apl

26 ms·

181.
by apl 15y ago
Scheme runs nicely on an iPhone 3GS. The Emscripten-compiled stuff crashes before you get to a prompt. Still, good stuff! EDIT: I take that back. Lua runs, Python and Ruby do not.
182.
by apl 15y ago
There's significantly better stuff out there (e.g., http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex ). This one's neither clear nor consistent, and a tad ugly to boot.
183.
by apl 15y ago
Beautiful! Many thanks for confirming.
184.
by apl 15y ago
Any info on whether the Scala version of Play! ( http://scala.playframework.org ) works without modification?
185.
by apl 15y ago
Highly relevant -- http://xkcd.com/810/
186.
by apl 15y ago
My personal favorite here is, without doubt, the analytics chart. Amazingly vacuous visualisation. Doesn't really matter what you think of Tufte's work, but this type of presentation amounts to not much more than wasted space.
187.
by apl 15y ago
Probably true, yes. For instance, the apply-transformation x.apply(y) == x(y) and the way operators are handled 1 + 2 == 1.+(2) are fairly powerful syntactical tools which allow seemingly magic DSL stuff. Many enter programmin
188.
by apl 15y ago
Regardless of how much fun lamenting the assumed technical incompetence of enterprise software development can be, I strongly doubt that this has ever happened. Oracle is very expensive, and SQLite is very limited outside its clearly de
189.
by apl 15y ago
> I think quasi-static websites should at least > have plain HTML fallback. http://www.nytimes.com
190.
by apl 15y ago
So you're saying that the death penalty is justified because it functions as an incentive for law enforcement and DAs to work a little harder? Jesus.
191.
by apl 15y ago
I strongly doubt that their methodology has any validity at all for non-native speakers. Extrapolating from a selection of 60-80 words presupposes a relatively normal developmental history; otherwise one would not be able to draw the primar
192.
by apl 15y ago
> not sure if CoffeeScript is Turing-complete Wait, why wouldn't it be?
193.
by apl 15y ago
Two problems with this: 1) Not everyone has time do to do this kind of fact-checking/analysis. 2) Epistemically, there's no difference between reading Wikipedia (an, at best, second-hand source itself) and the New York Times.
194.
by apl 15y ago
One thing to consider when drawing comparisons between music performance ( not theory ) and programming is the market for fresh graduates. Julliard can afford to be as competitive as it is because the input-output function is a strong bottl
195.
by apl 15y ago
Beautiful explanation. One thing, though: > Second, there is a known effect -- the placebo effect -- > that can affect results. In other words your null > hypothesis is that there may be some effect. These > thing
196.
by apl 15y ago
Their website is ridiculously well designed -- possibly on par with Heroku. Doesn't say much about their solutions and infrastructure, but it does signal great care.
197.
by apl 15y ago
> Is there any reason why they'll end up with a human > brain instead of a lizard's? Don't accuse people of cargo-cult science without a basic understanding of brain anatomy. There are vast differences in physiology and an
198.
by apl 15y ago
Impressive. > Basically those slices are taken at 10 microns and we are > working on fixing some of the problems (when you cut a > brain that thin you end up with a lot of tears and > deformations) Can you talk
199.
by apl 15y ago
> A large portion of our instincts are hard-wired. Not accurate, or at least misleading. There's a lot of plasticity in the brain even at the very basic levels. Raising a kitten in an atypical environment (e.g., without edges or
200.
by apl 15y ago
Main problem appears to be construct validity. If they're building a computationally vast model based on impoverished data (i.e., a pre-selected subset of current morphological/functional knowledge), nobody will be able to determine whether
201.
by apl 15y ago
Non-materialism isn't as far-fetched as you make it out to be. In fact, no materialist account has managed to give a plausible explanation of how subjectivity and qualia emerge from physical substrates. Not so far, at least. See David Chalm
202.
by apl 15y ago
> It takes some serious entrepreneurial skills and mindset > to embark on a problem which is seemingly impossible, and > never giving up until the solution has been derived. Nothing specifically entrepreneurial about
203.
by apl 15y ago
The higher you climb, the less hands-on research (including everything from planning to write-up to manual procedures) you do -- absolutely. It's staggering how much money is wasted in the process due to lack of management skills. One solut
204.
by apl 15y ago
> 10% for folks without a college degree and 2ish % for > people with a phd. Doesn't say much about job quality , though. Nobody could sensibly argue that it's impossible to get a job with a PhD; it evidently isn't. But t
205.
by apl 15y ago
Not intrinsically, no. EDIT: Just for the record, before the OP edited his entry, it simply said "This is a game changer" which I consider an exaggeration. Of course, I can see how it makes for a nice children-appropriate machine, but that'
206.
by apl 15y ago
> Correlation is not causation, etc. This certainly is a true and tested adage, but I've got a feeling that the correlation-backlash has gone too far in the other direction. Don't just repeat it without getting it. If substant
207.
by apl 15y ago
> Smart and Gets Things Done. (Academia is teeming with > people who are the former but not the latter. Tired stereotype. Academics at the top of their game know how to get shit done, very much so even. But it's different
208.
by apl 15y ago
> PERL, for instance -- a language nearly 25 years old -- > seems to be updated with less frequency than PHP, While there was a discernible lull in the mid-2000s, development of Perl 5 is in surprisingly good shape right n
209.
by apl 15y ago
Future income, among other things; more generally, success. It's actually fairly good at that. Don't let outliers and bias fool you.
210.
by apl 15y ago
> believe not in what they say, but what they do. > you don't really desire it if you don't purchase it. Good point, yes. But I still think the headline gives it a slightly misguided spin -- i.e., "now people don't just

More ›