BMarkmann

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by BMarkmann 3y ago
If you mean "free" as in open-source/free, there is J, which has its own builtin database. I'm assuming it's similar to k/kdb, but that's just a guess. Learning an APL variant... not a free lunch. Takes
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by BMarkmann 3y ago
The article and linked blog posts fall to explain how this differs, is more powerful than, or solves problems not already solved by actual, functioning, industrial-grade tools, both commercial and OSS. Am I missing something fundamental? Th
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
Counterpoint Consulting | Washington, DC Metro Area (Vienna, VA) | c20g.com Counterpoint's Mission is to create software solutions which enable our clients to automate their business, turbocharge their workforce, engage their customers
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
Yes, I totally agree it comes down to YMMV. Everyone's learning style is different -- some like dense documentation, some like book-style progressive walkthroughs. I certainly didn't learn CL by reading the HyperSpec, for instan
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
Please don't what, have an opinion? I read SICP as an experienced programmer and I didn't find it impractical at all; in fact, it kickstarted my interest in other lisps. I read Realm of Racket as an experienced programmer (after k
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
Seems like the most common answer to this might be SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- you'll find course videos pretty easily from Google; the ones from the authors are really great). Note that it's based
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
My son is learning using Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) and it's pretty well tuned-in to the way he thinks. Haven't put any "code" in front of him yet, but he can make some pretty neat games very ra
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
Probably still relevant given how SBCL's user guide says (in the only section that includes mention of type inferencing): "FIXME: The material in the CMUCL manual about getting good performance from the compiler should be reviewed
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
You forgot step zero, which is "find terrible example code on SO and copy it"... then 3 goes back to step 0.
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
I honestly don't know that there are any posts I get more excited about on HN than Jepsen analyses. The number of landmines distributed systems create and the ability to suss them out in such detail / depth is really incredible.
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by BMarkmann 8y ago
Check out the BPM tools others have mentioned (Activiti, Camunda, etc...)
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Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers(bleepingcomputer.com)
8 points by BMarkmann 9y ago|0 comments
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by BMarkmann 9y ago
Counterpoint Consulting Vienna, VA (Washington DC Area) http://www.c20g.com/careers.html Associate Software Consultant As a Consultant at Counterpoint, you will: - Work with customers to identify, model, and automate co
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by BMarkmann 9y ago
Just for context, this is from Harry Browne, who was famously (and perhaps not entirely fairly) labeled as a "gold bug" throughout his career. He was something of a hero figure among those who subscribe to Austrian economic theor
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by BMarkmann 9y ago
I understand the underlying architecture is fundamentally different, but the end result seems kind of akin to some of the "complex event processing" (CEP) tools out there like Esper (ie. feeding incoming data into established quer
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by BMarkmann 9y ago
Correct URL: https://www.madetech.com/blog/things-we-learned-building-a-c...
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
"This is fairly straightforward; professional software developers of all levels usually have some experience building and scaling stateless APIs." I would question this, in fact suggest the complete opposite. Given that they say
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
Counterpoint Consulting | www.c20g.com Location: Vienna, VA (near Washington, DC) Counterpoint creates sustainable competitive advantage for our clients through business and workforce automation solutions. We create software which lets mach
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
This does look cool, and definitely illustrates the awesomeness of using redux / immutable state store. What is the pricing of the service like, though? I'd prefer to see that without having to register...
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How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture(hbr.org)
3 points by BMarkmann 10y ago|0 comments
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
Except for the landing and reusing part, no? (Yes, they recaptured and reused the Shuttle's SRBs, but it's a different scale and the economics are very different.)
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
Does this content actually still exist somewhere? There are some references IPs / DNS names that no longer exist.
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
Made the case for what? In another paper, he wrote: Since J is now free, and uses only ASCII characters, the requirements set forth in my A Personal View of APL have been fully met. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/auto
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
Emacs kill ring? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki... It takes a while to get used to it, but once you understand it / use it in anger, it becomes tough to live witho
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
I know ocaml has a lot of proponents in industry (jane street probably the most vocal, but I've seen it many other places, as well). Most of the SML/MLTon references I come across seem to be in an academic and research context.
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
Oh wow, hard numbers, thanks! That's very impressive, but strangely misleading in the graph towards the bottom that appears to clock TAIL->Futhark->OpenCL and Futhark->OpenCL exactly the same in more than half the cases (if y
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
An interesting project was kicked around here / proggit the other day, using apltail as the middle of a pipeline transforming APL code into optimized GPU code (Futhark), instead of targeting C. It is a pretty good display of ML's
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
I guess the point I was trying to make wasn't that cliki in particular has any shortcomings, but that more hands on any particular open source effort tend to yield more fruit that those hands spread across as many independent efforts.
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
I love common lisp. That being said, i feel like this effort might be better spent contributing to modernizing and cleaning up / updating the existing community sites like cliki.net.
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by BMarkmann 10y ago
...and half of those are comments, no? (ie. the ones starting with a ';')

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