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as software eats the world, complexity is eating software
Hosting Clojure Dependencies on S3
23 Mar 2013
Explaining the gotchas I encountered while doing this.
The Ability to Orient Yourself
23 Feb 2013
I do what I cannot do, in order that I may learn to do it. - Pablo Picasso
Using the thrush allows you to build up complex flows piecemeal.
A solid linux laptop, once you get the kinks out.
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.
These are pretty random thoughts, but I usually write about Clojure programming, life at a startup, and simplicity in software development.
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