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by kovrik 8y ago
This. I really love Clojure, but these days I'm still mostly a Java/Kotlin guy. Haven't seen any Clojure job or Clojure being used in production yet, unfortunately. Sadly, that is a common fate for Lisp(-like) languages nowad
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by kovrik 8y ago
But that's the thing: many people don't bother configuring it properly (or they don't know how?). So why risk it?
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by kovrik 8y ago
I think that publicly exposing your build/deployment system is a very bad idea. It contains too much sensitive and valuable information (credentials, commits, commit author names, paths, hostnames, scripts etc.) and it is too hard to m
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by kovrik 8y ago
I think that describing infinity as an infinite process is bad because that way we are basically saying that this infinite process and infinity is the same thing! I love ops explanation because it separates infinity (as a number) and infini
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by kovrik 8y ago
Agree. Scientists love confusing and weird names. For me, back in school days (or was it university?) it was a revelation when I came across quaternions. It suddenly clicked. I finally understood that there was nothing special about complex
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by kovrik 8y ago
That's an infinite process (which is an awkward way to describe anything), but not infinity. You'll get more and more natural numbers, but will never actually get infinity. I love ops explanation because it gives more natural pic
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by kovrik 8y ago
Yep. I'd say persistent collections and (lazy) sequences. And great concurrency stuff (agents, atoms etc.)
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by kovrik 8y ago
Shameless plug: I'm writing similar thing as a hobby sandbox project: https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin It started as a Scheme R5RS implementation in Java, then I translated everything to Kotlin. Finally,
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by kovrik 8y ago
Sorry, maybe I'm just tired, but I think I'm missing something. I live in New Zealand and here it is a normal practice for landlords to offer a fixed-term tenancy agreement for 6-12 month. When it expires, then landlord/tenan
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by kovrik 8y ago
At work: Org mode (Emacs) Personal stuff: I just send emails to myself. Something like: '[TODO] Do something ...' Then you can elaborate in the message body. Pros: - free - simple - no apps required (or: you can use any app/w
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by kovrik 8y ago
'Malazan: Book of the Fallen' by Steven Erikson (that is actually 10 huge books). I've only read 2 books and a half so far and it is brilliant! I'm not a big fan of fantasy books (prefer hard sci-fi), but Malazan just bl
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by kovrik 8y ago
Agree. Yes, ability to explore and understand the project via debugger is a great and useful skill. However, if it takes debugger to understand that project, then, I'd say, it is a badly written and poorly documented project.
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by kovrik 8y ago
But everyone already does that. When you get a new job, you can't just merge in seamlessly like you've been working there for ages. Of course, saying 'fake it' I don't mean 'just pretend that you know stuff, bu
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by kovrik 8y ago
Yep, recognized the name too! My advice would be: fake it till you make it. Relax, try to split the whole thing into small pieces, try to understand how they interact with each other, try to understand the dataflow. Also, in my experience y
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by kovrik 8y ago
True! Personally, I'm in love with Kotlin. But also like Clojure. However, it is really nice to see that Java itself is getting better and better each release.
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by kovrik 8y ago
Great stuff! Devs often complain about Java being boring and old-school, but it never ceases to amaze me how cool Java and Java-related techs are (JDK, JVM, GC etc.)! Literally, state of the art, almost alien technology. And it seems that m
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by kovrik 8y ago
Yeah, current docs might not be the best, I think they are still working on it. API was pretty intuitive, plus some googling and reading stackoverflow. And yes, browsing the source. I don't remember encountering any major problems with
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by kovrik 8y ago
Would recommend! Used PDFBox a couple of projects ago. It was great! Very nice API, works like a charm.
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by kovrik 8y ago
But wouldn't it mean that literally all living beings have consciousness? That consciousness is not a binary thing, but there are many levels of consciousness. Humans always liked egocentric views -- "The Earth is the center of th
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by kovrik 8y ago
Isn't it what they said in the article? If there are any problems with Arc gene -- if it is not transferred properly to a child -- then child might develop various conditions (autism etc.)
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by kovrik 8y ago
Question: why muons? Why not electrons? Or why not neutrons, which are not charged (hence should penetrate better, if I understand it correctly)?
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by kovrik 8y ago
They are OK. Not sure about US, but here in New Zealand they don't work so well. I try Apple Maps ~once in 6 months, They are definitely getting better and better, but still no comparison to Google Maps.
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by kovrik 8y ago
Can they please make Maps and Siri usable first?
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by kovrik 8y ago
Nice idea! Would be great if it was not just On/Off switch, but one could set timer (per site) and it would gradually desaturate website the longer you stay (1%, 2%, ...). When timer turns 0, then site becomes fully grayscale (100%). W
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by kovrik 8y ago
Exactly what I meant. Yes, you can bleach all your clothes, but not your whole house. Then, if you already have stomach flu, then I don't see how bleaching your clothes might help here. Take a medicine. Finally, reading about stomach f
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by kovrik 8y ago
This is interesting indeed and I appreciate the amount of work done, but honestly I don't see the point. Yes, germs are everywhere (surprised?), so what? First, you can't bleach all you house. Second, even if you could, why do tha
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by kovrik 8y ago
Brian Goetz said: > We are "reclaiming" the syntactic real estate of "_" from the space of identifiers for use in future language features. However, because there are existing programs that might use it, it is a warni
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by kovrik 8y ago
Well, nowadays all checked exceptions are considered to be a mistake.
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by kovrik 8y ago
Yes, that is sad, but very common, unfortunately. In the place I'm currently working at we have Windows behind Cisco VDI, we have to have Cntlm proxy running (all traffic goes through it). Last week I got an email from Security team be
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by kovrik 8y ago
Scheme R5RS implementation in Kotlin: https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin But the development has stalled recently: can't figure out (read as 'too lazy') how to implement macros and how to fix som

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