pjonesdotca

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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   Not to be snarky but, isn't this kind of like using a metal detector in an Iron factory? The only PHP code I've ever felt was not headache inducing was that in which the coder was attempting to use a functional paradigm as much as possible.
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   There is a report generator that suggests experiments based on the data. Don't take that as a recommendation for the product however. I'm still test driving.
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   As someone who made a run at learning Nihongo in the nineties, I bow to your awesomeness for your inductive reasoning.
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   Thanks for that. It's been my motivational poster for a while now.
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   also -> http://ejohn.org/blog/ocr-and-neural-nets-in-javascript/
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   here you go -> http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/38736
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   ah, the classics.
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   since alex mentioned almost.at, i'm going to go with qooxdoo - which (codewise) is a whole lot more direct. http://qooxdoo.org/about Still waiting on Atlas to appear though.
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   by pjonesdotca 17y ago

   alas, alack. Not in Canada - as always.
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    While I understand your comment, as someone who's fortunate enough to be paid to program in Ruby, I find it a little sad that Ruby is considered mostly in Rails terms. While I was unemployed, one of the recruiters I was with mentioned that
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    HatTip: RubyInside via LinkedIn.
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    "The emphasis being, of course, that even a complete implementation of Scheme should remain as compact as possible." I don't know. I like that fact that Scheme forces me to create everything. (R5RS) The end result is that I end up thinking
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    I have and still write MonteCarlo/Bootstrapping apps in Ruby. Does that make Ruby a "scientific language"? What do they mean "scientific language" anyways?
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    SAS is looking for a Bayesian Specialist(sas.com)

    4 points by pjonesdotca 17y ago|2 comments
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    O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)(oreilly.com)

    28 points by pjonesdotca 17y ago|24 comments
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    Actually, I think that Eric Kidd would disagree with you. He makes a great point here: http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-a... that "In particular, macros which actually compile mini-languages haven’t appeared yet,
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    If you're seeing companies that use it to stay competitive, then that's a good sign. I was simply pondering on the whole discussion because I have yet to see a posting requiring usage or or experience with, Erlang. Not to say they're not ou
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    With reference to point #2, I would respectfully submit that Erlang is not an "economic driver". Personally, when it comes to concurrent programming I'm more inclined to look at Clojure than Erlang but, when I surf the job sites - I don't s
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    machine learning repository here: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    This is a great quote to send on to a Java refugee hiding out programming Ruby. They think they've found something that's "Java done right" when they've entered the LISP-zone.
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    I like that Pragprog gives you the option of buying both the deadtree and pdf versions. That way you CAN have your Ctl-F and something to read on holiday at the same time.
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    Yipes. Even as an SysAdmin I never had that kind of pull to get a user booted out for something like that. The most hardcore lockdown I ever did involved reghacking out USB ports on the terminal in the lunchroom.
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    I'm going to say that it doesn't really matter but, PLT is probably a great place to start. If you want to learn Scheme then make sure to use the R5RS setting on PLT. When I write for portability, that's the setting I use. Most of my writin
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    Uh, who got fired in this one.
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    In most of the companies I've worked for in the last decade, including a fair bit in systems administration I've see the following used as the solution. USER: I have a problem. TECH: Let's see...hey! Why do you have Firefox installed? USER:
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    I second that. The value of having a completely object oriented language descended from Smalltalk yet with the meta-programming capabilities (a la Scheme/LISP/Clojure) will allow you to take on more complicated ideas on a smooth path as you
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    We’ll be doing another related blog post next week with a bit more information on some of the creative solutions people came up with, complete with code and stories. .... and they never did. Two weeks out and no follow up post on the contes
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    One clue is here: "Previously, scientists at NIST and elsewhere have been unable to coax any qubit technology into performing a complete set of quantum logic operations while transporting information without disturbances degrading the later
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems." Jamie Zawinski
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    by pjonesdotca 17y ago

    It's nice to see someone working on a project like this. As a personal project, I've been spending the last month or so porting my favourite Ruby methods to Scheme. Mostly as a way to occupy my time with my iPaq while waiting in line.