BellsOnSunday

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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
> takes a personal interest in their daily lives. Says who? Not all Christians think of god that way. You write as if you haven't thought about this much or spoken with many believers. Atheists aren't automatically entitled to
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
The classics section is missing one of my favourites, Recursive Programming Techniques by Wm Burge. A beautiful book that was ultra cutting-edge at the time (1975) but still a very effective exploration of the elegance of FP, techniques and
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
Selecting cancel during the login results in a 500 error and long list of django debug information that you might want to tidy up.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
> I'm more excited for BlackBerry's future than ever, but I'm also more worried than ever. What exactly do you think is exciting about BB's future (as a platform)?
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
A bit more than a year. There are some extended longeurs, especially Sodom and Gomorrah , during which I was getting a bit fed up with it so once or twice I gave myself a few weeks off. It is a magnificent novel though, worth sticking
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
I had a job for about a couple of years that gave me enough spare time to read Proust's 1.2m word epic In Search of Lost Time . There was some work to be done but it never took me more than an hour or two, and then my boss was
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
Next time vote for someone who definitely, honest-to-god promises to close it if they get in. Of course, you might have done that last time as well...
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
It sounds more like you're saying that software is an art, rather than programming. The details of how the program was created have a similar status to incidental stuff about tools and how Michelangelo used them.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
> Achieving simplicity in code is an art. By that do you mean that it's difficult to do and you need to practise it? That sounds like a craft. I find it impossible to imagine the Mozart's Requiem or Sistine Chapel of software,
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
I'm quite happy as a craftsman myself. The problem is the many and diverse meanings of the word "art". At the start of Knuth's speech he quotes some ACM worthy as saying that programming needs to transition from an art t
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
> And it's "its".. "It's" is a conjunction. "Its" is possessive. "It's" is a contraction, Brainius.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
A 2:1 is the same as B+ so it corresponds to about 68%, 60% is a Desmond.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
@pornelski: > They say git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
In between steps 0 and 1, hang out on the mailing lists, IRC channels or wherever the devs talk to each other. You can get a feeling for the culture of the community, who the most active people are, the best people to ask newbie questions w
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
It's more likely because Mick/Michael is such a common Irish name, as in Paddy.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
It isn't descended from Prolog either -- I presumed the author was making a point about conceptually similar flavours of type systems, semantics etc. and Haskell's position as a typed Lambda calculus.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
> I've spent several years working with PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, I've learned Node.js It sounds like you've learned something about one domain, using high level languages to accomplish similar tasks. There is an awful lot more to learn,
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
Even easier, SDF accept bitcoins.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
Blimey, my family history goes back to Leibniz, made my day.
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
Hindley's Basic Simple Type Theory is accessible and comes from the horse's mouth: http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Basic_Simple_Type_Theo... .
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by BellsOnSunday 14y ago
> "Terrorise" is not and has never been a word Really? That's how I've always spelt it.