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by prospero 17y ago
for all its beauty, clojure is losing its culture fast! You can already see Design Patterns being shoehorned on top of it, Java programmers will embrace it and extend it in earnest. Can you give an example of this?
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by prospero 17y ago
That article says you have the right to frame the discussion about what other people can and can't do with your code. Other people can't dictate what you promise them, but it's reasonable for them to expect you to be consistent about it.
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by prospero 17y ago
My take is that Zed thinks there are some things that transcend personal issues, which doesn't seem to be a sudden development.
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Using Shaders in Clojure(ideolalia.com)
1 points by prospero 17y ago|0 comments
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by prospero 17y ago
You're right, I put that badly. He says that the copyright issue is treated as a tension between consumer and publisher, and that this is a problem. I don't agree with this characterization. I think the publishers are absolutely concerned
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by prospero 17y ago
Stallman says that the inherent tension in copyrights is between the consumer and publisher, and that the consumer clearly takes precedence. You could just as easily, however, say it's a tension between the short and long-term benefits for
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Rendering Textures in Clojure(ideolalia.com)
2 points by prospero 17y ago|0 comments
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by prospero 17y ago
That's a good point about the depth. I've swapped out the pictures for ones with fog enabled, and it looks a lot less like polygon soup. As to the anti-aliasing, if there's a way to turn it on in OS X using JOGL (Java bindings for OpenGL),
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Rendering a Sierpinski Pyramid in Clojure(ideolalia.com)
21 points by prospero 17y ago|10 comments
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by prospero 17y ago
The article is discussing people who are good at ignoring short-term gratification in favor of long-term achievement. These people care about their future, so they have to give a shit about the present. That being said, I agree that the cu
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by prospero 17y ago
So the lube commercials are too explicit, but the ED commercials are too circumspect (modulo the four hour erection disclaimers) and therefore do a poor job of selling the product? What's an ad-man to do? The reason that commercials are ge
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by prospero 17y ago
MySQL is still selling licenses to someone, so I don't think it's as simple as that.
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by prospero 17y ago
I know this isn't the majority use case for people here, but if you ship MySQL alongside a closed-source product, you're required to buy a license. If Oracle stops selling licenses, that would screw over a fair number of people, open sourc
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by prospero 17y ago
Does your cell phone turn off if you don't use the full allotment of minutes?
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by prospero 17y ago
I think this is more about creating a narrative than a realistic description of the homeless lifestyle. That being said, I don't see how you can both criticize the game for being too easy and criticize the author for not taking every easy o
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by prospero 17y ago
It seems like you want to create a matchmaking site for entrepreneurs. In your mind, is this really the level of detail you'd want your users to provide?
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by prospero 17y ago
Working in Chrome on Windows 7 32-bit.
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Becoming Eloi, Becoming Morlock(ideolalia.com)
2 points by prospero 17y ago|1 comments
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by prospero 17y ago
The word is 'technophile'.
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by prospero 17y ago
I don't understand what this article is trying to say. Will the internet magic away the infrastructure necessary to manufacture a car? Will it make the massive cost of developing and testing a new drug disappear? The money for these things
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by prospero 17y ago
This may already be happening. I'll look into it. EDIT: Apparently by virtue of asking the question, I'm now in charge of the video. I'll post it the following day.
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Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) giving talk in SoMa this Wednesday, June 3rd
2 points by prospero 17y ago|2 comments
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by prospero 17y ago
A user is a specific person (in this case, the developer), who is not an accurate proxy for a broader classification of people (in this case, people whose technical acumen is similar to the developer's). And as to pipes, they're useful in t
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by prospero 17y ago
Not all content is made equal. On average, I'd say there's more than a minute's worth of effort put into each minute of video posted to YouTube. Most of the feeds on live video sites are static cameras pointed at televisions, puppies, etc.
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by prospero 17y ago
So in other words, they have an average of 1320 feeds going at any time. That's nothing to sneeze at, but the YouTube comparison doesn't seem quite apples to apples.
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by prospero 17y ago
People building free software generally have themselves as the target demographic People building free software generally have themselves as the target user, which is not the same thing. Advanced users benefit from straightforward design
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by prospero 17y ago
Search engines aren't a public service. The article half-way acknowledges the robots.txt solution, and quickly dismisses it as unworkable. It's clear, however, that publishers have a recourse if they feel the search engines are doing them
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by prospero 17y ago
I don't know if this is satire. I hope so, but either way it's emblematic of a common but absurd worldview. Without empathy for your users, you will always make poor software. Users may not be able to perfectly articulate what they need,
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by prospero 17y ago
None of these companies are trying to maximize profit-per-employee, just profit. There's obviously a diminishing return with each subsequent employee, but that's no deterrent for larger companies. It's pretty reasonable that healthy compan
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by prospero 17y ago
That seems like an inversion of how I've always seen it described. As far as I understand it, the Singularity is when the rate of advancement outstrips our ability to keep up. If we already can't keep up, but technology fixes that sometim

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