jballanc

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by jballanc 13y ago
You know, you're right...I half didn't add that paragraph and I'm half tempted to remove it...but I'll let it stand. Anyone who knows me personally would know that I am not typically one to generalize in this fashion. I
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by jballanc 13y ago
Right out of college I worked swing shift at a corn refinery doing dry starch QA for $12/hr. Later, I went to grad school and had to get a part-time retail job at $9.50/hr to supplement my TA stipend in order to make rent. Today..
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by jballanc 13y ago
Back when Microsoft was brought up on charges and convicted of abusing their monopoly power, I was of the opinion that a "baby bell" style break up would be in the best interests of both Microsoft and the public at large. Alread
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by jballanc 13y ago
The problem with Forstall is that he's not mature enough yet. I don't mean that he is childish or impulsive (which he is, but that's not necessarily a bad thing). I mean that he hasn't yet developed that innate sense tha
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by jballanc 13y ago
Well, pretty much any language with a GC can abuse the GC, regardless of whether it's optional or designed in from the start. It just happens to be a lot harder to abuse a GC than to forget to free/delete something.
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by jballanc 13y ago
The Boehm–Demers–Weiser garbage collector is a fairly famous implementation of a GC for vanilla C, pointers and all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector
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by jballanc 13y ago
When you hear talk of "conservative" Garbage Collectors, what the "conservative" refers to is that anything on the stack that looks like a pointer is treated as if it is a pointer. After all, it doesn't matter what
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by jballanc 13y ago
Forgive me for being pedantic...but the "German" degree system (Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.) inherits its tradition from the guild system. In this sense, a doctoral dissertation is the modern-day equivalent of a "masterpiece&qu
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by jballanc 13y ago
I think the other feature of these two camps is that they tend to see the opposition through the mirror of their own preconceptions. I took the pull request rejection at face value: "trivial change; denied". I don't agree wit
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by jballanc 13y ago
...and what of languages that have no gendered pronouns? For native speakers, constructing a gender neutral sentence in English is considerably more difficult. Your experience does not invalidate the experience of others.
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by jballanc 13y ago
It seems that with any cause, advocates typically break down into two camps: militant and inclusive. The militant camp feels the only way to right the wrong they perceive is through positive action and active repression of the repressors. T
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by jballanc 13y ago
Ask the Zimbabweans about the insignificance of 14 zeros in your currency. History is littered with far more examples of currency revaluation than long-term stable measures of wealth (in fact precious metals are, possibly, the only exam
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by jballanc 13y ago
I was going to say exactly this. After two cross-city moves and one cross-country move, my wife and I converted our sizable (~100-150) book collection completely over to e-books before moving overseas. The most annoying thing about physical
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by jballanc 13y ago
Yes, it looks like something from the late 90s (and it probably is), but this is a tutorial I used early on: http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/
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by jballanc 13y ago
Right now I'm working through the book "How Not to Play Go", by Yuan Zhou, but he has many very good books I could recommend. Neil Moffatt is another good writer, and I particularly enjoyed "Double Digit Kyu Games"
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by jballanc 13y ago
Read the image alt text...
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by jballanc 13y ago
I agree, but just wanted to add that if you find Go boring, I suggest you pick up a good Go book or two. The really good Go writers can construct an entire war narrative from a game of Go, all the while giving you deeper insight into the st
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by jballanc 13y ago
...also known as graduate school. ;-) Seriously, though, my wife used to work with alternative RNA bases. Localizing them to specific sequences required the most massive sequencing gels I've seen (at least 1m tall), and every surface i
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by jballanc 13y ago
The early pioneers in genetics were all consummate hackers in the truest sense. For much of the work they were doing, the had very little information about the underlying processes to go on. The were, in effect, reverse engineering life. It
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by jballanc 13y ago
If I understand your question correctly, you probably want to create an SSH config file. See the man page for the gory details: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin... The config file
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Debugging a memory increase, using Generational Analysis(blogs.burnsidedigital.com)
2 points by jballanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
What makes you think these are isolated experiences? Yes, the article and the parent comment each highlight a specific case, but as someone who's had to re-enter the US multiple times in the past 2 years I can vouch that these are not
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by jballanc 13y ago
I don't think it's ever been easy to get into the US. A tour through Ellis Island will tell you as much. The difference is that, in the past, the US needed its immigrants. They built its cities and its railroads and much of th
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FLOSS Survey 2013(floss2013.libresoft.es)
1 points by jballanc 13y ago|1 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
The libraries I mentioned are all located in the Clojure GitHub group ( https://github.com/clojure/ ). Actually, the Clojure community has thus far done a very good job of keeping the core language relatively small and i
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by jballanc 13y ago
I don't have much time to drill down right now, but a quick search of the responses for "Name one language feature you would like to see added to Clojure" reveals 8/563 respondents wrote "Clojure in clojure"
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by jballanc 13y ago
I recently undertook a serious effort to learn Angular.js for a work-related project. After some time, I reached the point where I think I finally "got it", and I was feeling pretty good about Angular. Then I did a bit of work wit
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by jballanc 13y ago
Correction, you must install paredit (and spend half a day familiarizing yourself with how it works). It'll make your learning experience 10x easier. As for Emacs vs Vim, I also use Vim for Clojure development. There's definitel
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YouTube Feather Beta(youtube.com)
12 points by jballanc 13y ago|2 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
I'd argue cause...something like technology's version of the "trickle-down effect". Some displays will require advanced engineering skill, but I'd wager that the majority do not. When you're working at the lead

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