GreaterFool

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by GreaterFool 12y ago
Humans assume that standing, walking or running (or even sitting!) is something that you just pick up along the way. It is not. Doing it right requires practice and technique. Couple of months ago I was in Bali and I saw local women weaving
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
I've been using a free version of irccloud.com and as far as web-based IRC clients go, it is fantastic. The paid plan is rather expensive though. $5/month for access to an IRC client is a bit much. I have a DigitalOcean VM from wh
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
"The Shanghai Composite rose 0.7 percent to 3,641.83 at 9:48 a.m. local time, heading for a ninth day of gains, the longest winning streak since 2007." I like the use of the term "winning streak". No need to pretend it&#
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
I tried core.typed and I think it's pretty cool. However, if you're using external libraries in your typed code you'll need annotations for those libraries too.
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
In lisp you have the power to easily invent abstractions. Strip things down to a bare minimum and you can see that your code is good. And write some tests just in case. OTOH in strongly typed languages with rich type systems the actual co
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
Lack of types. I don't want to start a discussion here on typed vs untyped so please consider everything I say to be qualified "It is only my personal opinion and experience". I'm writing Haskell in my day job, Clojure f
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
It is not hard to write code in Racket or Clojure; what's hard is maintaining it! I've written a small Clojure project, maybe 3k loc. It was great fun. But when I go back to add small features I find it quite tricky. Bugs often sn
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
The rental prices in Singapore are very high. If I wanted to rent a studio flat close to where I work I would have to pay S$3500+ and it wouldn't be easy to find. To live alone it is very expensive; sharing is a bit better and that&#x2
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
Property market in Japan is strange but I still find it much better than where I live now (Singapore). When I stayed in Tokyo all buildings I've looked at were owned by big corporations. The upside was that rent was quite reasonable. A
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
Is it just me or the "visible" parameter doesn't work at all? My use case: I have columns A and B and instead of displaying both I want column A with data from B in it. So I thought I'd set B to "visible: false&quot
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
BTC volatility is nothing compared to the bloodbath that just occurred in CHF: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CHFUSD:CUR Yeah, it's "only" 20-30% move (depending on currency cross) but in highly leverage
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
You are indeed correct in that printf has a type. However what I mean when I say OCaml has typed printf is this: utop # printf "%d\n" "foo!";; Error: This expression has type string but an expression was expected of type
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
Another Haskeller here. I strongly recommend you take a second look at OCaml. I think it has some fantastic features that Haskell doesn't: Modules. They are great for solving major code organisation problems and I really hope Haskell w
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by GreaterFool 12y ago
Well, are you suggesting that a real C++ developer wouldn't think it is a good idea to include a library or framework in his program? (because 156 lines of extra code is too much?) Have you ever used STL? It is full of template classes
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by GreaterFool 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Valve can make their own VR headset if they want to -- didn't Sony do just that with Project Morpheus? There's also Avegant; their focus is different but the tech seems awesome.
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by GreaterFool 13y ago
I'm tired of seeing these articles. Yes, suicide is a sad story. No, the company wasn't a Bitcoin exchange. Would it make headlines over and over if the story read "CEO of a company that accepts Bitcoins as a payment method f
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by GreaterFool 13y ago
Wait wait wait. It wasn't a Bitcoin exchange! As far as I can see on their website you can buy virtual currencies from Second Life and similar and pay in USD or Bitcoin. Calling it a Bitcoin exchange is a bit far fetched. And I presu