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by aristidb 16y ago
Does Google not pay plenty in income tax on its employees, who in fact do generate that precious intellectual property? Looking only at taxed profits is misleading.
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by aristidb 16y ago
#startups (on Freenode) is an IRC channel, as jacquesm noted.
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by aristidb 16y ago
com.ww.com, CNAME breitkreuz.me. if that is possible
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by aristidb 16y ago
Of course you can hack a human driver without a gun. Just distract him with, say, a bright light, or a member of the opposite sex.
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by aristidb 16y ago
This explains Eric Schmidt's "casual" remarks about cars that should drive themselves recently at the TC Disrupt conference ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/schmidt-on-future/ ).
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by aristidb 16y ago
Haskell for all. Perfect fit.
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by aristidb 16y ago
Indeed. Without some form of randomisation (which advertisers probably do not want), this would drastically lower the price of solving a captcha. Because you need to submit each ad to a human solver network only once, and can store the solu
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by aristidb 16y ago
It is not installed by default. The way it works, Debian provides you with many thousand of packages which you can install with one command. Debian makes sure that all programs and libraries work together, and that nothing is downloaded mor
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by aristidb 16y ago
If it's a sunk cost, then "throwing the money away" is maybe the best option. It isn't like it's just a little authority dispute. Reddit probably costs more than it brings in, so closing it might make financial sense, too.
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by aristidb 16y ago
1. Use GHCi to check types and ideas. 2. Write your own monads. How about a monad for (->) e? (It already exists, but so what?) That's at least the strategy that works best for me.
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by aristidb 16y ago
"Join Waiting List" is not very inviting wording.
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by aristidb 16y ago
I think having to get a license to do business in full liability is a terrible limitation of freedom, even when it does not cost money. Taxes on business income of course are more justified, I'm complaining merely about the requirement to g
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CAPTCHA Economics: $1 for 1000 [pdf](cseweb.ucsd.edu)
3 points by aristidb 16y ago|0 comments
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by aristidb 16y ago
In some statically typed languages, it is possible to have an "Apples" and a "Bananas" type. And it's good to hear that you don't make "representation errors", because I do make these errors - which then blow up precisely after 3 hours of r
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by aristidb 16y ago
Java is not the only statically typed language, and some statically typed languages are almost phenomenally concise.
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by aristidb 16y ago
That's probably just a historic accident. Most modern languages have an interactive prompt now. For example Scala, as you mention. Another factor might be the availability of type inferencing, which makes interactive prompts perhaps more vi
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by aristidb 16y ago
You are confusing dynamic typing with dynamic code interpretation. So there ARE statically typed languages with a REPL, for example Haskell. And there are dynamically typed languages without a REPL - for example Perl (in the core distributi
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by aristidb 16y ago
GHC Haskell is doing surprisingly well. That must be a testament to the extremely high quality of the GHC code generator and optimizer.
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by aristidb 16y ago
When trying to do routine tasks, many of us don't necessarily want to get into a social situation. We don't want to think about how to phrase our questions, or what impression we make on the other person. A machine does not care about that.
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by aristidb 16y ago
META: Why did the title change? I cannot edit the title of my own submission anymore... Was it merged with a duplicate submission? If so, then there's also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541336 (which was created just a few minutes
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by aristidb 16y ago
I was... "fascinated" by this quote: "That is good news for start-ups such as Metro Bank, which wants to open more than 200 branches in Britain by 2020. With such grand designs, isn’t Vernon Hill, one of the bank’s founders, tempted to buil
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Big banks need IT reform almost as badly as regulatory change (economist.com)
34 points by aristidb 16y ago|18 comments
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by aristidb 16y ago
Counting patents is a flawed way to measure innovation. The results of the study seem less trustworthy as a result.
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by aristidb 16y ago
It's possible to do without Existential Types, in fact they are only a language extension supported by GHC, not part of any standard. I think the obvious way to "simulate" existential types is with records like data MyRec = MkMyRec { op1 ::
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by aristidb 16y ago
It should be noted that Haskell's type system supports a form of dynamic typing: Existential types http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Existential_type (among other methods). Also, static polymorphic types are a superior substitute for man