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Holy Baader-Meinhof, just today, in frustration, I wrote something like Haskell's sequence_ for ContT, in Javascript: https://gist.github.com/cscheid/6241817 h
by cscheid 13y ago
Holy Baader-Meinhof, just today, in frustration, I wrote something like Haskell's sequence_ for ContT, in Javascript:
https://gist.github.com/cscheid/6241817 https://gist.github.com/cscheid/6241817
- nkuttler 13y agoWhy do you as an American feel the need to invoke some dead german left-wing militants in a pseudo-religious phrase that's meaningless except maybe for shock value? This seems highly inapproriate for any website and even more so on HN.
- cscheid 13y ago(for whatever's worth, I'm Brazilian)
- manojlds 13y agoAren't you still American? ;) As an Indian I am confused why only people of the US are called Amerians while two entire continents are called America. And also, why we Indians are not considered Asians by the said Americans.
- lazugod 13y agoBecause "America" is part of the nation's actual name, and the only part that isn't a modifier. What else could you call Americans? Unionized Statists?
- MrMan 13y agotypically American response
- tomn 13y agoIt's not clear if you know or not, but it's the common name of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Freque...
- nkuttler 13y agoThanks, no, I wasn't aware of that oddity.
- Twisol 13y agoIt's a reference to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, a.k.a. "frequency illusion".