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JustinJ70s | 12 years ago | on: How to Raise Money as a First Time Founder

This sounds like the start of VC goose chase. They'll never say no but instead just keep you busy on the off chance that you'll hit on something. The only thing that snaps them out of it is the serious prospect of actually making a ton of money with managed risk.

JustinJ70s | 12 years ago | on: On Scala

Starting adopting Scala about 18 months ago after much frustration with Java's copious boilerplate. It's like a breath of fresh air and feels in many ways like a dynamic language thanks to type inference. We still use many Java libraries but interfacing with Scala is a breeze. It's got more up-take than Kotlin or Ceylon and I'd say the only decent alternative on the JVM is Clojure but that's a different beast. If you're in a position where your after functional programming on the JVM then consider not waiting years for Java to catch up. Give Scala a go.

JustinJ70s | 13 years ago | on: Scala 2.10 now available

I've used Scala on several (largish) projects using Eclipse and, thanks to incremental compilation, I've barely noticed compile times never mind had it become an issue.

JustinJ70s | 13 years ago | on: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

Yup. I think we're going to see this more and more. Companies that generate significant success from outliers, find funky ways to burn through the (substantial) cash by growing and then are unable to repeat their initial success to keep fuelling things. If they can repeat the success then more power to them.

JustinJ70s | 13 years ago | on: Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

Not trolled, probably karma 18 because I've posted only a few times in the years since creating an account. I'm really not intrested in karma/scoring games on sites like HN.

Moose looks really nice and I've nothing against Perl - my language of choice is Scala. I just thought it was a daft thing for Larry to say considering the issues of readability that have been levelled at Perl.

JustinJ70s | 13 years ago | on: Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

"Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in." - Larry Wall

Considering the general appearance of code for the language he created I'm not sure this quote of his can be taken all that seriously. At worst Perl looks like somebody glued the shift key down and repeatedly head-butted the top row of their keyboard.

JustinJ70s | 13 years ago | on: Mongo: Mr Right... or Mr Right Now?

I can tell you now that it's extremely reliable - we store a lot of data in our mongodb - several million documents a day. As mentioned, it would be because journalling wasn't enabled which would mean possible corruption on non-clean shutdown. That's history.

JustinJ70s | 14 years ago | on: My Biggest Temptation

If these questions persist within you then act in accordance with fulfilling them - figure out how you get those things, treat it like a game. But don't make your happiness contingent on them and think twice before sacrificing the present for the future. There are plenty of people with wealth who are never satisfied and would base their happiness on the 'thing they don't have' (car, house, yacht, plane etc). It places happiness artificially always out of reach - which is a shame. We all get one ride on the rock.

JustinJ70s | 14 years ago | on: Jython 2.7 alpha1 released

Out of curiosity, anyone know how it's comparing in speed to JRuby? Fantastic work was done on JRuby - you'd hope many of the findings/techniques find their way into Jython.

JustinJ70s | 14 years ago | on: How I manage my todos, priorities and calendar

First hitting his iMac at 4:54am but also finishing work at 6pm with time in-between for his kids before school, the gym, and then finishing at 6pm. And...a four day week. I'd say he's got it figured out.

JustinJ70s | 14 years ago | on: Why I Still Use Emacs

Anyone for that matter? How about people who find Emacs to be archaic with weird key bindings and who don't care to spend half their time fiddling about with lisp scripts. Don't get me wrong, it's an awesome tool and I spend a long time using it - but it's not for everyone and bemusement at why that may be the case is being short sighted.
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