jb1991

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by jb1991 8y ago
Man, am I ever a dummy! I look at the diagram on that page and it might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphs to me. I'd have to study that thing one long time to even understand what problem Ions is solving. I'm sure it's a real p
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by jb1991 8y ago
Honest question, just how fast is Julia anyway? Because performance is typically the main reason anyone would want to use it over alternatives. A lot of people justify Julia because, as noted in other comments, it is both high-level yet cla
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Opening of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Accent of Shakespeare’s Time [video](laughingsquid.com)
241 points by jb1991 8y ago|107 comments
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by jb1991 8y ago
> Why remove a feature that could be useful? That makes no sense. It makes sense in the way that a language which is strongly biased to readability and consistent expectations makes sense. It is also how a language which minimizes progra
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by jb1991 9y ago
The size of your code is the number one predictor of bugs. The more code you have, the more bugs you probably have. Smaller code bases have less bugs. Verbosity means more code. This is why very terse dynamic languages like Clojure often ha
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by jb1991 9y ago
> Even more annoying about the iPhone is the always growing "Other" space on the phone. I was constantly short on disk space with no way of knowing what the cause was or how to clean it up. Hm? There is a very simple Storage pa
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by jb1991 9y ago
I've known more than one developer who successfully did this in their Java job. They were not fired. Some of them ended up speaking at Clojure conferences about it.
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by jb1991 9y ago
Immutable programming with proper immutable data structures (i.e. persistent) is very different than immutable programming in a language with lots of constructs for mutation. You can throw "const" on things but that isn't rea
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by jb1991 9y ago
Rich was a professor of an advanced C++ class (at NYU, I think) in the late 90s, and wrote a very popular paper on how to get some killer performance out of that language. He's been around the block and knows a thing or two about these
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by jb1991 9y ago
And what about all the things that C++ has that no other language in the world has?
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by jb1991 9y ago
Fortunately, at least if Cognitect does go out of business, the Clojure language would survive fine. Hence why Clojure with Postgres (a very common pairing) is by far the safest bet.
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by jb1991 10y ago
Coffee is no more a drug than sugar.
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by jb1991 10y ago
We moved our production server cluster (approximately 50 machines) over to 4os recently and the results have been great. Customers love it, the product is faster, easier to maintain, and new developers onboard quickly. We were able to get o
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by jb1991 10y ago
Before you jump in try to make your millions, a fairly well-known and accepted statistic is that at least 95% of day traders (using any method) lose money. All the very successful day traders I know lost lots of money in the beginning befor
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by jb1991 10y ago
Fortran is actually still in major widespread use, particularly in the scientific and engineering fields. This is partly because it has unparalleled speed in some domains, better even than C or C++.
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A case against syntax highlighting (2007)(linusakesson.net)
29 points by jb1991 10y ago|77 comments
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by jb1991 11y ago
If this will be your first iPhone, you've picked a good one to get started with. My first and only iPhone, after nearly 5 years, is the iPhone 4S which is seemingly an identical body as this SE. And it is a rock-solid, perfect little m
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by jb1991 11y ago
As Rich Hickey says often, there are two truths that are true about all bugs: 1) They passed unit tests. 2) They passed a type checker.
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Ask HN: Is Hacker News basically a debate club?
2 points by jb1991 11y ago|2 comments