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by anc2020 17y ago
I don't mean the interviewers should shut off internet access entirely, but what I mean is that if they do allow access to the internet, they'll need to check the interviewee hasn't just googled for the solution to their codibility test (an
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by anc2020 17y ago
Got my 94% C solution up to 100% by using long long ints for intermediate sums. http://pastebin.com/m6e742f56 Edit: And won't this be a problem if interviewees can access the internet? The interviewers will have to make sure they can chec
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by anc2020 17y ago
It is anti-competitive to sell anything at a loss.
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by anc2020 17y ago
This is very one-sided and nothing like what I was trying to say. It's not entirely the "fault" of girls that making them smile is not enough. The parent was more even handed when they mentioned confidence and social status. Yes, some girls
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by anc2020 17y ago
I think you are correct that the language does think of all expressions in terms of thunks, but I'm guessing `4 + 5` won't actually be run at run-time! Since it's pure a decent compiler should be able to simply replace any `x` with the numb
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by anc2020 17y ago
What I'm arguing is that you can still think and write with an imperative style using the IO monad if you want, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Edit: As an aside, I already know that "Monad" doesn't mean impure (having implemented an IO
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by anc2020 17y ago
I really don't get it, what does this guy mean by 100% pure functional programming? Because we all know already that a program needs to print values or "do" something to be useful, so in that way no program is ever 100% pure - is that what
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by anc2020 17y ago
There's more to it than that unfortunately.
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by anc2020 17y ago
Where I am it really boils down to whether or not you start kissing the nearest girl in the club when drunk. You could possibly explain this in the article then with the idea that intelligent people are more likely to be either really intro
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by anc2020 17y ago
http://pastebin.com/m63016d1 This is Kent M Pitman replying to cba...@2xtreme.net (Christopher R. Barry)
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by anc2020 17y ago
This seems quite similar to the question "Is open source software viable?"
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by anc2020 17y ago
I'm a bit late here, but if you want to really smash the challenge, you can use Lisp style metaprogramming with my Hasp program. Something like this is possible (10 nodes): def arc with->>= name input link "click
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by anc2020 17y ago
He sent a video to the GK encoded as text, told the GK how to convert it, and the video helped change the mental state of the GK to the point where it wasn't so difficult to be let out.
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by anc2020 17y ago
Fully agree with this, SICP won't make you an expert, but it will take away much of your feelings of being lost. Text: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#... Videos: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/
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by anc2020 17y ago
Oh no I understand that we could now be in a matrix-like reality, which is what I meant by "setting the question aside", and I'm arguing that there's nothing wrong with trying to use science to find out stuff under a whole load of assumptio
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by anc2020 17y ago
> due to initial assumptions that are much a matter of faith Isn't it always the case that science is built on a matter of faith though? I have faith that I'm not in a matrix-like reality, and there's no real way to know if I was in one
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by anc2020 17y ago
An example of patterns gone insane http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/server...
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by anc2020 17y ago
Please could someone elaborate on how "me" is a fuzzy concept or provide a link?
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by anc2020 17y ago
> it's the closest you can get to understanding how computers work at a low level without dropping into asm. Though your points are pretty valid, the parent wasn't arguing that C was at the lowest level. Plus surely you can provide your
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by anc2020 17y ago
I think his point 1 was your point 2.
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by anc2020 17y ago
Makes some good points, but calling Python a sugaring on Lisp is a bit weird, especially since it misses 3 of his 5 philosophies of Lisp.
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by anc2020 17y ago
I'm not sure, are you talking about changing the render method to output clean html which the user can style themselves? Don't bother answering, I'm really confused. Why doesn't the world use XML and XSLT? I give up. I'm gonna just code usi
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by anc2020 17y ago
What are the blind spots to his argument? I read your comment but didn't see anything particularly in contrast with the post. Edit: Oh actually I presume you're implying the ability to easily swap stylesheets, and that would be a valid poin
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by anc2020 17y ago
Ron Garret reads or has read HN, so its very possible he knew about that comment.
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by anc2020 17y ago
Thanks for the link, its a shame Google video makes text unreadable though.
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by anc2020 17y ago
Global warming is a myth - not the fact that it exists but rather that it's caused by humans, and people die because of it. State birth control... what, are you in favour of it? Edit: why is this here? Because lots of dictator wannabes like
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by anc2020 17y ago
Yeah and missing the age of immortality by just a century or so would be a bit of a bummer.
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by anc2020 17y ago
Adobe Air is a possibility
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by anc2020 17y ago
It's a mistake to assert, as you do so confidently, that how functional the language is depends on how similar it is to the lambda calculus. The article agrees with this assertion, Wikipedia agrees with this assertion and I agree with thi
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by anc2020 17y ago
Sorry to keep replying like this, but I'm just utterly dismayed by your upvotes. To put it bluntly, you are wrong (particularly paragraph 1 sentence 1 and paragraph 3, mutability). I'm not sure how you have arrived at Lisp being your ad hoc

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