john-shaffer

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by john-shaffer 6y ago
The Classic Editor.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
As soon as a language borrows s-expressions, it's a Lisp. This makes it impossible in practice for a non-Lisp to just "borrow" s-expressions. Definitely not an accident. On the other hand, you do have languages like XML which
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Oh, thanks for the explanation. That makes things very clear. I'm not sure when I'll get time to play with GameLisp, but it looks absolutely brilliant. I'll keep an eye on it; maybe some interesting open-source project will t
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> I wonder whether a naming convention would solve the problem? If all coroutine functions and methods have names like fire-arc* and move* , then your synchronous call to fire-arc* would stick out like a sore thumb. That'd be fine a
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Debian 10. It's familiar to anyone who's used Ubuntu, and it's quite solid in my experience.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
You can use WP2Static and either run a container locally with something like https://lokl.dev , or spin up a VM that's firewalled off and access it through an SSH tunnel. The auto-on/-off part really does little for sec
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
That $250 plan is specifically for Registered Investment Advisor websites which are heavily regulated and have special requirements. We haven't officially launched yet and haven't published the final plans, but the basic plan for
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
It looks it could be served pretty easily as a static site for very little cost. I try to use WP2Static whenever possible. It's a plugin that crawls the WordPress site and deploys a static version to a server of your choice, like S3&#x
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Those are some of the most confusing icons I've ever seen. WTF is Y with a few arcs? Even if I had memorized what every icon means, I can't tell them apart without looking closely because most have the same shape and similar color
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I can only answer for Texas. Texas is stereotyped as racist and uneducated, but that only seems true when you don't compare across the same demographics. For high school diplomas and college degrees, if you compare whites to whites, bl
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
If you're considering using spec, you should know that spec alpha2 is significantly different internally, and is much easier to write tooling for, but has not been ported to ClojureScript. I would highly recommend trying alpha2 if you&
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I like the pricing model of language apps like LingoDeer and Rosetta Stone. They offer a lifetime subscription for a one-time fee that costs less than two annual subscriptions. I have no problem taking that offer, but I have no recurring su
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
"It Just Works" != "It wipes your data without warning unless you perform the correct incantation"
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Apple only allows their browser engine on Apple devices and has done everything they can to make PWAs perform poorly.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
A "welfare check" is just police stopping by and asking if everything's okay. The CPS aren't involved.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
In 1861, would "taking note and understanding Confederate people views on Confederate issues" have been more productive? You can justify absolutely anything if you try hard enough. It's harder to justify the policies of a rac
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
If the CCP believed that Apple's absence would strengthen the regime, then they would get rid of Apple. Clearly they think it's in their best interest to have Apple around. You can disagree with them, but I think the CCP is much b
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
He's always written about conformism and wealth. See "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" (2003) [1], "What You Can't Say" (2004) [2], and a lengthy discussion of what wealth is and what it means for society in "How
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
CHAZ was the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, not Portland.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> Monarchs just need to pay armies, and the easiest way to do that was to keep them conquering new territory and paying them off with the spoils. You "just" have to be one of the greatest military geniuses of all time. Easy. Ac
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Specter is fantastic. It makes transformations on deeply nested data structures easy. Want to transform all the "datetimes" from JSON data into actual datetimes (or vice versa)? It takes about five minutes if you have to look ev
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
The sun also will burn out eventually, and every other star as well.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
On EC2, I've had a great experience using AWS Systems Manager [1]. I don't need any ports open, and it works great with normal shell tools and emacs given a .ssh/config like this: host i-* mi-* ProxyCommand sh -c "aws ss
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Clojure, Faster(tech.redplanetlabs.com)
7 points by john-shaffer 6y ago|0 comments
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What is your take on checking return values?(rachelbythebay.com)
19 points by john-shaffer 6y ago|9 comments
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
java.time is really nice, so I use Java 11 (2018) on my servers. If not using java.time, Java 8 (2014) or later is fine. But I use Clojure, not raw Java. I haven't had any issues with upgrading. If a server works with 8, it works fine
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
How is dropping a concrete block on someone from 27 feet up not expected to kill them? Miners should have more common sense than that.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Nothing is "broken" about it. It's just that when you have tens of thousands of machines that might need an urgent security update, it's very inefficient and costly to destroy all of them at once instead of patching. Des
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
The problem with Truth Forces of the past, such as the venerated Inquisition, is that they just couldn't be everywhere at once. They could never completely stop people from saying things in private, or from running to safe havens. If o
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Rather than hanging their neighbors for witchcraft, instead they moan about conspiracy theories involving QAnon or Russia. On balance, the free dissemination of ideas seems to have helped truth spread more easily. Lies didn't have any

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