Ralith

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by Ralith 14y ago
Common Lisp has more in common with Python and Ruby than Haskell. Perhaps you should study some of these languages before encouraging other people to.
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by Ralith 14y ago
I question your qualification to advise people on interviews if your own theory knowledge tops out at "casually skimmed a wikipedia page."
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by Ralith 14y ago
> I don't think it's possible to have a finite space with no well-defined boundary. The 2D space described by the surface of a sphere is one such space.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> zero total energy ... means that it is conceivable that someday we might figure out how to manufacture entire new universes. How does that follow?
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by Ralith 14y ago
You know this how?
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by Ralith 14y ago
The issues with things like Freenet are far more subtle than that. What you describe is easily addressed.
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by Ralith 14y ago
But we might just manage to keep some of what we still have.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> I am trying to move people from Google to a new search service Care to share? I've been trying to move away from google, but DuckDuckGo's search results are so often massively inferior. Other suggestions would be nice to have!
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by Ralith 14y ago
There is rather more to type systems than method dispatch.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Is there any evidence that this (that is, relatively democratic decision-making as described) is the case at most BigCos?
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by Ralith 14y ago
NTP argues that they are not a patent troll, because for a few years in the 1990s they attempted to build a product for which neither the market nor technology existed. Apparently they never tried to make that product happen once the techno
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by Ralith 14y ago
Interesting! Not only did they invest in them, they did so explicitly because of Scala. Still, I suspect they'd have had a much harder pitch without Java compatibility; a quick review of their materials seems to suggest that bringing existi
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by Ralith 14y ago
This article is misleading in many ways. For example: * They compare gun homicide instead of absolute homicide. Are we expected to believe that killers, in the absence of firearms, decide that maybe they'll be peaceful and productive member
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by Ralith 14y ago
VCs are interested in spending millions on programming language R&D? Where do I sign up?
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by Ralith 14y ago
It's not about the language their implementation is written in (although many people find MLs and Lisps to make compilers and interpreters much easier to implement), it's about the machine that their implementation targets. The JVM imposes
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by Ralith 14y ago
An indictment of VMs in general, then. They're almost universally targeted at supporting a particular language, and cause problems when more advanced concepts (such as cutting-edge type systems) must be implemented.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> Its not hard For a post calling out (among other things) bad punctuation, he could have proofread it more carefully.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Was expecting rather more depth to the comparison, given the title. There's far too little substance to justify his conclusion that Factor "lies way above Lisp," though it seems that supporting that assertion may not have even been his inte
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by Ralith 14y ago
Interesting that the challenge they felt particularly worth calling out wasn't about solving hard algorithms or design problems, but rather making those solutions function on the limited JVM platform. Perhaps this will give pause to the nex
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by Ralith 14y ago
So his only valuable contribution was as an investor? That doesn't speak very well of him.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Of course, this applies to most languages where the concept of "equality" can be extended, from C++ to Haskell. You just have to rely on the implementer of the interface to obey the appropriate laws. This is part of why dependent typing (as
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by Ralith 14y ago
I don't mean to imply that you didn't author anything of value in the post. The meta was certainly of interest. I'd just hesitate to call a few paragraphs of discussion of the reasons behind SO's moderation your "best post ever." Come to th
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by Ralith 14y ago
He hardly came up with the content of this post--just copied it from a deleted SO question.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Oh, I see that I missed that. That's a pretty good idea, then!
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by Ralith 14y ago
All manner of wonderful things look bad to such people.
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by Ralith 14y ago
It will be neither engaging nor rewarding for the person publicly voted "most vapid."
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by Ralith 14y ago
That's tmux, actually. Look at the title bar.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Not the reviews I've read. In fact, they say just the opposite.
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by Ralith 14y ago
If the definition is that specific, then the solution is simple; just don't sell them as "full PCs".
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by Ralith 14y ago
The ability to replace the desktop environment without basically building a new OS from scratch, for one.

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