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Thanks kindly, much appreciated.
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I'm admittedly having a bit of trouble parsing the first sentence of your last paragraph. When you say "if head-first and complement-first were robust, universal features of languages", do you mean "head-first and complement-first cover the
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by T-R 15y ago
I don't get the impression that it's refuting the generative grammar theory as a whole, though, just the assertion by (many? most?) generative linguists that grammars are governed by a set of innate constraints. Granted, I'm not familiar wi
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by T-R 15y ago
That is the sad, sad truth of it. At least with CSS compilers and libraries like jQuery, it's getting easier to compensate for CSS' deficiencies. I do, though, still hold onto some hope that someday we'll be able to leave it behind.
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I hate to be the one to make the skeptic post, because I'm sure it comes off a bit rude, but the timing of this does strike me as a little odd, considering that there are two posts about Peter Thiel on the main page, and the Scott Adams "Ho
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By "don't add classes", she means "avoid using redundant or non-semantic classes in the HTML", which makes sense, because unless you're generating the HTML on request or compensating with jQuery (and therefore adding another dependency to y
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by T-R 15y ago
She says we shouldn't blame the language, but how much of this is because CSS eschews Composition for (incomplete) Multiple Inheritance? And how much of the extra code is an effort to avoid bugs because layout properties are non-orthogonal?
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I don't really see how he makes that point, though, by holding up a big carrot and then cherry-picking a few for extra-special treatment. It makes me think "you can be successful if someone throws money at you and gives you special attentio
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I think there would need to be a little more to associate the action with the punishment. Since the point deduction would be pretty delayed from the voting, voters might not recognize which votes were poorly placed, and wouldn't learn to pl
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For reference, the link is here: http://techrights.org/2010/04/11/florian-mueller-and-erika-m... Apparently Mr.Mueller thinks my removal of the link was significant enough to make note of on Twitter. I want to make it clear that my remova
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by T-R 15y ago
His wikipedia article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Mueller In short, he and the author of Groklaw have opposing viewpoints regarding various software patent cases, including the Google v. Oracle case, and have been very d
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I was not aware of that, actually, and I've now removed the link.
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I don't want to assert that anything in the above links is unbiased fact, I just want to provide context for the comment, i.e. Groklaw makes direct and critical reference to the above poster, and that relates to his comment. The first link
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by T-R 15y ago
Impressive, but might I suggest using a public domain ROM, instead of exposing yourself to a lawsuit: http://www.zophar.net/pdroms/gameboy.html
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by T-R 15y ago
For those not familiar with the above poster's relation to Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091021164738392 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100408153953... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=201
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by T-R 15y ago
Arguably, if they did it too much more firmly, sites would start to game it.
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An earlier thread on Reading Level: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1993305
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While I agree that Congress has a legitimate gripe with overstepping unelected officials, I really think that's a separate issue that should be treated independently. Regarding rules that could unintentionally retard progress - that's not n
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> The tone of these conferences is not the reason women are not more involved I'm under the impression that it is - some women have voiced objection to the tone, so we know it's at least the case for some, and we don't have any data i
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That's absolutely a fair point. I don't want to imply that we shouldn't keep it in moderation, but I do think we should be careful about what we define as "oversensitive", particularly for groups that we don't belong to, because there is a
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by T-R 15y ago
> Have fun with that. I think your tone detracts from your point. > But a conference which will offend nobody in some small way is a sterile, dull thing. I think the point to make is that this is not "some small way", as much
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> It's also a bit insulting... Perhaps true, but if the community doesn't acknowledge offensive behavior, it comes off as tacit acceptance. If the speaker is invited back without question or actively defended by the community, a perso
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by T-R 15y ago
I respect speakers' rights to express whichever beliefs they hold, but I think it's also important, both for them and for attendees, to recognize the effect that it has. Their views on women (or any group), popular or otherwise, are irrelev
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by T-R 15y ago
If you want to go down the Functional rabbit hole more, "Purely Functional Data Structures" by Chris Okasaki would be a good next step. There's a book and a paper - from what I hear, the paper is just Okasaki's original work, whereas the bo
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Good idea, I'll do that.
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So far the comments in this thread cover Functional (SICP, Haskell books), Logic (Prolog Books), and Procedural/OO (Almost everything else) Languages, so I figure I should add a reference for Stack/Concatenative Languages: Thinking Forth -
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To steal words from a comment earlier today, Haskell has a very steep but very rewarding learning curve. It'll reinforce some concepts from math, and lead you toward writing code in a manner that's considered good practice in other language
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I've heard "The Art of Prolog" is good, too... a quick glance at Amazon shows it to be ridiculously expensive, though.
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It really depends on what you feel you're missing and what you're hoping to do (definitions of "daily work" vary widely). If you're looking to get up on theory by doing your own program of sorts, you could do worse than start with these (in
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I get the impression that the Haskell code was meant to be a direct transliteration of the spec, or had some other artificial restriction on the amount of abstraction. Code for "0 or more of any character" is repeated at least 3 times, as w

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