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by barrister 3y ago
You are HN if you can explain what the y-combinator is on a whiteboard with ease.
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by barrister 3y ago
Both Santa and God are accepted because they are considered as greater than humans, or perfect. Whereas modern day surveillance is done by ordinary humans, which no one would consider as superior. In fact, most people would likely consider
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by barrister 3y ago
Here is my brief explanation of the example given on the website in order to clear up some confusion, that I gleaned from the thesis paper. Admittedly, this language does require knowledge of Haskell to really comprehend: -- Extract al
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by barrister 5y ago
I reserve analogies for criminals that refuse to make arguments formally in a court of law, with lawyers. That is, it's a continual bedtime story dialogue until there's enough evidence to press charges and force them into a cour
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by barrister 6y ago
Here is a paper[1] written by Andreas Rossberg, specification author of Web Assembly, that discusses the defects in the definition of Standard ML. I believe he tried to address many of these issues with Alice ML[2]. [1] https://p
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by barrister 6y ago
No because in the case of the "ls" command, it replaces non-printable characters with a question mark '?', including newline characters. I believe the actual source code for this behavior can be seen here: https:/&
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by barrister 6y ago
Brain activity, as measured here, does not imply good writing. I'm quite certain that if you were to type with one hand while juggling a few golf balls with the other your "brain engagement" would be much higher than simple h
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by barrister 6y ago
Yes, and they also don't add single quotes to filenames that contain whitespace characters when displaying them as mentioned in the article.
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by barrister 6y ago
This is still the default behavior of `ls` in OpenBSD, very likely all BSD's. I also remember reading one man page on a Linux machine (which presumably is using GNU core utilities) that stated `ls` would always print per line if it was
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by barrister 6y ago
In trying to resolve some of their latency issues for their Linux client (on Github) I realized everything was being funneled through Neustar, which was the issue. So I questioned them about it, and they confirmed it.
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by barrister 6y ago
Not as long as it's understood that I feel Neustar was a poor choice given their line of business.
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by barrister 6y ago
The problem I have with ProtonMail or ProtonVPN is that they rely upon Neustar to handle all of their perimeter security, meaning that every single client that accesses their services will be inspected by Neustar, which IMO defeats the purp
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What's New in C# 9.0(docs.microsoft.com)
2 points by barrister 6y ago|0 comments
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by barrister 6y ago
Can someone point out how Keli implements purity in the documentation? Haskell requires the IO monad to accomplish this, not sure what Keli does. Its feature list claims to implement "pure functional programming" but it seems as
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by barrister 7y ago
A quick search on Google books for the term "programming language" with the date confined to between 1945-1956 (although you may find more earlier) does turn up multiple results.
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by barrister 8y ago
I work at Starbucks and I completely disagree with this article (as it pertains to Starbucks). Starbucks has a partnership with Spotify, all employees get a free Spotify account. Every Starbucks has an iPhone used to handle inventory &amp