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by bOR_ 18y ago
Partially managed to fix the 'read the mail, websites' urge by replacing it with a distraction that is still useful to my work 'scan the titles / abstracts of new HIV publications'. I just need a distraction occasionally, and that one works
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by bOR_ 18y ago
Heard of it. But I was looking not for different languages to learn, but some kind of analysis on what the effect is on the way programmers think because of using an infix / prefix or postfix language. For example: I remember I heard somewh
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by bOR_ 18y ago
Learning one language at a time =). Haven't tried postfix / Forth yet.. so I don't know how that would feel.
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Ask HN: effects of prefix notation on coding / thinking
2 points by bOR_ 18y ago|6 comments
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by bOR_ 18y ago
I know the portion of IE6 on the web is still around 25%.. but do you know what portion of your customers is actually using IE6 still? I wonder at what point it is justified to return a 'please update your browser, preferrably to one of the
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by bOR_ 18y ago
Then I might just have been unlucky with the game theory talks that I've heard. Most dealt with endless variants of the prisoners dilemma: in space, non-absolute, stochastic, with and without memory. All seemed a bit too abstract for what w
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by bOR_ 18y ago
game theory never seemed that convincing (I'm a theoretical biologist). Most people just don't seem to be that mathematically inclined and they stop iterating through some decision problem well before where logic should take them. As such,
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by bOR_ 18y ago
Heh. I'm not amongst the top 10k, but I've been cursing yesterday, trying to use search to find out in what version / gem of ruby {| [ ]| } is a valid block (with just being random variable names). And a week before that the same problem
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by bOR_ 18y ago
There is people working on having an arc-2-c translation, which I guess would bring the speed you are craving for ;) See http://arclanguage.org/item?id=6605