mjt0229

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by mjt0229 12y ago
I hope they don't tell me that I look like a great dane.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Thanks for the pointer to `cmdliner`. I've built a handful of command line tools using Command from the Core library (as described by Real World OCaml [1]), but I always have to have the book open to use it. This looks very nice and it
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by mjt0229 12y ago
That's nice, but what about adding backoff? I just came across this blog post[1] over at AWS about exponential backoff - timely because I'd just been working on some retry logic myself and wondered if I'd made good decisions
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by mjt0229 12y ago
This is really neat. As a professional Scala hacker who's played a bit with SML/OCaml, I always seem to find problems that would be best solved using discriminated unions like this, but I've never loved the traditional Scala
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Wasn't the JVM originally built to run inside of a toaster?
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Neat! This actually happens all the time, although maybe not so dramatically. When I visited the Jökulsárlón (the famous glacial lagoon) in southern Iceland, there was a large iceberg there that had flipped a day or so before. Unlike the ic
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by mjt0229 12y ago
This is my family's situation as well. My wife has a 9-month salary for her tenure-track position at a state university. Her startup package hardly covered anything. The university has virtually no money to give out in small grants to
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Luciferin isn't what makes jellyfish glow, that's GFP. GFP, at least, requires a specific light input to cause the glow (UV at a particular wavelength depending on the molecule). I don't know about Luciferin, though.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
This is exactly the point. I don't mind the extra typing in those first few examples because jQuery is mysterious and it's nice to cut through the mystery. However, I don't want to have to fill my code with conditional logi
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I've never heard of Elixir, but I always assumed that the |> originated in F#. Ocaml has it pretty much standard, too, although you can define it in one line in Ocaml: let (|>) x f = f x
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I was never convinced that the city needed anything more than a surface street. It's a little dicey putting any tunnel there against the waterfront in landfill in an earthquake-prone area. Moreover, it was never clear that the traffic
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by mjt0229 12y ago
These are easy to accidentally throw out at the office, unfortunately. Mine lasted about 2 weeks before I forgot to remove it from the machine and it went out with all of the other K-cups that everyone else was throwing out.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Yeah, I should have mentioned that - R for Programmers is exactly the kind of thing I'd need, even if it's not useful for my friends and family (largely scientists rather than programmers for whom the legacy of programming languag
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by mjt0229 12y ago
R is one of those languages that looks like it was designed in a vacuum by a very smart person. It has many common, modern PL constructs, but they're expressed syntactically in a way that in no way resembles any other language I'v
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by mjt0229 12y ago
DDG is excellent most of the time, but way behind when doing video or map searches. I have it as my default in most places, but sometimes I just have to fall back to Google.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
OCaml has a sophisticated object system. See: https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/objects.html You can do a lot of traditional 'OO'-style things with functors and modules, though, so you don'
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I definitely agree that it's really a great, mind-opening experience for developers to learn a LISP and a functional statically typed language. I feel like you might be missing some things about Clojure here, but I'm too inexpert
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Sadly, RIP. But one of my favorites!!!
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Definitely. I was also going to add Steve Reich, although his music is mostly not what you'd call "orchestral". But you could add Jonny Greenwood, Krystof Penderecki, George Benjamin, and more, and more. It's such a trag
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I'll bite. Thomas Ades is making astounding music today. So is John Luther Adams, and Nico Muhly. I've enjoyed works by Mason Bates, Andrew Leshnoff, Yehudi Wyner, and others. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn&#x
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by mjt0229 12y ago
People have been saying that for hundreds of years. But it hasn't happened yet. Repeating the same trope isn't helpful or informative. See, for example, http://properdiscord.com/2014/07/22/scott-timb
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Boundary Bay's pub has sadly gone downhill, and while their beers are still excellent, I'd highly recommend folks checking out the array of other good options in town: Kulshan Brewery and Wander Brewing, especially.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
That's what I thought, and it's clever.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
That is, except for kittens.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I'm sure they'll be hilarious. Hope one of mine isn't one of them.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
C brings in its own problems. Compiler (in)compatibilities, the need to install libraries on a machine to be able to compile and run programs. And besides, in C you still have a build system problem - Make is fine, but it is definitely op
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Java has Maven, Scala has SBT, Clojure has Leiningen. That's not so bad. I use all three languages, and the appropriate tool for the language. I don't use hot-swapping for anything. For IDEs, in Clojure, you have the choice of Vim
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Agreed. And in this case, I think it's significant that the family member affected has controlled his illness long ago. The point of this donation is to help other people for whom such control is not yet possible.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
That's fair. I was responding to the critique of the Broad is being not very clinical, and that was a figure of speech.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I really appreciate that the Broad keeps a lot of attention on basic (or at least, pre-clinical) research. That kind of work is critical to making big discoveries but it's harder to defend for funding in a world where we want to put dr

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