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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
int main() printf("hello"); } This is perfectly reasonable and has precedent in one of Wirth's languages (modular 3? Oberon?): /* Syntax from memory, may be wrong */ function main(): i
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> which is so crazy-complicated primarily because the Drools language is Java-based so you need all sorts of things that Clara or CLIPS don't need from drools website "Drools is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solutio
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> and never finding it because "functional programming" is a pale shadow of what's possible when you understand how compilers work My area so I'm extremely interested - please elaborate
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
IME Packt is very poor. I had one excellent book, one okay one and a whole lot of trash. The entire brand is on my Do Not Buy list.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Downvoted for giving your opinion as if it alone is worth anything. Needs facts, mate.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Or as my Thai lady would say "tomorrow I go to shop". As I got a better understanding of why she spoke that way, because there weren't those structures in her native language, it made me do a lot of hard thinking about Englis
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Knowing a Thai lady, I've got some idea of how it differs from English. Bit of an eye-opener. But I don't conclude that tense and gender are superfluous; far from it. In fact the tenses in English are extensive and extremely usefu
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Read a lot of this kind of post. Years ago I recall someone bleating for 8 cores when 1 or 2 was the norm. Now you want 256. Next generation will ask for thousands. All for nothing because you have no idea what to do with it except give the
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
ISTM a lot of book reviews by official reviewers, meaning those employed to write reviews, are often horribly gushing. Books have now unfortunately become just a product to be sold and the reviewers are part of the marketing. If I want an h
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
"The added features of the 6809 were costly; the CPU had approximately 9,000 transistors compared to the 6800's 4,100 or the 6502's 3,500. While process improvements meant it could be fabricated cheaper than the original 6800
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Okay, let's do it. ISTM you started the ad hom with loose accusations of people reading blog posts, ignoring that many people actually have solid commercial experience with it and are being "actually being productive" with i
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Okay, by stating their position I took it that you were supporting their position, which I see now was my misunderstanding. Gotcha, and thanks
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school Okay, thanks for clarifying and snakes and ladders is a great game for kids but how long do kids remain kids? They don't and they shouldn't. They don't need constraini
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Do we have to do the "I don't really get it so nobody else should have it" kind of thing. I have a reasonable level of experience with FP and a lot of general experience (I'm not someone who "read a blog post",
705.
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> 'what' expects an answer of a name, or reference. that's a 'who'
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Both. I have most definitely seen performance start to decrease after all physical cause get used and SMT starts. It was not a contrived example, it was using MS SQL. Now to be fair I don't understand the mechanism behind this and
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
You seem to have extrapolated from your printing habits to the world's, and that's not a good basis for your claim.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
And that makes what difference exactly...?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> It was kinda crazy because "all" he said was that didn't care about a teen who died in police custody, specifically that this teen was a, "good for nothing, spice smoking, Toxteth monkey" " Rowan O’Connell
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
This may be the strangest, most esoteric comment I have ever come across on HN. Congratulations! (Probably).
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Partly related I believe so perhaps someone can help. Whole theses have been written on prefix sum algorithms, and I never got it. Perhaps someone kind can give some convincing examples of their advantages.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> laundered of their dirty "academic" origins curious; can you give a few examples? TIA
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
They seem to be converging on Scala :)
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Documentation is a deliverable as much as software. Just as important too.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I have some insight into this and it's not good. Quite a while back I supported a charitable drive for a good cause on a well known site (you'll have heard of it). So, total donations were by about 20 people who really funded all
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Can you give a couple of cites for this, I've never heard of it before and I'm curious, thanks
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
HS is funny stuff. Does nothing then zap, ur dead. UK figures for safe working concentration in air, from memory, hydrogen cyanide 11ppm, hydrogen sulphide 10ppm
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I really appreciate your time discussing this. It's helped me understand a different viewpoint, and I hope you have got as much out of it as I have, which is a lot!
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Aw god, Yes, Yes, Yes! I understand applications not abstractions so show me it's value and I'll understand it immediately, or give me a massive motivation to understand it if I don't. If they'd taken that approach at my
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Hi, I'll try to keep this short as we're getting towards an understanding of each other's positions and even a surprising level of agreement (with one exception) >> if the risks were mitigated (can never be eliminated)

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