prospero

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by prospero 11y ago
Without a hint of irony: thank you for reading this so carefully. Some of the things you note are typos or poorly worded, most are things that I think are clear in context. In either case, yours is one of the very few comments about the act
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by prospero 11y ago
The four chapters shown are the complete list, only the first chapter has been completed. I have tried to make this as clear as possible, let me know if you see a way to make it more so.
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by prospero 11y ago
Hi, I'm the author. I would be very happy to discuss this point (or any other) in more depth on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elements-of-clojure .
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by prospero 11y ago
I wasn't aware of this talk, so I'm not sure how I could have stolen anything from it. Cool link, though, thanks.
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by prospero 11y ago
If this isn't just snark, I'm unaware of any such papers, and would be very interested to read them. Any links?
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by prospero 11y ago
The mode return for VC funds is, and will always be, a net loss.
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by prospero 11y ago
It's still going, less a few people.
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by prospero 11y ago
My point was that treating a language as just a few implementation details atop its syntactic heritage is overly reductive (as you demonstrated).
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by prospero 11y ago
Clojure isn't a minor variation on earlier Lisps, it's something that uses s-expressions with a significantly different set of default data structures, core library functions, and platforms. This is like asking why we needed C whe
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by prospero 11y ago
Immutability is a big part of it, as is the wide array of operators for maps and map-like data structures.
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States and Nomads: Handling Software Complexity(forwardjs.com)
2 points by prospero 11y ago|0 comments
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Everything Will Flow: A Talk on Applied Queueing Theory(youtube.com)
2 points by prospero 11y ago|0 comments
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by prospero 11y ago
Since the post doesn't mention it explicitly, it's probably worth noting that the title is an allusion to the excellent book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty [1], which is short and worth reading for anyone interested in the behavior of
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by prospero 12y ago
Sure, we do. They take advantage of the vacation policy just like the rest of us.
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Responsible Vacation Policy(blog.factual.com)
31 points by prospero 12y ago|8 comments
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The Humongous 'nfu' Survival Guide(blog.factual.com)
3 points by prospero 12y ago|0 comments
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by prospero 12y ago
Whose advice? Check out RocksDB's front page: http://rocksdb.org . Empirically what you're saying isn't true in my experience, rather mmap should be used when there's decent coherency w.r.t. the available memo
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by prospero 12y ago
A caching layer for random reads where the dataset is 10x larger tham memory isn't hugely useful. If you get a hit, great, but you can't count on it. For memory mapping to make sense you need to fetch a big chunk of data, whereas
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by prospero 12y ago
There are a lot of variants on this design out there, I had seen 'bam' but not the Spotify implementation. An additional constraint we had that I didn't allude to in the post was avoiding JNI, which adds some nasty failure m
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Riffle: a high-performance write-once key/value storage engine for Clojure(blog.factual.com)
36 points by prospero 12y ago|7 comments
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by prospero 12y ago
Can you expand on what the esoteric topic is and its application?
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by prospero 12y ago
Becase he's the proud, probably exhausted father of newborn twins.
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by prospero 12y ago
Unlike the existing coordinate systems I could find described on the web, a z-quad doesn’t represent a point but a square with an area http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
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by prospero 12y ago
It means that reducers were some macro sugar atop the underlying mechanism described in the post. See https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...
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by prospero 12y ago
see also: https://github.com/ztellman/narrator
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The "Office Hours" Meetup(blog.factual.com)
2 points by prospero 12y ago|0 comments
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by prospero 12y ago
All true (I gave a talk on this subject just recently [1]), but the easiest and most provable way to isolate mutation is to not use it at all. I think most people coming from an imperative background are surprised by how infrequently mutati
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by prospero 12y ago
Sure, but that's bounded by the size of the buffer in Java. A bad boundary to the arraycopy in Java will throw an exception, not give you the contents of memory beside the buffer. These are not comparable failures.
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by prospero 13y ago
The mob mentality leads to situations where we round up everyone who is Japanese, Jewish, Homophobic, etc. and get rid of them. One of these things is not like the other. Also, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of people "ro
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Behind the Library: Rhizome(ideolalia.com)
1 points by prospero 13y ago|0 comments

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