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by jballanc 14y ago
An interesting article, sure, but there's a small problem. The section of Istanbul that they've chosen (centered here: https://maps.google.com/?ll=41.044081,29.096603&spn=0.04... ) is actually on the Anatolian side of the Bosphorus, an
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by jballanc 14y ago
For the Dune fans out there... Java and the JVM ecosystem strike me as very much like the programmers "Golden Path". That is (for those not familiar with Dune ), Java represents a sort of "forced peace". Yes, things work. Yes, tools are
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by jballanc 14y ago
Yes. After a trademark has been granted, suing is the way you defend your trademark. Also, there have been more of these...a lot more. Perhaps you remember Apple suing NYC over their NYC Green apple logo or the Victoria School of Business a
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by jballanc 14y ago
Well, a trivial example: class Foo def bar puts "Hello from Foo" end end a = Foo.new def a.bar puts "Hello from a special Foo" end Now, even if you change the definition of "bar" in Fo
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by jballanc 14y ago
True, but Ruby also has late binding. Ruby also has open classes, so you could (in theory) do something very close to SLIME with Ruby. The problem is, Ruby also has singleton classes and singleton methods, so there's no guarantee that a cha
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by jballanc 14y ago
The Clojure community just recently put its full weight behind nREPL. You can run nREPL from Leiningen outside of a project directory, much like IRB. To be honest, I've never noticed the JVM startup time... But there is another way! Clojure
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by jballanc 14y ago
Watch that scene again. They adjust both the pitch of the tires on the pavement and the timing of the "bumps" from the seams. While two different bridges could have the same timing at different speeds, or the same pitch, they're betting on
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by jballanc 14y ago
I've recently been using Clojure more and more, including introducing it for a few nascent projects at work. I haven't been this excited about a new language since Ruby in 2005. Plenty has been written on its technical merits, but there is
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Shizuo Fujita (Watson) joins the RubyMotion team(blog.rubymotion.com)
26 points by jballanc 14y ago|1 comments
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by jballanc 14y ago
There's a well known technique used by cops (relayed to me by a handful of retired NYC cops that worked security at a former job): you let the small time offenders go, so that they are more willing to help you with the big problems down the
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by jballanc 14y ago
You would have to be rather talented and put in a non-trivial amount of effort to tell a RubyMotion app from any other iOS app. A while back there was a conversation in IRC where one person was trying to do just that and kept coming up shor
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by jballanc 14y ago
Congrats to Mark on his success! For those who haven't had a chance to follow along, Mark has been a constant presence in the community and I'm glad to see his drive and willingness to take the initiative has paid off. His story is also a p
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I really don't understand how the world of iOS development has become one of the most cloistered developer communities in recent memory. Is it the gold rush mentality, maybe? Seriously, some of the outright hostility I've seen in the iOS d
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by jballanc 14y ago
Just a note for anyone hoping to follow along at home: clojure.contrib has been deprecated and the various parts have either moved or been left to bitrot on the vine. Pertinent to this article, "clojure.contrib.monads" is now "clojure.algo.
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by jballanc 14y ago
Neil Armstrong would have been 17 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948. In the lifespan of those two men, humanity went from horse-and-buggy to standing on the moon. One wonders what the 17 year olds of today might accomplish...
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And yet, that's essentially a rounding error on Apple's bank account balance...
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by jballanc 14y ago
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false n
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by jballanc 14y ago
DragonFly has been a favorite of mine for a while now. It is easily the most ambitious of the BSDs, without being so far ahead of the pack as Plan 9 (i.e. it's still usable). However, this article is from 2010 and DragonFly recently release
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by jballanc 14y ago
Writing in RubyMotion is writing a native app. It uses the same object model, the same runtime, and the same libraries as Obj-C.
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Using RubyMotion to Build JavaScript Based iOS Apps(willprater.me)
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True or not, the outcome described here is so typical, so ordinary that it even has a name: "Tragedy of the Commons". You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by jballanc 14y ago
I just wanted to quickly point out that you have referred to Linux as "much more cathedral than...". Considering that Linux was the original motivation for "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", identified as "the Bazaar", I highly suspect that yo
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by jballanc 14y ago
If Linux became more popular/more widely supported by mere chance, then there's nothing to argue about, and nothing to learn...
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by jballanc 14y ago
It's very interesting that you bring up kqueue. I was about to bring up kqueue, but for a different reason. Planning ahead can lead to great things. The Notre Dame, and the dozens of other cathedrals throughout Europe are positively st
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by jballanc 14y ago
But did they grow up in the Bazaar? or in the Mad House? ESRs original prototype for the "Bazaar" was Linux. Do you feel that Linux is lacking in coherency of design? You refer to the dot-com bubble, but the problem with the bubble wasn't,
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by jballanc 14y ago
If a priori design adapts, then it was never more than a coherent vision to begin with. The notion of a priori design is "we're going to do A, B, and C, and don't even think of changing the plan until those are done". As ESR talks about
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by jballanc 14y ago
The problem is that coherent vision and a prior design are NOT equivalent. Obviously, I cannot know what was going through the head of ESR when he wrote the original essay, but what I've always taken from it is that a priori design is i
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by jballanc 14y ago
My point is that ideas flowed as often from "the bottom up" as from "the top down". Yes, there was a vision of the product held by those in charge, but there was also a thriving ecosystem of ideas. Some of the most successful engineers I kn
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by jballanc 14y ago
While Apple would certainly like you to believe that the image of iOS sprang, fully-formed, from the mind of Steve Jobs like some sort of medieval cathedral, the reality is anything but. In fact, much of Apple's success is due to the extent
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by jballanc 14y ago
Not intended as an ad hominem as much as a reductio ad absurdum . It is frequently true that the views held by those older are also more likely to be correct, but it is not guaranteed. This is especially true when the views relate to soc

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