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by greghendershott 1y ago
See also: Recent scrubbing US government web sites for words like "diversity", "equity", and "inclusion". Writing about biology, finance, or geology? Shrug. Dumb filtering is bad enough when used by smart peopl
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by greghendershott 2y ago
Sure it's offered free of charge -- and immediately next to the big "Download" button is a big "Donate" button. > Maybe they do actually donate to the project, contribute code, or support in other means. Maybe in
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by greghendershott 2y ago
Obligatory mention of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
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by greghendershott 2y ago
Also for example the imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofburg
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by greghendershott 5y ago
I am by no means a finance or investing whiz. But the first thing I like to do is skip ahead to the cash flow statement. In this case https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828021... The i
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by greghendershott 6y ago
I rarely read The Register. Is that the usual tone -- as if the author wishes they were Lady Whistledown, the gossip writer on Bridgerton?
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by greghendershott 6y ago
On the other hand, I've just spent several more-or-less full-time months taking advantage of the drracket/check-syntax library, provided by the core Racket team. On the third hand, I spent all that time, so wrt "bus factor 1&
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by greghendershott 7y ago
Not sure why you're being down-voted. (As usual here, only clicking a down-vote button contributes little value.) - You are correct that implementing markdown consistently is hard because there is no real spec. CommonMark is a spec, wh
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by greghendershott 8y ago
This seems unnecessarily harsh. Capitalization isn't a deep signal. There are lIsPs like Clojure that argue (> data functions macros). Although I mostly disagree (for example I love Racket macros), I understand and appreciate the se
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by greghendershott 8y ago
> Now an assistive technology user has an equal (and maybe even better) conceptual map of the content and actions they can take on this website compared to a non-assistive technology user. They can get a quick overview of everything on t
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by greghendershott 8y ago
These days that's what rackjure re-provides: http://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html#(mod-path._r...
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by greghendershott 8y ago
No. :) Continuations are in the category of things best explained by burrito analogies.
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by greghendershott 8y ago
I remember the golden age -- when it seemed like every week there was a Lifehacker.com post about a cool way to use and customize Gmail, GReader, etc. I gladly guzzled the Kool Aid. It was magnitudes more effective than any marketing I&#x27
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by greghendershott 8y ago
It's already non-easy to figure out what customers want, make it, make sure they know you have it, and get them to buy it. On top of that, lately it seems more challenging not to be an oligopoly if you have customers in Europe and&#x2F
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by greghendershott 8y ago
AWS Cloud Watch Logs can take JSON format log events. This displays better in the AWS console -- and also it enables better queries than raw text, e.g. `{$.response.code >= 400}`.
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mediKanren: PoC for reasoning over SemMedDB using miniKanren+heuristics+indexing(github.com)
1 points by greghendershott 8y ago|0 comments
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by greghendershott 8y ago
In my experience Typed Racket programs are never slower than their dynamically typed Racket equivalents. Sometimes they are faster (such as when the program does a lot of numeric computation). What _can_ be slower is a _mix_ of TR and R. Be
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by greghendershott 8y ago
It can make sense if you're developing for Linux -- for instance web apps that will run on Linux in production. It can also make sense if you like physical function keys and/or a touch screen larger than a function key row. :) I u
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by greghendershott 9y ago
And, you probably want someone who joined BigCo when it was YourSizeCo.
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by greghendershott 9y ago
Depending on the definition of "it", someone has: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
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by greghendershott 9y ago
Racket took the baton from Eiffel: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contract-boundaries.html
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by greghendershott 9y ago
My first lesson in this was the Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface. It had a "smart mode" which accepted timestamped buffers. It was great... if you wanted a sequencer with exactly the features it supported, like say only 8 tracks. It
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Stupid Patent of the Month: JP Morgan Patents Interapp Permissions(eff.org)
4 points by greghendershott 9y ago|1 comments
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by greghendershott 9y ago
In some languages the "stack" may grow until all memory is exhausted. (Some of those languages also guarantee tail call elimination.)
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by greghendershott 10y ago
I think you think I said something different than what I think I said. :) I'm not talking about "evil" or "hate". I do understand needing to pick the least-worst option. And I'm not judging anyone else's s
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Not only am I done with Uber, I'm starting to wonder about associates and partners (investors, advisors, marketing partners, etc.) If you're still doing business with Uber in 2017, it's because you don't want to know or
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by greghendershott 10y ago
I thought to submit this while reading two comments in the Eta discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13376724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13379629
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Rascal: a Haskell with more parentheses(lexi-lambda.github.io)
2 points by greghendershott 10y ago|1 comments
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by greghendershott 10y ago
> If you can afford to live in an area with high property taxes, the US school system is great, your kids probably go to a great school Such affluent towns are effectively private schools by other means. They are a kind of boarding schoo
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by greghendershott 10y ago
Great way to think about this. Also -- although maybe too obvious to point out -- as you progress through these stages: - You appeal to different kinds of investors. You may gain financing options (~= the old joke/truth that "bank

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