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For some reason I was thinking about Bob two days ago, ten years since I last interacted with him. I was just an intern at Square and he had just joined as CTO. But I remember how …

In this case, you think of `connectWords` as a function that takes two arguments. But since it is curried, you can also do this: let prefix = connectWords "Hello " world = prefix "…

In the article, I mention that linters for dynamic langs are crippled. Of course I use them when writing Ruby. But can any of these tools tell me: - When two equivalent anonymous f…

Yes, I may have failed in getting it across, but a big point is this: I don't think dynamic languages will suddenly die out. Instead, strongly-typed languages will become more conv…

A note on Typed Clojure: Ambrose is doing excellent work with it, and I'm excited to see it develop. But I wished there was a bigger push from the top, from Rich himself, on "first…

Yes, I did miss the ring spec. But as a beginner to ring, I'm not sure how I was suppose to know that such a document exist. For the most part, Ring is well-documented. But, as you…

Yes, read this part: https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md#t... and https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md#r... From my (short) time with H…

If I understand correctly, the ClojureScript compiler was written in Clojure (that is, you had to run the JVM to run the compiler), which spat out JS code and then compiled by Goog…

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I missed an opportunity here.

Because these universities produce more students than tenure-track positions?

A "map" is a graph.

That article was what inspired me to write this blog post. In short, the key insight of the blog post is this (via untested javascript): You can define transforming functions like …

Lots of research has gone into this, under the name Byzantine fault tolerance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance

Why not just use: https://lastpass.com/ https://agilebits.com/onepassword http://keepass.info/

Classic: http://www.slideshare.net/guestbe92f4/how-to-design-a-good-a... RESTful Web APIs ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028468.do ) was a good starting point for underst…

Don't immutable data structures give us most of the benefits? Clojure, for example, approaches this by preferring values over hidden, mutable state (e.g. classes). We see libraries…

I'm a premium Evernote member, but I've also had lots of problems. The iOS app is slow and clunky. I hate using it. It crashes all the time, especially when I'm trying to take snap…

I remember an article about how Gowalla was bringing SV talent to Austin. Heh.