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Gaming Our Way Through the Remote Divide: Remote Culture at Gateless(blog.gateless.com)
1 points by bitsai 5y ago|0 comments
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by bitsai 8y ago
There's a whole raft of "Rifts for Savage Worlds" products now ( https://www.peginc.com/product-category/rifts/ ), but really I think you need only the following two to get going: https://w
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How Seattle Could Solve America’s Traffic Problem(theringer.com)
1 points by bitsai 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook’s new chatbots still need work(techcrunch.com)
2 points by bitsai 10y ago|1 comments
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by bitsai 11y ago
"That said I believe front and backend should work closely together. There is no reason that the frontend should be blocked because the API design can be figured out before the backend is written and the frontend can mock out the missi
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by bitsai 11y ago
Mmm, I've never used Ruby or Rails professionally, so I can't really speak to that. Prior to Clojure, I mostly worked with C++, Java, C#, and Python. At its core, Clojure is basically just data and functions. Once the switch flipp
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by bitsai 11y ago
IMHO, absolutely. There are many wins, but the 2 biggest for us have been: 1. Clojure's tools for making abstractions are orders of magnitude better than Java's, so our codebase is significantly smaller and simpler than what it&#x
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by bitsai 11y ago
I vote that it's worthwhile as well. We've been using Clojure full-time at ReadyForZero for over 3 years now (for web-dev as well as other tasks), and are very happy with our choice.
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How to Report Bugs Effectively(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
2 points by bitsai 13y ago|0 comments
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by bitsai 13y ago
Fascinating! We use Clojure heavily, but the JVM is sometimes a bit of a headache-inducer in our environment (especially w.r.t. its eager gobbling of memory), so I'm always excited to see new potential runtimes/backends for Clojur
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by bitsai 13y ago
If Clojure is acceptable, there is Incanter ( http://incanter.org/ ).
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by bitsai 13y ago
Not exactly a trivial task... Incanter uses several sizable Java libraries (such as Parallel Colt) under the hood, so a port would first need to either finding suitable replacements or re-writing that code as well.
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by bitsai 13y ago
After using jaycfields' "expectations" Clojure testing library, I've become very very appreciative of libraries that expose an easy way to freeze time, for exactly the issues you described.
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by bitsai 13y ago
The article does provide some details about how the breach happened.
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The Lethality of Loneliness(newrepublic.com)
321 points by bitsai 13y ago|157 comments
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by bitsai 13y ago
"Rainbows End" was indeed wonderful. Another great exploration of AR in speculative fiction (and my personal favorite) is Charles Stross' "Halting State".
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by bitsai 14y ago
As of Clojure 1.3, defrecord (and deftype) automatically define factory functions in the same namespace as the record itself. defrecord generates 2 such functions, one that takes positional arguments and one that takes a map. So once you ha
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by bitsai 15y ago
https://github.com/bitsai/lisp-in-clojure
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by bitsai 15y ago
Yes, that is a better way of making the point. Thank you.
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by bitsai 15y ago
Precisely. Clojure was my first Lisp, and I got spoiled by the "every collection is a seq" uniformity. In Clojure, functions like 'count' can operate on all collections, whereas in, say, Racket, you have an explosion of methods like: leng
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Dart: Improving the DOM(dartlang.org)
8 points by bitsai 15y ago|0 comments
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by bitsai 15y ago
See this comment from MostAwesomeDude in a different thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051142 Perhaps it would be interesting to see how it was done in Twisted: http://http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twiste...
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by bitsai 15y ago
I believe jashkenas' example defines both a pre-condition and a post-condition, specifying that f accepts only odd numbers and returns only even numbers ('!' here is the operator for new contract, rather than logical negation). If f is call
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by bitsai 15y ago
It's a bit of a mystery what Rich will be talking about tonight. The only word from him is that "I'll be talking about something new!" Not much to go on, but thought I'd share the live stream link for interested parties anyway.
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Live stream for Rich Hickey's talk at NYC Clojure tonight (6:45pm EDT)(ustream.tv)
6 points by bitsai 15y ago|1 comments
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Is the Fastest Human Ever Already Alive?(grantland.com)
7 points by bitsai 15y ago|0 comments
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by bitsai 15y ago
I recommend Rich Hickey's presentations on Clojure: (Part 1): http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-java-programmers-1-of-2-9... (Part 2): http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-java-programmers-2-of-2-9...
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Interview with Bill James on Crime(grantland.com)
1 points by bitsai 15y ago|0 comments
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by bitsai 15y ago
This has also been the #1 show-stopping concern when I tried to introduce Clojure at my workplace, a small financial services company aspiring to be "enterprise"-y.
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by bitsai 15y ago
I had the pleasure of reading this paper during a computer security course. To complement the paper, the prof gave us the task of writing a 2-level polyglot quine (a program in language X that outputs a program in language Y, which outputs

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