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Cluster with Clojure(herdrick.tumblr.com)
45 points by herdrick 16y ago|3 comments
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by herdrick 16y ago
It's nothing like that. Even the corruption isn't so bad and seems to be improving.
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by herdrick 16y ago
Quite true. And people often refer to Mexico as a poor country. False. The average Mexican is better off than the large majority of the world, with a per capita GNP of over $7,000.
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by herdrick 16y ago
Really? Can you post some profiling data?
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by herdrick 16y ago
since it is a very marked contrast from the rest of Valley culture I think you're onto something there. The typical valley firm has almost as much of a uniform as a bank. The subversive suit. Interesting.
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by herdrick 16y ago
What they left dangling were the serene Namibian parents. It just seems less painful there and within our own past as well. Maybe the "slavishly respect your childrens' thoughts and wants" was a big mistake. You know, phrases like, "Chil
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by herdrick 16y ago
Here we go. If you thought language flamewars are bad...
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by herdrick 16y ago
Justin wears a suit now?
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by herdrick 16y ago
No, I think mostly he's talking about something unrelated and very important. However, his last sentence is exactly as you say: "...In the end, however, an algorithm expressed in prolog can be translated into any of the other languages, de
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by herdrick 16y ago
The most astonishingly skillful programmers use lisp more often than average or crummy programmers, but it's still an unusual choice among them. Look at the results of the ICFP programming challenges.
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by herdrick 16y ago
> The biggest reason, of course, is what some > have called the "de-skilling" of IT. I don't buy that. There are countless software shops that are obsessed with programmer skill and productivity, in fact live or die by it, and alm
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by herdrick 16y ago
"I would not expect any new major software effort to be written in Lisp. On the other hand, it’s not clear that ITA would have done that, either..." So ITA (possibly) wouldn't choose Common Lisp again. I wonder if he includes other lisps i
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by herdrick 16y ago
Launch.
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by herdrick 16y ago
Flag it.
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Steve Jobs on designer Paul Rand (video)(youtube.com)
3 points by herdrick 16y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 16y ago
Oh man, thanks for that link. Submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1463114
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by herdrick 16y ago
The element frequency counting example (in the grey box) is pretty ambiguous. Are you just supposed to ignore the numbers and instead count the frequencies of the strings? Or is the first element of each sublist to be the addend? I.e. sh
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by herdrick 16y ago
This story is pretty weak. What they apparently have are a bunch of anomalies from extremely coarse geophysical surveys. Aerial surveys even! That's about four steps from having deposits, in the same way that having a bunch of startup idea
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by herdrick 16y ago
I think they only accept people who are touring, not those who want to work and settle.
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by herdrick 16y ago
No need to laugh. It was a reasonable assumption.
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by herdrick 16y ago
And: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385745
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by herdrick 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385736
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by herdrick 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411619
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by herdrick 16y ago
No, I'm including all the antennas in that - why not use directional ones for all the networks in the room to keep the stage free of extra networks?
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by herdrick 16y ago
Don't complain, flag.
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by herdrick 16y ago
I think it's to enhance the sense of exclusivity, to help people to get excited about it, to emphasize to people that important this is important. I mean, if people are scrambling to get live updates of something, then it must be importa
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by herdrick 16y ago
Sure, but why didn't they use directional antennas to get a demo-dedicated network on the stage? Which would be a good permanent feature for any big conference room come to think of it.
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by herdrick 16y ago
Do you know of any better lectures?
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by herdrick 16y ago
Actually, it's very important that the vilified robber baron of the week can declare bankruptcy too. High income people need to be able to walk away from a bad deal, too, as much for societies good as their own. I'm sure you're right to pu
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by herdrick 16y ago
I'm surprised at the comments here. Yes, spending $100k to get a silly degree is a mistake for a middle class kid, but not a crime. It's a key principle, for moral and practical reasons, that we allow people a way out of crushing debt. Li

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