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by acomar 14y ago
A field is a structure that behaves very much like the reals (under the usual operations). That is, it's a set of elements with an addition operation with an identity called 0 (special elements are named after their numeric equivalents, but
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by acomar 14y ago
> It'd be a great tourism experience, but what's the ultimate value to humanity? Survival. We will go extinct at some point if we stay on Earth. The more spread out we are, the less likely any single catastrophe is to wipe out the en
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by acomar 14y ago
> Right, which makes it all the more important to ensure that when racism/sexism claims are made, they are made legitimately and not casually, lest they be used as examples to dismiss, or ignore, genuine issues. Too frequently this line
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by acomar 14y ago
Isn't that precisely taken into account by patches, hunks, and branches?
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by acomar 14y ago
That doesn't make any sense. How can laws not be in the public domain? Can any lawyers around comment?
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by acomar 14y ago
Have you tried Learn You A Haskell? It's a gentle and humorous introduction to the language, and I rather like it's take on the more important typeclasses. As for monads in particular, I think the best introduction is "You Could Have Invent
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by acomar 14y ago
He also prefaced that with the statement that he'd be willing to undertake the first mission. He's not just ok with "some deaths", he's willing to risk his own life.
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by acomar 14y ago
Pure and fast is certainly feasible -- you don't always need to use unsafe bytestrings for example. Laziness makes performance hard to predict because you have no clue when something will get evaluated -- there's no contract with the compil
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by acomar 14y ago
> subverting purity and laziness That's an interesting choice of words. Quite obviously no useful program can be totally pure (otherwise it'd do nothing but heat the machine). And Simon Peyton Jones is on record saying that he's not sur
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by acomar 14y ago
The standard lisp approach is to define your API first, and write code the meets the API. You define your API in a manner that makes the solution to the problem you're trying to solve obvious. So behind this API, you can change your data re
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by acomar 15y ago
Actually, the swastika is used to bless things in Hinduism. When my parents bought a car, they put a swastika on it while the priest prayed over it. I had to point out that they might want to move that indoors somewhere before they got repo
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by acomar 15y ago
No, that's just not true. A heuristic is a procedure that gives no guarantee of a correct answer. An algorithm is a deterministic procedure that does guarantee a correct answer. Heuristics are very useful in making difficult decisions tha
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by acomar 15y ago
Arch's advantage is simplicity. That does not, absolutely does not, mean that it's easier. Also keep in mind that to a large degree these things are a matter of preference. I like Arch's package manager over Debian's. Things like that have