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by fmw 1y ago
The terminal is a excellent abstraction layer to work around the limitations of LLMs. Tools like grep, the composability of commands through UNIX piping, for example. You can develop something like that from scratch and make it available to
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by fmw 2y ago
The Netherlands has the Highly Skilled Migrant (HSM) visum: https://ind.nl/en/residence-permits/work/highly-skilled-migr... In summary, it requires: - a company willing to apply for the visum for you, and, -
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by fmw 10y ago
Floyd & Hamilton | http://www.floydhamilton.nl/EN/Home | Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Onsite) Floyd & Hamilton builds recruitment software that is used by some of the best companies in the Netherlands. We'r
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by fmw 14y ago
SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary. Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web development and search (e.g. Apache Lucene and web scraping; see
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by fmw 14y ago
Beware of people suggesting their personal favorite language. There are many languages worth knowing. My personal favorite is the Lisp family and particularly Clojure. Pick up a book like SICP or any of the Clojure books. It can really give
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by fmw 14y ago
SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary. Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web development and search (e.g. Apache Lucene and web scraping; see
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by fmw 14y ago
SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary. Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web development and search (see https://github.com/fmw/alida for a l
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by fmw 14y ago
I suggest buying the books. They are excellent. If you have to pick two, I would suggest the O'Reilly book[0] and the Joy of Clojure[1]. The first is an excellent primer and the latter is really great at explaining the thinking behind the l
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Building a search engine with Clojure presentation (video & code)(github.com)
5 points by fmw 14y ago|0 comments
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by fmw 14y ago
The consumer market for GNU/Linux desktop application is tough, although there are some niche markets that can be viable. Wikipedia has a list of proprietary GNU/Linux applications that provides several examples[0]. If you want to charge in
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by fmw 14y ago
You're wrong. Religion in antiquity was different. It was our first attempt at philosophy, even though many of the best Greek thinkers stopped believing as they slowly built their own sphere of knowledge as a real form of (natural) philos
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by fmw 14y ago
Here is a shameless plug: http://www.vixu.com (my startup) is based on open source Clojure/ClojureScript CMS (and soon webshop) software. See https://github.com/fmw/vix for the code (planning some refactoring over the summer before the
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by fmw 14y ago
Obviously, a single founder gets more when and if a payday happens. Most startups fail, however. If attracting a co-founder increases the odds of success it is surely worth it. The article points out that you can also attract a co-founder i
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by fmw 15y ago
This is something the British actually did during World War II in order to confuse possible invading forces and spies[0]. [0]: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019014
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by fmw 15y ago
Microsoft offers good deals to startups[1], so cost is less of a factor than you may think. However, most people start programming as a hobby before they start a company, so it wouldn't surprise me if the cost issue mainly factors in earlie
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by fmw 15y ago
I'm betting my startup on Clojure, but it doesn't feel like much of a "bet". It is probably one of the least risky choices I've had to make and as a bonus to the technical benefits it is also a nice way to differentiate yourself. It is inte
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by fmw 15y ago
I was using a double negative, so I never meant to or did say that OpenJDK isn't suitable for production. Apologies for the confusing phrasing if you misunderstood me, but I was stating the opposite of what you seem to have assumed.
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by fmw 15y ago
That is what I meant when I said that Oracle is mostly creating a nuisance for the server market. It forces sys admins and developers to jump through more hoops to get the software running on their servers (as well as to keep it updated in
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by fmw 15y ago
E.g. early versions of ClojureScript had a critical bug on the OpenJDK that gave me the impression that (many of) the core developers are using the Sun package and are optimizing for it. There is also the issue of performance, which is supp
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by fmw 15y ago
Interesting conclusion. This is not like the Flash situation. Both JDK's are acceptable on a technical level. The Sun one is just a bit faster and more polished. In other words: this doesn't really affect the kind of end-users that would be
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by fmw 15y ago
This will be a nuisance, because e.g. Clojure just works better with the Sun Java packages. The Sun packages don't just have performance improvements, but the Clojure devs seem to be actively targeting them. Even if this might lead to impro
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Example of a real-world ClojureScript web application(groups.google.com)
2 points by fmw 15y ago|0 comments
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by fmw 15y ago
A large part of our industry is self-taught. You don't need a specific degree to get a good job - or even a degree at all. Some bigger companies are a bit more formal (e.g. Google, Microsoft) and prefer hiring graduates, but even they look
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by fmw 15y ago
You are correct, of course. Eventually some user would figure out they can rotate "aaaaa" and "bbbbb" every other week to avoid having to remember a better password. That being said, they could just follow up with "ccccc" instead of revert
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by fmw 15y ago
You could require users to enter their old password when changing it. That way, you can compare two plain-text passwords without the need for plain-text storage (or pre-computing, like other commenters suggested).
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by fmw 15y ago
The event was hosted by Sylvinus (CTO of Joshfire.com) at the Joshfire office. He did a splendid job. I'm very appreciative of the effort and the event was quite successful. Thanks for the pizza and beer (and for allowing me to babble on ab
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by fmw 15y ago
OK, this is why I don't do my own taxes!
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by fmw 15y ago
Seems like we should do a local HN meetup, because all of a sudden lots of Dutch hackers are coming out of the woodworks, with you and Skrebbel from Eindhoven and me in Tilburg (~25 minutes by train). Anyway, the environment for startups in
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by fmw 15y ago
Contrary to your assumption I've done a reasonable amount of traveling. This summer, for example, I'm working from Paris for a month. I've done an internship in the US and visited four continents and around fourteen countries. I'm not done
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by fmw 15y ago
I'm not saying that this is the only reason why people come up with a limit on password length, but that I can imagine that some programmers who come up with such a limit do so because of plaintext storage in a fixed length database row (

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