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by prospero 16y ago
Zed is actively out to destroy people at times Who does he have the power to destroy? It's maybe regrettable that he throws around words as freely as he does, but whatever he says, he consistently creates new and useful things. Given a c
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by prospero 16y ago
In Clojure you can rewrite the second example as (-> data transform1 transform2 ... transformN). Macros are a hell of a thing.
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by prospero 16y ago
First, the analysis relies on every step from request to response being evented, which in turn relies on the existence of event-based libraries for everything you want to do. Also, most languages don't have a good way of dealing with callba
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by prospero 16y ago
Besides, large corporations are not known for thinking in the long term usually BP doesn't have to be thinking twenty years out to see the folly of admitting that there is an unavoidable risk in drilling.
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by prospero 16y ago
I think casting the spill as the inevitable byproduct of oil exploration, and not the result of carelessness, would be far more harmful to the oil industry in the long run.
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by prospero 16y ago
You said there was a good chance it was the right decision. That may be true in some amortized sense across all hires, but you implied that it was also likely the correct choice in this specific situation. I don't think putting that muc
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by prospero 16y ago
They go to great lengths to ensure this is not the case. If the feedback from five different interviewers led to a 'no hire' decision, the chances are good that it was the right decision. As a recent hire at Google, I don't really think t
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by prospero 16y ago
I wrote Aleph this weekend, so yes, it's very new. However, right now it's just a few hundred lines around Netty, which is anything but immature. I'm certainly not claiming it's flawless, or that there won't be any breaking changes in the
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by prospero 16y ago
I realize that we're all programmers here, and that we live and die by unambiguous semantics. But human languages are awash in ambiguity and borderline nonsense, and the only thing holding it all together are some shared concepts and idiom
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by prospero 16y ago
I've read several books by Deleuze and Guattari, but haven't had any formal instruction on postmodernism. They're hilariously opaque, but also pretty interesting if you have the patience. At one point in A Thousand Plateaus , the authors
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by prospero 16y ago
Hey Lincoln, I'm the guy who made Penumbra. A few thoughts: 1. Frames are not a unit of time. In the :update and :display callbacks you're given both the total elapsed time and elapsed time since the last frame (in seconds); use those to
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by prospero 16y ago
I think you're ignoring the fact that a product as familiar as the Google search page alters the search space you're trying to optimize . No matter how bad of an idea it was to add background images, the fuss that it caused was way out of
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by prospero 16y ago
Every widget in Swing, WinForms, and pretty much every other last-gen interface framework is a big bundle of state. First you instantiate the object, and then you make a series of function calls to set all the right toggles. So far, this d
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by prospero 16y ago
Protocols are just a faster, less general version of multimethods. They dispatch only on the type of the first parameter, and they do it quickly. This speed is important because it allows the java interfaces that define the core constructs
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by prospero 16y ago
I think it's interesting that the proof he gives that TDD is still useful in Clojure is that he had problems with Swing. Swing (and all the other Java GUI libraries) have a huge impedance mismatch with Clojure. If the interface were defin
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by prospero 16y ago
Every function in a protocol is namespaced. There's nothing preventing you from defining a new function with the same name in a different namespace. This doesn't actually replace anything, though, and any references to the old function wi
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by prospero 16y ago
Wikipedia is not a coherent entity, it's a bunch of tinpot dictators ruling over their own little fiefdoms. Wikipedia's success doesn't disprove the above statement, it just shows that the quality of one article is orthogonal to all the ot
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by prospero 16y ago
It's very common to write an idiomatic wrapper for a useful Java library. Your complaint seems to be that those wrappers won't survive the transition onto another platform. I don't really see why that's a problem. Why target another platf
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by prospero 16y ago
You can get completely valid warranties for half price on eBay, which makes it a pretty unambiguously good idea, in my opinion.
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Shaders in clojure, revisited(ideolalia.com)
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by prospero 17y ago
That's almost certainly why there's no urgency in the hiring process, but it doesn't really excuse it.
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by prospero 17y ago
Exactly what I thought when I saw the title. Kamen blithely forecast that by the end of 2002, his enterprise would be stamping out 10,000 machines a week. Meanwhile, his best-known backer, venture capitalist John Doerr, predicted Segway wo
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by prospero 17y ago
I don't have time for a full conversion just now, but an eight-way diffusion on the GPU in Penumbra looks like this: (let [sum 0.0 count 0.0] (convolution 1 (+= sum %1) (+= count 1)) (/ sum count)) "convol
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by prospero 17y ago
It was long. The entire thing took almost two months, and about three weeks passed after my final on-site interview before I heard anything definitive, though there were a number of intermediate steps in between. My recruiter was really he
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by prospero 17y ago
I've just been hired, and haven't yet been placed with a team. I believe that's typical.
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by prospero 17y ago
I've just gone through the process (succesfully), and while it dragged on longer than seemed necessary, I didn't find it insulting. What exactly happened?
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by prospero 17y ago
Continued existence is usually not the limit of a business owner's ambition. By that same token, the people who can keep it running are not necessarily the same people who can continually grow it. "Flash and arrogance" are not the same as
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by prospero 17y ago
I assume a brand-awareness ad for Nike is somewhat less valuable than an ad which actually sells a pair of Nikes then and there. Also, TV ads are to a captive audience, who don't have anything else to focus on. Facebook ads live in the ma
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by prospero 17y ago
While Facebook may know more about its users, Google still knows more about what the user wants right that moment. The average person looking for a TV is more likely to search for one on Google than post about it on their profile (or tweet
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by prospero 17y ago
I've been using it with Aquamacs without difficulty, for whatever it's worth.

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