mjt0229

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by mjt0229 12y ago
This is exactly right. Also, the selection of ebooks at my local library is terrible. I always look for an ebook first, but I've never yet found an ebook version of a book I actually wanted to read in my library's catalog.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
As I recall, GADTs are also touched on, but I agree that I still want more of all of these things.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Maybe the tacit assumption here is that I'm doing development for Android and iOS; I'm currently interested in neither, although I do think F# is a compelling language and I'd love to be able to advocate for it at my workplac
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Here's the problem: it's too expensive to learn on my own, and I can't advocate for C#, F# or Mono without already being an expert. Yes, I am a professional software engineer, and I support my family that way. But I have ot
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I had a number in my Javascript variable once and it took a lot more than jQuery to get it back out.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
It's also weird that I'm most endorsed for some of my weakest skills. Everyone thinks I'm a great Python programmer except me, it seems.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
Linked in is a very strange world; maybe it's good for job seekers or recruiters, but I find that the most frequent interactions I have there are either recruiters contacting me for ridiculous jobs that I would never be interested in (
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by mjt0229 12y ago
That's a neat idea. But in the case that the server doesn't have them zipped, I'm not sure that the blanket statement made in the blog post is really right, either.
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by mjt0229 12y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. One other thing I'd add was that these new tools forced developers to build tooling around their databases, too. No more ad-hoc query system (like sqldeveloper, or the many fine web tools) where yo
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Somehow, I read this as "extortion-requiring", and it sounded a lot worse than it probably is.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
The real problem with C# is that it is still basically Windows-specific. Yes, Mono is out there, but have you actually tried to build a Mono app without using Xamarin? Have you looked at what the Xamarin licenses cost? Once your project rea
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by mjt0229 13y ago
You're not missing anything. The people who are taking actions based on the correlations (i.e., treating them as causes) are probably missing something though.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
One thing that I love to make is mac & cheese.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Nice work! I think I played ultimate with you this past summer, and we talked about this on the way to a game.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
TL;DR: "sucks less?"
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Dr. Spengler was my favorite ghostbuster when I was a kid and when I watched the movie last weekend.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
It's good to see Scala getting some love after all those "i hate scala" rants (many of which seemed to be written by people who haven't spent much time with the language). We're using it at work for essentially all
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by mjt0229 13y ago
What I really should have said was that whenever I use myself as an example of the "typical consumer", I'm inevitably making a wrong decision based on some idiosyncrasy.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
I never really got tablets - too big to be portable and crippled by the lack of usable input devices. My 11" Macbook Air is just about as portable as an iPad, but is way easier to use, not just for streaming, but even for coding, etc
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by mjt0229 13y ago
You're absolutely right about that.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Far be it from me to defend Monsanto, though. They're a horrible, horrible corporation.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
I presume the RNAi described here targets regions of DNA of about ~20 nucleotides. Off-target effects are par for the course, but if you pick your 20 nucleotides carefully, you can get pretty precise. Common off-target effects also come fro
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by mjt0229 13y ago
I worked for 5 years at Amazon, and bar raisers were carefully selected for their ability to ask questions that probed much more deeply than this. I'm shocked that such a trivial detail would be used to disqualify someone by a bar rais
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Scala support in IDEA is great right now. I think it's better than Eclipse at the moment, although my experience with Eclipse was observing over my coworkers' shoulders.
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by mjt0229 13y ago
The problem with Xamarin is that it's expensive. Xamarin's docs don't really explain how big a project can get before you need to pay for expensive licenses, but I can't advocate at my company for a license that expensiv
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by mjt0229 13y ago
>The reason that antibiotics work is because they are attacking some function that has deliberately evolved, through natural selection, to be like that. Antibiotic resistance must literally cost bacteria some efficiency in some of their
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Any diet that is based on an unsubstantiated claim that "humans have not evolved to digest X" where X is something that humans have been eating for thousands of years. Paleo comes to mind, but there are others. The claim made by t
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by mjt0229 13y ago
I would point anyone who subscribes to any of the several current fad diets to this one: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq....
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by mjt0229 13y ago
This looks great at first glance. Thanks for all your hard work!
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by mjt0229 13y ago
Certainly. As I said, I like Clojure, but I'd be happy to be able to program in Scheme as well. I guess the history of LISP should have told me that not all people who like one LISP necessarily don't mind using another.

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