allertonm

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by allertonm 1y ago
The copilot agent stuff in IntelliJ works relatively well in my experience, they managed to implement a quite cursor-like “accept/reject” UI in a plugin, you know, forking IDEA. There are some areas like getting it to use git tools whe
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by allertonm 8y ago
Put your cilantro in a ziplock bag, roll it up to exclude the air before zipping up and keep it in the fridge. Will keep for quite a lot longer.
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by allertonm 13y ago
The Cree bulbs - at least the ones in Home Depot in Canada - actually do have a warning about using in enclosed fixtures. It says (to my recollection) "Do not use in enclosed fixtures with other types of bulbs". So my take on this
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by allertonm 13y ago
I imagine the documentation is completely out of date. Anyway, if you don't want to look at it, that's your loss - while I don't think CAL has much of a future a lot of work was invested in it by a very talented team and ther
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by allertonm 13y ago
Unfortunately it looks like you would have to build from source. The best place for that would be Rich Webster's fork - https://github.com/rdwebster/Open-Quark - which is the version maintained by Indicee.
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by allertonm 13y ago
It's interesting to compare this to CAL - an earlier Haskell-like language on the JVM that was a project of some of my former colleagues at Crystal Decisions/Business Objects back in the 00's: http://openquark.org&
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by allertonm 14y ago
Yeah, me too... TI-51 III (aka TI-55 in US) in the late 70s - belonging to my father, who had it for his job but never got to use it much because I was always playing with it. He later got me a copy of this book - http://books.google.ca/bo
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by allertonm 14y ago
Rang so true for me too. Growing up in London, the valley seemed like the centre of the universe and somewhere I'd eventually want to move to, but when I first visited in 1993 for Apple's WWDC and went exploring I was massively disappointed
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by allertonm 14y ago
See also Apple "Advanced Technology Group", pre-1997. One of Jobs' first acts on his return was to kill it. I remember all those cool demos we used to get at WWDC of things that never ever saw the light of day while the core OS was turning
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by allertonm 14y ago
Daimler's "Car2go" service (available here in Vancouver and some other cities) allows you to leave the car anywhere in their core service area. http://car2govancouver.com/
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by allertonm 14y ago
Happy to be of service with my naive wonderings :) Anyway, thanks, I'm not much of a PLT guy but I can begin to see why this could not work.
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by allertonm 14y ago
I guess the benefit of lazy by default is that (given Haskell is an experiment in purity) it sets the expectation that things will be side-effect free by default. Were that not a design criteria it might have been better to make things stri
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by allertonm 14y ago
If you are coding for the browser, neither of the options you suggest are available to you. Now what? Answer: you do it with callbacks, because they are literally the only mechanism available. Welcome (back) to callback hell.
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by allertonm 14y ago
If you go and look for such a thing as a server-side 2D rendering API that will work on a headless linux server and support a nice visualization API comparable to D3 and not pay someone several thousand dollars for a license, you will f
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by allertonm 14y ago
This is similar to how we do our email delivery of dashboards at Indicee ( http://www.indicee.com ) We don't use D3 for our visualizations (I'd love to, but our users can use the dashboards "live" and, well... Internet Explorer 8) and we sn
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by allertonm 14y ago
There might be something to this. Despite Jobs' statements about the usefulness (or otherwise) of upright touch screens, accessory manufacturers have been catering to people who want to use their iPad upright literally since day one. Apple
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by allertonm 14y ago
In this vein, it's also worth looking at Microsoft's "Reactive Extensions" (which have a JS implementation, too.) It's a similarly monadic approach to asynchrony, but deals in "observables" which produce zero or more events, compared to pro
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by allertonm 14y ago
Be careful what you wish for. I've been using GWT solidly for the past two years (not my choice for the project, but sometimes you just have to play the hand you are dealt) - and IMO GWT's biggest problem isn't so much that it is Java, but
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by allertonm 14y ago
The numbers you quote sound like large sums of money but MSF's total budget is $400M and 80% of it comes from private individuals. (source: Wikipedia.) So it seems like a stretch to say MSF "exists in part" due to the largesse of software c
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by allertonm 14y ago
While the example of Justin Bieber makes it seem to make sense to push the cost of following to the followed rather than the follower, I am not at all sure this makes sense in the general case. It puts the user at the mercy of spammers &#38
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by allertonm 14y ago
Do you mean import used? They are on sale here: http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/canada/
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by allertonm 14y ago
SAP has 1200 employees in Vancouver, at the former Crystal/Business Objects site on Mainland St.
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by allertonm 15y ago
I actually had a NewBrain, think it's still around in my parents' attic somewhere. I did quite a bit of real paying work on BBC Micros back in the day, and think they were great - but reading the way people tell the story today, one would b
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by allertonm 15y ago
These are my choice for coding too, very good balance of sound isolation and quality. Very solidly made too. Hard to find in Hi-fi stores but music equipment places carry them (popular for monitoring & ENG work.) Not sure that they beat
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by allertonm 15y ago
Title is incorrect, should be: "A story about me". This seems kind of grouchy I know, but I am getting a bit tired of these wildly overblown titles attached to very thin blog posts. I knew what I'd see when I clicked the link and was just a
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by allertonm 15y ago
Pretty sure the piece you are referring to was by Michael Mace: http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/10/whats-really-w...
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by allertonm 15y ago
Hard to go wrong sampling David Axelrod...
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Jetbrains' Kotlin language web demo(blog.jetbrains.com)
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by allertonm 15y ago
Are you a young American?
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by allertonm 15y ago
It's not true of Java - the bytecode generated by javac is very robust in the face of new JVM versions. This is one of the reasons that Java has had to move so slowly in terms of language features. Neither Scala or Clojure's compilers gener

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