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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm a huge fan of lo-dash, but might switch to Ramda. Here's a rundown: http://bahmutov.calepin.co/lodash-to-ramda-example.html
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I'm with you, both for your reasons and for another: it makes code harder to teach. "Oh, you'll see this. And this. And this . . . There's this, but no writes it that way. This is idiomatic." There's some
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by sramsay 12y ago
Thanks, I was looking around for that link. I've known for a long time that ancient Greece wasn't white stone and marble everywhere, but I've never been able to quite picture it in my mind that way. I still imagine Socrate
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by sramsay 12y ago
Totally incredible. There are even traces of paint everywhere!
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Can you imagine standing next to "one of the oldest figurative depictions in the world, if not the oldest one?" The philosopher Walter Benjamin spoke of certain artworks having "aura." That one practically glows.
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Taken as a whole, the article says, "We don't really know what would happen." And while absolute certainty seems unlikely in an area as complex as ecology, it also seems foolhardy at best to act on the kind of (understandabl
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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm not a physicist. I imagine that if I were, this would be exciting news (that is, an exciting possibility). I am a literary critic, though, and I have to say that it's bittersweet news at best. Black holes are so much a par
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by sramsay 12y ago
It's tough! (And I can relate to you on the Irish cultural issues as well, since my mother is from Ireland and I grew up mainly around Irish people). Mostly, it's a matter of getting them through the psychiatrist's door. He
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by sramsay 12y ago
The OP actually has an extraordinary amount of what psychiatrists call "insight" concerning his condition. That is to say, he is not only depressed, but knows he is. It might sound utterly implausible that someone could be clinic
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by sramsay 12y ago
I wondered about that. I would prefer it if we all started calling it JS (as many do), and pretended it stood for -- the language. Though I suppose we'd keep having to say "the language formerly known as JavaScript" in many c
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by sramsay 12y ago
Might also recommend Functional Javascript by Michael Fogus. He uses underscore.js, and avoids re-implementing classic functional patterns (map, reduce, filter, etc). I understood a lot of functional concepts from Lisp before reading the
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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm trying to think of a single language of which this is not true. It's certainly not Java. That dude is drinking all your beer.
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by sramsay 12y ago
Wow, thanks. I didn't know about fantasy-land and bilby. Hard core. That stuff is definitely getting you pretty close to Clojure.
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by sramsay 12y ago
The big Clojure use-case for me has been Java interop. Aside from that, I'm not sure I'd prefer it to node. Of course, I have no idea what your use-cases look like . . .
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by sramsay 12y ago
Okay: http://pastebin.com/r40TN3Ni This is a small command-line program that I use to compute grades (I have larger stuff, of course, but this one is easy to follow). There are important differences between Clojure and Java
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by sramsay 12y ago
The thing that changed my mind about Node (and Javascript in general) was the discovery of lo-dash and Immutable. I really enjoy functional programming, and with those two libraries I feel like I'm writing in something approaching Cloj
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Of course, from the standpoint of the NSA, these aren't "attacks" at all. They're the good guys keeping 'merica free. It's just a whole different world.
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by sramsay 12y ago
That's true. It's about the V-2s (in particular, one mysterious weapon the Germans appear to be building called the "Schwarzgerät," with serial number 0000). But that business of trying to figure out whether the bombs a
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by sramsay 12y ago
The British worried about the accuracy of these aerial drones. Were they falling haphazardly over the city, or were they hitting their intended targets? This is the seed of Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow -- a ma
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by sramsay 12y ago
We once build a small cabin in the mountains in the '90. Now we are running a hotel with a thousand rooms in and on top of that cabin. And what exactly is wrong with that? Looks to me like the hotel is doing just fine. "Blub wa
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by sramsay 12y ago
"Don't mind the gap . . ." Perhaps a more tasteful lead-in was in order.
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by sramsay 12y ago
This is amazing, but I'm definitely able to do some impossible things with it.
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by sramsay 12y ago
Great! I'm going start writing a Clippy mod for Minecraft so I'm zero-day prepared for the purchase. In this mod, Clippy runs around dropping random notes that give players worthless hints about how to play the game. "Did yo
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by sramsay 12y ago
I've been running Gentoo pretty much exclusively since about 2002 (on servers, desktops, and laptops). I absolutely love it. A while ago, there was a post on HN (mainly harshing on systemd) that complained about the way Linux was star
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by sramsay 12y ago
A little history, folks. The Agile Manifesto is 2001. Scrum is 1995. Extreme Programming is 1996. ASD is 1997. Easy enough to say that you're valuing "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" after detailing
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by sramsay 12y ago
A manifesto written after the first burst of agile enthusiasm (and the first major public "failure)." Do you really read, say, the original Extreme Programming book as being in line with that manifesto?
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by sramsay 12y ago
I think Agile is (was?), in the end, yet another attempt to make software development behave like other areas of engineering -- a domain in which processes can be trusted over people, and in which a certain set of predictable inputs will re
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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm emboldened by comments like these, and I don't mean to be harsh or dismissive. Maybe time to give it another try. But I'd like some acknowledgement of the problems, which I think is what the OP was after.
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by sramsay 12y ago
"CL went through a spike of interest in the mid-2000s; where did those people go . . ." I don't know about others, but I was part of that spike and I went . . . far away from Common Lisp. Learning Lisp absolutely blew my mind
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by sramsay 12y ago
I'd like to see this take off in museums, in order to prevent the incessant strobe lighting caused by people using flash photography to take a poorly-lit photo of a painting for which there exists a magnificent, professionally-photogra

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