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by cursork 6y ago
Absolutely this. When facing a tough problem it’s a great tactic to write out what you’re trying to solve and how you plan to solve it in prose-style English. I’ve done it often without ever sharing my writings with anyone at all, and alw
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by cursork 7y ago
I agree with this to a large extent. A new codebase in the latest Java/whatever can be OK. But most of the time I feel like it's dealing with the same bad code, with just a smattering of nice syntax on top. I started learning Perl
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by cursork 11y ago
See also Liberator for Clojure
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by cursork 11y ago
Seems to be a typo? $ perl6 -e 'say "नि".codes' 2
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by cursork 11y ago
Presumably a riff on "Lisp has no syntax"
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by cursork 12y ago
Also Perl: 5.20 is current stable, 5.21 is unstable but will eventually lead to 5.22. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#How-often-are-new-vers...
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by cursork 12y ago
Yes. My experience of hiring is that it is extremely hard and imprecise. I prefer to give the candidates every advantage possible. I would help them to the extent of my abilities in a work situation, so I see no use in being unnecessarily d
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by cursork 12y ago
That's only superficially the same. There's questions and there's "let's work through this" questions. The latter are awesome when explicitly stated as such and can be (should be?) as hard as you want to make t
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by cursork 12y ago
Love it! One of my favourite bad interview questions. I got asked this in an interview ~5 years ago. My response was to look shocked... Pause. Then ask: "What do you mean? What detail do you need? DNS? SYN / ACK? HTTP?" At th
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by cursork 12y ago
Saw the presentation for this at ClojureX in London. I'm definitely interested to have a look https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5738-keynote-by-kyle-ki...
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by cursork 12y ago
Oh wow. The attitude on display is really not good.
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by cursork 12y ago
That's a great book. I've just started reading I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter and it's promising. Also by Hofstadter: Le Ton beau de Marot was a good read. GEB is the big one, but if you like his style - probably worth che
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by cursork 12y ago
Re. "Continuously Deliver them to the Docker Registry". Is this focussed on open projects going to the public registry? Or will you provide a private one / integrate with services like quay.io, etc.? EDIT: Love CircleCI by th
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by cursork 12y ago
Yeah. Bad use of 'patent' maybe. Just interesting that the same arguments are provably going around and around.
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by cursork 12y ago
Possibly more interesting... start the video from the beginning and they're talking about software patents. The same points were being brought up then as now. But yes. Good video! Cheers!
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by cursork 12y ago
It's Wiki is pretty killer. That may not sound like much, but it's pretty awesome. I use it as a reference on a few things even when dealing with other Linux distros. e.g. The page on SSH basically starts with how to restrict us
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by cursork 12y ago
> The consensus in the community right now is to not get carried away with macros and DSLs. Even if your library provides a DSL, it should be based on a functional API that is mostly usable without macros. Yup. But what people say and wh
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by cursork 12y ago
Thanks for this; pretty much the response I was expecting but very well said. My opinion is that functions that take quoted code do actually do the 99% job of macros pretty well. I also think creating completely new syntactic forms is fanta
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by cursork 12y ago
Kinda fair - I meant "homoiconic" in the loose sense of having macros that can manipulate expressions as data and which has mechanisms such as quote/unquote to do so. That's what many people see as the reason for homoico
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by cursork 12y ago
100% agreed. I've been looking at Elixir occasionally for a year or so... It's getting better and better. It certainly takes a lot from Clojure, but with a real Erlang / OTP twist. (It also recognises that "homoiconici
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by cursork 12y ago
Literally came here to post that! The comment for send-line-to-tmux... I've felt that pain before.
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by cursork 12y ago
Really hope this doesn't sound like belabouring the point but... > tpope is one of only a few driving forces over on the Vim side of Clojure tpope is indeed one of the few, but I'd hate for people to dismiss https://
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by cursork 13y ago
All analogies break down. Of course. How about (staying with the building analogies because I'm in a building right now and looking around trying to think of analogies...) the electrician who has wired your flat? You don't think a
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by cursork 13y ago
For this comment I'll try to stick to one specific thing. I'll focus on the mechanic analogy, but I do think the premise of the article is flawed. I have some thoughts about burnout in programmers etc. but they aren't well en
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by cursork 13y ago
I'm a big proponent of everything-behind-http because of the way it introduces a common language for integrating disparate services. However! as someone who has had to debug some particularly gnarly email issues in the past I really do
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by cursork 13y ago
> Explicit declaration of the scope of a variable at initialization leads to unintended global namespace pollution when omitting the declaration is legal and causes the variable to be placed in the global scope Ah, but it's not le
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by cursork 13y ago
Not completely seriously.. This is why some of us prefer Perl ;) my $a = 1; my $contrived = sub { my $a = 2; # new lexical variable $a $a = 3; # if the my above wasn't there, outer $a would be 3 .
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by cursork 13y ago
Perl is actually very good with Unicode. Note that a character is "The smallest component of written language that has semantic value" according to the Unicode glossary - I'd say Perl respects that meaning. As noted in the do
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by cursork 13y ago
To ameliorate my point; I use LYAH as a reference piece a lot. It's well written and is a really takes time over many subjects. I mostly wanted to make (badly!) a point that there are resources out there that will push experienced and
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by cursork 13y ago
LYAH is a chore. I got nowhere with it - it is tedious. After a cursory glance a few of us at my company are working through The Little MLer in Haskell instead. It seems to really be focussing on types and I think those kind of core concept

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