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Guide to Dependency Injection in Scala using MacWire(softwaremill.com)
2 points by nessus42 12y ago|0 comments
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by nessus42 13y ago
I enjoyed the article. I just have a factual correction: Lisp had real macros as early as the 70s, not the 80s. (Maybe even earlier, for all I know.)
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by nessus42 13y ago
> Yes, I'm angry. I'm angry that I have carpal tunnel syndrome. Maybe I'd be less angry if I'd been trained to write using the Palmer Method.
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by nessus42 13y ago
First I have to say that this is very cool indeed! Practically speaking, however, I'm not sure that it would have any advantages over the flashlights that you crank for a while. Though perhaps those crank flashlights use a rechargeable
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by nessus42 13y ago
> Why not just use Scala? That's what we decided! And now that's what we do.
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by nessus42 13y ago
There's a similar story about Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. The fact that he lost the tips of two fingers led him to develop a distinctive sound, which Black Sabbath became known for.
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by nessus42 13y ago
Well, this is a mighty difficult discussion to have in little HN boxes. I guess I can see what Dennett is getting at from your summary, but I've read other philosophers who would just argue instead that qualia are wholly representational. B
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by nessus42 13y ago
> He denies that qualia exist (or at least he used to). That seems almost nonsensical to me. Certainly people feel pain, etc. The question is what pain amounts to, not whether pain exists. There was a time, however, when some philosop
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by nessus42 13y ago
I don't know about Dennett, but most materialist philosophers don't argue that qualia are an "illusion" or that they don't exist. Rather, they argue that qualia have a physical explanation. Or, as a philosopher would word it, "Mental proper
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by nessus42 13y ago
I second Chalmers' book. It's an excellent introduction to how contemporary philosophers think about these issues.
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by nessus42 13y ago
(1) You just put a symlink into your Dropbox folder with the above sequence of commands, which just serves to illustrate the danger of this approach. (2) Your suggestion is extremely difficult or impossible to do in the general case. (3) I
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by nessus42 13y ago
> It starts syncing the recursive structure until it runs out of quota. I was curious about this myself, but I never tried it, as I feared that this was precisely the badness that would occur. Dropbox is so good in so many respects, I
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by nessus42 13y ago
> The better solution would be to just allow any folder(s) to be synced but none of the major cloud sync providers seem to want to enable that. This correct solution is precisely what BitTorrent Sync provides. So that's all the more r
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by nessus42 13y ago
Certainly companies may often do things for appearance, rather than for the right reasons, but both Warren Buffet and Peter Lynch have written that one of the best things that a corporation can do with its excess cash is to buy back its own
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by nessus42 13y ago
> If dropbox had support for arbitrary multiple folder selection (but the the complexity would go way up?) I'd agree with your stance on symlink, but now this is more of a necessary evil. I think you already answered your own objectio
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by nessus42 13y ago
Many great companies have purchased their own stock when it has become cheap. A stock buyback often signals that a company thinks that the best investment there is for its cash is its own stock.
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by nessus42 13y ago
> You are right: Dropbox's behavior with regard to symlinks is fundamentally wrong. What's even worse, is that no matter how hard I try, I am not able to convince most people of how wrong this is--even those who claim to be and should
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by nessus42 13y ago
For the reasons that you've specified and others, I rolled my own very simple sync system based on Git. The biggest problem I personally have with Dropbbox et. al, is that none of the commercial solutions sync symbolic links opaquely . (
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by nessus42 13y ago
I went to MIT as an undergrad and on my very first day there, there was a gunfight right outside my dorm window between police and an armed fugitive. Next House was under construction at the time, and the fugitive ran into the construction
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by nessus42 13y ago
> "Well people'll probably use escrow services on top of bitcoin to prevent dishonest merchants..." Probably? There are already escrow services for Bitcoin that heavily used.
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by nessus42 14y ago
If you want to convince anyone, you have to do better than just referring to your feelings. Plato felt the world of ideas was more real than the "real" world. Cosmologist Max Tegmark argues that we have no reason not to believe that the uni
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by nessus42 14y ago
I've been told that various companies have tried to rewrite Sabre on a number of occasions and always failed.
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by nessus42 14y ago
The problem with your assertion is that it is inappropriate as a response to a concise description of what linguistics is. Linguistics is not the study of how to be a more effective writer or a great communicator. Linguistics is the study o
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by nessus42 14y ago
While it is true that we might increase the rationality of people via education, we are never going to be able to make people anywhere near completely rational. Anyone who would think otherwise has clearly not studied much cognitive psychol
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by nessus42 14y ago
The default probably only seems insane to us because we don't grok whatever workflow Linus was using with Git when he came up with the defaults. The defaults probably make a lot of sense for his workflow. A common mistake people make when b
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by nessus42 14y ago
For me, it's about 50% for each. I often create a branch just to snapshot the current state of the branch before squashing or rebasing. When I do this, I do not checkout the new branch, and in fact, most likely I will never check it out. A
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by nessus42 14y ago
Why doesn't "mkdir" cd you into the new subdir unless you type "mkdir --no-cd my-dir"?
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by nessus42 14y ago
Indeed. "git branch" is a lot like "mkdir". If you accidentally make a branch, deleting it with "git branch -d my-branch" is about as easy as typing "rmdir my-dir".
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by nessus42 14y ago
> $ git push origin gh-pages I think that if you had changed the above to $ git push -u origin gh-pages then everything else would have gone smoothly.
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YouTube's ready to select a winner(youtube.com)
1 points by nessus42 14y ago|0 comments

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