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by j_m_b 9y ago
Yep, thought of that article when I made the comment. If the appeal is limited to a particular generation, that's bad news. The person who showed me how to use it doesn't really use it anymore. Anecdotally, that tells me people gr
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There doesn't seem to be a clear reason to use Snapchat if you don't already know people on it. I found the app itself so confusing, I needed someone to explain to me how to use it and what the point of it was. That is a UI smell
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It overlooks Millport Rd off of Woods Dr, but yes, that is Tait's towers =).
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Lititz is by no means 'an amish town'. It was founded by Moravians. Its more suburban than rural. Interesting note: The owner of Tait Towers owns a home that looks like a castle on top of a hill.
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macOS has gone down hill since it heyday in the 2000s, very noticeably so since it became known as 'macOS'. For a long time, it was the best nix you could run. The horror stories surrounding High Sierra might finally break my bad
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by j_m_b 9y ago
I thought this was a snarky title for a GraphQL article. Since implementing a server in GraphQL, I much prefer it to REST
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You've hit on a very sore spot for Clojure developers. From a practical standpoint, there is a lot more work out there for Python programmers than for Clojure programmers. The need for Python developers in the workplace is also more br
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Hah awesome... idea has existed for years!
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by j_m_b 9y ago
I've had this idea to find a way to connect landscapers and homeowners to people seeking to buy yard waste for use in various composts and mulches. What gave me this idea was that I had a tree cut down and chipped in my neighborhood. B
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Ask HN: What barriers prevented you from using Clojure?
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Really? Which libraries? Did you try using leinengen? One of the strengths of Clojure imo is how well everything JUST works as opposed to python, ruby, etc.
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by j_m_b 9y ago
It also uses fewer parens than other lisps. Clojure let statement (let [foo "bar" baz "qux"] foo) => "bar" Scheme (let ((foo "bar") (baz "qux")) foo) "bar" So in addition to add
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by j_m_b 9y ago
I second the statement about ClojureScript. It makes developing in Javascript so much nicer and cleaner. With so much work these days being "full-stack", the combination of Clojure/Clojurescript is Clojure's killer featu
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Wouldn't surprise me at all if government was born from coercion of the individual to the needs of the state.. it is after all the definition of government.
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Oh little fruit flies, how I love thee! We had to keep fruit flies and track mutations in my intro to genetics course. We would put them on these little fabric platforms and pump CO2 through the fabric. This would anesthetize them so we cou
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by j_m_b 9y ago
...but..but.. then you'll have two problems!! right guys?
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Due to government involvement, there is a lack of a true market pressure when student loans are underwritten. Not surprising in the least that this bubble is starting to pop.
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What about GraphQL?
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Yah I LOL'd out that one. A year from now we'll be reading the postmortem of the problems the Gutenberg team has faced swapping out React for another library and how things still aren't quite what they used to be.
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Protein folding researchers typically use monte carlo and gradient descent methods. It makes sense to look to machine learning to expand the available toolsets for determining protein structure.
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This theory reminds me a lot of the folding funnel. It used to be thought of as a paradox that a protein could fold in mere minutes if it needed to explore each possible configuration before arranging into its "correct" configurat
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Interesting article that brought to light the usefulness of blockchains I wasn't aware of. >But triple entry changes all that. We can issue stock and you can check your stock against the blockchain. Now you don’t need access to thei
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Whenever this old debate comes up, I am reminded of this quote “There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.” - Hal Abelson I don&#
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by j_m_b 9y ago
So this is the cost, what about the effectiveness? How does it stack up against the millions paid in traditional campaign outreach?
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Something like a Louisiana literacy test!
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Interesting article. Something else I'll notice everywhere, like bad kerning. Thanks ;)
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The reports of Clojure's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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> while they do everything that this pests have a easy run Which is exactly why we can produce so much food / acre. Land use would need to go up significantly, and thus the price of food, in order to be able to use "natural&quo
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Haven't seen Hy yet, thanks for pointing it out! I have been getting back into machine learning recently and Python dominates. Great to see a Python lisp!
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by j_m_b 9y ago
Yes, I know there is Chicken Scheme and Guile. I prefer Clojure over them though.

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