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by thomas11 16y ago
There's a great document to point people to who say they can't use CPAN for some reason, Matt S Trout's "But I can't use CPAN!" ( http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-... ).
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by thomas11 16y ago
Fine, but investment bankers are still a small minority in finance. I lack the proper English terms for the different banking job descriptions, but bankers dealing with customers personally (loan approval etc., which for commercial clients
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by thomas11 16y ago
A detailed, insightful and well-written article on the pitfalls and complications of internationalization in software, written by two linguists. Very good read, independent of Perl.
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by thomas11 16y ago
In almost no other field of work is it expected that you have a passion for your work greater than that for your family. Hackers repeating this passion mantra make life harder for all of us, because it raises employers expectations, instead
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by thomas11 16y ago
The mailing list gets around 1100 messages a month, there are several books about it, and a few big websites have been done in it, for example m.walmart.com. It's not up there in popularity with the few big frameworks, but I wouldn't worry
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by thomas11 16y ago
I don't quite get how node.js comes into play here. I've seen lots of blog posts about it, but never used it. It seems to be about network programming. Indeed, the node website says "Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable n
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by thomas11 16y ago
The nice thing about hikr for me is that the reports together form a routes database, but with personal first-hand insights from different viewpoints. That goes beyond a traditional guidebook or route database. Sorry, I really don't want to
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by thomas11 16y ago
Do you know http://www.hikr.org ? It seems to fulfill the same purpose. It's centered on Europe and reports are mainly in German and other West European languages, but there's an English-speaking community on there, too. It has been aroun
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by thomas11 16y ago
Search for the string "scheme", as his trends link shows. That's a pretty common term, while "scala", "lua" etc. have no meaning other than the language, at least as far as a job site is concerned. www.indeed.com redirects to www.indeed.ch
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by thomas11 16y ago
Sure, at least he showed this percentage on the Y-axis. That still means there are five times as many Scheme jobs than for Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Erlang. That's not the case (although I wish it were), just search for "scheme" on indeed.com
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by thomas11 16y ago
So, did any jobs come up? Looking at your blog, you seem to be have been pretty involved in F# until May.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Scheme is second in jobs on indeed.com, and the author doesn't realize that his search is off? Erlang could become "the next Python"? What a shoddy article. Edit: I realize that Scheme is second only among the nine niche languages. It's s
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by thomas11 16y ago
Hopefully, if we promote the ideas in your post, "Lisp Yearning" will become a recognized literary genre and we will read more of it from young, aspiring authors. Let's just hope Quicklisp and Clojure are not too successful.
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by thomas11 16y ago
They aren't even produced yet: http://blog.wakemate.com/ And I'll only believe that they are shipped and work roughly as advertised when I read reports from people who got one, if ever. The WakeMate team has done a terrible job at estimat
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by thomas11 16y ago
I think the biggest difference is in how non-technical users perceive the safety and quality of the apps. The internet is a scary place with viruses and scams and loads of crappy stuff. An official app directory by Google or Apple is safer,
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by thomas11 16y ago
And all these people use their decent wages in turn to build houses and eat out, keeping the money circulating in the economy.
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by thomas11 16y ago
The Economist has a cautiously optimistic view on California's future: http://www.economist.com/node/17631115 . Also, a net outflow of residents should dampen the high cost of housing.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Thanks, I'll look into the BarCamps once again, had kinda forgotten about them. The selection in Switzerland is not that big. I've started speaking at smaller Open Source conferences this year, and hope to expand that. It's a great experien
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by thomas11 16y ago
If only conference prices weren't so depressingly high. I discovered three interesting ones in a reasonable distance through Lanyrd---awesome site!---but don't want to pay 1000+. The expense could easily pay for itself through networking, a
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by thomas11 16y ago
Your explanation is great! As a third option, if you'd like to have the relevant CS terminology, see Matt Might's derivation, also in JavaScript, at http://matt.might.net/articles/implementation-of-recursive-f... .
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by thomas11 16y ago
I think a lot of participants might be in the same situation I'm in: I like new and exciting languages and play with them now and then in my free time, but I work in one of the "boring" languages. Having way more experience with the boring
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by thomas11 16y ago
You can only be rejected if you ask for something. Many do not do this in the first place, out of fear of rejection. That's what rejection therapy addresses.
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by thomas11 16y ago
You can test exactly what you're about to commit by doing a `git stash save --keep-index`, then test, commit, and `git stash pop` to get your working tree back.
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by thomas11 16y ago
This one is strange. It was just released this month, but without even a table of contents. How are people supposed to decide whether to buy it?
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by thomas11 16y ago
Programming Praxis has a ton of interesting problems, many from fundamental Computer Science and often with a functional bent. http://programmingpraxis.com/
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by thomas11 16y ago
There are pockets here and there, like INRIA and the Scala people around Odersky in Lausanne, Switzerland. But it's not something on a larger scale. I think Erlang is somewhat prominent in some places, too. Especially the Lisp community see
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by thomas11 16y ago
I got this mail from No Starch Press: Hey There Lisp Lover, We're sending you this email because you ordered Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp. We just wanted to let you know that because we received so many orders from so many awesome people i
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by thomas11 16y ago
Ah, thanks.
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by thomas11 16y ago
The final recommendation based on cost is Vistaprint, when their price was $25 compared to Overnight's $9?
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by thomas11 16y ago
German here. "Schaden" in this case means harm or damage or misfortune (which causes someone else's joy). It can mean pity in other contexts, though, as in "that's a pity". A nice example of an undecomposable word in German that has no read

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