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by raspasov 5y ago
Perhaps surprised that they can't make the trip in the car with the specifically selected Premium Leather Seats and the Piano Black trim within the next 2 weeks? :) In all seriousness, that's not entirely true. From first person a
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There might have been a short-term panic over-buying plus the fact that everybody all of a sudden was staying home (and *ahem*, going to the toilet at home more) as opposed to going to the office. That's just a hypothesis, I haven&#x27
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My experience exactly. Growing up in the 90s in Bulgaria, my parents had to line up for hours or half a day to fill up gas in the car. This went on for weeks/months. If I complain that people are complaining too much in the modern worl
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Apart from obvious disasters, nature has also killed pretty much every human that has been born, so far. It seems pretty good at what it does! :)
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https://www.amazon.com/Penn-Tennis-Balls-Case-Extra/dp/B001C... It's Saturday morning. I can get 45 balls delivered Monday. Click-bait shortage-mongering?
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Very well written post. Simplicity is a good thing!
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At least in the US, that would have to go through a court. I don't think a hospital can force you to stay in.
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Agreed, there's a right level of abstraction. I would say easier is the correct word here: Kindly dont hand me single atoms, and tell me you're making my job easier "
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Thank you for that recommendation! I was able to access it via my public library login. Very neat.
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Tangled is that which measurably interacts with something else for any practical purposes at the current level of analysis. If there's a function A that does not call function B (and vice versa), they are not tangled. They are separate
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Any quality can be subjective at some level, but simplicity does have an objective definition when related to complexity. It means "composed of fewer intertwined things as opposed to more intertwined things". For example, a single
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I agree it does not seem to be the best resource. Do you know of a dictionary that provides better definitions?
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Lisps incurs significant complexity as opposed to which other simpler language?
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Looking at the dictionary for both words: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complicated https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complex ... And they literally have the same first definit
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by raspasov 5y ago
Been using Clojure for 8 years or so. It's a very productive language. Clojure is actually simpler (and eventually way, way easier) than most mainstream languages. It's just a bit different from what most people are used to and wh
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Don't you think that's a bit of an extreme statement? There must be a price where the price-to-risk ratio makes it worth it. Nothing is 100% certain, after all. Every investment has some amount of risk.
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I am working on an app that does this: automatically counts reps from camera. The counting for basic exercises like squats, dips, push ups, pull ups, kb swings is decently accurate. No voice at the moment. You can email me at my HN username
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No, I don't think they were hyped at any point. They are used in certain libraries like https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre but for things that are simply not possible without macros, for example (timbre/sp
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At first I thought you comment was sarcasm but it does appear to be serious. There's nothing "imperative" (as commonly understood) in 98% of Clojure code out in the wild. "Contexts" or "context updates" ar
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by raspasov 5y ago
I've been using Clojure for a while (8+ years) and I don't use them often. Unless you have a specific need (say, very high performance), regular Clojure maps give you most of the benefits without any obvious downsides.
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I personally started with this talk by Rich Hickey (person who made Clojure) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScEPu1cs4l0 One of the best "why Clojure" talks that I've seen, especially for somebody coming from
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I've been using Clojure for almost 10 years and writing macros has always been discouraged in the community. You don't see too many of them in the wild, and for good reasons. If you're writing macros on a daily basis, you bet
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Are those "clever" functions pure?
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What about classes? Can you re-define those?
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This. After you understand how Lisp works, syntax and "features" in other languages feel pretty awkward, to put it mildly.
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(I use mostly Clojure) It's not even only about the syntax. The Python environment, as far as I understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong), does not support re-definitions very well. Some things can be re-defined, but some ca
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I think I am now! My HN username at gmail dot com.
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As with all benchmarks, a lot of caveats apply. ClojureScript gives you a lot of power, and a lot of tools to easily reason about your code in many asynchronous scenarios. I believe that you if you wrote JavaScript that gives you the same a
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I don’t have exact numbers but I recall some stats from years ago where it was 10-30% slower. TLDR Almost identical performance.
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There are problems in SF, but they are not new. Not at all. Everyone who thinks that SF has somehow magically turned into sh*thole in the last N months: no it hasn't. I've lived in SF since mid-2011 continuously. It's been ab

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