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by jfaucett 11y ago
It will be interesting to see how the pricing plays out with this product. Creating an "auto-updating FAQ" that has all these features is (alotting for generous planning/test/etc) about a 1 week task in most stacks for a
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the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07300v2.pdf
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"I don't know why so many people think Socialism is about welfare." Its one of the meanings that the word socialism has come to denote through quotidian usage in media and within Amercian society. Democratic Socialism would l
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I think your assertion that you need to study at a higher education institution to do something besides building apps sadly true. That statement however has nothing to do with whether or not the form of education at colleges is better than
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"Although I wouldn't say don't spend any time learning the language" Yes, I can see your point. And there are some really good innovations clojure has made I think - specifically the immutable data types are really beyon
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"really wish I had the time to learn Clojure." I would say don't bother. The language is a nice lisp (nice simplifications, great immutable ADTs, edn, pretty good async libs, etc), but the ecosystem tooling is still miserable
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Using the argument form of this article you could make any number of outrageously nonsensical claims. The form is basically X does Y more than Z, where X occurs vastly more than Z in some population. Examples: 1. white caucasians commit mor
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"It seems criminal that a few hundred people at the publishing houses should benefit at the expense of billions' welfare" To me it doesn't seem criminal. It is criminal, for to keep knowledge in the hands of the few and
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German, having maintained more of its agglutinate "Germanic" roots than English over the centuries, has a fantastic morphological system for new word formation. For this reason, I've often thought it would be great if more ne
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" RTVS will also be free & open source of course." Ten years ago I would have never thought I'd say this, but I am really liking Microsoft these days. Great work! (here's the repo: https://github.com/
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No. My observations would just suggest adressing the issue at the employer/employee relationship or market motivator level, whereas yours suggest handling it at a propoganda/media/educational level to remove the social norm o
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"This is in large part because care for family members(children and elderly parents usually) is more often foisted upon women in our society than on men." I disagree. The primary cause is that women can become pregnant - the possi
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Summary: 1. The term "Monolith" has a bad rep. 2. "Majestic Monolith" means eliminating needless abstraction and avoiding distributing your system (unless unavoidable) 3. The term also means writing "beautiful, unde
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Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? [pdf](hpl.hp.com)
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I think that word is a very EU thing. I'm originally from the US and never heard it used anywhere there. Having lived the last 7 years in continental Europe I can say that its used in Poland (notebooki/ultrabooki) and Germany on m
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This article seems to conflate "openness" with "open source". As long as something has a free enough license it qualifies as open source in my book. Anyone else can come along grab that software and do everything that th
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This is interesting. Recently, I've been doing more c programming again, and everytime I do I find myself thinking about building a language that is essentially c with just a very few pain points removed. #1 is a build/module&#x2F
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"I really, really wish they had dropped the 1-based indexing and <= upper bound on index ranges." really? There are quite a few things I don't like about julia, but using 1-indexing and "end" makes implementing a
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Exactly this. I've actually never met a person who has used a lisp to build software and complained about parens. I have the feeling parens are like functional language syntax, just something foreign which seems annoying or pointless u
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Nice examples. Am I correct in guessing that this code: (ns com.stuartsierra.component (:require [com.stuartsierra.dependency :as dep] [com.stuartsierra.component.platform :as platform])) requires the correct pla
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How much does clojure take advantage of its hosted status? Can anyone who builds clojure software for multiple runtimes comment? It would obviously be extremely nice if you could program libraries once and have them run on the JVM, CLR, an
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by jfaucett 11y ago
I don't see why we aren't doing something like this. Especially when you start looking at how much it might cost. Birmingham, AL has a population of 212k and a yearly budget of 390 million. ( https://ballotpedia.org&#x2F
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"Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?" I think we need a way to have a faster iteration cycle for trying sociopolitcal ideas. The problem is, its almost impossible to change the laws necessary at a gov
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This is probably not the best place to post if you are in Germany looking for a job. Also if you have German citzenship you don't have to return to Brazil unless you want to. Just go to the Arbeitsamt and they'll help you find a j
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IMHO the biggest factors when evaluating a new programming language boils down to "modules" i.e the methods for creating reusuable units of code, and "package management" i.e. how easy is it require previously built uni
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I discovered this course a while back and must say it is awesome. here's the link for those who missed it in the article's footer: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/ For me personally, it is the
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I think the biggest thing is to start very small. Seriously, very very small. I had for years done more or less what you describe. So I finally just decided to start super baby simple and have one tiny little goal and accomplish it. For me
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This article resonated a lot with me. It verbalizes what I've been trying to do over the past year or so with my own life. For me a lot of the BS elimination on the first pass was just getting rid of distractions and interruptions, so
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Could an economist weigh in on this? Naively, this seems ridiculously expensive to me. If you wanted to eradicate poverty with this policy, say pay everyone 60% of the mean income, that means the gov't will need to raise taxes by some
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by jfaucett 11y ago
haha, pensaba lo mismo. Agree with you too, its just so easy cambiar entre los dos idiomas, but I do wonder sometimes q piensa la gente when they hear code-switching conversations.

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