jballanc

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by jballanc 12y ago
Wait...you've named your startup "Caravanserai" and you don't have any destinations on the actual historical Silk Road? For shame! Turkey is an amazing place to work and live, there's an incredibly vibrant hacker
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by jballanc 12y ago
And then you have the fun media like Blood Agar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar_plate#Blood_agar ). But it's not just finding the right media, many microbes are obligate symbionts meaning that we'll never
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by jballanc 12y ago
Ah right, thanks for the correction! (I bet you can guess how many G/SDSMs I've evaporated ;-) ... :'( ...)
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by jballanc 12y ago
This one's actually not that hard to explain. Shirts can be worn under your armor, and these are the only two kinds of shirts. Normally, a shirt adds nothing to your armor class, but it can be enchanted (up to +7 safely), so it's
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by jballanc 12y ago
It doesn't even have to be about good or bad marketing, but just how something is marketed and/or commonly used. Take, for example, celery. You're probably used to seeing it like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org&#
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by jballanc 12y ago
I've lived in CA (Silicon Valley), and I agree that the avocados are one of the best things about living there. The other is the weather: that perfect Mediterranean climate with hot, dry (and I mean no rain April-Sept.) summers and m
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by jballanc 12y ago
To this I would add: show the code to someone else. It sounds like you might be the only one working on this project, and that in itself can be a very dangerous thing (especially just getting started out). Hire a contractor if need be, even
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by jballanc 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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I agree, but I also think this falls into the category of "good problems to have". The unfortunate reality is that all software has the tendency to accumulate "features" like a katamari. Apple knows this, and so I think
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by jballanc 12y ago
We've really just started exploring Boot, but given how much better it deals with ClojureScript (especially in the context of http://cljsjs.github.io ), we're taking it rather seriously. For my personal side-projects, I
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by jballanc 12y ago
Looks great! I've recently been trimming down on the number of Lein plugins I have installed, but I think this one is deserving of a line in my `profiles.clj`...now how about Boot? ;-)
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by jballanc 12y ago
It's not just specificity. Take for example the physical sciences' tradition of using passive voice, exclusively, when writing about the methods used in an experiment. You never write "We poured the mixture" or "We
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I think what the author is missing is the possibility that many academics are simply bad writers . Academic writing in many fields is extremely formulaic just so that the relevant information can be communicated regardless of the writing s
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by jballanc 12y ago
Physicists have, in the past, slowed down the group velocity of light. This appears (if the results hold) to be a genuine slowing of the phase velocity, which would be huge. To understand the difference between the two types of velocity, Wi
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by jballanc 12y ago
For millennia, being "elite" meant owning land. In a primarily agrarian society, owning land is a huge advantage. So then, if that land is passed along hereditary lines, the establishment of a "landed aristocracy" is i
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by jballanc 12y ago
Right, but if feature expressions are part of "Clojure the language" then feature macros can be implemented as a library. The reverse wouldn't work. Ergo, as attractive as I find feature macros, I think this argues that featu
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by jballanc 12y ago
Sometimes people learn new words, other times keeping old words (usually modified) works better. To take your example, in Turkish the word for vacuum cleaner literally translates as "electric broom", and cell phones are commonly c
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by jballanc 12y ago
It seems to me that Feature Macros will be trivially implementable as a library once Feature Expressions land: #+clj (def *host* :clj) #+cljs (def *host* :cljs)
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How a Generation Was Misled About Natural Selection(psychologytoday.com)
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RubyMotion Success Story: Freckle(rubymotion.com)
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by jballanc 12y ago
...land of the free, home of the brave.
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New Pricing Plans for RubyMotion(rubymotion.com)
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by jballanc 12y ago
Visual Block input doesn't work (at least not in the newest Safari).
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I'd argue the same goes for languages, not just tools. At home I like to spend most of my time with Lua, Scheme, and C, and only sometimes Ruby or Python. The less the language does for you, the more you can focus on the concepts and f
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by jballanc 12y ago
> 5) Released nothing . I've been tracking the neovim repo for a while, and my feeling is that they could have easily made a couple of releases with stability matching some other notable projects, but they have intentionally chos
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On Being a Partner or “Send Us the Data”(blog.openmicroscopy.org)
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Yes, but unlike many other futurist novels, I've always enjoyed the way that the resolution of so many of Asimov's stories are inclusive of technology. I guess another way to say it is that many authors treat technology as somehow
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by jballanc 12y ago
Asimov, particularly in his "Robot" and "Foundation" series, famously had a rather up-beat outlook on the future and technology's role in it.
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A frustratingly incomplete, always obsolete, amazingly effective solution(blog.openmicroscopy.org)
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The Joy of File Formats(blog.openmicroscopy.org)
3 points by jballanc 12y ago|1 comments

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