nickbauman

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by nickbauman 5y ago
The reason why UML died is muuuch simpler. It simply promised what it could never deliver. Unlike what UML is trying to simulate, which is an architectural blueprint, a UML model of a system cannot be verified for correctness. But a bluepri
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Babashka has picked up a lot of adherents lately by using a more hybrid approach to this idea. Use clojure to where you want to succinctly and powerfully manipulate data structures (even simple things like (assoc ...) is alien technology in
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I think you're also ignoring the "transformative" clause written into the fair use doctrine in the US. ...the extent to which the use is transformative. In the 1994 decision Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc,[13] the U.S. Sup
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Not a great analogy. People aren't looking to make "interoperable movies". But let's play that out for a moment. Would a copy of star wars with different actors, different scenic design, different music be much of a sala
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Tesla's gambit of making a cleaner world with non-polluting cars gets canceled out by the dirtiest waste of energy, the bitcoin proof-of-work algorithm.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Regarding Siemens it reminds me of John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man about the engineering firm Chas T Main. Bribes are merely one technique to obtain power by companies like these. https://en.wikipedia
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by nickbauman 6y ago
In my testing I couldn't tell the difference between Java and Clojure performance solving the same problem. Probably because Clojure is lazy in many cases (or the implementer can choose a lazy implementation) where Java has to be eager
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I can't wait to read it. I live in Minnesota, the land of the great Anishinaabe tribes. I was surprised to learn that these Anishinaabe drove out the Lakota and sent them westward in 1750 in the aftermath of a bloody battle in the nort
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Have you considered Clojure Protocols for this?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I often write a loop recur that I will later turn into a map reduce as you say.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
This can be summarized as "It's better to repeat yourself than use the wrong abstraction." It happens often in the attempt to be DRY we add a parameter or some condition to handle a new variation to what seems like a universa
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Yeah it was called Live Connect and it was pretty amazing. It's long since gone though. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/LiveCon... FWIW as a Clojure/Script developer this t
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Saudi Arabia reached their Hubbert curve apotheosis probably in the 80's (their proven reserve is a state secret). They've been desperately trying to handle this fallout ever since. Russia, OTOH, is the real the mother of all petr
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I have only two reasons to keep using a mac: Devonthink (for my paperless office workflow and it's awesome document classifier and NLS search) and XCode to write iOS apps. Otherwise, I'd dump it in heartbeat. Anyone have anything
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Humans aren't generally logical; we're capable of logic, but it's not our general state of consciousness. Narrative is our one, overarching "innovation" we've achieved over our nearest relatives. Narrative is a
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by nickbauman 6y ago
This is good news. It's sad that I find a lot of interesting possibilities on Azure end up being "windows only." Hopefully having more support for Python will fix some of that.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
So I hear Poetry is the way to go these days for python. But a plurality of the people I encounter in the Clojure community came there because leiningen (Clojure's package manager that uses Maven under the covers) "just works&quot
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Precisely my take too. Maybe we're even right?! My sense is the crux is that you make explicit with CQRS is that you can offload reads to read replicas as long as you're OK with the read replicas being a bit more behind in the wri
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by nickbauman 6y ago
The hardware-software combination that was used to compromise the Iranian nuclear facilities was amazingly old and primitive, though. It truly was a weak link that I cannot fathom how this wasn't upgraded looong before. I mean, I guess
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by nickbauman 6y ago
TDD helps keep this "abstraction abstraction" thing in check.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I will leave you to enjoy your highly refined, bleached, deodorized oil. I'm sure it's good for you.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
"Moreover, the Roman elephants were smaller African elephants, effectively useless against the large Asian elephants the Seleucids used" I thought African elephants were larger than Asian elephants?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
That's OK. I'll let you do your own clerical work on this topic. A couple of interesting points to consider: refined, bleached, deodorized oil such as canola oil is highly processed. Your link warns about highly processed oil in g
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by nickbauman 6y ago
probably less healthy than real butter. "Vegetable oil" is almost always canola oil, which is more appropriate in your automobile crankcase than in your body. Temperate oils in general aren't good for you: they evolved to hav
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by nickbauman 6y ago
RedHat gave stock options to F/OSS contributors when they IPO'ed.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
It's time to read this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611328-ishmael
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I'm thankful for that "feedback email", whoever that guy was, he either has a serious case of the Dunning–Kruger effect going on or he deliberately behaved that way to extract money out of a startup by being a total resource
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by nickbauman 6y ago
When I wrote "word of mouth" I meant a mouth that I can see move from someone I know. I should have made that clear, sorry.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
We've come full circle. Word of mouth is all you can trust. The Internet as a great "disintermediation" medium is over.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I think many folks forget that nobody wants to use your software . They want something that maybe your software can help them get maybe. But if the problem could be solved without your software, they'd try to remove your software ten

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