Xichekolas

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by Xichekolas 17y ago
In looking at that, I was surprised to see that the foldr/build deforestation technique is still in use. That was part of my advisor's PhD work from the mid 90s.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Why is dvorak really better than qwerty? It's more fun. Everyone tries to justify it as more comfortable or faster, but really it boils down to it being fun. (I use dvorak.) Sure, you spend more time on the home row, and certain key chords
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
I'm not sure how you could squeeze the education I got into 10 months, but I think, properly motivated and with good books, you could self-study an equivalent to a solid BS in 18-24 months. Topics that come to mind (that my CS bachelors had
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Having 1000 Twitter Followers Doesn’t Make You A Social Media Guru(dotcult.com)
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
4C is the temperature at which H20 is most dense, so it makes sense use that temp when defining a mass in terms of a volume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Density_of_...
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
The point is not that it is practical. The point is that it is interesting (even if only by coincidence).
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Total speculation, but source code and private keys would be especially useful if you wanted to crack gmail and track down dissidents or generally read people's email.
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Equality Saturation: A New Approach to Optimization(cseweb.ucsd.edu)
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Sounds like neither side is really hurt by this, but one has to wonder why the AP chooses to forgo the opportunity to monetize their content via another avenue besides selling it to newspapers. It seems like they are leaving money on the ta
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
If the carriers truly feel slighted, what is to stop them from not certifying new Android phones, freezing Google out? They still must see some value in Android, or they wouldn't all be tripping over themselves to get the Nexus One.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
I wish they would compare per-capita numbers on a city by city basis. Since startups tend to congregate in certain cities, the per-capita numbers for whole countries don't really tell you much. In this case, the Bay Area is about twice as p
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I don't show up in the lists of any of the people that show up in my list. I take it that means I am the cheese.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
If I remember correctly, "NSFW" is the title of Paul Carr's 'column' on TC. So the NSFW in the title doesn't refer to the post, but to the whole series of posts by that author. Edit: According to his entry in Crunchbase, he also wrote a col
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Haven't tried Debian, but good to know. When I tried UNR, some of the function buttons didn't work (notably the one that turned off the wireless), and two-finger scrolling was really buggy feeling. I had similar problems with Easy Peasy.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." Friedrich Nietzsche
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
I'm aware that it may not be legal. My argument was that it's also unenforceable.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
If you have an Asus, there is nothing better than eeebuntu (eeebuntu.org). It's UNR with all the hardware tweaks specific to eeepcs (all the function buttons just work for example). eeebuntu + chrome is definitely the way to go.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
People are happy with netbooks unless they expect their laptop to be a desktop replacement. As the owner of a nice beefy desktop, I find my eeepc to be delightful. Hour for hour, I probably even spend more time on it, but I never have to fe
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
For those looking for examples: http://wiki.github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
> Patents and the entire field of IP law exists to give innovators and creators more incentives to take on risky or costly projects that ultimately provide value. This may be true, but has anyone ever verified that IP law actually bri
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
> If present trends continue, the only recourse available to the majority of America's brilliant software developers will be to give up software or to emigrate. There is one other alternative which is available to anyone not selling
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
(Not really on topic, but if I could nominate this as an example of the ideal HN comment, I would. It'd be nice to have a gallery of things like this attached to the guidelines. Thanks jey!)
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton A.I. A Modern Approach (ch 13-16) by Russell and Norvig A Tunnel In The Sky by Robert Heinlein The Revelation Space series (3 of the 5 books) by Alistair Reynolds Eon/Eternity (both by Greg Bear)
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
None of Stephenson's books really have much of an ending (or in some cases much of a coherent plot)... the closest I can think of (in the way of endings) is Snow Crash. But he writes with wonderful detail and humor, and seems really great a
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Just to chip in a link, this explanation was the one that made Monads click for me: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
While I agree with you, one has to realize that downvoting existed before flagging. At the time, it was used mostly for suppressing spam/trolls and egregiously rude people. Now we have flagging for that, although I still occasionally downvo
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
True, but Deestan has the right idea. The number was random at the time of coding (presumably selected by the programmer using a fair dice roll), but is obviously not random at runtime. It's amusing that every answer in that SO thread compl
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
Hopefully the model you envision is what happens to all media, like music and (albeit much later) TV and movies.
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
The value of an individual to the evolution of a species doesn't stop when they have their offspring. Long lifespans or intelligence may allow the formation of culture and society, which improves the chances of survival of the group as it w
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by Xichekolas 17y ago
The difference is, as you say, that the type system in Haskell is a tool that helps you write concise and correct code, whereas the type system in a language like Java (it is hardly the only offender) feels arbitrary and capricious. I too o

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