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Idiomatic means "using expressions that are natural to a native speaker." It's very possible, but not idiomatic, to write functional Java (pre-8). It's often more verbose and diffi…

see Aphyr's comments here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redis-db/Oazt2k7Lzz4/q9YDD7D...

Just to be clear, the criticism is of Redis Cluster, which has been redesigned because the first design was so lax it was effectively unusable. The real issue, is that as of right …

They handle automatic failover, which redis does not currently do out of the box. That part is pretty cool. Maybe not worth the price, but definitely useful.

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The pre-internet version of this is Steve Albini's "The problem with music" which shows how major labels can end up costing bands quite a bit of money. Originally printed in Maximu…

Not after a small function change. See Wes' remarks in comments: http://wesmckinney.com/blog/?p=475#comment-521757980

People who would work out perfectly in the R&D division of SAS Institute are not necessarily great first hires at consumer web start-ups (forgetting the potential skill impedance m…

I can't agree with this. It's true that many languages work well as starters, but there are certainly some that don't. I think java is a classicly bad first language. There is a lo…

Some (potential) context to this is that at Clojure Conj there was a discussion of the potential for clojure expressions to become a standard data serialization format. The idea is…

I'm at a loss as to how this is surprising anyone. How did people think that these apps found other users you know? This is built to support: A) finding existing people on the serv…

The author hints at, but doesn't push the issue that the cost is all really in the customization. If you were to build an app using only standard apple components, the cost would b…

I just posted a demo video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddaYMtETjo Done using iOS 5 simulator on iphone 4. I'm going to send a pull request to the author to include …

No slides. It was just a live demo with color commentary.

I really hope Byrd and Friedman's talk from thursday night was taped. Highlight of the conference so far for me.

I like having things like list comprehensions. I like having a sane scoping system (as opposed to jsl and "best practices"). I'm also pretty fond of the syntactic sugar being offer…