jwdunne

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by jwdunne 11y ago
There's actually a lot of material out there on this I.e extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation. Money is an extrinsic motivator. Interest and enjoyment are intrinsic motivators. There are healty benefits linked to working a job based on hi
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by jwdunne 11y ago
A turing machine is an abstract machine. That fits with your sense of the definition. Sorta like category and group in maths are a bit different from what we consider a category and group in the real world.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I love SASS. After years of wroting vanilla CSS, you really get to appreciate some of its features e.g nesting, variables. The problem is this: for small websites, you don't need to pay a lot of money to get a lot of work done. These a
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I'm not sure there's an awareness the effect a down vote can have on someone new here. I remember when I made a comment after joining and it got a down vote. I didn't comment for about 6 months. The fact that down votes are s
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I used to be a night owl - used to sleep in past 12pm. I switched over time. Full time work shifted the pattern mostly. Weekends I still got up later. Children who wake at 7am sharp was the final step. 8am feels like a lie in after years of
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I agree. My voting policy reflects: I reserve down vote for comments that worsen the quality of discussion. Examples are rude or dismissive comments that fail to address any point in the OPs comment or article. At its worst, I've seen
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by jwdunne 11y ago
There'll be a plugin for that.
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From what I can tell, Scheme (or it may be a Racket thing) allows the use of square brackets - this aids in readability greatly. There is no type difference as there is in Clojure.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I'm not so sure about implicit currying in CL. The uniform syntax that provides homogeny between code and data is exactly the main benefit because, for example, you can go ahead and add implicit currying (and much more). An example res
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Have you read the article? Its a guide to ASDF 3, a CL build system, and features that help with scripting. There's nothing "no code consultant" about it. Its not even a philosophy-methodology piece. The above comes across as
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Send me an email. This sounds awesome :)
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I never said it was easy. That and most businesses don't create new technology. There are industries out there that could use tech that already exists but either they don't know about it, it hasn't been shaped to their needs
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That doesn't sound like a straight up gamble. It is if you have no idea if your customers want to pay for your product but there are ways to remove this unknown i.e knowing that people are willing to pay before building anything that c
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by jwdunne 11y ago
And yet incorrect. Democratic socialism is the idea that socialism can be achieved through reform rather than revolution. In some respects, it has been less successful than revolutionary socialism: the UK Labour Party, until recently, refor
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is really interesting. I've been turning this idea over in my head every now then as a mental exercise (bus ride material). One, it validates my reasoning that rigid single-inheritance trees are a bad representation. What my mind
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Exactly. Proving the theorem was his dream and kick started his passion for maths. This is a man who has achieved his childhood dream. That's no different from a singer who's achieved their childhood dream. For many, I imagine mat
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I don't think you should have been down voted for this question. It discourages asking to learn. What I meant was mixing them together in the same piece of code. The other comments explain why: its doing too much, its difficult to main
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Why not? I've found Ruby to be a flexible language. If, for a project, the Rails patterns don't suite my goals, I am confident I can find the packages to come to a solution in good time. Rails popularised Ruby. Ruby offers much mo
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This isn't really true anymore. Namespaces, as ugly as they are visually, plus autoloading plus a package manager that handles it for you allows quick structuring of a project. This can be configured to fit whatever conventions you pre
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by jwdunne 11y ago
My (UK) diagnosis was an endurance test. It took 2 years of consultations, appointments and referrals to get a diagnosis. Of course, this is the NHS so everything non-life threatening takes longer but if there was no impact day to day there
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by jwdunne 11y ago
You'd be surprised. I work for a company that manages the technical side of a famiky of brace systems (one of which is a direct competitor to Invision). A lot of activity happening in places I'd least expect.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
It's not universal. Cultural definitions count. It's similar to the word 'fanny'. In the US, it seems it means 'bum'. The word 'fannypack' would translate to 'vagina pack' in the UK, which i
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by jwdunne 11y ago
No to high protein. Too much protein gets converted into glucose, kinda defeating the purpose.
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I found it a good offset against keto-constipation.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
The attacker isn't calling the receiver a vagina. It takes on a different meaning when used like that. A cunt is loosely defined as a horrible person. To say "he's a proper cunt" is to say "I really don't like
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by jwdunne 11y ago
'Cunt' isn't so bad when it comes to banter and jest in the UK. Typically male banter. Many females seem to take an offense to it no matter the context.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
For mindfulness, this features as part of DBT, a therapy targetted at people who suffer from borderline personality disorder. Although a bit drastic, searching for "DBT mindfulness" will provide tonnes of resources that teach mind
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I have ADHD so I especially struggle with this in all areas of my life. Recently, I compiled some notes on how to have a productive day and how to follow through on projects. I've typed them up for you: How to have a productive day: -
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This comment reminded me of a lesson in The Elements of Programming Style: Use good language features, eschew the bad ones (paraphrased). After reading this, some opinions across a few languages made more sense. For example, Crockford advoc
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I ripped them out because I didn't trust my mum to cut it out completely. I was afraid the cut would create a sharp edge which would be even worse. I still wince at the few times I'd ripped a hole in a new shirt... Still unbearabl

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