kennytilton

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by kennytilton 5y ago
Writing up a more powerful approach to state management in complex front-end apps. Been using it for 25 years, and after a few years working with React/re-frame and the Flux derivatives, I see it can help.
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by kennytilton 5y ago
Started programming in 1981. His recollection is correct. We were agile. Today's "Agile" is a disaster. We are not being condescending, we are mourning what once was an uninterrupted delight.
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by kennytilton 5y ago
First paid programming was 1981. It is all true. And easy to understand: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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by kennytilton 6y ago
Hmmm, no, it sounds like you are trying to apply to sth you saw on Reddit. I see "candid82" mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24652675 Hth!
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Bam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902901
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Thx, I never noticed that precise/auto-scheduling. I always just keep checking once the first arrives so I can update my browser. Let's see what happens in 52 minutes. My bet is they did not go so far as to check for holidays. US
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by kennytilton 8y ago
I left before the system got much use, so grain of salt and all that. It was a Rails shop so deployment would have been by a migration. Not sure what you mean by version control. The source was in git. Had we refactored significantly we wou
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by kennytilton 8y ago
I wrote an entire BPM run-time automation in pl/pgsql. The BPs were stored as PG rows, the deciding data was in the PG DB, and PG triggers automated quite a bit, so the firt seemed perfect. The strong static typing was annoying (I am a
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Ask HN: What's up with “No *sshole” Policies?
5 points by kennytilton 8y ago|4 comments
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by kennytilton 8y ago
FSMs are amazing, and are the one thing I learned from a programming book. I could not resist teaching it to an interviewer during a coding challenge... don't they cover FSMs in code camps?
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by kennytilton 8y ago
And now we thank the HN team for the recognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205865
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by kennytilton 8y ago
vihartvihart was a lost weekend of firehosing for me.
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by kennytilton 8y ago
That example is not exemplar. If code appearance is the concern, and it is, we need only a single line of "ascertain". So the example cheats by massively repeating a single uninteresting use case. We need branching code, code bloc
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by kennytilton 8y ago
New version just installed. https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ June 1 is coming soon, please beat on it so I do not let us seekers down. Next task is a cron job to download and install the page every 15min.
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by kennytilton 8y ago
You know, I completely misapprehended your original query. No, it is fine that GvR called it "lambda". Had he called it experfn we would all translate mentally to "lambda" anyway. I am just sorry Mr. Norvig considers it
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Cool, glad to help out. Here I go again: by "a high-level conversion about the state" did you mean "conversation"?
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by kennytilton 8y ago
"The Lisp community likes to solve lots of problems with macros" sounds like "Mozart likes to use a lot of notes". I do not like to use macros, I like to hide boilerplate so the semantics stand out. And so I can type les
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by kennytilton 8y ago
I forgot to say congrats on the launch, and best of luck with the project! Dunno, that back button behavior seems wrong in terms of user expectations. Are you sure you are using react-router correctly? If so, I would find something else. Si
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Python's lambda was pretty sad last I looked. Has it caught up with Lisp/Clojure's? And has the BDFL stopped trying to eliminate it altogether? I heard he regretted adding it and wanted to yank it at some point. The D in BDFL
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Why does the back button keep me on the landing page? Or is that just me?
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Are we going to discover that Lisp is really a Python?
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by kennytilton 8y ago
I gave this some thought. First, the silence was perfect and it was a privilege to witness that moment between you two. As for the thousand words, they were the hundred moves we do not see in a grandmaster draw after a half dozen moves from
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Lisp can talk to C/C++. And do not forget Clojure. That interops with Java.
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by kennytilton 8y ago
4. Lisp indents itself. This alone speaks volumes. That said, credit where due, Python code does look great.
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Methinks the enumeration of "Lisp's essential features" a tad short. 1. Coding JS quite a bit these days, I greatly miss every form returning a value. 2. Python's lambda is just sad, and GvR keeps threatening to remove e
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by kennytilton 8y ago
I just released a new version with a bunch of changes. https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ More to come, including using a routing library so we do not lose our whole context navigating from the page. I was not
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Was McCarthy even thinking of macros when he locked onto code as data? Or was he thinking code generation in pursuit of AI?Asking, do not know. I know macros are a great example of code=data, but I once had a ball using the AllegroStore CLO
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Strange that six years into my Lisp-hood I could not recognize the great one. Or the great beard: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-mccarthy-... It never changed!
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by kennytilton 8y ago
I am a PivotalTracker junky. RFEs can be made here: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2172476 GitHub Issues also welcome, but wait until I carve out a dedicated repo (today).
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by kennytilton 8y ago
Please check it out now. I made a lot of adjustments to handle smaller screens and limit the number of jobs displayed. The initial load still takes a while on my phone, however.

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