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   by papaf 17y ago

   Am I right in thinking this license fee is only in the US? As far as I know the rest of the world (Europe at least) doesn't recognise patents on software or algorithms.
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   by papaf 17y ago

   Clojure is powerful enough that its easy to write a "true" templating library along the lines you describe. I wrote a very simple templating tool (47 loc) that allowed clojure to be evaluated within PHP style tags -- I didn't use it because
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   by papaf 17y ago

   The clojure maven plugin allows you to set up a swank session that you can interact with using emacs. This is the type of web development that you mention and was a revelation for me when I tried it 2 weeks ago -- especially combined with F
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   by papaf 17y ago

   I was interested to see that the simple Mysql reads in the benchmark are slightly faster than the Berkeley DB ones. Has Oracle broken Berkeley DB that badly or is Mysql particularly fast?
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   by papaf 17y ago

   I'm currently in a computational biology lab and people are allowed whatever suits them to tackle a problem. I'd say that there is an equal mix of octave, R, lisp, fortran, C++ and python. I'm the heaviest user of python and this is because
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   by papaf 17y ago

   I'm sure I've had this conversation in real life :-) My one experience with SOAP was trying to get a perl client library working with a Java server -- they weren't compatible with each other. In the end I used ethereal with a Java client an
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   by papaf 17y ago

   Not to play down the cool use of clojure here but multimethods already provide a flexible and powerful object system: http://clojure.org/multimethods
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   by papaf 17y ago

   I've tried Sage twice but have found the documentation lacking both times. I ended up going back to the individual programs that make it up (Octave,R) and an easier computer algebraic system (mathomatic).
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   by papaf 17y ago

   I'm in academia and enjoy what I do now. However, I went through years of the same frustration. My solution was "save the interesting and creative stuff for home". I feel this talk hits the nail on the head (its not just about ACLs): http:
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    by papaf 17y ago

    Yeah, Slime is great. I’m just not an Emacs fan. I'm not an emacs fan either but I grudgingly use it everyday for R and Octave development. Vim is my preferred text editor but it can't compare to the power of emacs when working with inter
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I just get the message that I haven't install a flash plugin....
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I ate at this restaurant, its quite fun and they even deliver soup down the slides. I got really embarrassed though when I wanted to pay for everyone as a gift at the end. The till is human operated, the woman was rude and they don't take
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I like the idea of Redis but it has the obvious limitation that it can only be used when the data you're working with will absolutely never grow bigger than available memory. This not only reduces the problems it can be used on but makes th
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    by papaf 17y ago

    So, in generative encodings in GAs, the principle is simlar. An indirect (or generative) encoding is where one gene can represent an aspect of a developmental process instead of directly specifying each component. I haven't heard of gener
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I had the pleasure of doing some genetic programming research last year. It was lots of fun. The most impressive use of simulated evolution that I've seen recently was a paper which describes the evolution of proteins, how this evolution mi
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I agree with your comments but I feel that contributions to opensource projects are good for your soul and good for your CV even if they're only used by a handful of people in the world. I've found that hobby code I've worked on is much bet
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I haven't seen gevent before but it looks really cool. Its also impressive to see Django running on top of libevent - something I'd never thought possible. My big concern with this framework though would whether it could cope with accessing
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    by papaf 17y ago

    http://hop.perl.plover.com/
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I've been using R for 4 years to analyse microarrays and to do nonlinear time series analysis on signals. I'm using nonstandard methods based on my own code, third party command line programs and extensions I wrote in 'C'. I chose R over Ma
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    by papaf 17y ago

    http://www.jobserve.com/
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    by papaf 17y ago

    What magic negotiation or concession can we offer in the next 18 months that will get them to stop pursuing nukes that we haven't tried before? I think the involvement of China and Russia is the new development that may make the threat of
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    by papaf 17y ago

    China doesn't have the nicest foreign policy on the planet The Chinese policy of non-interference in foreign affairs has shocked people who look at Chinese relationships with N. Korea and Burma. However, I personally feel that Chinese for
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I find that programming in R is much nicer. I find that the language is more powerful and supports closures which is something I've always missed in Matlab. Extending R in C is also quite easy. Its probably worth pointing out though that R
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    by papaf 17y ago

    This is more a general hint than a single tip. Years ago I tried to improve my Unix skills by doing everything at home from the command line -- burning CDs, playing music, copying trees etc. I learnt a lot but this exercise was much less co
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I first heard about peak oil from an article in the Scientific American. It points out many things are are not debunked in the New York Time opinion piece: http://dieoff.org/page140.htm
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I came back to doing maths after a gap of over a decade. I found the student survival guide very clear and useful. I imagine it would be excellent to someone who is not good at maths. I read the guide every evening while I was cooking (its
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    by papaf 17y ago

    I find mixing Scala and Java trivial and my Java is weak. I really don't understand the authors problems. Edit: Maven does a good job of building mixed Java/Scala systems.
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    by papaf 17y ago

    Actually yes.
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    by papaf 17y ago

    In the interest of philosophical discussion... why is maximizing profit using knowledge of consumer behavior "evil" so to speak? I wouldn't go as far as saying this auction idea is 'evil' but I personally feel it is morally dubious. This
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    by papaf 17y ago

    Surely this will be a problem for XML based template engines (Lift comes to mind)?