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by jhickner 14y ago
shiffern's example uses the same coding style you use in Clojure. It doesn't feel like stretch to call it FP. Start with a basic data structure (the object in shiffern's example would translate to a map in Clojure) and then operate on it wi
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by jhickner 14y ago
>Take a look at all those multi platform desktop frameworks like Qt, wxWidgets, etc. Apps made with those don't feel native and usually deliver subpar user experience. It's not much different with PhoneGap, RubyMotion and friends. This
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by jhickner 14y ago
Those same students and programmers should realize that yours is just one opinion among many. Your advice leans toward the "fungible cogs" school, where the capital crime is to expect others to learn something they don't already know. That'
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by jhickner 15y ago
There was another one called Subspace (now Continuum) http://www.getcontinuum.com/ . I loved the early days of that game. 1997-ish.
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by jhickner 15y ago
Aren't we just embracing the difference between a site and an API? It's hard to do both well at the same URL. The API provides the repurposable content in an open format, and the site itself is free to experiment with different presentation
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by jhickner 15y ago
They'll never be popular? I think the main impediment to wearable computing has been how socially awkward it is. If someone actually came up with a discrete, well-designed glasses-based computer, I think it would be immensely popular. AR wo
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by jhickner 15y ago
I find emacs + swank to be roughly equivalent to vim + vimclojure + paredit.vim. Install vimclojure and the lein-nailgun leiningen plugin and you'll be up and running in no time.
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by jhickner 15y ago
If you mean just the slides, most of them are in this github repo: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides
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by jhickner 15y ago
This point (anti-point?) is often made, but I'm not sure it actually means anything. After all, you could have said the same about AOL at the time when the few forward thinking among us were saying "Hey, there's more to the internet than th
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by jhickner 15y ago
Wow, those are almost the exact same criteria I've adopted since having kids. My list of games that have hit the bar in the last 10 years or so: - Half-Life Series - BioShock Series - Fallout Series - Deus Ex Series - Elder Scrolls Series T
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by jhickner 15y ago
There are definitely rough edges, but the potential is immense. By the way, a recent patch stops alot of the break->restart issues (specifically, syntax errors don't boot you out anymore).
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by jhickner 15y ago
Nice writeup! I hadn’t heard of rbcoffee before. I’ll definitely be using that in my coffeescript projects. One point – doesn’t ClojureScript support user macros via refer-macros? : (ns my.namespace (:refer-macros ‘[my.macros :as my])
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by jhickner 15y ago
I like clojure for server-side work, but newLisp is a great counterpart, especially if you've been spoiled by clojure features like implicit indexing and don't want to go back to CL. The jvm startup time makes clojure unsuitable for quick s
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by jhickner 15y ago
If you want something like this without leaving VIM, I recommend DrawIt. I use it all the time: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 It comes in handy when you need to diagram something in your code comments.
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by jhickner 16y ago
If the automatic graphics card switch annoys you (it annoys me), you can disable it with this handy app: http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus
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by jhickner 16y ago
This concept doesn't do the question justice. It's just a digital repackaging of the standard once-daily newspaper. The problem with newspapers isn't the packaging. The periodical arose because of printing costs and distribution time. You n
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by jhickner 16y ago
> Tis only a matter of time before laws start getting passed, ISPs are forced to monitor and people start getting cut-off/fined. Will that actually accomplish anything? I think it will just push things deeper underground, and force do
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by jhickner 16y ago
It's a small thing, I admit, but I like getting a slightly cleaner stack trace since the exception happens in the wrapper module (where the error is) instead of getting all the way to @desk.
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by jhickner 16y ago
There's actually a fairly safe way to use method_missing. Just remember to call super if none of your conditions are met, that way you'll still get errors when commands are misspelled. You really shouldn't ever use method_missing without th
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by jhickner 16y ago
That's the total projected pension cost for each year from now until the last currently retired employee dies, which may be 30+ years from now. So it's not debt, per se, since that cost is amortized over the same 30+ years. It's a projectio
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by jhickner 16y ago
I wish google would just implement a way to add a list of blocked domains to your search preferences. Then I'd never have to see crap from mahalo, expertsexchange, or the like ever again. A way to opt-in to using a community managed list of
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by jhickner 16y ago
I use both django and rails frequently, and I've been looking for a rails version of django's admin forever. Do you have any links? All I've seen are things like activescaffold, but that's not even anywhere near being comparable.
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by jhickner 16y ago
This is one of the features I love in Coda. You can work on a local copy of the site and Coda tracks changes automatically, then you just click publish and the files that have been changed are pushed to the server.
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by jhickner 16y ago
I don't know either of these people, but Nick clearly has no concept of how copyright actually works. The "result" of code is inherently a process, which isn't copyrightable. Only his verbatim source code is copyrightable. The entire concep
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by jhickner 17y ago
Illustrations like the prisoner's dilemma help convey how an entire group can benefit from certain behaviors, but they're less useful when making decisions as a lone, rational actor with access to many different groups and no reason to keep
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by jhickner 17y ago
"The Chinese society has generally less information bearing capacity than developed countries such as the U.S., which is an objective reality that no one can deny." The concept of societal "information bearing capacity" blows my mind. What
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by jhickner 17y ago
"Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments." http://psycnet.apa.org/?fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0... a.k.a. the dunning-kruger effect: http://en.wikipedi
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by jhickner 17y ago
I thought so at first as well, but if you go through the tutorial, the syntax actually begins to look quite elegant. It just comes off as odd at first because it's dealing with concepts that are actually pretty unique (to my knowledge at le
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by jhickner 17y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." From the guidelin
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by jhickner 17y ago
"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." Pretty simple.

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