a-nikolaev

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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   Yeah, I see. I'm not a web developer, so maybe this is why I did not think about this way to break the data. Well, I still think that it is better to have two (hopefully) correct fields in the database, rather than only one. (Consisten
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   Oh, my point was that two kinds of names should not be used interchangeably. To store or not the .lower() is a matter of taste.. (Personally, I would store both names, just to avoid wasting computing time)
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   I don't see any real reason to rely on idempotence. They could simply store two names: One is provided by the user (verbatim), and the second is its reduction to lowercase letters and digits (canonical). For all internal logic, they co
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   Thank you Yaron! The book looks great.
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   Documentation for the Jane Street's Core Library looks incomplete or damaged (E.g. Core.Core_list module https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/latest/doc/core/Core... ). I think, this is very unfor
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   Yeah, it was quite common: http://bit.ly/14HIT5f I think, it was really fun. Sadly, it seems that nowdays, our (Russian) government favors religiouis symols over indistrial/sientific ones..
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   Yeah, I have never heard the Atomgrad word, though some people can probably use it. Btw, cities like that are also commonly called "scinetific cities" ("naukograds"), though "naukograds" are not necessarily clo
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   This feature looks a lot like DuckDuckGo Instant Answer. I think, there is no reason to be very paranoid about it. Googly sandbox is a completely different thing. Yandex does not really lock you to their apps and services, and (hopefully) d
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   by a-nikolaev 13y ago

   My favorite: 1) Using Taylor Series, show that exp(ix)=cos(x)+i*sin(x). 2) Then the result is trivial for x=pi This image helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Euler%27s_formula.svg
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    I agree that a compaign to advertise to Americans (or any international public) is suspicious. They must reach for their own people, and this is the only right long term strategy. However, I'm afraid that most of Turks can be just too apath
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    I agree with this. I don't know about the situation in Turkey, but definitely, average salary is not the measure of people's well-being at all. If peaceful citizens go to the streets to protest, they really feel that something is going wron
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    If you add up the total time the telescope will be available to the public in minutes (please, correct me if I'm wrong) you get: 30 * 1000 + 3 * 30 * 500 + 3 * 30 * 500 + 10 * 30 * 100 + 25 * 30 * 50 + 25 * 30 * 50 = 225000 minutes = 156.25
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    The avalanche explanation does not seem to be very viable for modern investigators of this mystery. The information sources in English are scarce, unfortunately, you have to read Russian discussions of the incident. A few decades ago, there
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    Not really a bad idea, imo. The upside is that you cannot make a stupid typo in these nested loops, which is really easy to do, when you have to write the same thing several times in several places of your program. Also, it is easier to ref
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    Thanks for the idea of "denotative programming". I think, it can be a really nice paradigm for teaching programming and math together.
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    I would like to add that recursive calls can be nicer than loops, when multiple conditions or branching are possible in the loop body. An equivalent implementation with while loops, if conditions, continues, and breaks are usually harder to
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    *boxes and Enlightenment are really missing. Also, some tiling WMs like dwm, awesome, and xmonad probably derserve to be listed separately, imho.
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    I think, he wants to match the case when x == y. You can do that too. let y = 5 in match x with 1 -> print "my string" | 2 | 3 -> print "2,3" | z when z = y -> print y
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    by a-nikolaev 13y ago

    Thanks, finally I see the reason behind the teacher's solution... I think, this is a good example why you should not divide math problems in rigid cetegories. Things become worse when badly taught high school students go to college, and fai
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    by a-nikolaev 14y ago

    I don't belittle. It is a nice work, but it just does not look more than an excercise in programming languages implementation.
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    by a-nikolaev 14y ago

    This is just a toy language, an excercise, not a real language. And it's easy to implement a simple purely functional language in another functional language.
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    by a-nikolaev 14y ago

    In handwriting it will be much more illegible than conventional notation. Also, small details are very bad for nearsighted people. Don't get me wrong. I am always fascinated by new approaches for doing things and new musical notation is a f
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    by a-nikolaev 14y ago

    Some people don't use menus often. From my experience, I use menus 2-5 times a day at most. However, if you rely heavily on clicking menus, learning keyboard shortcuts can be a really good time-saver. And the second argument against this "s