Ironballs

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by Ironballs 11y ago
Having a team member create production code in a language nobody else on the team understands is a risky decision. That applies for anything, software, systems, infrastructure... if one developer is allowed to sit on something, what happens
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by Ironballs 11y ago
The principal data structure of Lisp is a list which is written like this: (a b c d). Like the article mentions, when you see Lisp code you're in fact reading the same list syntax, only that, when the list itself is not quoted, the &qu
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by Ironballs 11y ago
For those curious, escherize means: [1] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider [2] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el The examples in [3] showcase the features of clj-refactor rather
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by Ironballs 11y ago
"If you know you will never change the implementation or configuration of some dependency, there is no benefit in using dependency injection.". It all boils down to this. Here's the catch, though: with dependencies, it is rea
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by Ironballs 12y ago
Emacs has supported inline SVGs in org-mode since 2007 or so.
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by Ironballs 12y ago
Just as much as OCaml is a "ripoff" of Standard ML. So, not really.
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by Ironballs 12y ago
From what I've seen, Clojure has a strong type system, but is dynamic. These terms aren't orthogonal. If I understand correctly (+ 'a' 1) is not allowed. Immutability only strengthens it. I ask this because I've bee
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by Ironballs 12y ago
Code readability is the original intent behind striving for simplicity. Though I find some of the design choices a bit frustrating, e.g., generics, lack of min/max; for each design choice I disagree with there are dozens of other cho
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by Ironballs 12y ago
The Windows-first status of F# is changing. There have been major improvements in this recently, most notably, the whole compiler being open sourced and its development moved to github[1], and .NET is going to be available on Linux[2]. This
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by Ironballs 12y ago
OCaml is another nice invention from INRIA.
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by Ironballs 12y ago
The Paperwhite isn't a backlit display. The LEDs in the Paperwhite Kindles do not shine light directly in the eyes: the leds shine from below the screen towards the top end of the screen. As it exits the LEDs, light is reflected inside
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by Ironballs 12y ago
It's strange how appealing F# becomes once you realize you have the full power of the Visual Studio debugger and the .NET libraries. To someone who has mostly worked with Haskell (w.r.t. functional languages), that sounds great. Good
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by Ironballs 12y ago
I don't know exactly how many of the Durandal & Angular convergence[1] features made it into Angular 2.0, but it looks like lazy module loading and a better component syntax did, which is fantastic [1] http://angularjs.b
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by Ironballs 12y ago
Same here. Maybe they just haven't done it yet.
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by Ironballs 12y ago
Go hasn't been intended for "systems programming" for quite a while. It is a general purpose language.
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by Ironballs 12y ago
It annoys me to see the language called Golang , when it very clearly is just plainly Go . That said, the only way to find anything on Google is to search with "golang <issue>".
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by Ironballs 12y ago
The idea of continuations (which promises are) is to make an asynchronous control flow look like it is synchronous, but not become synchronous. More than anything, it is about readability and having a logical flow in the code.
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by Ironballs 13y ago
thine is also the prevocalic possessive, "thy anvil" must be written as "thine anvil", similar to a/an.
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by Ironballs 13y ago
Not really. They're still immense players in desktop and corporate IT. That alone accounts for an immense amount of revenue, a sizeable chunk in the whole world of computing. On top of that, Azure is competitive and is gaining more and
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by Ironballs 13y ago
Pirates of the Silicon Valley is the movie, not just about Apple, but it involves Microsoft too, and according to Wozniak on several occasions, is quite faithful to true events. At least, a lot more than this new film.
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by Ironballs 13y ago
The phone isn't carrier locked, you can buy it online and then put any SIM inside it.
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by Ironballs 13y ago
Greg Egan is a great visionary, his ideas and ingenuities are profound and intelligent. His works exude a kind of brilliance, a technological devotion to the big ideas, but at a cost: sometimes the ideas take the stage, and characters and p
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by Ironballs 13y ago
Ah. So nice when science fiction actually happens . “She lets go of the handle and goes into free fall. At the same time, she jerks the manual release on her cervical collar and goes into full Michelin Man mode as tiny gas cartridges deton
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by Ironballs 13y ago
This is the reason why people should migrate to general purpose languages that can also be used for computation , such as Python and pandas (Python data analysis library, http://pandas.pydata.org/ ), or languages that are
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by Ironballs 13y ago
What colour scheme is he using?
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by Ironballs 14y ago
I... I don't understand. What's this mentality of offering free non-nutritious food for all employees, by the bucketload, for free? Why would you snack in the first place? Either eat solid, whole meals on assigned lunch breaks, or drink som
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by Ironballs 14y ago
Kari Enqvist, a professor of cosmology, said something very insightful in an interview about gambling in general: "Insurances yield a peace of mind and lotteries yield dreams, the values of which cannot be measured in mere terms of probabil
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by Ironballs 14y ago
The Theory of Computing blog http://feedworld.net/toc/ is an aggregator about theoretical CS stuff.
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by Ironballs 14y ago
Same thing in Finland, except you can do it by mail or online. The tax form arrives by mail, which you can then either mail back after filling it out or just go online and do the same thing.
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by Ironballs 14y ago
Evolutionary algorithms are very capable metaheurisitics with striking exploratory abilities. Exploratory in the sense that given a large search space, a well performing evolutionary algorithm can navigate this search space a lot faster tha

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