samstokes

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by samstokes 12y ago
That's not (only) debt, that's (also) currency speculation.
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by samstokes 12y ago
I've done this inadvertently. Ironically, my intent was precisely to avoid discouraging a beginner, but this article makes me realise I was, at best, sending mixed messages. I was helping somebody who was taking a Java course withou
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by samstokes 12y ago
I think immutable infrastructure is probably the way forward, but it's not yet easy enough to be the default for lazy people. tiny step forward for orgs who are deploying code to boxes that they never take down That's exactly wh
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by samstokes 12y ago
This could be a big deal in terms of raising the bar for deployment practices. Right now "nobody ever got fired for" setting up deployment via rsync and some ad-hoc shell scripts. That works for a single host, although it's
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by samstokes 12y ago
he seems to argue that incremental evolution is broken I think he argues that this sort of absolutism is broken. The author isn't proposing that we discard incremental change, just the uncritical assumption that incremental is the on
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by samstokes 12y ago
It's rather condescending to assume the only reason somebody might dislike Javascript is because they didn't understand it.
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Programming is not magic(linkedin.com)
8 points by samstokes 12y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 12y ago
I get that this timeline is designed to promote the author's own parsing algorithm, and doesn't claim to be exhaustive, but I'd be curious to know how PEGs / packrat parsers and Hutton/Meijer's work on monadic
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Doing nothing in Mirage(somerandomidiot.com)
1 points by samstokes 12y ago|0 comments
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Why you should build an immutable infrastructure(blog.codeship.io)
22 points by samstokes 12y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 12y ago
Gabriel, I've noticed your posts often attract this criticism - "you can do X in any language, it's not unique to Haskell". The funny thing is I don't think you ever claim that X is unique to Haskell. IMHO this (e
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by samstokes 12y ago
Having met some of the Hacker School faculty (though not the OP) and discussed their social rules, I don't believe this is a shaming ritual, in intent or practice. I think it's more like a code review. "You need to check for
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by samstokes 12y ago
Slightly off-topic, but the OP's closing thoughts make great advice to anyone commenting on / reacting to some new technology: I ask that you think hard about sweet.js. Give it 5 minutes. Maybe give it a couple of hours. Play aro
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by samstokes 12y ago
This is an excellent landing page for a technical book. I haven't seen this style before, but the code snippet and details for each chapter gave me a good idea not just of the book's content, but of its emphasis and assumptions.
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by samstokes 12y ago
I got the same error message - "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site admin, if the problem persists." Packt also signs me up to 5 newsletters (not that Amazon doesn't, but that's a problem I already had :)). S
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by samstokes 12y ago
Thanks! I lazily only clicked through to Amazon and didn't see it there. I don't know what's involved in getting the Kindle version into Amazon's store, but it might be worth it, as their buying experience is very slick
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by samstokes 12y ago
Any plans for a Kindle or other ebook version? This looks like a fun presentation of an interesting topic, but I'd love to read it electronically on a laptop so I can try out the examples.
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by samstokes 12y ago
I found this (a page or so in) to be a good summary of "why should I care": the proliferation of ÐAOs in user-friendly applications has the potential to allow the public to claim back control over their data and over their privac
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by samstokes 12y ago
The RubyMotion folks disagree: RubyMotion for Android features a completely new Ruby runtime specifically designed and implemented for Android development. This is a new implementation of the Ruby language, it does not share code with Ruby
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by samstokes 12y ago
I don't know the OP's examples, but I think he is saying something subtly different: that he took (his own) low-end crappy OO code and converted it to high-end elegant OO code, using the insight gained from how he would have w
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by samstokes 12y ago
I'm not sure if you're objecting to the topics they're planning to train for, or the perceived formality of the training, but I don't think either needs to hurt the culture if done well. Communication is incredibly impor
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by samstokes 12y ago
Interesting that non-tech is less male-dominated than tech, as expected, but even more white-dominated.
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by samstokes 12y ago
Assuming you mean wordpass doesn't exist: try "cabal update" first. If you mean cabal doesn't exist, you'll need to install the Haskell Platform first. There may be a package for your distro (or Homebrew).
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by samstokes 12y ago
Yeah, that reads like weasel words. So does 4.4.3 count as your one update? Does an unnumbered security patch to 4.4.2? The price point is tremendous though.
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Immutable Infrastructure with Ansible and Packer(blog.codeship.io)
1 points by samstokes 12y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 12y ago
Looks awesome. I wonder if Octopress is planning to support this new version? Some of the new features (e.g. support for sass) seem to overlap with Octopress.
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What Programming is Like(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
96 points by samstokes 12y ago|38 comments
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by samstokes 12y ago
Not sure why you got so heavily downvoted for that :| Upvoted for balance.
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by samstokes 12y ago
Registered services and nodes can be queried using both a DNS interface as well as an HTTP interface. This is very cool. Integrating with a name resolution protocol that every existing programmer and stack knows how to use (often without
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by samstokes 13y ago
Sure - if you can reliably identify the exact required versions of all of your transitive dependencies. That's infeasible for nontrivial applications. (And even that's only if the set of exact versions you find manage to not h

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