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by programnature 12y ago
Perhaps an even more accurate approximation is "replacing the need for professional programmers for problems that shouldn't require professional programming" A simple example of this is SQL. You shouldn't need to be a pr
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by programnature 12y ago
He is talking about "access to computation". No one is talking about making normal people into professional programmers.
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by programnature 12y ago
Definitely recommend people try Cursive Clojure, the clojure Intellij plugin. Much easier to use/setup than emacs IMHO. Lots of clojure people have been switching.
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by programnature 12y ago
People into traditional programming languages look at Mathematica and see abstractions for which they see no purpose. People into PL research look at Mathematica and scoff at its low-brow, for-the-masses term rewriting, lacking whatever the
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by programnature 12y ago
While well-meaning, sentiments like these are part of the problem. The proposed frame is "mathematica is somewhat better in polish and functionality, but we should stick to OSS on principle." The problem is, by this argument, no w
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by programnature 12y ago
No, I meant lists of rules like {a->1,b->2}, which capture the same kind of patterns as in the previous example but in an immutable (and copy-on-write) way.
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by programnature 12y ago
To be fair, fast immutable hash tables have only been around as a technology since around 2005. (Yes, Mathematica is mostly based on immutability) .Other than internal R&D, Wolfram never add experimental methods to Mathematica. Of cours
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by programnature 12y ago
This is an impressive release. GeoGraphics is amazing example of the power of integration between domains. Built-in data about the world, with semantic integration into graphics as well as data analysis. This is way beyond what any existing
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by programnature 12y ago
Thanks for the explanation. A clear link to documentation on the bitbucket page would be helpful.
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by programnature 12y ago
Have you actually used the computable data functionality in Wolfram products? If you think its a matter of just connecting to a standard database, you are missing the whole point. People in the data business tell you cleaning and preparing
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by programnature 12y ago
The characters are hard to google, but I've found them sufficiently documented here: http://clojure.org/reader
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by programnature 12y ago
You want tech to have influence in DC? This is what you have to do. I doubt it matters to Sam if the president is R or D.
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Session: Live Coding Environment for Clojure(medium.com)
18 points by programnature 12y ago|1 comments
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by programnature 13y ago
If all you know is buzzwords, buzzwords are all you hear. Personally I found the idea and explanation of knowledge-based computing where my attention went. Does your favorite language have knowledge about the world built into it?
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by programnature 13y ago
Smug lisp weenie complains commercially successful system not implemented in lisp, news at 11. The story isn't about Mathematica, its about SMP, which predated Mathematica by about 8 years. Wolfram was 20 at the time. Back at Caltech,
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by programnature 13y ago
Fast persistent data structures, combined with the idea of "reference types" that encapsulate mutation points when you really need them. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich... So yes
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by programnature 13y ago
"The best thing one can probably say about this widening inequality is that it means we are making technological progress" This is not a considered analysis. It's perfectly possible for wealth distribution to widen without te
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by programnature 13y ago
There are benchmarks comparing vanilla React to other frameworks: http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/#todomvc-benchmarks At least according to this data, React and Backbone are the fastest. (Om is faster than v
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by programnature 13y ago
So far its not a big deal. I haven't seen perceptible GC pauses, not to say they aren't possible for some use case.
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by programnature 13y ago
split the tape into 2 halves; the tape to the left of the head is one stack, the tape to the right of the head is the other stack. Head moving long the tape is just popping from one stack and pushing onto the other. The head state (and othe
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by programnature 13y ago
If one already knows Clojure, the value is obvious: you don't need to learn a new language. It's also of course debatable that scheme is "just as nice", so you can imagine there are people who, other things being equal,
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by programnature 13y ago
Half-remembered unsourced negative gossip is what great HN commentary is made of these days?
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by programnature 13y ago
Here is a more interesting question: What proportion of all websites are created by engineers, versus by normal folk? Its pretty clear that in the long run, the vast majority will be by regular folk using tools like Weebly. Theres just Bill
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by programnature 13y ago
The attitude of companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter is: if the product isn't addictive or useful to Billions of people, its not worth doing. Hence there are vastly more resources dedicated to assimilating eg photos and games into their
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by programnature 13y ago
What can Mathematica bring to the DataFrame concept that hasn't been done before? Also: why Go instead of a JVM lang that can interop directly with Mathematica via JLink? Finally: Will Mathematica directly support doing the full stack of th
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by programnature 13y ago
What took the most work? What was the most painful or repetitive bit? What new primitives in Mathematica would you like to see?
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by programnature 13y ago
Wolfram must have have built something people want, are willing to pay for, and even like ?
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by programnature 13y ago
The progression of interests over time was non-obvious to me. For instance the explosion of interest in travel in the 20s, and the temporary dip in interests like philosophical quotes also in the 20s. Theres a lot of stuff in the post, I wo
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Pedestal: An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure(pedestal.io)
12 points by programnature 14y ago|1 comments
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by programnature 14y ago
I don't know what's funnier - the link, or the clueless hacker news people!

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