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721.
by kyllo 12y ago
Down below sits imperative CPU which will give exactly the same result. Every time. If you're authoring programs for an abstract virtual machine in a declarative and/or functional style, it doesn't necessarily matter to you
722.
by kyllo 12y ago
Nice. I like this more for a functional idiom: case foo of TUESDAY => "Taco Tuesday" | _ => "Not Taco Tuesday" Or this: (cond (= foo TUESDAY) ("Taco Tuesday")
723.
by kyllo 12y ago
Practically every famous quote ever has been attributed to Churchill, so I'm skeptical. But it really is a country song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l50L4GYhpLc
724.
by kyllo 12y ago
You're implying that the opposite of "imperative" is "nondeterministic." That's incorrect. Prolog is declarative as opposed to imperative. User source code declares rules/constraints, and the Prolog comp
725.
by kyllo 12y ago
It honestly hadn't occurred to me that printing to stdout could fail, or that I'd need to check its return value to ensure it was successful. Can you think of an situation where that might happen? And if so, why doesn't print
726.
by kyllo 12y ago
You would only want to execute an expression and throw away its value for its side effects. Useful for IO as there's normally nothing I want to pass the value of a println expression to, evaluating already prints it to stdout. Also u
727.
by kyllo 12y ago
This is why they all have an exit strategy--buying real estate in and sending their kids to university in the US, Canada, and ANZ.
728.
by kyllo 12y ago
That's actually a country song.
729.
by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah, this is why no one likes languages based on XML: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-BobX If you were going to do it, I'm certain you'd want to use a more human-writable format such as YAML or TOML i
730.
by kyllo 12y ago
I appreciate the link, but this information is not terribly encouraging. Steve Yegge somewhat famously pointed out how painful Java's lack of object literals is back in 2006, and some mailing list discussion is all the progress that th
731.
by kyllo 12y ago
And how about some support for object literals, please...?
732.
by kyllo 12y ago
This phenomenon (career advancement = promotion to middle management) is also the case at the client companies, which is part of the reason why outsourcing is tempting to them in the first place. The never ending desire to commoditize their
733.
by kyllo 12y ago
That's changing. I work at a Fortune 500 company that's strictly a Java shop and will probably never use Rails. Hardly anyone there has even heard of it. But we are using Chef to configure Red Hat VMs and deploy app builds.
734.
by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah you can run IPython Notebook with a Julia kernel.
735.
by kyllo 12y ago
My biggest headache with it was just figuring out how to tell it to use a local jar. It really wanted to fetch it from clojars or maven central but sometimes you just need to use a jar that's sitting on your hard disk. IIRC there'
736.
by kyllo 12y ago
Yep, and I probably will buy one of those once my MBP needs replacing.
737.
by kyllo 12y ago
Because it interoperates with Maven. It can fetch and install code from Maven repositories, can read and write a pom.xml file, and uses the same groupId/artifactId/version format for specifying dependencies. And it also depends on
738.
by kyllo 12y ago
Hence the need for: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/SplashScre...
739.
by kyllo 12y ago
Alternatively, it could look like a library. A framework has control of the application by default and gives control to your code at designated points, to perform some computation and then return control to the framework. A library takes co
740.
by kyllo 12y ago
In the general case: if you go to a job interview, and the answer they're looking for on every question is just a buzzword, you don't want to work there.
741.
by kyllo 12y ago
I think that Angular is the worst choice because developing an app in Angular is so radically different than developing an app in vanilla JS. For a beginning developer I think it's best to first do vanilla JS, then JQuery, then try a l
742.
by kyllo 12y ago
iterating over the file, incrementing the key/values as they occur Isn't that exactly what the Hadoop job would have to do anyway? The whole point of Hadoop is to process the data in a single pass, which is what your method does
743.
by kyllo 12y ago
For a single page app framework that encourages modularity and eschews unnecessary complexity, I highly recommend Mithril. It's pretty trivial to hook it up to a REST API which you can build in Rails or whatever.
744.
by kyllo 12y ago
This sort of thing just screams of narcissism. When you're rich, famous, and smart, it's pretty hard to accept the fact that you're eventually going to die and you can't take any of it with you.
745.
by kyllo 12y ago
If you have a great boss and he leaves for greener pastures, and gives you the opportunity to follow him, I think it's usually a good idea to accept. Having a boss who you like and who likes and trusts you enough to take you with him t
746.
by kyllo 12y ago
I agree. If you honestly believe you're underpaid compared to market value of your skills, and you're otherwise happy in your current position, it's a good idea to politely say that to your manager (in private of course). I&#
747.
by kyllo 12y ago
s/static/void/
748.
by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah, the liver has a separate metabolic pathway for converting non-carbohydrate organic compounds into glucose at a steady rate to regulate blood sugar and provide energy to the brain, it's called gluconeogenesis http://en.
749.
by kyllo 12y ago
Your liver doesn't convert fat to glucose, it converts it to ketone bodies (such as acetone) which the body can also use for energy instead of glucose.
750.
by kyllo 12y ago
So, the question is: how does one get into the "trusted core in-crowd"? At most companies it's based on playing the political game well and building alliances with the right people. I've never worked at Amazon but I do

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