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by wes-exp 13y ago
I don't have any links off-hand, but I've seen some very convincing, scholarly analyses in the past. The research tends to come up during discussions about H1-B quotas and so on. IIRC, one of the features of a real shortage is sup
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It's easy to point to the feel-good topic of education and cry foul when anyone is against it. But here is the reality. America already overproduces scientists and engineers. The whole notion of talent shortages is generally hot air fr
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I agree with Yegge on this: I think the true strength and weakness of Clojure is its FP safety, which is probably great for many specific applications but comes across to me as needlessly ceremonious and conservative for typical applicati
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of the constant onslaught of feel-good "code for the children" stuff? After discovering at least three different non-profits dedicated to teaching children to code, I am starting to th
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I think [BitCoin will] definitely make for a better world Bitcoin is inherently deflationary, which would be economically disastrous if it supplanted the dollar. Granted, I think bitcoin supplanting the dollar is unlikely, but it does mak
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by wes-exp 13y ago
How dare they ship a proprietary car! The blueprints should be open source and it should be assembled by volunteers. /sarcasm
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Though poorly articulated, I am with the author that OOP done wrong (e.g., Java) is horrible. It leads to FactoryFactoryFactory and a lot of insanity!
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by wes-exp 13y ago
The belief that better tools will obsolete the need for all that coding effort is probably as old as computer programming itself. Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month , dismissed the idea in his 1986 paper No Silver Bullet : &quo
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by wes-exp 13y ago
eudox, do you have a use case for this Lisp or is it more of an intellectual exercise?
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Vulnerability numbers alone do not accurately convey the mobile security landscape. To start with, even if those mean something, we must consider that Android devices tend to lag behind in terms of receiving OS updates. By contrast, iOS dev
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Ring is like Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack. There are some Common Lisp libraries like it as well: Clack - https://github.com/fukamachi/clack cl-ring - https://github.com/AndreasKostler/cl
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Of course, if you want lispyness while retaining the freedom to choose an imperative style or a functional style, Common Lisp is better.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
"You need static typing to have Java-like tools" This is a widely repeated myth. Static typing does enable a few additional autocomplete capabilities, but most of the other things you probably think of as fancy IDE features are co
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by wes-exp 13y ago
"Basic research" has been leading us to eradicate any and all microorganisms from our presence for decades. No doubt that this has been a great step forward in protection from acute illness, but far less is known about the tradeof
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by wes-exp 13y ago
In the early days, leading up to the founding of Intel, one of Silicon Valley's main features was that it was dirt cheap. In fact it was dirt; it was farmland. This made it a reasonable base to set up chip manufacturing, which needed l
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Two points: 1) The issue at hand is about the choice between mainstream languages vs. niche languages. Your reply does not address this and sidetracks into a discussion about native languages vs. high-level languages. 2) Even assuming every
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by wes-exp 13y ago
"But people in the fields of computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, concurrent data-structures and others – very smart, very forward thinking people – would pick Java or C/C++ nine times out of ten" Thi
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Human beings have a long history of rising to a challenge This is true, but let's not use our past successes as an excuse to rest on our laurels. Right now humanity is firmly on track for ecological and economic disaster, and nature
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Should be tagged [2012]. Rubyist briefly falls in love with CL, then falls out of love. News at 11.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Sorry if I was being unclear. I wasn't trying to say craigslist does a disservice to the economy in general; it's clearly beneficial and I don't want to diminish that. Rather, I think that its attitude of being barebones an
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Be careful about making the flawed assumption that economics is a zero-sum game. That if craigslist earned money, it must somehow be stealing it. Actually, the opposite is true. I think craigslist is so focused on being barebones and profit
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by wes-exp 13y ago
As the article says, "Before the advent of these new technologies, time and effort created effective barriers to surveillance abuse. But those barriers are now being removed. They must be rebuilt in the law." Time and effort maint
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The idea that only technology nerds are aware of the NSA scandal is plainly untrue. Right now many members of Congress are upset, and even the President himself has had to provide a response on the issue. This has become front page news tha
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Favorite quotes on this: "We should not sell humanity short by trying to solve the problem of beginners in our stuff. We need to make things for people to use, and we need to teach people and trust people to be able to learn how to do
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I see. It seems that if you don't have flash enabled, nothing appears but links for the MP3 and slides, which do require registration.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Is there a way to see this without compulsory registration?
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Clojure seems to get a lot of attention, but don't forget Common Lisp. If you're tired of the reinvention treadmill and want a great language that is actually mature, CL can be excellent. CL also has great runtime support: SBCL (f
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by wes-exp 13y ago
No Lisp! And clearly written from a frame of mind that hasn't imagined much beyond the capabilities of C and Java.
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Yes. Execution is not actually a property of a language, but of its implementation. Some languages have several implementations, each with distinct characteristics!
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According to this calculator http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/energy.html A 155 lb. cyclist gets about 75mpg equivalent, factoring in a typical diet. The vegan gets 145mpg. The site also claims that even with an al

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