arbsn

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by arbsn 7y ago
p-zombies are not conscious, by definition.
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Etsy commits to off-setting carbon impact of shipping(blog.etsy.com)
2 points by arbsn 8y ago|0 comments
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by arbsn 10y ago
To clarify your comment for other readers: stock options and equity are not the same, and are handled differently upon termination.
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by arbsn 10y ago
Is the encryption/decryption code in WhatsApp open-source? I haven't been able to find it. My assumption was that they conform to the Signal encryption protocol, which is openly specified, but that the code they use to do so is no
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by arbsn 11y ago
I believe that the article was talking about disagreement, critique, and debate. Being "noisy" and "boisterous" sounds like something else entirely. Productive debate ought to be calm, civil, rational, and without inflat
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by arbsn 11y ago
I don't believe that someone needs to have a solution in order to observe that there is a problem. The resources available to an individual for creating and reasoning are finite, and as long as one is able to give good reasons why th
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by arbsn 11y ago
Surely the purpose of the LabStack example is to restrict the interface of a LinkedList to that of a Stack? Defining a new type to present a more restricted interface is not useless... it helps one reason about what has or hasn't been
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by arbsn 11y ago
What confuses you about using Haskell for writing Web/Desktop/Mobile apps? System.IO exposes all the primitive input/output functionality one would expect in Swift, Python, or PHP, and there is an abundance of higher-level li
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The rule-making game(jdh.hamkins.org)
11 points by arbsn 12y ago|2 comments
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by arbsn 12y ago
Yes. Haskell provides excellent facilities for cleanly managing side-effectful code, like the IO monad.
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by arbsn 13y ago
I don't know about those books, but in the case of these koans, it's intended to be entertaining. It's a joke. I think it's also intended to be irreverent.