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by devonrt 16y ago
Django is arguably the most used Python web stack, but it's also a much more controversial choice than Rails is in the Ruby world. I hear "you'll outgrow Django really quickly" a lot; whether that's true or not I can't say since I've never
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by devonrt 16y ago
Quieter, eh? I had a chance to drive the original a while back and it was already pretty damn quiet.
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by devonrt 16y ago
A really incoherent article that's wrong in a lot of ways. The title is misleading because the author's main beef is with the idea that functional languages are the "solution" to the concurrency "problem." He admits that he's tried to learn
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by devonrt 16y ago
To get started with Clojure you need to know much about the Java platform. The first parts of Java that you will brush up against are classpaths and dot-separated namespaces and I don't think these are overly difficult to understand. clojur
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by devonrt 16y ago
Agreed. The Android Market is an absolute ghetto compared to Apple's App Store. It makes me think there's room for a third party to build a better, more heavily curated marketplace for Android apps.
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by devonrt 16y ago
I agree with the spirit of the post, but not (many of) the actual points. Look at the list of languages the author points to in the first paragraph: PHP, Python, Ruby and Objective-C. Only one of these has anything remotely close to an "off
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by devonrt 16y ago
That guide is, sadly, very out of date and ironically linking to it probably makes it more likely to turn up first in Google search results. Which parts did you find frustrating? Did you use ELPA? I ask because I've been using Clojure for s
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by devonrt 16y ago
Some of these arguments are very weak, especially for Kia which amounted to "Well, Ford and GM couldn't handle a dozen brands each so obviously Hyundai can't handle two." Couldn't the author give at least sales figures?
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by devonrt 16y ago
I'm currently planning a trip and have looked at both. CouchSurfing seems to rely a lot more on a sense of community, whereas Airbnd is more "business-y", which only makes sense given that CS is free whereas Airbnd is not. CS users are enco
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by devonrt 16y ago
Clojure has (roughly the equivalent) of problem #1. Java has a lot of, err, great libraries, I guess but many of them are, sadly, hidden behind a Java-esque API. To use them from Clojure you will need to spend time wrapping up the Java-esqu
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by devonrt 16y ago
Are gamers actually eager for a new Starcraft game? It's been my experience that Starcraft players are eager for a new Starcraft game.
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by devonrt 16y ago
The process has gotten a lot easier and Leiningen has made things way easier. lein-swank is just dreamy and comes close to providing all that nifty class-path handling functionality that something like Eclipse provides for Java. A lot of
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by devonrt 16y ago
This does not include Clojure, nor Leningen (the Clojure build tool), nor does it work on Windows or any environment that does not have apt-get. No doubt, you will end up with a perfectly suitable environment for playing around with SBCL. e
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by devonrt 16y ago
I can attest to the fact that setting up a Clojure/Emacs/Slime/Leiningen environment is a huge PITA. Something like Clojure Box helps, but it sacrifices flexibility in favor of ease of use and hides a lot of underlying configuration from a
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by devonrt 16y ago
Yes, and it was my favorite part of the program! (Sorry about the multiple login, I mistakenly logged in with clickpass last time)
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by devonrt 16y ago
As far as I can tell Apple doesn't really care how people use iTunes to play and organize their media; it's, at best, secondary functionality at this point. I'm sure there are developers at Apple working on this aspect of iTunes but I think
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by devonrt 16y ago
I didn't necessarily suggest that the menu not be organized at all, just that the strict categorical hierarchical menus are lame. Why do some text editors go under the Utilities menu and others under the Programming menu (like Emacs). It's
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by devonrt 16y ago
Calling 10.04 perfect is a real, long stretch. Even the authors own description of 10.04 hardly amounts to "perfect." Its cosmetic changes are, in my opinion, dubious at best. Window controls are on the left hand side of the Window for no g
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by devonrt 16y ago
I appreciate the intent but I do find it a little annoying that I had to register, agree to a vague TOS and then verify my email address to look at the guides. The guides themselves were ok, but I'm sure similar information can be found els
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by devonrt 16y ago
I like Processing, and you can do pretty much anything you want with it but I will point out that it was not necessarily built with charts, graphs, and plots in mind; it's relatively "low-level." Any type of graph or visualization you want
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by devonrt 17y ago
For one, this was Pharo Smalltalk; a fork of Squeak that's still in beta. For another if I was shipping an application to a customer I probably wouldn't ship it with the workspace, or any of the development tools really. I would also consid
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by devonrt 17y ago
It's funny because I had a really refreshing experience with Pharo lately. A part of the workspace threw an exception and I was presented with the option to debug it. Hitting debug brings up a debugger with the full stack available and the