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by cjo 11y ago
Thanks for the list, it's a little surprising to see WordPress and Drupal doing so well. I'm afraid I've been underestimating both of them. I also didn't realize the popularity difference between Rails and Django was t
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by cjo 11y ago
I've talked to a few agencies over the years but it's never panned out, they'd have jobs for different technologies than I knew or they wanted 10 years experience for what I did know. Can you point me to a blog post or some s
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by cjo 11y ago
That's good advice, I haven't been to a meetup in a while. There are two interesting meetups in the next week alone and several over the past few months that I probably would have enjoyed.
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Ask HN: How do you become a subcontractor?
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by cjo 11y ago
Location: Denver, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Clojure, jQuery/JavaScript, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: portfolio @ www.cjolsen.com/#portfolio, email
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by cjo 12y ago
> You have personalities like Richard Branson and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who are not engineers. Elon Musk has a BS in Physics, Jeff Bezos has an engineering degree (electrical/computer science.) Maybe they never got their PE lic
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by cjo 12y ago
Out of curiosity, which theory of value are you using here? There are many and in the most commonly used value =/= utility.
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by cjo 12y ago
Also of interest is that birds have little oil droplets, often colored, as part of their visual set up. There are five different known types of color-filtering oil droplets (a sixth that is transparent) but it doesn't appear every bir
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by cjo 12y ago
Denver. Willing to relocate. Full-time/part-time/contract. Stack: Clojure, Python, I'm learning JS/jQuery Portfolio: http://www.cjolsen.com/portfolio Contact: see webpage for email Entry level. I learn
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by cjo 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Denver, remote Entry level Clojure/Python dev, also working towards web development. Willing to learn new frameworks/languages. Looking for part-time/full-time. Clojure/Seesaw desktop app: https:/&
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by cjo 12y ago
The query language is embedded in legal Clojure data structures, so it would be tricky to port to JS. That's a drawback of embedded DSL's I suppose.
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by cjo 12y ago
The SICP lectures on logic programming will provide some conceptual background if needed. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by cjo 12y ago
This article reads like the author is just mad at some audiophile for being a jerk about their vinyl collection. Fair enough, but it's kind of straw-manning vinyl collectors. Implying that CDs give you forensic level exact playback wh
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by cjo 12y ago
It might not be easy, depending. Without too much trouble you could write a macro for this: (my-macro " foo bar baz beez zang dang bang") and have the macro parse the string manu
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by cjo 12y ago
What I think this is missing which was a huge part of the SICP course is that Lisp is probably the best language to write your own language in with a custom syntax tailored for the problem space you're working on. Even if it isn'
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by cjo 12y ago
I always liked The Rise of Worse Is Better in explaining why C and its derivatives became the standard. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by cjo 12y ago
I'm not sure how high the adoption rate is but it's a natural extension of immutable data into the database world. It also has some old roots in the Lisp community, lectures 8A and 8B[0] of MIT's famous SICP course and sectio
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by cjo 13y ago
I was interested in the same question (how big is a simple Scheme in Clojure?), and ended up working on one for the heck of it. It's a little under 500 lines of Clojure, and it has a very small number of primitives at this point. I te
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by cjo 13y ago
Great post! For those interested, GNU's Lesser General Public License (LGPL) was created to address these concerns.
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by cjo 13y ago
Ah, c'mon, don't pin it on The Bearded Guy! That stuff predated him (see Ricardo's Law of Rent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent ). The Bearded Guy was after all the last of the Classical Econo
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by cjo 13y ago
OK, I'll respond to this and harryh's at the same time. First of all, "distortion" is relative to what economic model you're starting with - so it can get a bit tricky, and I'm not very concerned with using th
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by cjo 13y ago
Well I certainly agree that money in general and our relationship to it could use a good rethinking - which is a surprisingly unpopular opinion considering America's financial sector pretty much imploded just a few years ago. But I don
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by cjo 13y ago
Sounds like it's a choice between a short period of minimum wage pay and then getting replaced by "cost saving technologies", or a slightly longer period of subsistence wages and then still getting replaced. It's easy t
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by cjo 13y ago
Even if minimum wage does cause some unemployment that's not the beginning or the end of the story. It's a market distortion created to counteract two other market distortions - namely already existing unemployment and market con
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by cjo 13y ago
> It is basic economics that when the government mandates a price floor then anyone who cannot sell their goods for anything below that floor will not be able to sell their goods. Thus it will hurt those it's trying to help. Applyin
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by cjo 13y ago
> Do you have dependencies keeping you on 2.x? > Yes: 61.46% > No: 38.54% I know that's why I returned to 2 after trying 3. For example BeautifulSoup (HTML parsing/scraping) has only supported Python 3 since October &#x
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by cjo 13y ago
I think it's easier to reason about in the long run although the initial period of wondering why you don't just set up a data structure and bang on it in place is a little bumpy. The syntax is always[0] (procedure argument-1 argum
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by cjo 13y ago
There was a checker playing computer called Chinook that had something similar happen at one point (iirc one of its databases was corrupted). Definitely worth listening to the story: http://relprime.com/chinook/
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by cjo 13y ago
I've heard good things about using emacs-live ( https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live ) to get you up and running quickly.
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by cjo 13y ago
I think it would only be good if its used as a learning tool and not a code-writing tool, compare: write the best code you can -> run kibit -> spend an hour reading the docs and every blog post you can find about a feature you didn&#x

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