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by greghendershott 11y ago
You politely and clearly explained why you're unconvinced a repo would benefit you. You got a couple replies pointing out some advantages, which maybe you hadn't considered or at least some other people might not have known about.
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by greghendershott 11y ago
The all-in-one-page version is http://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/all.html Also, the source is https://github.com/greghendershott/fear-of-macros
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Often there's some tension between individual career development and what makes sense for the project and company. Ideally, managers create opportunities for people to exercise the former in a sandbox (e.g. some variation of "20%
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by greghendershott 11y ago
> That said, can somebody implement hygienic macros in JavaScript. Although I haven't used it hands-on, http://sweetjs.org/ looks impressive. For example recently sweet.js apparently implemented some cutting-edge Ra
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by greghendershott 11y ago
Although I haven't read this book, I read its ToC. Apparently it seeks to introduce you to the Emacs way of doing things. And guess what? Near the end, it emphasizes how to use Emacs' self-documention: https://www.maste
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by greghendershott 11y ago
I agree the not-yet-abandoned Google apps can be quite superb. Provided you run them using the proprietary {AOL,Prodigy,CompuServe,MSN} client app. a.k.a. Chrome.
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by greghendershott 11y ago
I'd say that Google's job is to show the search results that _each_ user is actually looking for. (Not an aggregate user with 2.5 children.) Come to think of it, doesn't Google aspire to personalized search? But in any case,
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Another way to feel better about dilution is to realize that the valuation after every round is a mutually agreed abstraction. Until some actual liquidity event puts cash in hand, you have valuation not value. The only meaningful dilution i
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by greghendershott 12y ago
I sometimes put a `help-wanted` tag on GitHub issues I think are especially well-bounded items someone could contribute. It looks like other people use that tag, too: https://github.com/search?l=&p=2&q=state%3Aopen+l
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Same here. I spend nearly all my time in Firefox and Emacs. My main laptop has been a MBPr, but more for the hardware than for OS X per se. Lately I've been trying a 1st gen Chromebook Pixel. So far the experiment is going really well.
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by greghendershott 12y ago
I think Shriram would point out he is one of many people responsible for the development of Racket.
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Is it their own money? I thought the general partners are using money from limited partners. As the article put it: "I would love to ask the investment officers at a firefighter’s pension fund in Wyoming what they think of venture capi
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by greghendershott 12y ago
It's nice that New York didn't get much snow, as predicted by the GFS model but not the other two. Did GFS predict 2-3 feet of snow for Boston? Because west of Boston they're at 30 inches already, and it's expected to fa
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SNOWTRON and Snowzilla: How Boston Removed Snow from Streets Throughout History(boston.com)
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Although I'm not a fan of the left-offset main keyboard and trackpad (I'd prefer leaving out the numeric keypad section), it looks really nice otherwise.
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Hopefully I'm being Captain Obvious, but: Using hackathons as a hiring tactic doesn't seem like a very smart idea, given how self-evidently discriminatory it is on the axes the OP describes.
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by greghendershott 12y ago
I didn't expect my blog post to be on the front page of HN. Here's a TL;DR summary: For many languages this is a significant and distracting degradation in the presentation. I could understand GitHub removing highlighting complet
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Thanks for sharing that. It's helpful to understand it from your perspective. To share my perspective, outside Google: A similar "error/ad" appears for other some other Google features. Such as trying to edit a picture i
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Sorry to be slow to notice this and to reply. First, I think Geiser is wonderful and you made a great choice. For whatever reason, as a Racket beginner some years ago Geiser just didn't "click" for me, and scheme-mode seemed
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Thanks to the head start provided by gcr, recently I added the equivalent of geiser's support for images in the REPL, to racket-mode. As for supporting WXME format files: Although that sounds very cool, I don't think that's w
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Well, the original markdown.pl heavily uses regexps. From having tilted at this windmill a little myself, I think: 1. It's tricky enough to handle correctly all the under-specified corner cases of basic markdown -- not to mention the p
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by greghendershott 12y ago
Exactly. If I ever say this, what I mean to be saying is something more positive. More like: "Good news! This is something that's actually simple to fix/do. Even if you find it difficult at first (I sure did), someday you&#
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by greghendershott 12y ago
This is important advice for consumer-ish software. But in other areas, it works differently. A product "grows up" as its original user cohort grows up, and that's OK. I saw this in the music creation software space. Products
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by greghendershott 13y ago
Confession: I used s-expressions only because even I could figure out how to parse that. I didn't appreciate Lisp in any meaningful sense. Fast forward to a few years ago. I wanted to learn a lisp, finally. I gravitated toward Scheme.
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by greghendershott 13y ago
For example, threading macros in Racket: https://github.com/greghendershott/rackjure/blob/master/rack...
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by greghendershott 13y ago
Racket has a documentation system called Scribble. Which is actually one of the most interesting features of Racket -- that it lets you implement a `#lang scribble` which does not even use s-expression syntax, but you still have the full po
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Skim or Sink(greghendershott.com)
1 points by greghendershott 13y ago|0 comments