justinhj

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by justinhj 10y ago
It is easy if you are just willing to spend more money on servers. Often it's worth it.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Even when you put it like that it doesn't sound trivial
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by justinhj 10y ago
It's easy enough to run apps on a desktop using emulator's like http://andyroid.net/ I doubt their business goals involve a desktop version
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by justinhj 10y ago
Using lisp interchangeably with Common Lisp is a frequent cause of confusion in lisp related conversations, so I'm hardly a language zealot mentioning it.
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by justinhj 10y ago
There are a few solutions for scripting with Clojure http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-08-01-planck-scripting.... Personally I wouldn't script in Clojure. If something is simple enough to be a script I'd u
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by justinhj 10y ago
There are ways around the slow startup of Clojure such as http://leiningen.org/grench.html
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by justinhj 10y ago
But clojure is also a lisp unless you are using lisp to mean Common Lisp only?
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by justinhj 10y ago
I'm 45. Feels like there are 1000 directions I could go to improve my skills, from soft skills to different programming models and industries. As long as someone will pay me to, I will program for money, and when they stop paying me I&
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by justinhj 10y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4553624/hashmap-get-put-c... It's a dumb question to be authoritative about because there are different implementations of hashmap and hashcode meaning that you can't g
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by justinhj 10y ago
I follow too many people to read all the tweets and I expect many people do. I created a list of people I don't want to miss tweets from and that helped, but I love the new feature that basically does that for me
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by justinhj 10y ago
When a company selects someone to interview a candidate they're also choosing that person to represent and sell the company. If that person turns out to be rude and condescending then I chalk that up to more than bad luck.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Lisa was an inspiring character. We all laughed at Homer and Bart but we wanted to be Lisa, with her diligence and smarts and musical ability. I think that counts for more than how many words she said.
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by justinhj 10y ago
I work in video games and at mid-40s probably wouldn't a) be employable and b) wouldn't enjoy my job if it didn't involve completely different languages and types of work over time Learning random new tech X is one thing, but
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by justinhj 10y ago
Most of the rough edges in Scala syntax are where it handles static typing around functional code and I think they've done a solid job achieving that. I'm from a lisp background and I loved learning Clojure, but for my day job I w
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by justinhj 10y ago
In the US at least,wealth does not seem to flow downwards. Much labour was outsourced to cheaper countries with less laws and morale constraints. I don't see the guys displaced from US factories enjoying those savings. More likely the
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Artificial Intelligence has written a beatles-style pop hit(electronicbeats.net)
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by justinhj 10y ago
I've been using emacs for over 10 years. I use it for the things it is good at, and other tools for what they are good at. In practical terms I use emacs for complex or repetitive editing tasks, org-mode for planning and lists, budget
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by justinhj 10y ago
finder-list-keywords - basically a menu of all the things in Emacs
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by justinhj 10y ago
A great way to discover things in emacs is the unmemorable command `finder-list-keywords` which gives you a menu of all the features in emacs by category
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by justinhj 10y ago
Logically I'd say yes, but big companies don't really work that way.
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by justinhj 10y ago
haha fair point.
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by justinhj 10y ago
David Jones was my Steve Jobs growing up. Not only did I love Blood Money, he wrote an article on programming for Amiga Format about how the scrolling worked including working source code. I'd been trying to learn how to write a nice f
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by justinhj 10y ago
If Sony own the rights to it why would they let people profit for free instead of doing nothing just in case a great idea comes along got a new Lemmings product?
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by justinhj 10y ago
The Amiga had a powerful chip called a blitter for moving arbitrary rectangles of image data around (it could even draw lines) but most developers were used to nes, c64, snes, megadrive and these all used character based hw so 8 bit alignme
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by justinhj 10y ago
That doesn't sound healthy. The gym is one place you can relax your mind and not focus on daily worries. To be expecting a call from work ruins that. I'd turn the phone off if politically and practically tenable.
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by justinhj 10y ago
They leave that choice to the user since you can disable the content of sms appearing on the lock screen. Not that I think that it's a good idea to leave security decisions like that to users
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by justinhj 10y ago
It's not weird at all if you live somewhere where an iPhone is important for status and very expensive. You want every penny back you can get when buying the next one
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by justinhj 10y ago
I can't see any grammar error in the remark and this kind of comment does not belong here
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by justinhj 10y ago
Scala 2.11 also supports 6
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by justinhj 10y ago
This is one of the most fun and informative programming posts I've seen on Hacker News recently. I also killed my wifi immediately after reading the article to play the game.

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