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by pivo 13y ago
Please don't do that! Wide lines are my pet peeve! It doesn't make sense to use width just because you can. In fact it's a bad idea because it's much, much harder to read really wide text and code should be written to be
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by pivo 13y ago
That was not my experience with Scala. Every library we used had its own DSL and that made the code really hard to read. Maybe things are different now, but I'll bet that was a lot of people's first experience with Scala. It'
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by pivo 13y ago
That did confuse me for years. I thought there were a bunch of child prodigies working for BBN.
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by pivo 13y ago
Seems like it could be a good idea WRT to cooling costs. Pumping cool, free seawater though exchangers would only require electricity for fans and pumps.
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by pivo 13y ago
> Operator overloading seems to be highly encouraged, and library authors go to town with it. This, the "every single library needs to provide some clever DSL", is my major complaint with Scala. It's not really Scala'
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by pivo 13y ago
Curious: Any idea why a water cooled condenser wasn't used? Water scarcity?
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by pivo 13y ago
As someone who doesn't work well in open office plans it's incredibly frustrating to hear, over and over again, some guy defending their open office when he obviously doesn't understand the simple fact that not everyone is ex
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by pivo 13y ago
Wow. Brings back so many memories. I bought my copy at Quantum books too, and got my internet through world.std.com as well. If I remember correctly, that ISP was in Coolidge Corner in Brookline, in or near the S.S. Pierce building. They we
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by pivo 13y ago
I really do like Scala, however I also find it to be similar to C++ in the sense that lots of the Scala code I've read seems to be written by people who trade simplicity of implementation for being able to use every single feature of t
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by pivo 13y ago
As a long time Emacs user a "Full GUI" or file browser tree are negatives. They just get in the way. There are alternative (and better) ways to navigate a file system that don't require pop-ups and other types of additional w
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by pivo 13y ago
Addiction may be a secondary effect, but I'd say the appreciation of good coffee flavor is the primary motivation. You can be addicted to caffeine and not care about good quality coffee. In fact, I'd say most coffee drinkers fall
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by pivo 13y ago
I had an office with a window and door in my jobs in the US up until the open office plan boom. I assume that's what the OP was referring to. (And how I miss those tiny offices, sob)
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by pivo 13y ago
Wow, how have I not heard I'd dash before? That looks fantastic. Thanks!
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by pivo 13y ago
I've done exactly one project in Scala, so I'm by no means a Scala expert. My objection to the implicit conversions is mostly when they're used with DSLs. Our project used several libraries that each implemented their own DSL
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by pivo 13y ago
I solved this problem with a $35 raspberrypi and a 2TB external USB disk that I tucked away in a closet at home. It takes very little power so I can leave it on all the time. The btsync command line version for ARM has worked well for me so
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by pivo 13y ago
Huh, my experience is the exact opposite of yours. I find the gmail interface much faster and easier to use, plus searching email actually works. Have you enabled the advanced keystrokes in gmail? As far as calendaring, I never really figur
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by pivo 13y ago
> Eventually I realized it was an upper-crust blue blooded Ivy League thing, a bizarre hybrid where people are intellectually open minded but socially unbelievably reserved Huh, I'd always thought Boston was widely known to be an intell
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by pivo 14y ago
We weren't forced to stay at home, nobody was arrested for being on the street, it was entirely voluntary. I think most people here were pretty happy with the outcome too. I simply don't have anything to complain about with regard to how th
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by pivo 14y ago
I've had only one project in Scala and in general I really liked the language. My biggest reservation about Scala though is what I consider the over-DSLy-ness of some of the Scala libraries (3rd party libraries). In my project different sou
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by pivo 14y ago
This may be true of the Common Lisp community but the Clojure community seems to be very welcoming and I think one of the more exciting communities around today.
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by pivo 14y ago
One reason to run Emacs in tmux is if you work on remote machines over, e.g. ssh. Emacs in tmux (or screen) lets you detach, log out then log back in and re-attach to the remote session with Emacs still running. That's amazingly handy.
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by pivo 14y ago
It depends on what you want to do. With a large Java ecosystem not having easy FFI may not be a big deal. CL, and SBCL, are great, but SBCL uses a conservative garbage collector (or at least it did the last time I used it) so I'd say the ch
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by pivo 14y ago
Not the author, but I'd say he's referring to two Clojure features that make programming with concurrency so nice, specifically STM (Software Transactional Memory) and immutability by default. STM is much better (IMO) approach to concurrenc
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by pivo 14y ago
"Research shows it's pretty hard to be creative in a quiet space." I'm sure that research is accurate for some people, but it's definitely not accurate for me. Quiet, aside from any noise I make myself, is the only way I can be truly produc
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by pivo 14y ago
I also got a 17" MacBook Pro around the time you did. I really wish I hadn't though, it's way too heavy to really be useful for anything but using around my apartment. I've tried to travel with it a few times and really regretted it. While
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by pivo 14y ago
I'm curious, if you can get things done more quickly in Go, why do you feel C++ is generally a better choice? Performance?
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by pivo 14y ago
Last July I signed up (in Boston) with Comcast for a 20MB (download) internet connection for $35/mo. for the first six months. I knew that was an introductory offer and that it'd be $49/mo. after six months. What I didn't know (because they
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by pivo 14y ago
Have you tried iTerm?
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by pivo 14y ago
I do the same, and it drives me crazy. This is one habit I've been trying really hard to break in the last few years.
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by pivo 14y ago
I understand that at least one publisher prefers thick books because that makes the spine wider and therefore the book is more visible on the shelf in the bookstore. Maybe now that so many books are purchased online this isn't as much of a

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