jamongkad

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by jamongkad 17y ago
As long as Python continues to not utilize multi-line lambdas. Then Perl and Ruby will continue to be a usable Lisp. But I don't think that's a bad thing. Python is Python and that's that.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Speaking as someone who is tangled in a love triangle between Python and PHP. I do agree that PHP does have it's strengths. For the programmer just making a living, it's quite ok to etch out just using it. In terms of web applications, what
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Why isn't SQLite a part of this list?
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Upvote for iPython, it quickened my learning of the language 10 fold. That and slime.vim is a match made in heaven!
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by jamongkad 17y ago
You basically put into words what I wanted to explain in the first place.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Thank you! but it's still not very clear to me. I'm having trouble trying to visualize how this should play out. :\
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Could you please provide an example for this?
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by jamongkad 17y ago
If I were to start over again I would have started with Scheme as a good first programming language.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Just out of curiosity why do you say that turning into a custom software development shop is a waste of talent? Granted yes I'm very much with the rest of the HN community that we should concentrate on making products and all.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
I second that, another useful plugin is taglist.vim, just make sure you have exuberant ctags installed first!
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by jamongkad 17y ago
I really dig offices with natural lighting in place. It creates a very homey atmosphere which is conducive to working on hard problems.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
A few months ago Python, decided to jump the gun to learn Common Lisp and Scheme.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Don't know about the other two but vTiger is the crappiest, buggiest piece of shit I ever had the misfortune of handling. It's full of legacy crap from a bygone era when the original developers wrote it first in procedural PHP. Then the sub
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How to Make it in the Afterlife.(happydays.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by jamongkad 17y ago|0 comments
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Work 40 hours for your employer and another 20 hours improving yourself.(nuts.redsquirrel.com)
4 points by jamongkad 17y ago|0 comments
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by jamongkad 17y ago
This is really cool as I'm in the process of working my way through SICP (though painfully but learning), I was wondering if I could really use Scheme for real world usage. This seems to be the most likely answer.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Ditto, though the article didn't offer much, it helped me articulate the feeling I've been having when and if I get to that point.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Hmm never thought of it that way. So being an application developer has a more direct tangible effect on the end user as compared to being a software engineer. By that definition then most startups are built by application developers. I gue
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by jamongkad 17y ago
That makes two of us.
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Enables users to develop web applications with the shortest codes(web4r.org)
1 points by jamongkad 17y ago|0 comments
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by jamongkad 17y ago
I think it's a little bit of both. Functional style in languages such as Scheme, Lisp and the like tend to nest functions. Which makes readability a bit hard, which goes against the design goal of Python in the first place.
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Thanks Kev, basically I want to know how much it would take to build a basic robot. Nothing to complicated just a cute thing on wheels that could run around and not bump into stuff.
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Ask HN: Anybody have experience with building hobby robots?
4 points by jamongkad 17y ago|3 comments
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by jamongkad 17y ago
You're right what you've just outline are features that the community as a whole show so much aversion to. I guess they believe functional programming does not help with code readability. But I do hope that Python's metaprogramming features
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by jamongkad 17y ago
This is great! although I do have a few comments. Looks like the OP has the makings of a fun children's book on his hands. My only qualm though is the Star Belly Sneetch Machine spits out Sneetches with star's on their bellies. Probably a m
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by jamongkad 17y ago
Which has got me thinking...if Django is a full stack framework. Then what is Pylons?
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by jamongkad 17y ago
You can do list comprehensions in JS now??
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How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.(shamusyoung.com)
81 points by jamongkad 17y ago|35 comments
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by jamongkad 17y ago
I feel the exact same with the aforementioned frameworks. I too am learning Python and decided to learn it whilst hacking away with web.py. When I found myself building yet another MVC framework with web.py as its core. I moved on to Pylons
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Is Haskell a good choice for web applications?(jekor.com)
39 points by jamongkad 17y ago|11 comments

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