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1. 691.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
2. 692.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   All they'd have to do is click a link that says "install this script" and then gm prompts you to install it.
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   Microsoft Web N-gram Services(research.microsoft.com)

   2 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
4. 694.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   What part of "The Galaxy's most resilient bittorrent tracker" do you not get? :)
5. 695.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   The way I see it there are a few possibilities: 1) He isn't the real DPR 2) He is the real DPR, but he's extremely inept and didn't get caught before due to dumb luck 3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who
6. 696.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   Looks like a poorly coded markov bot wrote it
7. 697.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   Not completely unrelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering but what he/she was talking about is unrelated.
8. 698.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   Presumably if they used 310 million faces instead of only 3.1 million it would be even more accurate, which is pretty impressive.
9. 699.▲
   by anaphor 13y ago

   Well, you can't deny that he contributed some ideas that PLT people make use of, but the question here is whether TGG is any good as a _scientific theory of language_ and I think the answer is no. The reason I compared him to Ptolemaic
10. 700.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    Well, happily a lot of people are realizing that Chomsky's linguistic theories (transformational generative grammar, universal grammar) are the scientific equivalent of ptolemaic epicycles, i.e. overly complex nonsense used to justify
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    Noam Chomsky: Fake Linguist(freerepublic.com)

    11 points by anaphor 13y ago|4 comments
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    Undefined Behaviour: What Happened to My Code?(pdos.csail.mit.edu)

    2 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
13. 703.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    why not elisp?
14. 704.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    I try to minimize how much I hold my phone in my hands in public for this reason sure (It also makes you a more viable target for muggers if you look distracted by your phone). You can also set TextSecure to automatically wipe your passphra
15. 705.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    Ah ok, my bad, I misread that.
16. 706.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    > And lastly, if someone steals your phone, with your a mail client on it, it is way easier for identity theft to occur, not harder. How exactly is this true? I encrypt my phone's hard disk and I encrypt all of my SMS communications
17. 707.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    I think I might hit 10k emails a month if I subscribe for a few more mailing lists, though I guess I could stand to unsub from a few. Otherwise I think that's a pretty decent solution.
18. 708.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    This wouldn't be very useful for building a small interpreter.
19. 709.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    PL:AI http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/
20. 710.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    Have you thought about adding some kind of QuickCheck-ish model where test cases can be randomly generated for various types?
21. 711.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    Racket does not use S-Expressions internally, it uses syntax objects which are not really the same. Furthermore it makes no sense to even ascribe one surface syntax to Racket since it's more than one language really. Also if you ask th
22. 712.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    I disagree that homoiconicity is required. Racket is not homoiconic and its macros are pretty powerful (Template Haskell is probably a clearer example but is arguably less powerful). What do you lose by not making the syntax homoiconic? Als
23. 713.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    I think the problem with adding even gradual typing to Python is how to handle duck typing. A lot of existing Python code relies on implicit assumptions about the parameters of functions, e.g. "this is an iterable" or "this i
24. 714.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    It's not that difficult to parse s-expressions and generate code, which is what this does.
25. 715.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    So it just desugars into Python? I see there is a section in the documentation for macros, but there's nothing there. Does it support AST macros right now? I thought of doing something similar to this except doing some kind of static o
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    by anaphor 13y ago

    You'd have to be a complete moron or a huge addict to use this. How much do you want to bet this is run by the FBI and filled with various browser exploits designed to de-anonymize you? I wouldn't even connect to it, let alone buy
27. 717.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    Fuck yes, I would love to help do something like that. I'm not a statistician though, so I'm probably not very qualified.
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    by anaphor 13y ago

    You might as well use a standalone window manager + various apps if you need something more "lightweight" than xfce.
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    by anaphor 13y ago

    Don't you think they should understand the most concrete instances of it before they're made to understand abstractions? Don't you think they should understand it with marbles and sticks before they understand it with very ab
30. 720.▲
    by anaphor 13y ago

    Good point, it does seem like a lot of reading. Personally I remember being able to read around that level in 1st grade, but I'm pretty sure I was a huge exception. I doubt most kids have reached a high enough level of reading ability