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by madmax96 9y ago
>But very few people will stop using the search engine or google map Bing now controls 33% of the search engine space, and Google's share of the market is in decline. Google has a monetization issue, not a product issue. People love
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by madmax96 9y ago
Again, their cloud accounts for 3% of the market. Right now, they have the $ to stay competitive. But when Amazon controls 54% of the cloud market, they simply won't be able to compete, at least not without taking resources from other
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by madmax96 9y ago
But how much of that is small functions, and how much is just people blindly applying pattern after pattern while optimizing for business use-cases that are unlikely to ever emerge? That doesn't mean the patterns are bad, it doesn&#x27
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by madmax96 9y ago
>Many Lisp traditionalists are bothered by the use of curly braces for maps and square brackets for vectors I have definitely seen this. I'm not sure that I understand this sentiment. The only thing that Clojure is missing is the &q
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by madmax96 10y ago
>I never claimed the system is perfect because there is no perfect system for such complex problems. Agreed. But my real problem here is that there doesn't seem to be any sort of plan. There are many questions that need to be answer
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by madmax96 10y ago
>You first have to accept them to check if they actually qualify for refugee status, those that don't qualify don't get the status and thus have to leave the country. Then what? THEN they go back to the border and they create t
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by madmax96 10y ago
I think that you are right that Rust, Swift, etc. have the hype now. In my mind, this is a product of containerization. Java solved a lot of problems that we faced with deployment. Containers have made deployment even simpler, and suddenly
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by madmax96 10y ago
Ah, now it makes sense. I came to Clojure having experience with Java and Emacs. I can see that learning the ecosystem surrounding these things can't be an easy task if you're doing it all at once. As others have pointed out, ther
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by madmax96 10y ago
Mind if I ask what isn't clicking? I've had the exact opposite experience, and have found it very easy to incorporate different libraries. Do you have experience with other lisps? There's certainly a learning curve with cloju
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by madmax96 10y ago
Obviously, functional and imperative languages are equivalent in terms of theoretical expressive power. That being said, functional languages often make it easier to build useful abstractions that are more correct. Okasaki's implementa
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by madmax96 10y ago
Maybe, maybe not. I think that you can write horrible code in any language (albeit horrible rust is safer than horrible C++ obviously). Especially considering the case when you're working on extremely compressed deadlines like many gam
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by madmax96 10y ago
I basically agree with this. However, I should add that: > Perhaps his conscience would have been cleaner Is a big deal. Obviously, it is up to the individual to determine the proper course of action for themselves, but I disagree wi
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by madmax96 10y ago
Totally experience the same phenomenon. When I write proofs I experience it even more, there is a voice in my head (one that I do not identify as being 'me' and is virtually a black box) that directs me. I often have no idea where
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by madmax96 10y ago
Right, but the point is that __someone__ has to set that up. Internally, you could use Kubernetes to build something very similar to this. But, then you have to support that yourself and need to hire people to manage that. As Hyper advertis
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by madmax96 10y ago
Kubernetes lets you do stuff similar to this, but you still have to manage the infrastructure and the platform. It seems like with Hyper, you literally are just deploying an image to be run in a container. You don't have to worry about
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by madmax96 10y ago
> Has more progress been made through war/assassinations/violence/riots/protest, or empathy/reasoned appeals? That's a difficult question, and I'm not sure what the actual empir
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by madmax96 10y ago
This. Around 40% of Americans support Trump. Can you reasonably declare that 40% of society is a danger to itself? You win over people with empathy and reasoned appeals to shared values, not firing them and refusing to associate at all with
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by madmax96 10y ago
This is so wise and respectful. I really appreciate this comment. Someone supporting Trump does not imply that they are sexist or racist. The issues are complex. Ultimately, if an employee has shown nothing but respect for fellow coworkers
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by madmax96 10y ago
Same tune here. What docker promises is truly amazing and is something that I think everyone wants. However, docker itself still has a lot of problems. In particular, docker's new builtin swarm (with 1.12) has tons of issues. I've
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by madmax96 10y ago
Keep in mind that young is relative. In a field that still uses software daily originating from the 60's, 3 and a half years is very young.
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by madmax96 10y ago
> let's say all my 50 containers share a bunch of files (shared libraries like libc, Ruby gems, a base operating system, etc.). It would be nice if I could load all those files into memory just once, ins
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by madmax96 10y ago
So instead of music being on a platform, music is the platform?
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by madmax96 10y ago
There are other legitimate ways to protest. Breaking down the unity of the GNU system is unwise and a childish fit, at best. Promoting unity among GNU should be the first priority of every project in the system. It is not immediately clear
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by madmax96 10y ago
That's cool. I've never looked at Flynn, but you've motivated me to give it a look!
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by madmax96 10y ago
My experience with Kubernetes is limited, so take all this with a grain of salt. I've been using the integrated swarm since beta. The new integrated swarm is a real game-changer in that it is much simpler to use compared to other solut
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by madmax96 10y ago
>But it'll be way simpler to express literally every other day-to-day concept, whereas lisps will continue to be inexpressive, syntaxless, paren-soup. Of course not. You can literally implement any syntax in Lisp using macros.
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by madmax96 10y ago
Thanks for the reply! This is really cool stuff, please post more if you decide to build some nice abstractions. Nice work:)
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by madmax96 10y ago
Agreed that it _can_ make code challenging to understand. However, the engineer in me thinks that this is not a linguistic deficit, but rather illustrates poor judgement and taste on the part of the implementors. The litmus test of 'ca
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by madmax96 10y ago
Python users are essentially discovering what Lispers have known all along - code is data. Once you fully comprehend that idea, you'll never be bothered by Lisp's odd syntax because of the freedom in expressibility it gives you. T

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