olenhad
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10 years ago
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on: Advanced iOS Core Data Framework
Great write up! I've made the same mistake of having too many subclassed entities, and realising my queries getting slower because my indexes were not being used.
I think Apple should mention this caveat in their official documentation. I'm sure many folks have been bitten by this issue.
olenhad
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10 years ago
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on: Intermediate Python
Great job @yasoob!
What's even more amazing, even thought not directly relevant, is that the author is still in high school.
olenhad
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10 years ago
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on: Garbage Collection, Without the Noise or the Smell
My initial response was "link bait!"
olenhad
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11 years ago
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on: Haskell in the Large [pdf]
I wonder what's the primary reason for their "Mu" compiler adopting a "strict-ish" evaluation strategy.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (2008)
For clojure, there's kern (
https://github.com/blancas/kern) for parsec style parser combinators. It's quite easy to use. Ironically, I actually understood parser combinators better by reading its wiki (By understood, I mean understood how to _use_ parser combinators). Parsec was initially difficult to grasp because the type system complicated things for me then.
I only got Parsec completely after that eureka moment when I finally understood Monads.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
As a Pakistani I find this report alarming. However I also believe that the situation, especially the army's view of the Taliban, in particular groups under the TTP, has drastically changed. The TTP's brazen attacks on the Pakistani military in recent months have prompted the army to respond with force. In particular, the army actually is waiting for the govt's green light to clean up North Waziristan. It recently launched air strikes [1] on Taliban positions, and until a couple of weeks ago a full scale military operation similar to the a successful one conducted in Swat in 2009 seemed imminent.
Ironically though the Sharif administration is not entirely in favour of an operation. Some of the complexities include the fact that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is governed by PTI which disagrees with a military operation entirely.
Currently there is a shaky ceasefire between the govt and the TTP. However a new splinter group called Aharar-ul-Hind, forked off from the TTP and carried out a daring attack on a court in Islamabad a few days back [2].
Interestingly enough, the new TTP chief Maulana Fazlullah is supposedly based in Afghanistan, and there is a worrying, ironic prospect of TTP raids from Afghanistan into Pakistan after NATO withdrawal.
1. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/25/world/asia/pakistan-airstr...
2. http://www.geo.tv/article-139849-TTP-splinter-faction-Ahrar-...
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
You could delete the cookies.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Demystifying AngularJS' dependency injection
I'm slightly surprised to see regex being used to parse and retrieve arguments from a function's source code. I would've normally assumed this to be a bad idea.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014
As a clojure fanboy, I'm quite pleased to see it do well.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Writing a Compiler in transit
It's actually a simple lisp interpreter. But made purely as an exercise to teach myself haskell, so please be gentle.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Clojure RethinkDB client library released
This is great news! The API looks very idiomatic, so kudos to the author. I can't wait to try this out.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin
Do you have a rainbow-parens mode? I've become overdependent on those in emacs.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation
This is really brilliant, and damned useful. Reminds me of how type declarations provide self documenting code in Haskell.
Thanks alot!
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Clojure-scheme: Compiling Clojure to Native Code via Scheme [video]
Scheme is great, but I think there are several key features that clojure has that scheme doesn't provide by default, including (but not limited to):
- Persistent Hash-Trie based Data Structures
- Beautiful asynchronous constructs
- Multimethods
- Protocols
Obviously I in no way intend to discredit scheme, nor start a lisp flamewar :)
/sidenote I love this article comparing a game written in 4 lisp dialects (http://technomancy.us/169)
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Haskell for Web Developers
I've been working with clojure, and atleast for me, it offers the freedom to work with both pure and impure code with relative ease, whilst still being conservative on state manipulation.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: A preview of LightTable 0.5
+1. Clojure without paredit is painful. Its the only reason why I'm unable to use LT for more than a toy.
olenhad
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12 years ago
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on: Clojure.core: Batteries Almost Included
Quite an awesome whirlwind tour. Didn't know about core.unify, which seems quite impressive.
olenhad
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13 years ago
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on: Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript
This is super impressive. I'm going to use this for my frontend work now.
On a side note, what's the idiomatic structure, or "design pattern" for cljs front end code? I would assume something based on MVC, with models comprising of atoms with watches, Views consisting of hiccup templates and controllers gluing dom events to models and views. Am I close?
olenhad
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13 years ago
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on: Clojure: All grown up
olenhad
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13 years ago
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on: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
The irony here is just too much to swallow. Of all possible places, a party campaigning for greater freedoms ends up in NORTH KOREA.
I used be proud of defending tpb. Now I'm really not sure.
