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by kunley 15y ago
He hasn't made any hard choices, he just picked what is most available and put the pieces together. Frankly he'd have bought me if he made his hands dirty with some obscure 8bit assembler. There he'd have to really THINK his way out. At lea
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by kunley 15y ago
Then he didn't become a programmer. He became Django programmer.
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by kunley 15y ago
Well call me incorrect by my team would laugh if I presented them a webapp with sooo pink buttons.
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Pythonic Maybe/Null class(github.com)
1 points by kunley 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunley 15y ago
DrRacket may be sluggish sometimes, but I bet it's hell lot faster than Eclipse ;) More seriously: is your netbook/laptop uses Gnome 3, Racket 5.2 fixes some issues with it which were present in 5.1.x.
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by kunley 15y ago
The case for dev/CI on PaaS would be when one initially can't decide which toys (components, web stacks, libraries, CI servers, ...) he needs, provided that PaaS vendor has many options to choose from (heroku has). So one can test & tr
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by kunley 15y ago
[edit] I replied to a comment which is deleted now; it was a popular point of view that you should go EC2 early and buy more instances as you grow. This is one common belief but actually if you ask any professional admin there's a big chanc
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Lispy "Abuse" of Ruby: Local Functions - Howard Yeh | Metacircus(metacircus.com)
2 points by kunley 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunley 15y ago
I was delighted to see how people automagically give others a chance to try other instruments and switch with some kind of intuition. Also the most pleasure gave me an idea of playing a bass for a while and watching others improvise.
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by kunley 15y ago
Then what about "hire people like the creators of PLT Scheme / Racket" - they have extraordinary strong scientific background too.
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by kunley 15y ago
That's a one brilliant thought. When someone inexperienced tries to use the chainsaw, he may cut his hand off. Nobody blames the tools - it's obvious that if a green guy is hurt, it's because of his own foolishness. Sadly, in the IT it's th
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by kunley 15y ago
That's a symptom that startups possibly became a new fashion. Now the following is a bit offtopic, but the thoughts are what I have in mind for quite a time. Look how many startups are there around whose only purpose is to connect or extrac
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by kunley 15y ago
On the contrary, anyone who still believes in a bs that staying wake an insane amount of time is a way of getting things done, should educate himself on how his body & brain actually works, or at least go through "Hammock-Driven Develop
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by kunley 15y ago
Imagine this: "..we have the best blub programmers around" ;-)
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by kunley 15y ago
Even when they didn't want to buy own hardware (colocation also costs), they could use some decent dedicated servers. They are usually more reliable, faster and cheaper than EC2. Also most startups grow slower than the time needed to rent &
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by kunley 15y ago
Well, just assume that I'm also speaking from experience of delivering complicated applications to production and I'm tired of how ORMs become a pain in the long term: - they create a dangerous illusion of an leaky abstraction which leaks v
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by kunley 15y ago
Erm, sir, philosophies? I'm talking about computer science as a foundation of hacker's work. I haven't merely stated my opinions, but mentioned some materials recognized as state of the art in this science. Do you propose that we abandon it
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by kunley 15y ago
ORMs are useful for one thing for sure: for making an illusion that OO way of thinking and relational way of thinking fits. But they don't fit really! I like the way original author explained it: the problem was that people were forced or c
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by kunley 15y ago
The old convenient argument "we give people what they want".. It's the same with the tv, newspapers. People get what they can get. People get what's in the market. People get what other people already got, because of a warm fuzzy feeling of
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by kunley 15y ago
Well, there are over billion people on this planet living their daily lives according to a religion which states that beating your wife is an excellent idea. Does that frustrate you more?
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by kunley 15y ago
I disagree with your disagreement of the original disagreement. Plenty of languages does not mean plenty of innovation; in the web programming there's certainly too less of it. Every new or currently fashioned language evolves to a point wh
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by kunley 15y ago
Well, Clojure has hot-swapping code for source Lisp files, but you can't load compiled libraries (Java, Clojure, Scala, whatever) into the running JVM, as there's no way to dynamically add JARs. This is quite a limit, especially in producti
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by kunley 15y ago
Hey.. physical working is not lifting heavy stuff all the day, you know... esp. not when doing carpentry which I explicitly recommended. Your physical effort is kinda split into small chunks, you do different things! It's hardly like a comp
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by kunley 15y ago
Folks are saying here how choosing a right heuristics is important. That's right but there's another catch: For something more real (ie. graph containing more edges) A* needs priority queue for openset to extract the node with minimum f() i
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by kunley 15y ago
Author's dismissal of CL and Scheme stands opposite to the fact that most CLs as well as Racket have tons of libraries right away; plus the general tone in their communities is "Racket/SBCL/whatever is for the doers". That people speak from
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by kunley 15y ago
"Every line of code not written is a correct one"
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by kunley 15y ago
I'm not telling about mythics, it's a real life. I don't want to make a system of beliefs here; I responded with an example of experience I lived through. Of course all depends on the people involved, so carefully choose who you work with,
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by kunley 15y ago
Yeah well, when repeating exercises you're becoming good at... the exercises! ;) But not much more.. (OK, I'm simplifying a bit, you do a favor to your body and that will benefit you; but I'd aim for a broader point of view). By working at
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by kunley 15y ago
Please forgive my bluntness: this is not a method of evaluating anything. The entries have been made every few hours. The author started to have some hopes about Clojure, then in the same day (heck! in three hours) he resigned. Even geniu
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by kunley 15y ago
I worked at a building site for a year in a remote place. That was non-profit actually (I also didn't have to spend money for being there) - building a meditation center with friends, but it was great time of my life. I got healthy and had

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