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by Patient0 12y ago
Thanks so much! Such a great answer! This is why I love Hacker News :-)
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by Patient0 12y ago
Can anyone explain something that's always puzzled me: when dating the ages of rocks, geologists look at the proportions of the isotopes that are in the rocks. Because isotopes decay at a well known rate (they have a half life), then b
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New UK weather supercomputer(m.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by Patient0 12y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 12y ago
I found this ironic given that he was saying this as a guest lecturer for Sam Altman's "startup" class at Stanford.
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by Patient0 12y ago
One thing that this article and lot of other Monad articles gloss over is the scoping in "do" notation and when using the >>= operator. The example: return 7 >>= (\x -> Writer (x+1,"inc."))
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by Patient0 12y ago
True but the paper is by Wadler
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by Patient0 12y ago
The abstract was intriguing. It's a shame you have to pay to read the rest of the paper.
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IO Monad C# explanation(github.com)
1 points by Patient0 12y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 12y ago
I've been working my way through this which in my opinion is excellent: http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/AlgorithmsH.html#teval
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by Patient0 12y ago
I've found the following: http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/AlgorithmsH.html#teval to be very useful for understanding how the HM type algorithm works. They rephrase the problem as "writing an expression inte
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by Patient0 12y ago
I wish he had said something about'^?' vs '^H'. To this day I still struggle sometimes when logged into a Unix machine and run into this problem.
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by Patient0 12y ago
Traders working in banks all knew that VaR was a pretty poor risk metric - at least definitely by 2007 and probably years before that. Even the regulators "knew" that VaR did not cover everything. I know this because I was buildin
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by Patient0 12y ago
I agree it's striking that these two articles came out at the same time. Two PR firms waging battle against each other in advance of some sort of political decision?
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by Patient0 12y ago
What struck me from reading this was the amount of failure and "suck" they had to deal with before they finally had any success: "Despite middling results from titles like Wild Gunman and Battle Shark, Yamauchi remained commi
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by Patient0 12y ago
Where did you find part 3?
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by Patient0 13y ago
How good/reliable is Mono on Linux now? If I knew for sure that people are actually using Mono on Linux robustly and with good performance I would ditch the JVM - as a language/runtime .Net is so much better...
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by Patient0 13y ago
In the actual video he seems to have misunderstood what the Doppler effect actually is. He gives the example of a train whistle "getting louder as it comes towards you and fainter as it moves away" but he should have said somethin
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by Patient0 13y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Initially I found the video to be a bit dull but on reflection I think it's a brilliant demonstration on how companies tend to be managed in practise.
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by Patient0 13y ago
You sound like you just got a job offer from a hedge fund...
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by Patient0 13y ago
I enjoyed reading this. Reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describing the worst poetry.
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by Patient0 13y ago
technically, if it really is a Ponzi scheme as you state then you're saying that bitcoins will ultimately be worth zero. But in that case, he hasn't actually sold his bitcoins yet, so he hasn't benefited from the Ponzi scheme
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by Patient0 13y ago
JSON is explicitly not designed to be hand-editable. Hence, for example, no comments. It's just meant to be human readable. If you want human editable "json", use Yaml: http://www.yaml.org/ (it's a super
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by Patient0 13y ago
Yes I can't believe he stated this without at least warning to be careful about this. If an immmigration officer asks you at entry point "So why are you coming to San Francisco?" and you answered "I was going to intervie
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by Patient0 13y ago
Yes these are all very good points. And in fact my oil analogy isn't so great because that is talking the about supply of a largely fungible commodity whereas with programmers the whole point is that different programmers have differen
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by Patient0 13y ago
It looks like the sort of bug that can be introduced by an erroneous merge in source control.
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by Patient0 13y ago
"For many years, I have wondered why a great programmer (one who is 10x as productive as a poor programmer) doesn't make 10x the income." For many years I have wondered why so many people think that supply versus demand ought
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by Patient0 13y ago
This looks like a great blog. The previous entry on virtual memory is also pretty informative.
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by Patient0 13y ago
"As people watch asset prices rise and people make money herding mentality kicks in and many people jump on the bandwagon with hopes of grabbing some of the riches." A few too many mixed metaphors in this article! I'm trying
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by Patient0 13y ago
That's what struck me: the use of the word "laws" to describe what are, at best, "principals", seems particularly inappropriate and pretentious. I have the image of a self-titled "software engineering consultan
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by Patient0 13y ago
Wow that talk is an eye-opener. Thanks for the link.

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