justaaron

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by justaaron 11y ago
how is salesforce.com going to give back to the big data community? it's a bit like apple. there's no way to pass their "improvements" to BSD on to the BSD community even if they felt magnimonious some day... generally b
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by justaaron 11y ago
I take exception at the notion that one cannot "guarantee" the presence of a specific key, when one is using a key:value store without an explicit schema. (sounds like someone was believing anti-mongo FUD and living in sql-land to
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by justaaron 11y ago
bingo. i read about 5 paragraphs before i started scrolling rapidly, until I realized that this entire page was a litany of wrong-ness, an ode to fuck-ups, a waste of my time. please please for the love of anything decent and good in this w
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by justaaron 11y ago
they might not necessarily have something to immediately gain if all tooling in a given field has already bent to the will of a different paradigm... in web-land, we are only at the level of REST api's now, after years of bloat like SO
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by justaaron 11y ago
depends upon your definition of application... a machine-consuming set of processes working together, possibly across a distributed network? ummm yeah perfect. smalltalk, erlang, and a handful of other candidates... Java would be considere
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by justaaron 11y ago
former PLT scheme = Racket... it's a tight little platform! batteries included... check out DrRacket, and it's dependency graphs that appear upon mousing over defined words...it will even show graphics and mathematical symbols in
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by justaaron 11y ago
Oh stop picking his reply apart when you exactly what his point is: if you consider smalltalk "dead", and you are "going to invent a cool new language" then you can probably get into the BACK of the popularity line, afte
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by justaaron 11y ago
Meteor js had this with the aldeed:autoform package ages ago
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by justaaron 11y ago
i live off grid inside of a 500w/h peak footprint. i paid around $1000 for proper German (Schutten) panels, a charge controller suitable for them, 2 110ah "solar batteries" (lead acid usual cheapo old school stuff), and a Xan
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by justaaron 11y ago
wow!
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by justaaron 11y ago
what about openSPARC, one of the only truly open cpu designs one can load into an fpga
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by justaaron 11y ago
because this is a red herring, likely not true, and besides the point: the point is that the 5 years of austerity, privatizations, and privations have ruined the Greek economy, made it impossible to achieve the surplus goals mandated, and b
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by justaaron 11y ago
I disagree vehemently. The austerity and bailouts so far have been a punitive process that has achieved either an undesired effect or the specific goal of: 1) destroying the economy. no growth. no way to achieve the surplus targets mandated
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by justaaron 11y ago
sounds reasonable. normalization vs denormalization ok, the last paragraphs kind of give it away... but there are good points in terms of keeping the data flat
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by justaaron 12y ago
the proposed solution sounds like greenwashed cover-fire for the same fertilizer & pesticide folks that got us into this mess in the first place, what with "green revolution"s and such fueling population growth post ww2... I
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by justaaron 12y ago
not sure if telescope is a good boilerplate for meteor. I think it tends towards unnecessary abstraction complication and ends up rather brittle in the end. Try changing the post frequency from "daily", for example. The code compl