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511.
by vdm 17y ago
In this day and age, I expect and demand to be allowed to create a shopping cart with the config of my choice to see how much it would cost, and then abandon it at the last moment.
512.
by vdm 17y ago
I think the Date class is an unfortunate example to use, its too prone to being confused with the idea of a timeline of mutable state. Maybe a better example to use would be the concept of a document, and that parts of it don't change while
513.
by vdm 17y ago
Indeed. It turns out that Defaults Matter. Who knew?
514.
by vdm 17y ago
While I haven't had the opportunity to watch the talk, those slides are fantastic. I think the key to Rich's ideas is to realise them on non-volatile storage. This could revolutionise filesystems and databases.
515.
by vdm 17y ago
That's the idea of Clojure's persistent data structures. Values share the parts of themselves which haven't changed, so they are not copied. "All of the Clojure collections are immutable and persistent. In particular, the Clojure collection
516.
by vdm 17y ago
http://clojure.org/state http://clojure.org/rationale
517.
by vdm 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality
518.
by vdm 17y ago
Verbs in URIs smell. show == GET Thanks for sharing your experience.
519.
by vdm 17y ago
Agreed; Firefox needs to have this out of the box, for free, to compete with IE in corporate IT.
520.
by vdm 17y ago
No, but this sounds like an interesting thing to try so I might just do that. Thank you for sharing.
521.
by vdm 17y ago
Somebody should tell Google.
522.
by vdm 17y ago
If Clojure is getting reactions like this, it must be doing something right.
523.
by vdm 17y ago
Or washing up and cleaning.
524.
by vdm 17y ago
Nice! Thanks.
525.
by vdm 17y ago
Finds like this keep me coming to HN. Thank you. I found an amazon link for the book it is extracted from: http://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/... I also recommend de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work to t
526.
by vdm 17y ago
Upmodded for being a clever putdown. Still a putdown though...
527.
by vdm 17y ago
I liked the whole thing actually.
528.
by vdm 17y ago
> welcome to the community! Now thats the first time I have heard a lisper say that .
529.
by vdm 17y ago
Amazon S3 could use them as write-through cache.
530.
by vdm 17y ago
Well, that Secret Sauce was fun while it lasted. What really interests me, is how long has it been since Apple did the Airport Express? Years. And that has universal plugs for around the world, just like their laptop chargers.
531.
by vdm 18y ago
Hmm, this goes some way to making up for the diggbar.
532.
by vdm 18y ago
Thanks for your comment. I had never heard of record linkage and reading up on it has been very useful to me.
533.
by vdm 18y ago
Can Git be made to handle binary files as nicely as [Dropbox]( http://getdropbox.com/ ) does? On [one]( https://www.getdropbox.com/tour#3 ) of the pages from their tour, it shows how if you save a 10 MB PSD to Dropbox twice, it shows you a
534.
by vdm 18y ago
Au contraire; congratulations on a great hack. I think a lot of us have had this one cooking in our minds for a while and its great to see that somebody got it Done. Bravo.
535.
by vdm 18y ago
Offline is a default, and defaults rule.
536.
by vdm 18y ago
It also links to ELMAH, which I didn't know about, and which doesn't seem to exist for Java/Clojure. That's news to me.
537.
by vdm 18y ago
With a 4KB minimum block size? That should do nicely for all of my 100 byte postal addresses; NOT.
538.
by vdm 19y ago
Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft&ie=utf-8&oe...
539.
by vdm 19y ago
Please, link these things up people.
540.
by vdm 19y ago
This article is OK. I thought it was unfortunate that there is no mention of the late Jef Raskin, who covers zoomable interfaces at length in his book, The Humane Interface.

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