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by rlander 11y ago
Let me just preface this by saying that I've written Clojure in anger for the past 5 years and I agree with all of the author's points. I love writing Clojure(Script) code, but I hate reading it. It fits perfectly with the way I t
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by rlander 11y ago
I see your point, but that's like arguing compiled Haskell code is unsafe, since Haskell has type erasure. Any code generation machinery is subject to subtle bugs and especially so the flesh and bones kind ;)
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by rlander 11y ago
Yup, came here to say that! The "If you don't like JavaScript, just use CoffeeScript like everyone else! What's wrong with you?" reaction made me laugh.
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by rlander 11y ago
Even more interesting is the document on Github with technical details about the port: https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/doc/Matlab...
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A Command Line Replacement for Zapier and Ifttt(github.com)
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by rlander 11y ago
Well, for starters, use your real name, like the rest of us, not a throwaway account. I guess if your issues were legitimate, we'd see a post on the mailing list, not an open attack on Richard's credibility. For the record, this i
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by rlander 11y ago
So cool! Here's an indoor view, thanks to Google Maps: https://www.google.com.br/maps/place/Rackspace+Hosting/@29.5...
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by rlander 11y ago
Kudos for the reboot. I haven't touched Drupal in maybe 7 years, but I gather it must be orders of magnitude easier now to develop a site with modern software engineering tools than it was then. However, this reasoning feels wrong: If
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by rlander 11y ago
Don't feed the troll. While @ablesearcher's obviously part of the Elm community, he's using a throwaway account to vomit angry rubish on HN.
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by rlander 11y ago
What a great analysis!
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by rlander 11y ago
Yup, got bitten by this design goal once, when support for parameterized modules was removed (though I do agree it was the right move in retrospect).
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by rlander 11y ago
This! Erlang's syntax is so small and simple, it probably fits on a postcard. Although I appreciate the excellent tools and libraries built by the Elixir community, I have a hard time understanding how one can prefer Elixir over Erlang
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by rlander 11y ago
"The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them." Zig Ziglar
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by rlander 11y ago
That's a good point, but this argument's mostly driven by functional programmers and "good languages" usually means Haskell or Lisp, in my experience. Disclosure: I'm a functional programmer myself so, what do I kno
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by rlander 11y ago
Using a not very popular programming language can actually make it harder for you to hire people. That's a non-sequitur! The "unpopular languages make it harder to hire programmers" myth has been debunked many times right h
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by rlander 11y ago
You can use, for example, elaborate if-else constructs that firstly try to determine type of the value, then check for values. That's nowhere near pattern matching. Two concepts make pattern matching vastly superior to if-else constr
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by rlander 11y ago
Changing the philosophy of a programming language, especially one with existing applications of considerable size, is not a task with a high likelihood of success. In this paper, rather than starting from a static type system and trying to
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by rlander 11y ago
You're asking why he doesn't want to add yet another compilation step? Isn't that obvious? swift -> es6 -> es5
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JavaScript Framework Fatigue(allenpike.com)
1 points by rlander 11y ago|0 comments
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by rlander 11y ago
Well, I was speaking within the context of web applications, but I do think Java wins in the "business app" realm, which most younger people want nothing to do with. Also, 3 to 5 years from now is where I'm aiming at (JS will
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by rlander 11y ago
I agree with all of the above. However, when a younger dev asks me which framework/language he/she should learn, my default response is: "If you're interested in employability, learn Node/JS. Practicality, go with D
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by rlander 11y ago
A few days ago I was chit chatting with a young dev who works in a Node shop when he asked: Young dev: "So, what's your backend?" Me: "Django" Young dev: "What?" Me: "Django, a Python framework."
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by rlander 11y ago
Yup. I switched to Flask mostly because I always ended up ripping Django apart: - Jinja instead of Django templates. - Custom (and sane) class-based views instead of Django's disgusting defaults. - Custom class-based settings. - There&
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by rlander 12y ago
"the unkillable cockroach of the world wide web: PHP" I'm biased but this is best quote I've heard in quite a while.
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by rlander 12y ago
Yup, love that show. "Shit is just business, String. Buy for a dollar, sell for two. That’s all it need be." Proposition Joe
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by rlander 12y ago
As a diehard functional programmer (who used to shun OOP as a fad) who's been dabbling with Pharo over the last few weeks, I must say I'm impressed. And, like the article pointed out, I'm having the same "seeing the ligh
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The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (2011)(dorophone.blogspot.com)
146 points by rlander 12y ago|113 comments
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Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (2005)(fluff.info)
37 points by rlander 12y ago|43 comments
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Django-ctemplate: Compile Django templates to C(chris-lamb.co.uk)
15 points by rlander 12y ago|0 comments
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by rlander 12y ago
For small apps, urls should definitely be defined near views. For larger apps, I would have to disagree. Here's why: Django's url routing system might be cumbersome when you just want to get going with a few routes. However, it ac

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