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That's not a reasoned point then.

You might want to look into localizing your numbers. Having amounts in USD/mo and then showing it using a decimal as the thousands separator feels silly, even though it makes sense in MX. Something like http://formatjs.io/ can help.

If it weren't for the other comment, I wouldn't have realized that's spacemacs is some sort of vim(evil)+emacs beast... Installing now. :)

I don't dip into emacs often, but I do like that idea. I'm sure some vim ninjas have you-complete-me and such setups that handle basic language functionality, but I'm always too lazy to get it set up in a permanent manner.

Someday when I get sick of firing up python to quickly check that you append() to lists instead of push or add...

46 functions in Kλ... this is exactly what people like me need in a programming language. I have a hard enough time remembering if it's add() append() push() to throw something onto an array in Python or Javascript. Knowing that clojure has a cool syntax or cool function-to-do-something isn't all that awesome when I need to just code something.

If I was all in on a language and not a jack of all trades, I'd love those special features. As is, I like a simple list of reserved words that I have a half chance of remembering. Glad to see this funding concept worked for the community.

There is the anecdotal correlation to the contrary w/ May being the first or second most popular suicide month and also the month when the American Psychiatric Association has its annual meeting. I think that was mentioned in Infinite Jest or some other novel, but it is true as far as correlations go.

Debt is a useful term, an "uncovered call" is a "debt security" http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/debtsecurity.asp

So porque no los dos?

Awesome write up. I did a fair amount of POSIX threads based c code and a bit of Go as if it were compiled Python programming. This helps bridge the gap between arcane pthreads best practices and the much more terse Go channel methodology. Thanks for doing this so I can start wrapping my head around the finer points of goroutines, etc.

Yeah, I can't imagine someone who's proficient with Scala seeing anything special in Clojure. I'm just a sight-seer in those languages, but I can see there are some neat things in both.

Parenthesis are always offputting to me, even though I like a fair amount of clojure concepts. I often feel like functional programming has made a cottage industry around putting obfuscated names around relatively simple ideas (see transducers for example)

React components can be brought into any architecture. Using them with flux certainly simplifies many things, but by the same token, flux apps can be written using other libraries (react based like om, or even full frameworks like angular). The decoupling is good. It lets you try out a component from http://react.rocks/ without diving into a fully architectured SPA.

From sources... Amazon is a heavy Java -> Scala shop. They are probably looking at Clojure to diversify as Scala is hitting some growing pains, but they can still leverage their large JVM expertise.

Except that php won. As weird as that seems. CGI.pm was removed from the core Perl distro this year. React learned a lot from php/xhp and is easier to use because of it.

Whoops you're absolutely right! I think I had taken this early adoption by doubleclick inside of Google http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2012/06/doubleclick-super-powe... as my source of info.

In an interview last year one of the founders mentioned that angular was made for creating form based apps. That is its strong suit, which is fine, but it has been stretched so far now.

Judging from your username, I feel like I've been seeing you on various web forums for ages. At any rate, yes, yes and yes. It doesn't take a CS wizard to see such basic faults from the get go. Still I had to try angular for a day to really see how terrible it was in practice.

There is the adage that "good enough" is good enough, but there should be another one that starting really bad stays bad no matter how many fixes get applied year after year (then the magical 2.0 happens)

Look at good enough languages like Perl and Python, they have their faults, Python 3 solves a lot of them, but 2.7 stays in production because it really is good enough. People don't go bailing on it for some other option because their codebases got unmaintainable, performance problems got O(n^2) or worse, they just go bail because maybe they want to try the compiled ease of Go or maybe touch Julia over numpy here or there.

Bad is bad, and people need to use just a bit of their algorithms class to figure it out. Shame that a ton of people asking similar questions about "how do I _______" results in a higher PageRank, while time tested easy to use options just hide in the shadows of good documentation and infrequent code updates.

It is a DoubleClick invention that Google bought. They then attached "from Google" to the logo and it took off like a rocket.

awesome!

Also his show on WFMU was / is amazing and fully archived. Lot's of weird stuff... weird weird stuff.

Radical hardware with a buy now button that doesn't go to kickstarter. Awesome.

It's interesting to look at first sons if you have a long family tree. For me first sons of first settler's lineage... governors of NY and CT in the civil war era.

Down less fortunate birth (from same initial ancestor) fighting in the civil war as a conscript.

That's not applicable here. Even NetworkManager on Linux isn't susceptible to this hack. dhclient and dnsmasq can apparently be shocked on unpatched Linux, though.

Or... gulp... Haskell, which has your line noise and in addition significant white space syntax.

Was there ever an argument beyond 'information wants to be free' to this? Let's say PACER docs were being pulled and hosted elsewhere. What if case information was updated as per part of the legal process, aka person X is now innocent. How does this change to past case documents get propagated to the 'illegal' mirror?

This is interesting because I think we do want an authoritative document store and that, yes, we hence need to pay for its upkeep. So if he had mirrored and hosted all of these cases, they would've been merely snapshots of past history, not the curated corpus that PACER has.

The same could be said of scientific papers where large retractions are handled by the journals, but may be lost by some mirrors.

Information quality, provenance and current validity is more important than the trope of 'wanting to be free.' Once information passes into the 'historical' realm, perhaps it should/must be free, but when we are in the malleable phase it's irresponsible to 'mirror once' without knowing how to get pushed (or pull) updates.

Look at how the Linux kernel mirror system works, push mirroring, etc. The scrape method doesn't pass the smell test if you really want to provide a service beyond point in time archiving (aka archive.org).

Regarding depression, suicide and unfair persecution I'll withhold comment.

I'm terribly condescending online. I'm glad that you have found a good mix for you and sorry I was an asshole there. I just didn't want people to get the picture that psych med X destroys everyone it touches. They all hit people differently. Possibly because the exact causes of these diseases aren't tacked down.

Be well. I can only hope our life experiences both rock regardless of whatever bumps in the road we hit. I didn't put the low-lights of my life on meds into my post, but they are legion. Leeeeeeegion.

Unlike the other commenter, every hospitalization was for mania, not depression. When I'm depressed I'm essentially bed-ridden.

I guess I took dangerous risks, depending on who you talk to. :) I was never suicidal or homicidal, but I definitely did things that were out of character and scary to people outside. One of the most interesting things is that I remember everything and it all seemed 'rational' at the time. Not rational per the normal definition of rational, but following my line of reasoning everything made sense. I don't want to go into too much details online as it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who I am. As it is you can google stalk me and eventually figure out my story. Regardless it isn't that interesting.

The threat part is that 1/5 people with bipolar die of suicide w/ 25% to 50% attempting. That is so, so scary. I was deeply affected by the passing of Robin Williams for that reason. That's almost always on the depression side.

For me, my mania was just ... extra happy ... going right up into the mystical amazement with life, the universe and everything that people typically associate with psychedelics, etc. 14 days into a hospital stay (my longest was 17 I think) that happy go lucky feeling sleeping ~1-3 hours max on heavy sedation becomes... much more agitated and frustrated.

Not attempting to edit this post for clarity, but yeah, that's a rough sketch of my situation. It's been 6 years since I was last hospitalized (I had my friends take me in), but I'd say the feeling coming on is like an electric charge of infinite energy reverberating from the base of my skull. Sounds awesome in theory, but it doesn't convert to tangible output when the smoke clears. I could write on and on about these experiences, but so can many others... /r/bipolarreddit and /r/bipolar are some spaces where people let loose on their experiences.

Over the past 14 years I've taken Lamictal, Lithium, Depakote, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Geodon, etc. I still take the first 3. I also got a masters, a PhD, recorded 3 albums with my band, played on plenty of others and worked on plenty of creative outputs (including programming).

I agree that when I first got on those meds at 21 after a psychotic break I was totally torn up. Now at 35 I couldn't imagine my life any other way. Have I become less creative? I honestly don't know and it's kind of frightening to think that perhaps I have. How would I ever know?

If you haven't seen what your life you be like permanently institutionalized (I've been hospitalized for mania 6 times) perhaps strong drugs aren't for you. If you have seen the other option (life inside a hospital), it makes a lot of sense.

If you think Li makes you a zombie, try intramuscular haldol or seroquel or even ativan. Those will knock you out, the first one literally. :)

I have been taking bipolar meds for a dozen years. Compared to atypical antipsychotics, benzos or other mood stabilizers, lithium is a walk in the park. I think the x hours of TV or internet 'use' a day makes a more docile society than a little lithium would.

The article omits 7up (which contained lithium for a while) and lithia water which you can buy online right now: http://lithiamineralwater.com/store.htm

Great return to the roots for processing. Always more of a fan from the periphery than a user. It harkens back to the original days when they only had the proce55ing domain.

Whenever you see more than 4 colors on the screen simultaneously it kind of removes the CGA feel although there were hacks around it.

I'm using stock evil mode with tidal on emacs. It's pretty good, but occasionally I'll open up a weird window. I used emacs in the late 90s, so I'm not completely afraid of it. I recommend that you shouldn't be either. You can use v to select sections and then just C-c C-c to run them. Nothing crazy. Navigate around with standard vim keystrokes, including the windows.

For that matter, getting SLIME w/ vim to work w/ Tidal wouldn't be the hardest thing. It's just that no one has tried.

"nearly impossible to write useful exploit code" sounds like a worthy challenge to some people I know.