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by why-el 13y ago
Hey, sorry i had two books in front me and misreported the title. The book is Coders at Work.
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by why-el 13y ago
I just, (seriously, just) read an interview with Ken Thompson arguing that this over-layering is killing him. Edit: It was in the book Clean Code.
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by why-el 13y ago
This is in general a good advice for most languages; instead of calling a function multiple times, do it once (and potentially store the result if you want it for later use). A similar, albeit far more simple, example would be calling a len
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by why-el 13y ago
Asking for 30+ million to test the waters is kind of a stretch in my opinion.
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by why-el 13y ago
Sure, use my email in my profile. :)
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by why-el 13y ago
I would assume they are at least thinking about an API, as it's fairly easy to construct/what they are doing is easily portable elsewhere (Think Medium like comments all over the place). With this said, nice work.
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by why-el 13y ago
Are you language-agnostic? Ruby's mailman gem is good.
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by why-el 13y ago
This is so awesome. I have been waiting for this to finish translating for some time now. When I read the first two chapters almost a year ago, I was pleased by how much detail the author goes into to explain the inner workings of Ruby. I r
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by why-el 13y ago
Just for the record, Elixir was favourably reviewed by the creator of Erlang itself.[1] [1] http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
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by why-el 13y ago
This pops up from time to time on Hacker News. I got the book and went through it, but couldn't go beyond the basics and found myself in a state of limbo. I would love to hear from other people about their experience with the book and
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by why-el 13y ago
This reminded me of a quote by Joe Armstrong, creator of the Erlang language. He said, referring to language design in general: "What you get right, nobody mentions it; What you get wrong, people bitch about." Though I think the o
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by why-el 13y ago
The points in the article are still not addressed in your comment. The exercises in TLS can be programmed in pretty much any one of the mainstream, dynamically-typed and lexically scoped languages (beginning with Ruby, which I have partiall
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The case against using RubyGems.org in production(honeybadger.io)
8 points by why-el 13y ago|1 comments
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by why-el 13y ago
I don't even have that; just my name and the other required stuff. I still accept connections in the hope that I will join one day, but that seems more and more unlikely.
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ACLU annotates new Kanye West song(rapgenius.com)
1 points by why-el 13y ago|0 comments
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by why-el 13y ago
Good old Rake with the # FIXME directive right in my source code.
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by why-el 13y ago
It was an April's fool.
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by why-el 13y ago
Great, congratulations then. Vagrant is a fantastic tool.
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by why-el 13y ago
That's interesting. Have you ever considered Leanpub before you went with Oreilly?
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Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process."(thenextweb.com)
198 points by why-el 13y ago|84 comments
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by why-el 13y ago
Really? That would be cool. Can you point me to a thread or something where I can read about these developments?
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by why-el 13y ago
This should have been titled "The death of the Emacs Philosophy", although I am not sure what that is exactly. Emacs will hang on for a litte while.
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by why-el 13y ago
I don't know, I feel the same about my morning coffee. If Starbucks started offering coffee services online, people's perception of the product will change dramatically. Suddenly the 2 pounds will look like a massive amount to pay for a 'cu
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Tesla Stock Breaks $100 for the First Time(mashable.com)
5 points by why-el 13y ago|0 comments
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by why-el 13y ago
Agreed. Twitter is in no sense a protocol. I think it became a great deal once people realized it is the only place for real time information flow, or at least that's how it's perceived among the Twitter users I know.
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by why-el 13y ago
Me too. Are you from outside the US? That might be it, as my university does not use a .edu.
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by why-el 13y ago
This is similar in spirit to weusethat.com (itself modeled after usesthis.com), which I really liked but they stopped updating the content mid-past-december. Hopefully leanstack continues.
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by why-el 13y ago
Your first line is similar to a Dostoevsky quote: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." (The House of the Dead)
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by why-el 13y ago
This could have been a better name in my opinion. One should stay away from frequently used English words.
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by why-el 13y ago
I don't see where you disagree with the article. From what I understood, the article is suggesting that the reason we all have mama, papa or similar words in our languages is their relatively easy prononciation coupled with the baby's needs

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