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by weeksie 12y ago
I dunno. I remember it being all over LtU and most every programming language discussion was that or scheme, but always treating Haskell like it was the ideal (and it had become default on research papers instead of OCaml)
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by weeksie 12y ago
Haskell was _absolutely_ the poster child of FP in 2005.
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by weeksie 12y ago
I think if I was a bit younger and a bit less thoroughly ruined by living in New York for the past six years (I really couldn't live anywhere else in the US long term)—I'd go to Detroit. It's cheap, a bit dangerous, and drawi
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by weeksie 13y ago
Exactly what we do and it's eminently readable. Compnents as well end up looking good. div null, RadComponent onClick: @handleClick, model: @props.thing and so forth.
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by weeksie 13y ago
NYC based consultant. Full stack developer (Rails since 2005). Coffee Script/Javascript. ReactJS. Backbone. More languages than you can throw a stick at. Etc. . . . Available in April Either for remote or on-site consulting, particul
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by weeksie 13y ago
Honestly, Ember has been incredibly frustrating to get going. Mainly in the area of testing—it's a nightmare. The documentation is nicely formatted but missing a lot of context. For such a large project, it needs more than API docs and
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by weeksie 13y ago
What's an MVP for a novel? I can sort of see it if you're writing a technical book, but not for fiction. Maybe doing short stories to see if people like your characters? Even then, you're not guaranteed to get the right peopl
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by weeksie 13y ago
Yeah, I find plot construction in fiction writing to be very similar to doing software development. There's a general high level outline that you start with, then as you follow the story the complexity increases as you have to tie in d
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by weeksie 13y ago
Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' loft) five years go for 150/_month_. You don't know what you're talking about.
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by weeksie 13y ago
Sorry but you're talking out of your ass. People who are living off the land in Alaska are doing it because that's what they do, when they get their PFD check they spend it on extra things. Regardlesss, nobody's sole source o
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by weeksie 13y ago
That's certainly part of it as well. If you look at fashion sites you definitely have a limited, curated selection of items to choose from. Still, I reckon a basic UI change alone would do wonders before even bothering with the harder
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by weeksie 13y ago
Honestly, I reckon that using _much_ larger thumbnails would be a big step forward in the experience. Most people pick books by their covers, then check out the blurb on the back. Amazon's thumbs are tiny, hell even the product page ha
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by weeksie 13y ago
I come from a fishing town in Alaska and a year or so ago all of the people from my hometown started to show up on Facebook. I had been away for a very long time, lived all over the world, and only just started to get back in touch with my
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by weeksie 13y ago
There were around 300 tech IPOs in 1999. There were 136 total IPOs in 2012. It's a completely different field right now. If it was 1999 almost all of the series A companies we see right now would have already IPO'd.
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by weeksie 13y ago
This comment is hilariously unaware of the actual history. Remember, I was around for the whole thing. Those guys writing HTML were writing static pages. Not guys that were writing Perl scripts, not guys that were deploying the websites—tho
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by weeksie 13y ago
Macs are great for this. Option-hyphen gives you an en-dash and option-shift-hyphen gives you an em-dash.
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by weeksie 13y ago
Bubble? I feel like people who are claiming that we are in a startup bubble weren't really around in the 90s. Guys were getting paid $100/hour to do HTML. Just HTML. Literally just HTML. The excess was mind-boggling. In contrast,
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by weeksie 13y ago
It's an Australianism. I lived in Sydney for a very long time :)
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by weeksie 13y ago
While the real solution would be to provide a real social safety net to prevent that from being an incentive in the first place. The US, where you have to be dying of AIDS to get social services. America shits me to tears. As someone who ha
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by weeksie 13y ago
[By 1979 half of the gasoline in the US was unleaded]( http://66.147.244.135/~enviror4/about/ethyl-leaded-gasoline/... ). So by the early eighties it was mostly gone. So yeah, I slightly misspoke saying it was
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by weeksie 13y ago
When was it effectively phased out in Brazil, though? Leaded gasoline was mostly gone in the US by the 1970s and there was a 20 year lag before the crime rate started dropping. The wikipedia article says lead was banned in the US in 1995, b
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by weeksie 13y ago
Why should cities have more crime than suburban and rural areas, per capita? I know we take it as a given, but I've not heard a particularly good explanation for it (other than the Mother Jones lead article).
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by weeksie 13y ago
What research? Perhaps I have poor reading comprehension but I don't see any data. Other than hand-wavey stuff which is branding 101, I don't see any particular insights.
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by weeksie 13y ago
Total fluff piece. Word of mouth marketing? Just sounds like PR to me. And yes, depending on your product, it helps to have a personality behind it—that's just called having a brand.
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by weeksie 13y ago
Good article, mostly well written except for the painful intellectual insecurity of the writer. It is, in fact, possible to write a scathing, stylised essay without doing backflips to use archaic or obscure vocabulary. Sometimes that's what
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by weeksie 14y ago
Yeah, I probably should have expanded. Those jobs are often in fashion, journalism, and other fields that have a higher female to male ratio.
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by weeksie 14y ago
No, it's sexist if it's presuming that more women than men have trivial motivations or that those have more influence among women than men. Particularly when there are other, far less condescending and far more likely reasons for the gender
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by weeksie 14y ago
You're forgetting the job vacancies that are filled when the married women leave the workforce.
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by weeksie 14y ago
Yeah, New York City has got to be the best place I've ever been single (and that includes Sydney, Oz). The women are pretty great here. As for the OKC thing, the general attitude is that it's good to ration your usage because it's _too easy
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by weeksie 14y ago
It sounds like a sexist comment because it is. The reality is that in a place like New York educated women move to the city for their careers. So do men, however when men get married and have children they tend to continue to work, whereas

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