josh-j

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by josh-j 13y ago
They weren't overhyped. Your point is a common and old canard. The worry wasn't that avian flu or the swine flu would kill a lot of people in their current states, but that they would mutate into something considerably more dangerous. The s
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by josh-j 13y ago
What do you think questions are for?
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by josh-j 13y ago
The Java frameworks are generally doing very well (top quarter to top half), and the PHP frameworks are generally doing very poorly (bottom half). PHP-raw is doing well, but that's not heartening given how mature its frameworks should be (i
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by josh-j 13y ago
I was considering other factors in that generalization, although they're implicit. E.g., a lot of the "cool" language frameworks I mentioned are comparable with the Java frameworks in speed, but Java has a considerably larger ecosystem and
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by josh-j 13y ago
I think you've got the charts backwards. Symfony2 is slower than CI in every chart.
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by josh-j 13y ago
Is the following a fair generalization? Java should be the conservative choice for your web framework's language (rather than PHP). Scala, Clojure, Nodejs, Erlang, Lua, and Haskell should be in your list of workable yet "cool" languages (ra
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by josh-j 13y ago
Yes, you can do all of those things with sublime's API ( https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL , https://github.com/SublimeText/Origami ). Yes, emacs is more extensible, but not where it matters, really. I.e., I don't think you're going to s
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by josh-j 13y ago
Why did you go to all that trouble to make an analogy when you have no evidence to back it up?
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by josh-j 13y ago
I'm guessing, but I think it's because yesod uses a lot of magic such as templates and the like. The other frameworks like Snap use more idiomatic Haskell.
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by josh-j 13y ago
#haskell, #yesod, #snapframework on freenode are very helpful.
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by josh-j 14y ago
I think Adria could have avoided this if she apologized not for reporting the offenders to pycon, but for publicly identifying them. She was given the perfect opportunity for this when one of the offenders apologized for their own misstep i
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by josh-j 14y ago
You have it backwards. I don't care how racism is defined. I care about whatever the word "racism" points to in the real world. But you have to realize that a word can point to anything you want it to point to. And not only that, but words
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by josh-j 14y ago
You're lacking an understanding of linguistics and philosophy. Both usages are no more correct than the other, and the point of such usages is to ascribe a connotation to a cluster of things along a continuum. Arguing over definitions is po
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by josh-j 14y ago
That's all a bit silly. We have a common understanding or definition of what racism is and it connotes something immoral. _Some_ sociologists define racism as something else which also connotes something immoral. The common thread is that b
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by josh-j 14y ago
Personally, and I think this might be the case with most people here, I'm most worried by the public shaming of the two individuals. Them being kicked out of PyCon isn't as much a concern to me. I think the culture that she's implicitly pro
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by josh-j 14y ago
I'm clear on that. This whole issue is deeply entwined with philosophy which makes it all a bit amorphous. From one perspective, you could argue that it's moral to boycott SendGrid if it leads to "positive" consequences, for example.
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by josh-j 14y ago
I don't think assuming or mentioning negative talking points in the form of a question is a productive way to have a discussion.
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by josh-j 14y ago
It's a sane move if you want to discourage the culture that Adria is encouraging. Certainly her employers don't deserve any blame, though.
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by josh-j 14y ago
"I'm pretty sure relating and disclosing a situation that happened in a public place fully to the best of her ability shouldn't be something we call irresponsible. In fact, women who do otherwise are often asked to disclose in exactly the m
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by josh-j 14y ago
"Sexism is not at issue here." I got the impression reading Adria's blog post that she thought she was responding to sexism. Sexism is what most everyone is responding to in this event -- real or imagined. The problem is that the way Adria
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by josh-j 14y ago
Another option is to get pocket for chrome which adds an icon to google reader items and thereby allowing you to save your starred items to pocket.
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by josh-j 14y ago
You can export your Google Reader data -- all your starred items are stored in a json file.
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by josh-j 14y ago
Netvibes is another alternative (it has a widget and reader view).
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by josh-j 14y ago
It is different and difficult. I think that's because functional programming isn't simply a sideways step from imperative programming, but is instead a level of abstraction higher than imperative programming. Hofstadter says analogy is the
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by josh-j 14y ago
Just considering the language, then I think Scala is considerably easier to learn than haskell _if_ you're from an OO background. It's a multi-paradigm language making it easy to use it like a better c++11. However, idiomatic Scala is funct
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by josh-j 14y ago
Is there a screencast where I can see you being more efficient in LT than Vim?
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by josh-j 14y ago
"Should know", "well educated", "well oriented." All these qualifiers are subjective and are consequently meaningless. I could say the opposite of what you said and I'd be just as right (only taking into account what was written by us both)
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by josh-j 14y ago
> Some observers objected to Go's C-like block structure with braces, preferring the use of spaces for indentation, such as used in Python or Haskell [braces are optional in haskell]. However, we have had extensive experience tracking d
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by josh-j 14y ago
If you're reading this and understand those areas well, then consider donating some time towards improving the advanced track on the Haskell wikibook ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell ).