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by jonstaab 8y ago
Checks are turned off by default. Are there performance implications even when they're turned off? Reference: https://clojure.org/guides/spec
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by jonstaab 8y ago
I think that impulse is correct. As a clojure-lover, the state of error handling, and particularly Rich Hickey's decision to neglect it for so long and not code defensively, makes me a little sick. That said, clojure remains my favorit
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by jonstaab 8y ago
It maps well enough that getting started is easier with a vim background, but it's different enough that I have a hard time using vim when I ssh into our servers, and I do the whole "ten keystrokes with caps lock on, oh no" e
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by jonstaab 8y ago
Sure: Sublime was what I started with, and stuck with for 5 years; it was fast, pretty, familiar, and I cannot emphasize how much I love multi-cursor select (C-d). Also the overview bar on the right is brilliant. Eventually I got frustrated
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by jonstaab 8y ago
I love this! Having moved from Sublime to VSCode to vim to kakoune over the last year, I'd love to do the same with my browser. Scripting it in lisp is just extra neat. I can't use it as my primary browser yet, of course; since mo
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by jonstaab 8y ago
Having personally witnessed all of these symptoms of "agile" on teams I've been on, I was pleasantly surprised to discover when I read Jeff Sutherland's book that none of these problems have much to do with Scrum, which
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by jonstaab 9y ago
Yep, the printing service is a third-party api (PrintNode) that routes the request to one of any number of desktop clients. The reason we did it this way is 1. we have a web app so we can't print directly to their printer without a pri
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by jonstaab 9y ago
Here's[0] a game I wrote a while back to learn Elm; it's a mashup of Tetris and Boggle. It's web, but I _think_ it should run on OSX (use full-screen for the best experience). [0] https://jstaab.itch.io/tetrog
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by jonstaab 9y ago
1. Client creates a custom label and we store it in s3 2. They select x inventory items + click print 3. We retrieve and send the label file + inventory data to a service that interpolates the data into each template, renders to pdf, merges
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by jonstaab 9y ago
I would have loved to, but one of the sticking points was that the label file had to be serialized, saved, and later interpolated with data from a bunch of different records, which is why I used svg over canvas, wrote my own editor, etc. js
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by jonstaab 9y ago
Just recently I had to put together a web-based UI for editing vector graphics (clothing tags) and export them to pdf for printing. In order to avoid writing and maintaining two separate codebases, I re-used the client side code as my rende
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Show HN: Xkcd-1930 Generator(staab.github.io)
8 points by jonstaab 9y ago|1 comments
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by jonstaab 9y ago
I've been wondering for a while about the practicalities of using postgres as a replacement or near-replacement for a traditional backend - does anyone have any opinions on how far it's wise to go with this (postgres-only? authent
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by jonstaab 9y ago
For anyone interested in a really good biography on Tesla, this [0] is the best one I've read. It's written by John J. O'Neill, a journalist who knew Tesla personally for 30 years or so IIRC. It sticks to the facts, eschewing
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Gah. It was up 3 minutes ago. Anyone have any suspicion this is another ddos episode? I saw that SO was down last night too: https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/836450836322516992
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by jonstaab 10y ago
http://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services looks like a reasonable alternative place to check/report downtime.
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Some friends of mine started a wordpress company a few years ago, and after some thrashing trying to find product/market fit, they ended up pursuing real estate SEO, MLS indexing, and easy wordpress + mobile app generation. Check out
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by jonstaab 10y ago
It polls. If too many people join we'll end up DDoSing github again
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by jonstaab 10y ago
ooops
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Thanks! OS is the bomb
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by jonstaab 10y ago
That's super interesting; I didn't know git was so inconsistent across platforms. Valuable knowledge. I'll add that in.
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by jonstaab 10y ago
I'm sure someone's going to eventually hijack the account. I'm not too worried about it. 0Auth would've been a good idea though.
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Ah good call. I'll add the install bit in there. The repo is here: https://github.com/git-chat-client/git-chat-messages Also, I don't have OSX, so I'm not sure how to test that. Probably something with y
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Show HN: A chat client built on git(github.com)
81 points by jonstaab 10y ago|33 comments
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Really, only the last paragraph of that post are relevant here. Secular materialism and Christianits share reason in common. The difference between the two is their explanation of why it works, where it came from, and why it matters. That&#
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by jonstaab 10y ago
All worldviews start with assumptions. Secular materialism relies on circular arguments as much as Christianity, they just explain less (see Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton). The only difference is that materialists often refuse to admit their
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by jonstaab 10y ago
While what you say is true to some extent for Western Christianity, the fact remains that Christianity has taken deep root in a number of places in the world that were free of western biases, e.g., China, Korea, Africa, and South America. A
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Another question for another day. Off the top of my head I can't think of a reason they wouldn't be able to create some form of objective meaning. My problem with lies more in the problems of evil, ontology, epistemology, and a co
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by jonstaab 10y ago
It seems to me you're thinking of Christianity in terms of its popular atheist parody, in contrast to the respectful, thoughtful view of the OP. A number of things you've said are simply not true, others are not in proportion. The
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by jonstaab 10y ago
Funny to apply evolutionary principles to a critique of religion ;) But I do think you're making the incorrect assumption that religion hasn't already undergone that sort of strenuous debate. Jesus is probably the most discussed&#

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