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by anaphor 12y ago
Part of the reason why functional languages like Scheme have anonymous functions (lambdas) is so that you can encode various language features in them. function definition: (define (f x) (+ x x)) => (define f (lambda (x) (+ x x))) vari
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by anaphor 12y ago
Python already has multi-line lambdas, you just need to be creative http://ideone.com/ybf63a
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by anaphor 12y ago
Just based on a glance of the documentation, you can permanently delete emails using this, I don't think you can do that with the IMAP interface for gmail, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
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by anaphor 12y ago
I can think of some reasons you might not want to build it on Racket. I think Racket is fantastic, but if you are developing some novel variety of Scheme or whatever then you might want to have control over "low level" (I'm s
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Introducing eleVR(vihart.com)
1 points by anaphor 12y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 12y ago
I'm so glad Wolfram is allowing me to write software for free now. What an amazing innovation.
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by anaphor 12y ago
You could do closure conversion, but then you run into problems with the lifetimes of things, oh and then you're basically reimplementing lisp.
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by anaphor 12y ago
You could probably extend Racket's pattern matching to do the same stuff. It can already match against structurs you define yourself, but I don't think it can do things like "match anything with this pattern in this recursive
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by anaphor 12y ago
(FYI I didn't downvote you) The reason I said that it's never going to happen is because they are simply unable to pay that amount back. They can't just pull millions out of thin air correct? So I think it's reasonable
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by anaphor 12y ago
"Together sentenced Pirate Bay founders in addition to prison to pay damages of around 46 million." Yeah, that's never going to happen. The prosecutor in their case came up with some fantastical amount of money TPB is suppose
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by anaphor 12y ago
Exercise for the reader: how might the representation Norvig uses for environments be changed if we assume all data is immutable? :)
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On Open Wifi and ISP Terms of Service(primop.me)
1 points by anaphor 12y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 12y ago
Well HHVM is a JIT compiler isn't it? Also it applies just as well to an intermediate representation (like bytecode, or some simpler language that gets evaluated).
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by anaphor 12y ago
Statically typed usually means the compiler checks types during compilation and throws away information about them after generating the target code (usually, there are exceptions like Java). So I doubt it will be able to tell you anything a
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Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement(eff.org)
99 points by anaphor 12y ago|31 comments
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Data caps: The cheesy truth about bandwidth(martingeddes.com)
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by anaphor 12y ago
Well Lisp itself is a Stanford invention. Scheme is an MIT invention. I agree that Scheme deserves a mention though, even though it isn't widely popular, it certainly transformed how people thought about education and things like garba
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by anaphor 12y ago
Better yet make them repeat something (a nonce in the form of dialtones) back to prevent replay attacks in the form of recorded responses (as was also pointed out in the comments there).
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by anaphor 12y ago
I sincerely doubt it was esr that was advocating closed source or non-free proprietary software. He's pretty staunchly in support of FOSS.
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by anaphor 12y ago
Pretty sure RMS would dislike the description: "Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind development of the Linux kernel and overseer of open source development for the Linux operating system "
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by anaphor 12y ago
This just reads as rationalization for why Chrome is the best browser. Nobody has come up with a perfect solution to the revocation problem, but if you want the ability to actually check with the OCSP responder and fail if it cannot be reac
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by anaphor 13y ago
Drag in a downard motion on your touchpad with two fingers, alternatively draw a circle with one finger.
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by anaphor 13y ago
With the rise of things like shodan this will probably become a lot more common until people either stop caring to exploit them or the vendors fix it.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Yes, see: http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/wang-undef.pdf
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by anaphor 13y ago
That's okay, I've seen people with PhDs confuse them before, it's a common mistake, and currying gets you partial application "for free". Good article nevertheless!
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by anaphor 13y ago
>Currying is a functional programming technique that lets us pre-define arguments in a function No it isn't, that's partial application. Currying is (lambda (a b c) ...) => (lambda (a) (lambda (b) (lambda (c) ...))) generali
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by anaphor 13y ago
It annoys me when people try to argue that (0.99...) != 1 because "infinity goes on forever, it's not a number!" though, without understanding the difference between a representation of a number and the number itself.
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Fast Antialiasing (1992)(archive.gamedev.net)
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by anaphor 13y ago
It's all those things and the ability to see how very small parts form to create a larger thing. Or in the words of Donald Knuth: "the psychological profiling [of a good programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstrac
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by anaphor 13y ago
That picture makes me almost physically ill

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