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   Distributing NixOS with IPFS(sourcediver.org)

   241 points by robto 10y ago|75 comments
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   by robto 10y ago

   Which is a great use case for something like ipfs, I think.
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   by robto 10y ago

   I've started using clojure.spec[0] in my regular day programming with an eye on using generative testing, which I understand is a form of fuzzing. I'm very new to this, but it feels incredibly practical in terms of bang for buck -
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   by robto 10y ago

   He mentions it at the end, but I'd strongly agree that Clojure addresses the issues he mentions. I see a lot of discussion in this thread about Elixir and Phoenix, but I'd take another look at Clojure. It's got a strong, frie
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   by robto 10y ago

   I would check out the book "Free to Learn" by Peter Gray - he goes into why "unschooling" or democratic schooling can be effective. It really changed my outlook on education. I had previously read "A Mathemetician&#
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   by robto 11y ago

   I don't use a smartphone, but I think there's an old android phone lying around my apartment. Could I use that to set up this desktop version and then never need to bother with the smartphone again? Or would you need to use the ph
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   by robto 11y ago

   Disclaimer: I'm a NixOS user who is interested in switching to Guix but have not actually tried it yet. Both package managers (Nix and Guix) and the distributions (NixOS and GuixSD) are very young, so expect some missing packages and s
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   by robto 11y ago

   Do you use linux on it? I'm considering this, but I'm wary of the hardware support.
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   by robto 11y ago

   A public good is a technical term in economics. One useful way of categorizing goods is to place them along two axes - excludability and rivalry. Public goods are categorized non-excludable and non-rival. Non-excludable means you can't
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    by robto 11y ago

    They do! IIRC, the originator of the content can have a cryptographically signed hash that is a pointer to the latest version. That way everyone who is interested pins the originator's hash and automatically get directed to the newest
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    by robto 11y ago

    I wonder if this could be improved with IPFS[0] - it would gain the benefits of a distributed infrastructure, content addressing is built in, and it has an http portal for convenience. [0] http://ipfs.io/
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    by robto 11y ago

    I don't have experience with Om, but another comparable React wrapper in the Clojurescript world is Re-Frame, and it has a top-notch community. The original developers are still active, but there are many new contributors who are addin
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    by robto 11y ago

    I've been using Emacs daily for about 2.5 years. This summer I decided to try Spacemacs. While I found the setup pretty smooth, I was unable to get certain behaviors to function like I was used to, so I ended up just going through the
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    by robto 11y ago

    I found this article[0] a pretty enlightening tour of how SOLID principles don't require traditional OO. You might find it useful in transitioning - it explains how each of these concepts maps onto idiomatic Clojure. [0] http:/&#x
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    Sudbury School(en.wikipedia.org)

    29 points by robto 11y ago|7 comments
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    by robto 11y ago

    I was curious too, so I took a walk through the documentation. I found this: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens/wiki/Paredit-and-smartp... I think I might try it out. It seems by default it's less stri
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    by robto 11y ago

    In Anathem they are called "kinagrams".
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    by robto 11y ago

    With the addition of Plex I think I'll switch my home media server over. I've been wanting to run gitlab and try out mailpile locally, but now that it's just an option away I'll do that.
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    NixOS Release 15.09(nixos.org)

    1 points by robto 11y ago|1 comments
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    by robto 11y ago

    I can't speak to locomotive or aerospace, but I found The Reluctant Motor Mechanic by John Fordham a great introduction to how cars work. It was written in 1979 and you can pick up a used copy from Amazon for approximately $0.01+shippi
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    by robto 11y ago

    Here's a link to the paper mentioned in the article. The paper is a little less strident in tone. [0] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.abstract
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    How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election(politico.com)

    4 points by robto 11y ago|5 comments
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    by robto 11y ago

    This looks pretty cool! I'll check it out this weekend. And cheers for the NixOS container!
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    by robto 11y ago

    I've been following this project for a while now and I'm impressed with the transparency around the decision making process. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
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    by robto 11y ago

    I've been using LastPass for a while now, but I was recently evaluating the landscape for something more open. I came across Mitro[0], and it looks like it fits the bill. Unfortunately it doesn't look like it has been much maintai
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    by robto 11y ago

    I found this blog really helpful: http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2014/07/nix-pill-1-why-you-sho... It's a series that walks you through setting up and using nix. It found it really simple and satisfying - I no