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It isn't just a skunk works, they have a production system written in Haskell: https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spa...
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Dynamo and Redshift have much different use cases than any of the RDS services.
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This is awesome. Thanks for putting them all together!
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in the equation for calculating half-life, lambda represents the decay constant.
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The ads on reddit ruin your browsing experience?
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We primarily use it to aggregate a large-ish (10 TB/day) amount of data for insertion into an analytics database. The code is very straightforward and it is fast.
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Oh, like Colin Powell and aides of Condoleezza Rice?
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Because she didn't commit a crime? > All criminal laws require a certain level of intent and, in the area of classified document cases, the intent to disclose it to someone not authorized to receive it," says Lowell, who has a
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It is more similar to CL's macro system in that it doesn't force you to write hygienic macros -- though I think CL's macro system is actually more powerful than Scheme's since it does let you write unhygienic macros. Clo
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That is a basic tenet of the computer career personality. They've been rewarded for how smart they are their entire lives, so they think they can understand things completely by reading a few paragraphs about it. Even worse if they hav
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Get a different job? There are plenty of interesting ones that don't involve writing CRUD apps, and even ones that will quickly exhaust (or at least, put to the test) your knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
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I think you could implement (naively) all of the Parsec functionality used in the comment in like ~30 lines.
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SpaceX and Tesla? But more seriously, some examples: http://priceonomics.com/founders-with-kids/
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It is a big data processing system. It is an alternative to Spark (and Spark Streaming), Storm, Hadoop MapReduce, etc.
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If you are serious about front-end Javascript, you owe it to yourself to check out the ClojureScript libraries Reagent (and re-frame) and Om.Next.
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With languages like Haskell you can lift many types of logic errors into the realm of type errors.
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We are a small team working on something of moderate complexity. We don't do a lot of request/response and most of our services interoperate asynchronously. The overall system is eventually consistent and we keep close tabs on the
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How is having microservices vs monolith increasing your development time? We have a lot of microservices, and I feel like having each piece of functionality silo'd with proper service boundaries only speeds up development.
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What incentive is there to move to Google or Facebook as long as you are selling all of your ad inventory, and at good rates?
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If you have a lot of high quality page views (like at least 10M per month, more if they are low quality) and you don't have a business model, maybe consider advertising. At a CPM of $3.00, you could pull in 30k revenue per month. As lo
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I love it. My job is full of interesting challenges and the things I do really matter to the business. My ideas are thoughtfully considered. There is something to learn from everyone on the team. I feel like the company cares about its empl
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Human brains are only so powerful. There are thoughts that literally cannot happen in a human brain due to size and speed limitations, and thus can never be thought by humans. AIs would have a much higher information density, approaching th
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Sounds like you are describing "scintillating scotoma", if you wanted a name for that visual distortion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
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> You tried to use their site to promote your site and they banned you? What is wrong with that? As long as your aren't spamming or trying to ruin the experience for others, why the fuck should it matter that you post your site to a
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Check out Beaker Notebook if you haven't http://beakernotebook.com/ It has the ability to autotranslate data between different languages.
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ClojureScript is awesome, and soooo much progress has been made in the past year. It has made writing browser based UIs so much more fun. I am really excited about what is in store for it this year -- personally, I am going all-in with Cloj
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Did you ever learn Paredit? Once I did, editing any other type of code became awkward in comparison.
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I only agree about 20% with this assessment of Datomic. Their "Pro Starter" tier is free. It is plenty to get started with for many use cases. It doesn't take _that_ long to get up to speed with how it works and how to use it
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It has a very small portion of the mindshare. Almost everyone uses R, Python, or one of the proprietary things. I use Clojure for any data science type tasks I have, but that is because I am primarily a Clojure developer. It is very nice fo
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Lisp syntax is awesome. It is unfortunate that some people have trouble getting used to it. I wish we could all live in parentheses paradise.

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