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by markc 2y ago
>The book itself uses Java, not Clojure. Almost all of the code examples in the book are in JavaScript (not Java) though a significant feature of Sharvit's approach is that it decouples Data Oriented Programming from any specific la
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by markc 2y ago
I still have my cherished VT125 EDT rubber overlay from when I worked at DEC '82-'85. Great editor. And the amazing thing was that there could be 50 people time-sharing on a single 1 MIPS Vax 780, and EDT was very responsive, virt
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by markc 2y ago
I came here to mention this book also. I learned a lot. He explores a mind numbing number of properties which are potentially in the mix. They depend in turn on the properties of the source material. (Authors play all kinds of games with me
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by markc 2y ago
Probably could have driven round trip for under $500!
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by markc 2y ago
Shout out to attendees of the Nov. 1996 MIT Kerberos Workshop! http://web.mit.edu/pbh/www/workshop.html http://web.mit.edu/pbh/www/krb-attendees.html
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by markc 2y ago
Very cool. Back in ancient times, shortly after Kerberos for GSS-API came out I was tasked with achieving interoperability between Hewlett-Packard's GSS-API implementation (based on MIT's) with popular commercial ones (Cygnus? Mic
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by markc 3y ago
True. I chose my neighborhood in Somerville with proximity to the T as a top priority because I assumed I'd be taking it to work in Kendall every day. Then I bought a bike and found it better in almost every way: free, enjoyable (much
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by markc 3y ago
And free outbound from Logan! Though I must say, the last time I did this it was a bit of a nightmare. The SL1 was very late and we were packed in like sardines.
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by markc 3y ago
Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) references Polya several times in his classic talk "Hammock Driven Development". Here's a transcript: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master&
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by markc 3y ago
There is a viable path from (upper?)-middle class to early retirement that is built mostly out of hardcore discipline, willingness to delay gratification, and some luck. The idea is to live well below your means, be "frugal", and
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by markc 3y ago
My long journey experience (perhaps not fully typical) was at odds with both of your "realizations". * I spent most of a year on the road, circled the U.S., about 18k miles in all (and averaging almost 17mpg). Sure, it's a lo
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by markc 3y ago
Same. Took so long I moved on, and now I have an unopened and unused replacement unit. Wonder what it'll fetch on ebay..
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by markc 4y ago
One plausible explanation I've heard for this is that while men and women have the same average mental capabilities, men have a higher standard deviation than women. There there are more outliers in both directions. Champions are found
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by markc 4y ago
Clojure doesn't have TCO. Instead, there's loop/recur where the recur call won't compile except in tail position.
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by markc 4y ago
And Sia distributed storage network https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/-/blob/master/modules/er...
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by markc 4y ago
Well it’s not only on the JVM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure#Other_Implementation...
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by markc 4y ago
Roam Research, one of the more famous Zettelkasten apps is written in Clojure.
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by markc 4y ago
I was 80% done with my taxes this year when TT suddenly demanded an additional $119 to list deductible expenses on income. That’s on top of $140 to file Federal plus 1 state. I’ve been using TT for 20 years. Never again.
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by markc 5y ago
https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/ brings me to something called "Comparison Edition". I was looking for a straight JS version with editable/executable code, and found it at the link named "Interactive SI
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by markc 5y ago
An easy solution to "what charities should I give to": https://www.givewell.org/
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by markc 5y ago
Yes, a favorite observation of Ray Kurzweil, expressed as the Law of Accelerating Returns: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
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by markc 5y ago
>REPL-driven-development, or interactive-programming. Inspired by Clojure. But without having to leave your IDE to code in a console/prompt/terminal. You don't have to leave the IDE to evaluate code in Clojure. It's c
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by markc 5y ago
Seconded. I also lost a fingertip to a mandoline when slicing potatoes. On Xmas eve, just as guests were arriving. And oh boy did it bleed! My fingertip took over 3 years to regain full feeling, and it's still slightly flattened compar
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by markc 5y ago
You eat 16 tons, whattaya get?
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by markc 5y ago
>A rolls one trip around circle B Without the diagram (which I didn't see until watching the video) this is ambiguous. In my visualization, the plane of the small circle (A) was perpendicular to the plane of the larger circle (B).
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by markc 5y ago
It wouldn’t. Author is wrong, Sia doesn’t use the blockchain to store data, just to register storage contracts and mediate storage fees. Sia hosts store O(Pb) of data on servers around the world.
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by markc 5y ago
Hardly. From the first article (which is mostly asking “what is climate“ and “should we expect climate not to change?”) we get its only really solid prediction: “it can be anticipated that many readers would find this paper useless, if not
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by markc 5y ago
And Clojurian's zulip: https://clojurians.zulipchat.com
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by markc 5y ago
Got a Heathkit digital thermometer kit for xmas when I was a young teen. Soldered for hours that day - so much so that I was soldering in my dreams that night. Kit worked on the first try and we used it for years. Great fun and great practi
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by markc 5y ago
Like this?: https://skapp.hns.siasky.net/#/apps/all

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