workinfunk

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by workinfunk 8y ago
Sure, here's 2 off the top of my head: Package management is a non-thing in SBCL. It just doesn't exist. Have fun downloading 6-to-12 year old zipballs. The basic HTTP server, hunchentoot IIRC, crashes after it serves its first re
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by workinfunk 8y ago
LOL, buddy, what grade are you in? You're just gonna use my diss back at me? Weak.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Of course this only works until everyone becomes wise to it. Then you're worse off where you started.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Yeah, it's almost surely a case of remembering the handful of times when the clocks were inaccurate because they caused you trouble, while forgetting the hundreds of times when they worked correctly. They do work correctly most of the
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I, and many others I'm sure, would appreciate it if you would actually put some effort into your half-hearted America slams. All the subways I've been in, EU and US, have plenty of both ads and maps.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
You must be one of those hipsters who lugs around a typewriter to cafes. - They are very slow compared to digital. - They aren't versatile, they can't display arbitrary information. Each message has to be crafted individually and
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by workinfunk 8y ago
It's called Night Shift on MacOS.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I don't think that's the reason. Huge swaths of midtown, particularly, have near perfect pavement.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Ok, I know we like to dump on Americans with impunity, and I'm not even going to get into whether it's deserved or not, but have you driven in much of the rest of the world?
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by workinfunk 8y ago
You can hardly fault newcomers for not understanding the finer nuances when everything they type automatically gets uppercased.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Where I work, one of the benefits of Clojure is precisely how concise and accessible storing densely layered business logic is. We're able to have a faith that the code does what it looks like that just isn't approachable in any o
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by workinfunk 8y ago
You must not be in SF or NYC. Python and Ruby (and even Node, to an extent) have supplanted Java as the language of fungible mass-market headcount du jour.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I and a few others in my workplace are Clojure beginners. It's really not hard to pick up once you suck it up and stop bitching about parentheses. I don't think the language owners are terribly concerned about picking up beginners
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Do you mind expanding? I don't know R, but on looking at several examples, I don't see it at all.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Is SBCL winning in anything? One of my acquaintances, a Lisp zealot, convinced me to jump in and make my next project in SBCL. Short story, it was a joke. Nobody seems to have done any serious work in SBCL in over a decade. Basic things are
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I'll be that guy: run-of-the-mill
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by workinfunk 8y ago
JavaScript has commonly used 2 spaces for years before "StandardJS" (which is now out-of-date because certain es7 features necessitate line-terminating semicolons, but I digress). CoffeeScript was a big catalyst, and I think Rails
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by workinfunk 8y ago
The merely smart learn from their failures. The wise learn from others' failures.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I almost started writing a sincere answer to this question before I read your post history. Cynics like you would never understand anyway.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Only with services like Instacart where they literally pay people to go and do your shopping for you. Real, end-to-end grocery services like FreshDirect do not.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
"mutually all-but-unintelligible" doesn't make any sense. Should read "all-but-mutually unintelligible".
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by workinfunk 8y ago
From an American perspective who is familiar with that usage, it's not that great. And it really doesn't do justice to the actuality of the situation. "Lets" means "permits" or "allows", but this is a
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I believe we are violently agreeing at this point.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
No it wouldn't, memoization can't provide responses to calls it hasn't seen yet, that's the whole point.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
If your deployment is automated, your developers aren't doing the deployment, the machine is, and the argument is moot.
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by workinfunk 8y ago
I love how he characterizes what developers do as "just writing code" -- the whole article is basically a whinge: don't make me do ops, don't make me write tests, don't make me think about the problem, don't m
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Author doesn't understand the DevOps skillset. The average developer can hack things together, but they don't have an appreciation for operational principles. DevOps is actually higher on the totem pole than dev, because DevOps re
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by workinfunk 8y ago
Really? You put a dozen people on the same _project_? I find it hard to believe that your project is so unique that A) requires 12 devs and B) is also deployable by all 12 of them (without relying on automation) in a way that doesn't t