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by jarcane 11y ago
Yes. It's like how Jeremy Clarkson is pretty extreme right wing by British standards, but still makes jokes mocking the American health care system or how racist middle England is. Different cultures can be a little weird to fit into e
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by jarcane 11y ago
In a market where even people who have actual degrees struggle to overcome the experience demands, someone without even that is pretty much fucked, especially in a country like I live in where higher education is free. I have managed to be,
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by jarcane 11y ago
I was disappointed after the title. I was hoping to see something about the actual benefits and end outcomes of MOOC students, not just more "I come not to bury Caesar" level rhetoric. My programming "education" such as
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by jarcane 11y ago
Reagent + React Native is kinda my dream mobile stack ...
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by jarcane 11y ago
Considering the Russians have been footing the bill for ReactOS for a while now and it's still no closer to being actually usable, I highly doubt it would make the slightest difference.
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Show HN: The Red Flag of Functional Programming(github.com)
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Wherefore art though LFE? [video](youtube.com)
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by jarcane 11y ago
When Scheme folks get hot and bothered about continuations not being gotos what they normally mean is that the idea of a continuation is much more fundamental. I've found a much more elemental way of thinking of it is that it's
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by jarcane 11y ago
Oh wow. This is going in the bookmarks. Last time I did REST work, I had to make do with CocoaRestClient and Swagger, and neither were exactly convenient for some things.
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by jarcane 11y ago
Doing it the Apple way isn't free, either. Yes, Apple takes their traditional overly generous markup per memory increase, but there are liabilities in terms of inventory. In a model like the iPhone's it means your 16GB phones are
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by jarcane 11y ago
I stand corrected. I actually thought Samsung had ditched that "feature" a while ago.
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by jarcane 11y ago
This would all be trivially solved if Apple would just put a goddamn SD card slot in it. Storage size as sole model differentiation is sooo 2001. At this point it genuinely makes Apple look out of touch in a market where every other flagshi
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by jarcane 11y ago
So in other words, Reagent? https://reagent-project.github.io/
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by jarcane 11y ago
It wouldn't even let me open the page on my WP8.1 phone.
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by jarcane 11y ago
I should clarify: I'm already familiar with basic JavaScript, it's more specific stuff about mobile development I'm after.
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Ask HN: Getting started with JavaScript app development
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by jarcane 11y ago
"Hard"? Or just "expensive" and "not easily automated away"? Because there's a difference. In this case though, I struggle even to see how that applies. The examples given are literally cases of identic
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by jarcane 11y ago
It seems a perfectly consistent criticism to me. Rather than do their due diligence, Google threw the baby out with the bathwater by shutting down the whole program. Sadly that is unsurprising in a tech world that so often likes to pretend
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by jarcane 11y ago
grumbles something about developers saying "Linux" when they mean "only supported on Ubuntu"
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by jarcane 11y ago
1) That's up to the tests, just as in any language. 2) Some of the changes you describe are no less trivial to experiment with in an environment with a REPL. I routinely trial changes to small functions simply by running them in the RE
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by jarcane 11y ago
I've never really needed it in Clojure. The code is that much more expressive that overall LoC is dramatically reduced (thus more easily viewed "in the whole"), and following a proper functional approach means good functions
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by jarcane 11y ago
Pretty much, no, really. This is why I consider an ad-blocker part of any standard security suite.
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by jarcane 11y ago
chinathrow is right. A community is a body of people who respect and act in each other's best interests or for the collective good. A company is not a community, it's a for-profit enterprise, and it does not give a fuck about resp
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by jarcane 11y ago
Read some of the stuff he and others have written in the past about his process. Even the subject matter is selected based on virality more than anything. You really think it's coincidence that all his comics seem to be about whatever
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by jarcane 11y ago
The only exception on that list is a gimmick card game illustrated by a popular webcomic author that for whatever reason went viral. It went viral because said webcomic's creator is a professional SEO marketer. The Oatmeal is basical
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by jarcane 11y ago
I frankly can't tell the difference. It's certainly no less coherent.
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by jarcane 11y ago
There are advantages, yes, not denying that, but it seems vanishingly rare to find a packaging system that doesn't have this problem, and that's frustrating in particular for a programmer when almost every single language you use
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by jarcane 11y ago
I often have, is ports exempt from this quarterly system though?
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by jarcane 11y ago
FreeBSD's packages being so up to date is literally one of the reasons I switched to it from Debian. I don't understand this change, nor why it's the default. Actually having up-to-date packages was one of BSD's biggest
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by jarcane 11y ago
Perussuomalaiset are increasingly becoming an international embarrassment. It seems like I only see our politicians in the international news when they've either said something racist again, or they're negotiating how best to put

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