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I learned about this reading Ishtar Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

Seems to be enforcing ‘ubiquitous language’ at the machine level - not some kind of mathematical dual where one is invertible to the other - but enforcing soft skills as hard skill…

Sorry if my language was unclear, I meant to highlight this line from the wiki article: "There is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and pl…

One reason I often hear astrology is not taken seriously by the scientific community, as in findings like 'athletes often have aries rising on their birth chart' are ignored and no…

There is a cut and dry relationship between bitrate and audio fidelity. You simply cannot encode higher frequency audio in lower bitrate samples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyqu…

At the same time, the city government is adding explicit surveillance feeds for law enforcement. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county...

I really doubt there was any human review of the targeting settings, likely just automated verification. If I'm writing a tool that allows users to enter their own n-grams is there…

"You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery" is not the same as "Exactly-Once Delivery is expensive". Which is it?

I made oroboros for working with large collections of app and server configuration that need to be shared across many systems. Previously I had been using an automation tool to tem…

Nice read, I had to think about a few of these. In particular (a == 0) && (a == 1) && (a == 2). Here's a fun value for a: var a = { called: -1, valueOf: function() { this.called +=…

React inlines event handlers since it manages them through it's virtual event system. For more information on why react breaks preconceived notions of best practices I recommend ch…

I just started playing with docker and it is very cool, but I am not sold on complete isolation of every service in a stack. I've taken to building my containers using packer & ans…

To paraphase Rich -- "promises are the one-night stand of asynchronous programming, core.async is aiming for a longer term relationship." The big win isn't that you have the abilit…

To be fair, a lot of the syntax magic of core.async happens in its macros -- in js that is supported by the cljs compiler. As I understand it, because of this it'd be impossible fo…

Your criticism seems to be framed against where we are at today. As programmers we have a fragmented feedback cycle regardless of whether we are writing our software in Erlang or L…

Pedestal is still very alpha and I'm not sure that I would use it for any of my projects... yet. For instance, using the example apps provided I couldn't get the chat application t…

For getting around linux I've found no better helpers than manpages and the cheatsheets by Peteris Krumins[1]. I notice this isn't offered as a pdf or image, is the idea that someo…

How is it that referential transparency (the ability to swap a reference with it's value: no hidden inputs) and homoiconicity (both the source and the resulting syntax tree sharing…

The comic references clojure in multiple sections (multicore, lazy), I think you'll find the tutorial and documentation guilds still alive and well there.

Thanks, I'll work on elucidating the metaphor and being explicit about what I mean when I say things like 'duplicates input' (uses the parameter more than once in it's body, this i…

Thanks! I actually got the bug to write this post from reading your wonderful js combinator book[1] over the holiday, which reminded me that I also had a copy of To Mock a Mockingb…

Nice, I enjoyed Jim's talk where he derived the combinator using clojure[1]. In it he referenced another talk that he cites as an influence, "Programming With Nothing"[2] by Tom St…