the computers are winning
Eternal vigilance is the price of simplicity...
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A Dangerous Example of Javascript Hoisting
03 Apr 2012
Javascript hoisting can be especially nefarious in loops. An example.
Noir makes it easy to experiment with Clojure on Heroku for free
Simple tf-idf variant in 30 lines of Clojure
27 Jun 2011
Very simple Clojure implementation of a tf-idf variant.
Simple Thrift in Clojure
04 Jun 2011
A very simple example of how to setup a thrift server and client in Clojure.
Python's Functional Training Wheels
28 May 2011
A few examples of how Python's combination of imperative and functional features make it a good transition language.
My name is Ignacio Thayer. I'm co-founder of ReadyForZero.com, a YCombinator and 500 Startups company that is changing the lives of Americans outside Silicon Valley.
I studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon and wrote a master's thesis on heuristic search at UCLA. I've worked on statistical machine translation at USC [some publications are here] and Google.
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