hoprocker
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Comment · 5 years ago
The Real Book, often considered the Real Inaccurate Book.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love it. Some of these solutions are things I looked into during the early days of Android, before Google had cemented hegemony on so many things. Namely, Subsonic and K-9 Mail were some early contenders that I remember, although both quite clunky at that point (Subsonic very much had the patina of a one good developer, but no UI specialist, team).
Comment · 5 years ago
This is generally a good flow, but something that absolutely baffles me is that GitHub changes the commit SHAs when branches are rebase-merged from PRs[0]. This totally breaks a fundamental notion in Git that the same work, based on the same commits, has the same hash. It also makes it incredibly difficult to determine which PR branches have been merged into master.
[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-...
Comment · 8 years ago
Discussions like this are always helpful for people with more experience in dynamic languages. My first experiences with Monads, like the one in LYAHFGG[0], left me with the sense that Monads were a tool primarily used in statically-typed languages. After much searching, I stumbled across Tom Stuart's _Refactoring Ruby With Monads_[1] talk, which helped describe Monads as just another useful programming abstraction independent of the language. (Jim Duey's _Monads in Clojure_[2] also helped.) Monads now make sense to me as a general-purpose programming paradigm, like recursion or immutable data structures.
[0] http://learnyouahaskell.com/a-fistful-of-monads [1] http://codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads [2] http://www.clojure.net/2012/02/02/Monads-in-Clojure/
Comment · 8 years ago
Agreed -- a motivating example in the Readme would really help people totally new to this concept grasp the how/why of the project.
Comment · 9 years ago
Agreed -- I found Haskell most confusing at first because of the lack of syntax. My brain kept wondering where the rest of the syntax was. Not to be too dramatic, but I think Haskell is kind of like programming "poetry" in this regard.
Comment · 9 years ago
Love it. Every few years, a site like this gets posted, detailing somebody's transition from rooted to nomadic. If you work remotely, this can be an exciting idea.
Comment · 9 years ago
Upvote -- the sarcasm comes through when this is put into context.
Comment · 9 years ago
The analogy is a little twisty, but yeah, seeing the files in the directory is probably like looking in through the door, and actually opening them is probably more like trespassing.
Comment · 9 years ago
The 2D->3D analogy made sense to me -- only being able to see the cross-section that is visible in a current dimensionality -- but I got to wondering if you couldn't use some of techniques from information visualization techniques to show a representation of that extra dimension in the current dimensional landscape (ie fading the object as it gets farther away from the current dimension).
Comment · 9 years ago
This is the thing. Why on earth would you build this insane network to ferry one person in their car, the displacement of which could probably move 8 people using the same footprint. I think they throw that idea a laurel at the end, where a more people-pod-like vehicle is getting lowered in the same manner.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thomas Frank's book _What's the Matter with Kansas_[0] explores this pretty well. Some of what he proposes is a bit over-simplified (ie that all conservatives prefer to vote for morals over pragmatism[1]), but his main thesis -- that the conservative platform has created a moral argument convincing poorer Americans to vote against the very social programs that they rely on -- is a good starting point for considering this.
Personal note: I grew up rural California; Frank's thesis describes the adamant, self-defeating narratives that I regularly heard from my neighbors.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-Ame... [1] http://www.economist.com/node/8057895
Comment · 9 years ago
"Ronald Reagan started to have a decline in the number of unique words with repetitions of statements over time,” said Sherman. “[He] started using more fillers, more empty phrases, like ‘thing’ or ‘something’ or things like ‘basically’ or ‘actually’ or ‘well’."
Seems like history might be coming around again on this one.
Comment · 9 years ago
Additionally, started out life working-class and was working as a longshoreman while attending CUNY; Ta-Nehisi Coates spent some time describing Moynihan's remarkable gifts in an interesting article for The Atlantic a few years ago[0].
[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-bla...
Comment · 9 years ago
The docs provide a pretty good comparison against the other major players, Storm and Spark (and MUPD8, which I'm not familiar with): http://samza.apache.org/learn/documentation/0.11/comparisons...
The tl;dr is that Samza is closest to Storm+Trident in delivery guarantees, but is more flexible about how data can be passed around (pluggable serializer/deserializer (serde) architecture), and offers an out-of-the-box solution for state management (RocksDB).
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