jasonjackson

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by jasonjackson 15y ago
For the morality question, if I was PG, I would've just said that my passion is to provide -you- the user/the world with what you want, so if there's no demand for it, then I won't build it. Entering into a discussion about objective morali
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
Very nice design! I'm going to use this permanently.
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
The compiler is written in Clojure. It'll compile Java ~2.0 to native x86. I haven't decided what backend i'm using yet, or just output ASM.
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
I'm the author of this project. I think of this project as a technology demo. I wanted to how difficult it would be to write a minimalist compiler with LLVM -- it was pretty quick & easy. This is a great educational project as the code
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
Just to clarify I'm actually working on a second compiler project written in Clojure. It's my 2nd project that uses core.logic and core.match extensively. Core.Logic was the perfect abstraction for doing all the type checking -- I'm really
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Free 4.5GB DropBox Space, if you try their beta(gizmodo.com)
1 points by jasonjackson 15y ago|0 comments
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
Model X is their SUV.
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
Nathan's talking about solving recurring problems (that belong to a single problem class).
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
And/or the jerks eventually settle down in their 40s.
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
Absolutely agree with this 100%. There's a lot of conflation between dominance and selfishness. These two traits can look very similar at a shallow level, but are completely othorgonal. Pure selfishness is when you act without concern for o
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
You've found it easy to hire people with existing Clojure experience? That surprises me, great news though.
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
There's no single correct answer here, because each person operates under unique long-term goals. If your goal is to build a large business network, then -probabilistically- more jobs is better than fewer. By virtues of UW CO-OP, whenever I
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My mind is blown... The future of social networking??(plus.google.com)
2 points by jasonjackson 15y ago|0 comments
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
This article sets up a straw-man argument by claiming the reason why VCs invest in young people and not older people is because creativity diminishes in older age. I think their refutation of this idea is well done with good evidence, but w
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
downvote!
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Single Dose of Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change(sciencedaily.com)
14 points by jasonjackson 15y ago|3 comments
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Elon Musk's Psychology of Intrinsic Motivation.(youtube.com)
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Elon Musk Talks About His Drive and Where it Comes From(youtube.com)
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How Elon Musk Thinks: Reasoning from First Principles.(oninnovation.com)
94 points by jasonjackson 15y ago|41 comments
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
While I would also love to see a documentary about that. Just because Tesla is still alive today, doesn't mean he was lucky. When you look at all the events that took place in between 2002-2008: + Having to sell cars during the 2008 depres
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Bloomberg Risk Takers: Elon Musk Documentary(bloomberg.com)
123 points by jasonjackson 15y ago|20 comments
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
Python is multi-paradigm; it's not dominantly OO. Comparing python libraries to java libraries, functional composition is used just as frequently as OO composition (if not more so). If you're building a website, in Python/Django, you pass i
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
If you're having problems loading, here's the google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2N7uwSF...
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
`Rich Hickey dubbed his tendency to spend more time thinking about problems than typing code as “Hammock-Driven Development”. ` in the foot notes ;-)
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
tdlr: C < Go < Lisp
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by jasonjackson 15y ago
I open sourced the code here: https://github.com/jasonjckn/snake3d I don't have a tutorial for Snake3D, but there's quite a bit out there for Clojure + OpenGL: 1) https://github.com/ztellman/penumbra/wiki/Applications 2) https://github