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Was great. Thanks guys.

Back using Racket after a long hiatus. Racket I never should have left you. There are but two languages I'll use. Racket and Scala.

I was posting about a similiar system around a year ago. Ended up standardizing clusters of only 3 nodes. Initially I wrote a Paxos+Dynamo but it was a dead end for me for our need…

Over the holidays I toyed around with scratching an itch I've had with purchasing Kindle books from Amazon. It's just too hard to casual browse through the offerings. So I came up …

Over the holidays I toyed around with scratching an itch I've had with purchasing Kindle books from Amazon. It's just too hard to casual browse through the offerings. So I came up …

Very much looks like a nicely done but nevertheless small subset of emacs org-mode for the web. I'll stay with org-mode: - I'm in emacs all day anyway. - Much more feature rich: pr…

It is / can be surprising who on your team will have the most problems on a Git from SVN migration. Sometimes ol' CVS/SVN warhorses have too much to unlearn, sometimes simple devs …

Don't lose another four years before blogging about how you finally switched to emacs from vim and bite the bullet now. Emacs is to vim as vim is to textmate IF you are a hard core…

Well here is the rub of it. Are you willing to pay a monthly subscription fee? How much?

Chromium + Flash + Linux vulnerable as well? How does one a) even know what version of flash is embedded in Chromium b) other than constantly killing the flash process how does one…

I've stated in the past the _only_ thing wrong with PLT Scheme was not enough marketing. PLT Racket is as evolved beyond standard Scheme as modern man from Australopithecus. So man…

The next generation enterprise system (the next JBoss if you want to go for it) - JVM based - distributed multicore 2-3 nodes => 32 - 96 or more cores - pluggable/dynamic/module su…

As the instant after the Big Bang the Waveverse is pretty small. Or so it seems ... Try this. Go to the search bar, if you're currently viewing your inbox it has "in:inbox", remove…

A bit quick to skip the trial and go straight to the hanging... As the other poster stated give it time. Look past the SMS / IM social butterfly aspect to the big picture. I think …

Does anyone have any idea on how "hard" it is to create software? The toll on a person who is "tearing it up", without break, for a year. Oh, and not for their direct benefit? You …

Scala is _not_ some esoteric MIT, CMU language to make a point exercise. Its a pragmatic and practical attempt to "fix" Java so it has all the capabilities of Java with the proper …

It appears to an effort, written in Scala, to be Scala but with Java syntax.

In the last 2-3 years emacs has just improved and improved. Like most it originally took me 2-3 distinctive efforts to "go emacs", but it pays off. Emacs is just outstanding if you…

Never could adapt to OCaml's undisciplined syntax. SML's is clean. MLTon is very nice with a couple of limitations, practical upper bound of program size and compilation times. One…

SCALA, SCALA and then SCALA.