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by jayferd 15y ago
++ Syntax is extremely important for scripting languages, especially those you expect to use with a REPL. Programmers tend to choose languages that (a) are good enough for the job, and (b) are pleasant to use.
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by jayferd 15y ago
> 3) Tcl as alternative of shell script is great, for a number of reasons: from the [glob] command to an [exec] command that is able to mimic a lot of what a shell can do. See the Redis unit test for an example of scripting stuff with T
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by jayferd 15y ago
TCL has the TCLers wiki ( http://wiki.tcl.tk/ ), which isn't the same as SICP, but is a great place to see awesome things TCL can (and can't) do.
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by jayferd 15y ago
Interesting you mention TCL's focus on command-line usability. I think it was a great step forward there, but there's a fundamental thing it's missing, which is complexity extending to the right. What I mean by that is, say you have a com
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by jayferd 15y ago
I love this article. I've seen this firsthand, having been the "fall guy" for an outage that nobody really understood. There were many causes for the outage, including poor software design, but the entirety of blame and punishment landed
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Why are you making money?(jayferd.us)
3 points by jayferd 15y ago|1 comments
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by jayferd 15y ago
Nice. This is pretty standard practice for larger companies (TOS's), and I look forward to seeing how this idea grows.
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by jayferd 15y ago
I wish I knew the answer to that question. I know that most startups will ask you to sacrifice other aspects of your life, which I think is really unfortunate.
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by jayferd 15y ago
I love the ad for Stack Overflow Carreers at the bottom.
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by jayferd 15y ago
Everybody here's given pretty good advice. Browser projects often have pretty complex build requirements - concatenation, minification, etc. A lot of people end up writing a ton of shell script spaghetti, or using a js-specific framework (
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by jayferd 15y ago
++ Especially with alcohol, there's a huge difference between what's promised and what's delivered. It seems to promise fun and relaxation, but really it just makes you a little wobbly and a little sick. A friend of mine would always joke
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by jayferd 15y ago
...anyone? <crickets>
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by jayferd 15y ago
awesome. Does get blurry after a while though :(
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by jayferd 15y ago
Well said. That's why I emphasized remembering why we're making money. If I'm bootstrapping a company, for example, I can do it because I want to make a lot of money, or I can do it because I want to support my family. It's just a diffe
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by jayferd 15y ago
Hm. So say I got Facebook equity and ended up with millions. My question is why ? What can I possibly do with that money that will make it worth it?
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by jayferd 15y ago
""" Spending 2 years doing something you don’t enjoy is a full 3.4% of your life. What are you getting back for that investment? Money? What are you going to do with that money that will be worth the non-refundable 3.4% of your life? An ext
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by jayferd 15y ago
...yeah, it's got its warts (see wtfjs.com), but it's built on a very solid foundation. It does get a bad rap because of the poor (and inconsistent) design of the DOM, but if you play within its rules it can be very expressive and powerful
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by jayferd 15y ago
Honest question to the downvoters: All the libraries available at the time I was coding required a day or two of getting lost in documentation before I could use them. Has this changed in the past couple of years?
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by jayferd 15y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think having a crappy development environment is a very good way to build things quickly. Perhaps in the days when there were few stable alternatives, this may have made some sense, but there are so many eas
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by jayferd 15y ago
I don't know about ActionScript, but javascript is actually a pretty beautiful language. It's basically scheme with Java syntax. Also, we're stuck with JS for the time being. PHP is easy to ditch by comparison.
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by jayferd 15y ago
It's the classic linking problem - if you write a plugin in $LANGUAGE, the end-user has to have a Vim compiled with $LANGUAGE support. My favorite example is Command-T. In order to link VimL to C, he had to write a Ruby extension and use t
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by jayferd 15y ago
Yeah, I've tried it. I think it's unfortunate that they try to emulate Vim so closely. I love modal editing, but there are features of Vim (like VimL and the hacky combination of VimL and ex mode) that deserve to be re-thought, rather tha
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by jayferd 15y ago
Does anyone know of a modal editor that has an actual scripting language (i.e. better than VimL) behind it? I'm not satisfied with: * tcl/ruby/python interfaces to Vim, because they're horrifically documented, and plugins using these are di
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Who is the "average user"?(jeffhoogland.blogspot.com)
1 points by jayferd 15y ago|0 comments
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by jayferd 15y ago
Magic!!!!! I code in Ruby for a living, and this is even a bit much magic for me. I suppose you can use it in magic-less mode with `from pbs import Command`, and set up your command set manually.
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by jayferd 15y ago
That's fair. Meditation is hard, and I don't claim to be particularly good at it. On the other hand, I would say it's an extremely difficult task for just about anyone. The study the article you posted cites successfully correlates brain
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by jayferd 15y ago
I never took ADD meds as an adult, but what really enabled me to kick the habit in college was a sincere and dedicated meditation practice (in particular I took up passage meditation, but any sincere practice would have done the trick). Ac
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by jayferd 15y ago
I was diagnosed with ADD as a child, and have experienced firsthand the kind of dependencies these drugs can create. I wasn't able to stop taking Dexedrine (essentially the same as Ritalin) until halfway through my first semester of colleg
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How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’(wagingnonviolence.org)
2 points by jayferd 15y ago|1 comments
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by jayferd 15y ago
:) I think it might be more of a perspective difference than a language difference. My point was that there is often internal quality work that seems to have "no business impact". This obviously doesn't apply to the example you gave, but

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