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by jwdunne 10y ago
Very true. Now you mention it, I wonder why, given the awesome power of extensibility, this hasn't been improved? Shouldn't it be trivial to write a DSL that makes string handling almost, if not as good as, Perl et al?
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Thank you :) I think you were correct about Clojure. I read recently reader macros are not an available feature.
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by jwdunne 10y ago
That's pretty amazing. What sort of tools and features did you use to do that? Genuinely interested as CL is a language I always keep in the back of my mind for the "next project" and this is giving me a big push to use it.
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Despite the interesting read, I had the same experience too except as a complete newbie. I tried redefining the plus operator to see how flexible the language really was (after, you know, all the talk of its power). I'd led myself into
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Esperanto came to mind when reading through the comments here. I first heard about it around 10 years ago but not thought about it since. Certainly renewed my interest!
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by jwdunne 10y ago
I'm a native English speaker. I don't really know any other language, though I've studied a bit of the romance languages. I don't think English is a good "standard" language. Despite widespread usage, there are
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by jwdunne 10y ago
In my youth, I pronounced SQL as "squall". Quickly changed to "ess queue ell" when starting out professionally...
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by jwdunne 10y ago
"Bro do u even use git?"
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by jwdunne 10y ago
The last point is important. Many people claim that muscle turns into fat if not exercised for maintanence. This obviously isn't true. What is interesting is where that idea may come from: the habit of eating a larger amount of calorie
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Having the skills to know what question to ask is important. How, for example, would someone with 0 computing knowledge look for answers to a problem they want to solve where, say, some form of ML would be the best solution? How would they
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Oh yes, it's a thing. I remember being really interested in a sign outside a pub in the Canary Islands that listed a beer as 2,00 or similar. Then I noticed it everywhere and realised the convention I'm used to is reversed there.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Hrm. Musicians play because they enjoy it. Know many a people who, despite or regardless of success, will play just for the enjoyment of it. Programming is similar. You hear the stories about how some tech founders focused their energy on p
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by jwdunne 11y ago
It sounds quite petty but the string support in Elixir looks great after reading over some Erlang material not too long ago.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
The problem is just that: they use the terms for their own ends. For example, North Korea is officially named "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". I dunno what sort of harsh totalitarian regime is democratic and the peopl
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Thank you. This is perhaps the most succinct guide to marketing your skills I've read.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Yeah. 4 - 5 lines of CSS far out strips 4 corner images and several extra divs, the typical implementation.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Unless, as alluded at the end, you make a public commitment to achieving your goal. This explains why the whole dollar if you don't thing works for some people. The gist is it's not great to prematurely celebrate an incomplete goa
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Another similar thing that stuck out to me was how he held up his books. They were meticulous and he prided himself of them. I remember reading the joy he had of learning double entry book keeping. The man loved money. He loved keeping trac
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by jwdunne 11y ago
It may be hard to tell unless you ask somebody who contributes to those projects but the benefit of being open source is that you can inspect the tree and commit log. You may be able to use this to see which order tests come with respect to
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Hrm. I've bashed out quite a bit of crazy brand Ruby to achieve some cool looking interface. I wouldn't do this in production code. The problem is of definition. My definition of clean is readable, clear and understandable. If it
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by jwdunne 11y ago
That's fine because that's what he did. If, however, you want to argue in that direction, links to socialism and the party's name containing the word socialism is different from actually being a socialist and implementing soc
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by jwdunne 11y ago
No. This is incorrect. Hitler and Mussolini were fascists. Hitler even downplayed the leftwing aspects of fascism and promoted private enterprise as long it worked towards national interests - such as killing Jews (or "creating the mas
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Hitler and the Nazis progressively removed an entire nation's liberties through a democratic system through propaganda and other methods. They then led their nation and the world into the most devastating war the world has ever seen. S
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Disgraceful. I think solving that problem is one huge step a dating site can make. Though, the old technical solutions to social problems thing comes up. Perhaps one step is a write up of what you wish to get out of the service. Over time,
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Well, there ARE a number of issues: - the emphasis is predominantly based on looks and sex appeal. - people can take an awfully good looking photo - you are more confident online. You can be a person other than who you really are. With a da
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I tried speed reading on a book I've read multiple tea that I enjoy. It doesn't last long - the world falls away and I read at the pace that felt natural as I enjoyed the book once again. I agree that it's a bit daft speed re
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by jwdunne 11y ago
You could argue that or you could argue that to truly do well in uni you need to practice the skill of self-learning. You can learn to self-learn independently. Many who do have made great contributions to many fields. Have a look at the li
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by jwdunne 11y ago
In fairness, if economics is the study of allocation of scarce resources, which is implicitly a study of human behaviour wrt a limited resource in individuals, slightly larger functional groups (families and firms) and then large population
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by jwdunne 11y ago
It's interesting because, as a layman, this sounds a lot like what Keynes said: aggregate demand is the most relevant factor. Hell, using those ideas pulled us out of the great depression. Then there's the Friedman supply-side arg
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Funnily, I've been reading a book by a psychologist who developed EFT, a type of couple's therapy. One scenario that stood out was how somebody would be emotional and that the partner immediately turns to problem solving to try an

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