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by nbardy 11y ago
When I first started writing Lisp I was put off by how simple the syntax was. Everything looks the same and it was so hard to tells things apart. After working with Lisp for a long enough time I began to love the simplicity. Everything is s
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by nbardy 11y ago
Reading this is impossible to not to think of Bill Gates. Someone who realized the impact his money can have. Many people in this industry have been influenced by the actions of Gates, especially in the tech community. As a 20 something the
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A better coding convention for lists and object literals in JavaScript(gist.github.com)
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I spent 10 months traveling and contracting in hostels, and struggled through some pretty shoddy and slow internet connections; However, Taghazout was the one place I couldn't find a consistent internet connection. I only lasted about
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Show HN: Vim-clutch(github.com)
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I don't understand the pirate right that its not okay to control distribution of an item. I understand the argument against DRM and definitely feel that when I purchase I should of have full ownership of that product. Distribution, how
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Here is the important 2 lines of code. response = urlopen('https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=' + search) command = 'youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 ' + vide
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by nbardy 11y ago
It seems like the key to writing current code is to abandon the idea of understanding how to construct a concurrent architecture and to figure out how to adopt a pattern concurrent which provides certain guarantees. Often it is something ba
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by nbardy 11y ago
I had a similar feeling when I first starting using Clojure, but I found it was more of a discomfort from discussing programming language with a direct and accurate vocabulary. After a while I've become much more comfortable reading ab
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by nbardy 12y ago
It is a problem, but I also enjoy the fact that I can rely on HN for to reason about why things aren't as great as they seem. It's important to know what stills needs fixing and I'd much rather digest it in a matter of fact H
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Apple is too large to implode and fail quickly. Even if they do fail it will be a slow death or just a leveling off. Look at Microsoft. The last ~10 years they been getting beaten in many large markets they are entering, but they are still
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Because sometimes quality content in buried underneath a bad user experience. EDIT: Not that I actually think its a bad UI. But either way its not always about the UI.
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I'm very surprised to hear how hard it was for you to swim in light chop. I grew up surfing and you paddle with your head up so you are used to craning your neck and stroke at an angle down. When I finally starting doing some swimming
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by nbardy 12y ago
It's not free rent. Its just for up to a week. Similar situation to job interviews, but most of them will pay for accommodation if they fly you out.
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I just applied and this is really a perfect fit for me. However, I have a hard time seeing who else would be interested in this opportunity. I'm currently traveling and bouncing around so spending some time in San Francisco sounds gre
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The title of this article is too ironic not to comment on. I think it's interesting because a good title itself is intrinsically "clickbait" or begging you to stop and look for more. From the Paul Graham essay to the header o
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by nbardy 12y ago
A hundred million dollars would change my decisions, but it also changes the nature of the problem I'll be working on. The contracts I get are on a much smaller scale which means the problem I'm solving is also of a different scal
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I'm curious on some numbers on how this performs compared to the commercial units the expensive food industry models and the new kick starter wave. Something like this could be really neat since it is versatile and you could use it to
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At the last company I worked at clearcase never left.
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Going to resorts and fancy hotels is expensive. Traveling is not. Most people I meet traveling including myself are spending way less money than they do at home.
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Well clojure having a lisp syntax allows an optional type system to be build as a library. https://github.com/clojure/core.typed
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As someone who is currently building out some products with Firebase I don't think the cost to swap platform would be too high as long as you isolating your data layer properly. I'm writing it with om/clojurescript; however,
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I'm doing it now, and unfortunately I can't really tell you how easy it easy to get a job because I was lucky enough to have an incredibly flexible and reliable long term contract fall into my lap. I'm making less than I woul
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by nbardy 12y ago
That is a problem in college, but once they hit pro they've gone through the combine and they are measured.
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by nbardy 13y ago
I was thinking this exact same thing while traveling. Location based wikitravel essentially.