or rent a truck and take their usual route. It's almost that time of year in Boston when many people move c. Sep 1. Some get "Storrowed": http://realestate.boston.com/news/2015&#
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Exactly. I actually used Quicken in my startup's early days. Naively. And fortuitously. Even after we switched to real accounting software, I would focus first and mostly on the cash flow statement and similar metrics. Many things migh
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Maybe they're reluctant to pick "the" how, too soon. If you're in a field from the early days, you probably have more of a pioneer or explorer mentality. Later come settlers, who pick areas for utility. Even later come r
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by greghendershott 10y ago
I feel badly for the person who didn't realize you were sarcastic, passionately defended the idea that git != github, and got down-voted as their congratulations.
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by greghendershott 10y ago
The division -- between predicates for attribute values vs. specs for maps/seqs -- is interesting because AFAICT Datomic schemas ~= the former, while leaving the latter to your app? (Although I guess :db.cardinality/many straddles
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Prior to an IPO or acquisition, valuations have approximately the precision and accuracy of agile estimates chosen from a drop-down list populated with values from an echo chamber inhabited by....
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Gerald Sussman on Flexible Systems, The Power of Generic Operations [video](vimeo.com)
94 points by greghendershott 11y ago|3 comments
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Interesting you should mention that, as today I just watched Gerald Jay Sussman's NYCLisp talk, in which he discusses it starting at 29:00. https://vimeo.com/151465912
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by greghendershott 11y ago
It's probably wise to enjoy "business biographies" as lying somewhere on the floor closer to the fiction aisle than the non-fiction. Most stories are pitched by PR firms (or the other side of the same coin, attempted take-dow
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by greghendershott 11y ago
use-package is wonderful, as is bind-key (also by John, and a dependency of use-package). Together they reduce the "psychic weight" of trying, using, and configuring packages. They make your init.el a portable artifact of reproduc
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Cool. Mine's in Racket: https://github.com/greghendershott/frog#frog > (because there are so few of them and everyone needs their own) A million monkeys.... :)
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Exactly. There's a spectrum of evaluation strategies from eager to lazy. Programs may mix various flavors. Lazy evaluation combined with memoization is a sexy and elegant approach to some problems, as are dynamic web sites. On the oth
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by greghendershott 11y ago
My most unrewarding educational experiences felt like I was being fire hosed solutions to problems I didn't have. This is a big challenge in the early stages of learning any subject. Interestingly, experienced software developers benef
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by greghendershott 11y ago
I'm not going to take the inter-generational warfare bait :). But I agree with what I think is your main point. My natural tendency is to want consensus. I think that's worth attempting within a reasonable time-frame. But after so
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by greghendershott 11y ago
I'd suggest Racket, a descendant of Scheme. - It is really easy to download, install, and be coding in 5 minutes. - There's a nice GUI IDE, if that's your cup of tea. (Also I maintain racket-mode for Emacs.) - It is "bat
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Yes. I'd say that every success is due to a combination of determination, skill, timing, privilege, and luck. (You could say that most of these are really variations on "luck".) Naturally, people tend to emphasize only some o
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by greghendershott 11y ago
> Your thinking will be better off if you just don't think of the term "lifestyle" business. It's a pejorative used to manipulate you into wasting your life in service to someone else's narrative. Exactly. I&#x27
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by greghendershott 11y ago
I've heard a similar idea expressed using more colorful language: "Often you hear people say they have a 'bucket list'. Well I also have a 'fuck it' list. The older I get, the longer it grows."
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by greghendershott 11y ago
52Kards on YouTube has many free tutorials at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels: https://www.youtube.com/user/DecksAndContests/featured Although I just dabble I think they're mostly very good. They&
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Yes, this seems to be the root of most of the problems described by OP and some comment threads here. In old school print ads, the publisher decides what is appropriate advertising for their readers. This needs to be possible for web site p
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Top Open-Source Static Site Generators(staticgen.com)
7 points by greghendershott 11y ago|0 comments
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by greghendershott 11y ago
While checking the Traffic stats for one of my projects on GitHub today, I discovered inbounds from the following site: http://www.staticgen.com/ It's interesting to see just how many static blog generators there are.

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