jkkramer

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by jkkramer 15y ago
Nice. Slow to load, but worked. I wish I could specify preferred theaters. In my area, there are many theaters nearby, and the closest isn't the best.
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by jkkramer 15y ago
There's also the Stack Overflow method for first-time users: no sign-up at all. Let them use the site anonymously but fully, and register at their leisure. I'm using that for a current project.
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Suffering-oriented programming(nathanmarz.com)
301 points by jkkramer 15y ago|59 comments
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by jkkramer 15y ago
In short: FP makes programs easier to reason about and understand by using trustworthy abstractions. Here are some resources to check out, which explain better than I could: Why Functional Programming Matters: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shm
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by jkkramer 15y ago
As a customer, I'm happy. I loathed the idea of maintaining separate queues, to the point where I started writing a unified queue web app in preparation. As a developer, I wonder if they're still sticking to their plan to make the API strea
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by jkkramer 15y ago
I don't know if it uses "event sourcing" per se, but doesn't HN use in-memory & serialized Lisp data structures instead of a DB?
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by jkkramer 15y ago
Using the no-DB approach is particularly tempting with a language like Clojure. Clojure can slice & dice collections easily and efficiently. It has built-in constructs for managing concurrency safely. I actually have a couple Clojure ap
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by jkkramer 15y ago
After 5+ years in the salsa scene, most of the best male social dancers I've met work in a technical field -- software, engineering, etc. It requires tremendous mental acuity. EDIT: I should add that it does not come naturally most of the t
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by jkkramer 15y ago
I found this interesting because, in the HN bubble, we mostly talk about monetizing solutions for the problems of privileged folk. For example, Paul Graham's "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund". Bill Gates argues that solving the problems of
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Bill Gates: Creative Capitalism (2008)(time.com)
42 points by jkkramer 15y ago|3 comments
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by jkkramer 15y ago
> Simplify the git fetch, pull (--rebase), push interaction. Synchronize — don’t make the user figure out what they need to do to get their local commits remote and remote commits local. What about conflict resolution? That's one of the
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by jkkramer 15y ago
3000 lines of spaghetti code is one thing. But this code is pretty-well modularized. The author obviously knows what he's doing. Maybe he finds it easier to jump around the file that way. I know I've built up projects like that. When it sta
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by jkkramer 15y ago
Allowing subscriptions to be charged yearly would be nice.
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by jkkramer 15y ago
In Clojure, hash maps are functions of their keys. If you use keywords as keys, then keywords are also functions of maps. ({:a 1} :a) => 1 (:a {:a 1}) => 1 (map {2 4} [1 2 3]) => (nil 4 nil) (map
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by jkkramer 15y ago
First impressions: - Pretty nice. It's something I might use. - Scrolling is a bit choppy (OS X Chrome). I'm not a fan of re-inventing scroll bars. - I wish the meta info was displayed on the page rather than having to click to reveal it. T
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Returns are always a pain in the butt. No matter how easy you make it sound, people are going to be anxious about it. But even assuming returns are effortless, they're a HUGE money sinkhole for online retailers (Zappos returns average 35%).
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by jkkramer 16y ago
There's a startup that does 3D scans of shoes and allows users to determine the perfect fit by asking about shoes they already own (can't remember the name). IIRC, they plan on doing clothes, too. That would be the ideal. I once tried compa
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Finding clothes that fit is an important part of looking nice/stylish. It's also a serious hurdle to shopping online and why I never do it. I think a service like dress.me will need to address this in some way or the process will remain som
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Neat idea. Minor nits: - Would be nice if custom background images tiled - Not clear whether to enter usernames or URLs for accounts - "Add an Technology" typo - No cancel buttons on the forms - Popup forms feel a little sluggish to open. A
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by jkkramer 16y ago
I like how it keeps going even after it finds the solution.
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Almost. Record types are checked as part of full equality. So record Foo{:x 1} is not equal to Bar{:x 1} or to {:x 1}.
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Records and structs can grow at runtime (insofar as immutable data structures grow). user> (defrecord Foo [x]) user.Foo user> (assoc (Foo. 1) :y 2) #:user.Foo{:x 1, :y 2} user> (defstruct foo :x) #'use
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Cooking has become a pretty important part of my life. It's a great change of pace from sitting in front of the computer. Acquiring a very sharp knife helped me enjoy it even more. Here's what I've cooked recently, plus other recipes I've s
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Quick thoughts: - You've clearly put a lot of effort into this. You seem to have a big collection of useful features. Congrats on that. - I checked out the site before reading your post. I didn't really get what it was about -- something to
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Fingers crossed that they do it right this time. Right now I informally group browsers to test into four groups: IE6, IE7, IE8, and all the rest (where it's rare to find inconsistencies or WTFs). It would be great if IE9 went into the "all
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Most of the complaints I hear about crowdsourced design services come from people who don't participate in them (just for the record, I don't either). It seems kind of presumptuous to say the designers are desperate and being taken advantag
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by jkkramer 16y ago
In what way, specifically, is it shady? Is using a crowdsourced design service inherently shady?
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Maybe there's a way to rally the students and get them to petition their universities to switch to something better? They pay the bills, after all.
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by jkkramer 16y ago
I originally envisioned this as a replacement for delicious, and have been thinking about instructions as nice-to-have but not essential (I don't bother adding them myself, I just open the original recipe). However, your goal is probably co
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by jkkramer 16y ago
Thanks. I'm investigating the image issues (seems you bumped into it right off the bat). There is tagging & tag/ingredient-based searching, though it's not integrated with the planner per se. I'll think about that. EDIT: FYI, tags are i

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